Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Chimerical Meme
Posted on March 15, 2006 in Memes
REVISED
Read the instructions for this very carefully before you proceed. This meme demands that you pay close attention and work your brain a bit more than the average meme. The time has come to give your imagination a workout!
Metaphors: The metaphors you create must be wholly original. Don’t wimp out by using a trite image and claiming that you can do it because it is “original to you”. BE original. A phrase will do.
- Write a metaphor for the Shadow, the part of you which is suppressed:
- Now write one for the Persona, your public self:
- And one for the anima (if you are male) or the animus (if you are female), the part of you which represents the opposite sex:
- Now post a photograph without any people or domestic animals:
- Take the place pair that was assigned to you by the person who tagged you and write a brief essay linking the two places.
- OK, to make the meme chimerical write up a new pair of places for those you tag. Make sure they seem to have nothing in common.
- Remove the topmost site from this list and add your site to the bottom of the list:
- Tag five people to do this meme. Watch them scream.
A splash of battery acid
A pair of snowy egret’s wings.
A copse of live oaks standing beneath the fork of a stream.
An ice skating rink and a psych ward: The blades, your shining silver blades, take you across the floor, whirling you into spins, double axles, and weird curves. You scratch the ice, you carve the ice, you send splinters and particles of ice into the air. Then you fall and slide over the solid chill, down a carpeted hallway and into the room where the Psychiatrist waits. Where you must give up your skates and watch him put them in a pile of skates and hockey sticks he has collected from other patients. When you leave the room, you must walk.
A slot car racetrack and an algae-clogged lake.
Have fun! Beware of trite ideas!
