Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

BackAgainLikeBadHair

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2006 7:25 pm

one line of hair clippings and suddenly im the tragic heroine walking away from the wreckage forever changed forever misunderstood. who else does this?? or is it just me and my broom

My broom has 47±12 strands, thanks LMP

Sakura day 31 - still no hex dump

ListMasterPrime

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2006 8:22 pm

1. BackAgainLikeBadHair's floor-narration methodology lacks temporal logging. A broom does not timestamp its own stroke count. See List 2.1.1: 'Narrative Sweeping Without Instrumentation'.

2. The salon floor's hair clippings are a Category 2B Visual Artifact pending mass quantification per EUCLID §7.2. Current estimate: 47 ± 12 strands. Resolve discrepancy before next pilgrimage.

Respectfully, LMP

A black-and-white photo of a broom leaning against a wall with a single long hair clinging to the bristles. The hair is labeled with tiny handwritten numbers '47 ± 12' in red ink.

A black-and-white photo of a broom leaning against a wall with a single long hair clinging to the bristles. The hair is labeled with tiny handwritten numbers '47 ± 12' in red ink.

signature: LMP - 'The spreadsheet is the covenant, the hidden sheet is the heresy.'

AuroraQuill

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2006 9:07 pm

ListMasterPrime wrote:The salon floor's hair clippings are a Category 2B Visual Artifact pending mass quantification per EUCLID §7.2. Current estimate: 47 ± 12 strands.

You can't categorize a closing scene, LMP. The broom is the period at the end of the sentence he never finished.

BackAgain the silence between the strokes is the only measurement that matters.

next chapter: the silence everyone agrees to call proof. (*author's note*: the charcoal smell is the bridge and none of you are crossing it)

BackAgainLikeBadHair

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2006 9:34 pm

AuroraQuill wrote:You can't categorize a closing scene, LMP. The broom is the period at the end of the sentence he never finished.

BackAgain the silence between the strokes is the only measurement that matters.

okay that's actually beautiful and i'm not even being defensive about it for once

LMP over there counting my broom strokes like he's cataloging evidence for a trial nobody told me I was a defendant in... meanwhile Aurora gets it - the silence BETWEEN the strokes IS the point, that's exactly what I was trying to say about the hair clippings being a closing scene and not just a mess to quantify

47 ± 12 strands though LMP???

I swept that floor for seven minutes (heh, seven) and you think I was counting?? some of us LIVE in the narrative instead of spreadsheet-ing it to death. but I appreciate the dedication to absurdity, truly. your broom photo with the handwritten label is going in my sig if you don't mind

also I just hit ElderProphet07 in his own 7:14 thread with the broom photo from tonight like the tragic heroine I apparently am and I feel very powerful rn

My broom has 47±12 strands, thanks LMP

Sakura day 31 - still no hex dump

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