“Did you read my new short story?”
“The one on your blog?”
“Yeah, Rain and Poetry.”
“You should be careful giving stuff away for free at your website. Magazines don’t like to buy repurposed fiction, you know.”
“I know that. It was just a bit of fun, a little piece of metafiction.”
“I liked it. The best line was when the husband or boyfriend or whatever says ‘Do you have any idea what kind of day I had?’”
“Why’d you like that line?”
“Because of what I wished she’d said: ‘Yeah, asshole, it’s all about you, isn’t it? Guess what? I know exactly what kind of day you had. And I don’t give a shit!’”
“Well, that’s sort of how you’re supposed to feel. It’s the subtext, the things that aren’t being spoken that the story is really all about.”
“But of course she apologizes in the story. If there was one word I’d like to strike from my vocabulary it would be ‘Sorry.’ No, I’m not. I’m not sorry.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Was it metafiction really? I thought – and I could definitely be wrong — that metafiction was aware of itself, as if the girl in your story rolled over in bed at the end and said, ‘It’s just a blog anyway.’ But obviously I have no idea. What the fuck is metafiction?”
“But if it’s just a blog, how do we get back to the story?”
“Well, you could just blame the writer, and then turn back over…”
Good one, Joseph!
Ahh…the complications of metafiction.
“How did you get into my story, Joseph?”
“I wrote myself in. Do you mind?”
“No, not at all. Sell any copies of ‘Plasma of Terror’lately?”
“One.”
“Ouch.”
“I’m not trying to make a profit, Rodger. I just want people to read the damn book, read it and discuss it.”
“Where can they pick up a copy?”
“Through St. Genevieve Press. There’s a link to it at the Angeleno Blog at Martini Republic.”
“Cool. I’ll spread the word.”
Hmm. Per Wikipedia:
Metafiction is a type of fiction which self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction.
It is the term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. It usually involves irony and is self-reflective. It can be compared to presentational theatre in a sense; presentational theatre does not let the audience forget they are viewing a play, and metafiction does not let the readers forget they are reading a work of fiction.
Interesting thought. I generally thought of meta-fiction as things the author appears in, which means that a great deal of RJ’s fiction would count as meta-fiction, and I’m not wrong, but there’s a lot more to it, too.
Hmm. Run-on.
“Hold on a minute. There’s no link to St. Gen’s there. I had to put one in.”
“Fine. But what was that all about yesterday anyway? It doesn’t seem like you’re broke to me…”
“I live like a Jesuit, frugally but sumptuously. I need both attention and money in order to sustain my quiet and modest pauper’s soul.”
“But what about that about turning her back over?”
He looked away.
“Un joli jésuite avec une tache humide.“
the metaphysics of stuff….
meta thoughts, metaphysical, metaphysician, metaphor
= quantum physics?
Easy!–once you have multiple minds in sync.
hollywood did this with “Mindwalk” and the fabbest of all “What the Bleep do we know? First film came out a year ago? Ken Wilbur books and David Miller Books….?
this may not be so easy because knowing what they are talking about can sometimes be too hard unless you have a guide?
The fabbest thing is how Hollywood was able to take these really deep thinkers/scientists etc. whose fields of expertise are so diverse & use the magic of what Hollywood does to make what they are trying to convey avail to common man? FAB! & easy….!
THIS FILM IS A MUST SEE! 1st version!!!!!!!!!!
& they have a new version coming out soon!
TRUST ME!!!!!!! NETFLIX ON THIS ONE ASAP! have some nice champagne or asti, relax back into some fluffy softness and watch it in the way it’s easiest for you to watch films. I saw it 6 times because it was so profound? I wish I owned it!
After you watch it, swing by and let me know what you thought? K. I’ve been SO busy assembling a team up here? But dang? I missed ya!
For me the MOST important concept in the film was the WATER! you MUST pay attention to the images of the water and the metathoughts and what the power of words do to it. And her at the mirror! what is she thinking and saying to herself in that scene?
EASY! (Maybe Adrianna Bliss can rent it too–? & she can let us know what she thought of the whole thing?) Adrianna Bliss & Adrianna de la Rosa = mindlink.
xxoo!
me
tackling quantum leaps takes a team? BUT only Hollywood knows how to make that avail to common man, because of the artists and writers involved?
Bon soir! & Buenos noches & Bella Notte.
don’t work to hard, K.—- promise.
I have a fab stress reliever over at my blog in a few mo’s—.
hey all you frugal but sumptuous types?
much stress relief can be found with drishtis!
see me blog!
ps: The Wikipedia = metathought
http://in.integralinstitute.org/
Hmmm. I’d thought a while back about designing a site map that sort of resembled that one, with the bubbles representing different avenues of thought. They were supposed to shift and play different tones when the cursor rolled over them, but my programmer friend dismissed it as impractical…
It’s amusing to see something similar…
Interesting background on that movie, and the people who funded it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Bleep_Do_We_Know%21%3F#Criticism_of_the_movie
That film is about metapsychology via the transpersonal–but see unless you know what that is, you can’t know what I know?
Each person or “head” ie: brain in that film gave you their “body” of knowledge, hollywood made it avail to common man who is not going to have any of that knowledge–just so they could “think” about what they saw, and then dialogue.
That is how metathinking works?
The viewer is coming to a conclusion, and each different “head” that views will reach their own, but–it will be different for each?
the film is designed to “move” consciousness forward really fast!—-
so would a writers blog? if you got all the bloggers writing crime blogs together? on one blog?–then you could tag it and it would be yours?
here:
http://www.technorati.com
Why do you end so many sentences with question marks? Is that a tonal thing, as in to insinuate that the last syllable is emphasized?