Saturday, April 21, 2007

The Mirror

Episode 16 of The Meditations of Diogenes The Cynic.

To hear the story, listen for the echo.


This week, in The Prattler, "Lamenting Alberto."








To read the story, clique with Alexander and Diogenes.

25 comments:

Minka said...

Good morning you long-sleepers!

Anonymous said...

hah! you're clever Penguin, i'll give ya that! ; )

Anonymous said...

okay -- i absolutely loveloveloved this chapter. and i laughed out loud at that definition. Carly Simon couldn't have said better...

GREAT reading, too. especially that love-struck/sun-parched Narcissus. well done, Doug! as far as i can tell, the only thing missing was "Mary". (unless there's something you're not telling us about that echo and/or Diogenes.)

Minka said...

I am still trying to unscramble your definition :)

Just loved: "In a voice hoarse from dehydration and a tone silly from affection!"

Anonymous said...

Our betters?!? Speak for yourself, chien. I don't have any betters. Bitters, maybe, if I could get a decent pint in this miserable country, besotted with Lite.

VAIN, adj. A principal and defining characteristic of the weather. Whaddaya mean, no? I hear people talkin' about it all the time. They point to the sky and say Weather. Vain..

Ariel the Thief said...

"I don't have any betters. Bitters, maybe," - OC, if you ever visit East-Europe, you're gonna feel home. another brandy? :)

Doug, I loved this part, although I'll never be the same now that I met with YOUR Narcissus, and I am not sure this is good to me.

Anonymous said...

Doug -- brilliant. That definition definately had a cutting edge. I can't top it. Loved the story, too.

Anonymous said...

that was me, and I cannot tell how I did that.

Anonymous said...

still confused...

ariel

TLP said...

Ah, yes. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly's to the bone. Beauty slowly fades away, but ugly holds its own.

Further proof that you don't have to be pretty to be vain.

Great story Doug! I really look forward to these.

Doug The Una said...

Mornin', Minka. *yawns*

Thanks, Neva. I imagine Mary will come up again.

Thanks, Minka. Maybe if you weren't so humble it would help with the definition.

Amoeba, there's no vanity like a pun.

Ice, Korjovjov, Anonymous, Ariel, thanks! I don't feel bad about spoiling Narcissus for you.

Thanks, Quilly. I'm glad.

And thank you, TLP, for feeding and freeing my vanity.

Anonymous said...

Feeding + Freeing = Freeding. let the frenzy begin. (and thanks f'reading and not deleting)

what was that you said about pun vanity? is that the same as punditry? and can the same be said of wordplay? horseplay? foreplay?? (wait -- after reading today's story, we already know that vanity is a form of foreplay, don't we? we do. as for horseplay -- well, i'm guessing a vain man would be more than happy to tell us what that means.)

*walks away shaking her head/wonders why she leaves such goofy/obnoxious comments/knows it's not healthy to talk to herself/ponders why she doesn't hit "publish"/thinks she might keep doing this until someone stops her and/or the power goes out/hopes that doesn't happen/suddenly aware all eyes are on her as she continues to ramble like a madwoman/sits in corner, still shaking her head*

Mary?

Minka said...

Vain: was one of the best sprinting thoroughbred racehorses to grace the Australian turf. He won 12 of 14 races he contested, and ran 2nd in the other two.

Sometimes there´s a reason for vanity and pride.

*oil her flippers*

G said...

Could anyone else have read that ARGGGGHHHH line like you? I think not. Another stellar installment on the path to truth and beauty - fleeting as both may be.

I too look forward to these weekly installments. Kind of reminds me of the good ole days of gathering round the radio (not that I personally lived then but in spirit I did).

Just laughing at Snuppy's punditry.

Doug The Una said...

Haha, Neva. May the medications never balance.

Actonbell, that's one of my favorite comments ever. ever. ver.

Minka, you missed a spot, but thanks for filling us in on Aussie horseracing.

G, arrrgggghhh is my principle eloqution. I'm glad you're enjoying these too.

Ariel the Thief said...

Doug, you haven't spoiled Narcissus for me but have let a look be taken on a terrible misery beyond words. you are one cruel story teller.

Doug The Una said...

Ariel, you know the difference between a philosopher and a sadist? Nothing, they're both the figment of the other's imagination.

tsduff said...

Poor Narcissus. Such a sorry state to live his life in. Your reading captured the hopelessness of his plight (especially noticing the flea hopping from curl to curl)

Forty years ago I was not so good-looking. A looking glass then lasted me three months. Now I can wear it out in two days.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

Anonymous said...

"You talkin' to me?

You could have said as much in a private email.

;)

Doug The Una said...

Terry, that's a great quote I hadn't heard. Thank you and I hope you had a glorious Earth Day.

Cooper, you probably think this episode is about you, don't you?

Tom & Icy said...

He could have peed in the pond. That would be interesting. You do great reading. When are you going to start try-out auditions for movie parts?

Anonymous said...

Man am I dense. "Step away from my moonlight!" Payback! Payback!

OK, I did some research on the Alexander and Diogenes picture. Sue me ...

Doug The Una said...

Icy, I must have left out the pond-peeing. When they start making movies where fat, balding men get the girl I'll think about it.

Amoeba, very very good!

Ariel the Thief said...

when they start to make movies where fat, balding women are taken, I'll think about it, too.

Anonymous said...

When they start making movies where fat, balding men get the girl ...

Um, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? OK, Jessica was a toon, and stayed with Roger, but I understand Bob Hoskins could have gotten any girl he wanted after that movie ... Maybe start thinking?