I just drifted into the part of my mind that I find almost impossible to escape...
All things have a function which justifies its form..
There is a reason why things are what they are.
It is because..
They are what allows them to be.
A screw driver is a screw driver because it drives screws, no?
I am able to sometimes drive a screw with a knife, is that knife then a screwdriver?
Yes and no.
The intended function of the knife, to cut, necessitates that it is sharp-edged so that it may fulfill it's function.
You needn't a sharp edge to drive a screw.
All tools have a function that is ideal.
What then, is the function of these words on the page?
What is it's form?
What is it capable of?
What's it's ideal function?
To say that there is an ideal function of a piece as writing is to say that there is an ideal form.
Why have words come to be? (it might be safe to say that all things exist because they are useful)
Point at any object of matter and claim there is absolutely no use for it..
And I will call you a damn LIAR..
Why words?
To convey meaning to another.
As simple as that.
Thus far, meaning needs to be conveyed
(need) A way to satisfy that need (means).
Why story?
What need arose for it?
Need to share experience with the unknowing, to tell..
Using words to convey ones actions through frame of time.
To the other reader-
need to convey experience.
Why fiction?
(tricky part)
Suppose there aren't words to convey some experiences.
For mens' experience of reality- limited to desert.
One man happens upon an ocean.
Returning to the other man, how does he describe the ocean with experience limited to his arid world?
Perhaps he shows his cohabitant a bit of water from a cactus and says that the water is as greatly quantified as the sand in which they stand..or the sky above their heads.
Convey experience too profound for truth.
The fictional story conveys something more profound--
Having an entire universe to manipulate, to express, ironically, but truth through lies..??!!..
Every aspect of a universe speaks a common truth and converses to itself the meaning of the artist.
The reader does not only learn the theme, he/she feels it, sees it, walks through the confines of its envelopment.
THAT"S WHY FICTION
Art/fiction is used to convey excited emotions..used through a medium.
To convey emotion is not the main function of art, but it is the most abundant force of experience that necessitates art-the use of art to convey it.
The memory of fear allows the listener to relate and empathize as once experiencing fear.
But to excite that emotion within your subject as you've felt it, that is the function of good art.
Search questions, not answers. Riddle a riddle that
while it unfolds, conceives more spawn like
itself. -ME
forgive my fragments and grammar..fix it later
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I'll have to take another look, another time. Ramble on:)
But knew you not, moment, for stayed you not, moment ...
*sigh*
Good you kept this up. It's there to link to for people who want to know where you're coming from.
heir means like an inheritance..Heir to the throne..heeling means immediatley following . heeling heir is a pun on healing air...since we are talking about breath..
Thank you for sharing and submitting to
The Surreal Circus.
Your reply, "A poet crafts mirrors, that when we peer into the poet’s work, the image of our humanity should stare right back at us....is beautiful and quotable, dear bardess.
You fill the space with your right brain giving us reason to think and realize. I guess I did my latest surreal , free form, which is an "unstyle" of poetry and can rhyme or not or be both, was done because I enjoyed doing it but I needed not to justify it that way...thank you for the inspiration, I will now get notified what you post. Later