I feel different: The Fourth Wall Challenge (JUWC)

Published on April 9, 2007 By DrDonald In Writing


 He picked up his pen and began to write this story:
   _____________________________________________________...
   |
   | He picked up his pen and began to write this story:
   |   _____________________________________________________...
   |   |
   |   | He picked up his pen and began to write this story:
   |   |   _____________________________________________________...
   |   |   |
   |   |   | He picked up his pen and began to write this story:
   |   |   |   _____________________________________________________...
   |   |   |   |
   |   |   |   | He picked up his pen and began to write this story:
   |   |   |   |   ____________________________________________________...
   |   |   |   |   |
   .   .   .   .   .
   .   .   .   .   .
   .   .   .   .   .
   |   |   |   |   |___________________________________________________...
   |   |   |   |
   |   |   |   | She put down her pen and heaved a sigh of relief.
   |   |   |   |____________________________________________________...
   |   |   |
   |   |   | She put down her pen and heaved a sigh of relief.
   |   |   |_____________________________________________________...
   |   |
   |   | She put down her pen and heaved a sigh of relief.
   |   |______________________________________________________...
   |
   | She put down her pen and heaved a sigh of relief.
   |_______________________________________________________...
 
 She put down her pen and heaved a sigh of relief.

Comments

dynamaso

on Apr 09, 2007

Interesting take on the theme, Don. I saw the repetition and framework as analogies for mundanity, normalacy while the slip between provides an escape, even from gender.

But then, maybe I'm just full of crap...

MasonM

on Apr 09, 2007

Inspired

Shovelheat

on Apr 09, 2007

I've gotta give this one some thought...

DrDonald

on Apr 09, 2007

Interesting take on the theme, Don. I saw the repetition and framework as analogies for mundanity, normalacy while the slip between provides an escape, even from gender.

Fascinating take, Maso.
Yeah that mystery is in there somewhere in the infinities of story-within-the-story.
The fourth wall is somewhere between the title and the page. The work reaches out one level up, by it's nature.

Inspired

thanks...and I did it with fixed-width (courier) font and PRE /PRE html tags.

I've gotta give this one some thought...

ahh, my job is done

seriously, though, thanks!

foreverserenity

on Apr 09, 2007

Interesting take on the theme, Don. I saw the repetition and framework as analogies for mundanity, normalacy while the slip between provides an escape, even from gender.

Great analogy of what he has done, I can see it!

Dr. Donald you used two sentences and made quite a mountain!

Shovelheat

on Apr 09, 2007

Great analogy of what he has done, I can see it!

Sigh...

I really am a frickin' dumbass!

DrDonald

on Apr 09, 2007

Dr. Donald you used two sentences and made quite a mountain!

thanks sweetie

Sigh...

Joe, you're the smartest frickin' dumbass I know

I have a computer/math background, so if you can understand recursion it's a piece of cake. Here's how you figure out a factorial. Factorial(5) being 5x4x3x2x1


factorial(n)
{
   if(n==1)
      return 1;
   else
      return n*factorial(n-1);
}

...hope that clears it up

Shovelheat

on Apr 09, 2007

...hope that clears it up

Uh, yeah. Gotcha. Is it like pi r round and cornbread r square?

MasonM

on Apr 09, 2007

...hope that clears it up

Uh, yeah. Gotcha. Is it like pi r round and cornbread r square?

MasonM

on Apr 09, 2007

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

Simplified : are we there yet?

Shovelheat

on Apr 09, 2007

Heh, the only high mathamatics I know:

The angle of the dangle is proportional to the bootie of the cutie...

MasonM

on Apr 09, 2007

DrDonald

on Apr 09, 2007

The angle of the dangle is proportional to the bootie of the cutie...

that would be your girl-o-meter

DrDonald

on Apr 09, 2007

A couple of "infinite" poems - authors unknown


A graduate student at Trinity
Computed the square of infinity.
  But it gave him the fidgets
  To put down the digits,
So he dropped math and took up divinity.
 
      Pi vs e
Pi goes on and on and on ...
And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed?

--night night. (you people are hilarious)

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