flashback 2003.11.07: the ogre-nizer

fractalnavel — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:28:34 GMT

finally found this - complete with sounds and everything ! (click on the little 'play' icons when you get to them):

unemployment can be a dangerous thing.

things that flourished under the rule of benign neglect are suddenly and shockingly finding themselves subject to the attentions of the resident ogre, causing plants, animals and little children to flee in terror. "here he comes ! i don't know what he's up to, but he's looking right at me ! aagghh! run!". and so the chase is on. no dust bunny is safe from the ogre's keen eyes, which are ever more adapted to his dank but increasingly organized haunts. things that were formerly readily accessible to the more transient visitors to the ogre's abode - food, bed-straw, cd's and other necessities of life - are rapidly disappearing into heretofor unknown crevices. a plaintive cry is heard from the fearful skittering creatures in the ogre's shadow, "ohhh nooo, we will starve !".

but it doesn't stop there.

oh, no, there is worse. woe to those unfortunate souls who, through the wicked ways of errant fate, find themselves in the presence of the ogre's - shudder - audible introspection. oh, the terror ! oh, the inhumanity ! at the first rumbling sound, the merest vibration of the beginning of the ogre's wistful word "why...", the cave is sudenly deathly quiet and still. which is worse, the hapless onlookers wonder miserably, to run and be caught, and have his eyes upon me yet again, or to freeze motionless for what seems an eternity and, trapped, witness the pitiful decay of the ogre's putrid brain. there is no way to avoid the onslaught of the fount of excruciating detail and the gouts of doubts. the horrific spectacle continues far into the night, until, exhausted from his tortuous mental maunderings, the ogre grows quiescent, and finally, the creatures of the dusk can drag what remains of their woeful bodies and blasted minds into mangled nests, only to arise to endure the horror once more.

from an email to my brother.

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flashback 2003.11.07: the ogre-nizer