Calisthenics week 7
Looking back through Chapter 9 this week I found myself reflecting over the idea of causal relationships, and came up with a calisthenic and a poem.
Disasters
1906 Earthquake
Chernobyl
The great smog of 1952
The Great Depression
Hindenburg Explodes
Mt St Helens Erupts
Sinking of the Titanic
Stock Market Crash
Tangshan Earthquake
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
inventions
the telephone
the computer
the television
the cotton gin
the camera
the steam engine
the sewing machine
the automobile
the microwave
air conditioning
Now I will put them together with becausing.
Because of the earthquake the telephone
Because of Chernobyl computers
Because of the great smog television
because of the cotton gin and sewing machine
The Triangle shirtwaist factory fire
When the Hindenburg exploded the camera
Since Mount Saint Helen's Erupted the steam engine
Due to The Stock Market Crash air conditioning
removing all instance of because and linking words I will just leave the associations themselves to see what happens to the language.
Earthquake, telephone, Chernobyl, computers, great smog, television, cotton gin, sewing machine Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, Hindenburg camera, Mount Saint Helen's steam engine, Stock Market Crash, air conditioning
taking away the be causing leaves us with a pretty neat junkyard of possibilities
I will try stringing this together without any particular message but add a speaker
We rode earthquakes to the telephone,
and surfed the waves of our Chernobyl
computers and Great Smog Televisions.
We hid cotton gins
and sewing machines
from the triangle shirtwaist
factory fire.
We took still frames of Saint Helen's
steam engine with our Hindenburg Camera.
We left the stock market
and headed for our air
conditioned studio
apartment.
Time for a nap.
This exercise created a trite overkill of subjects and might read as didactic, but it did not intend to do that it also seems to add, I hope, to the strong argument Dr Davidson makes wit this question. “Can the question of why something occurs ever have a single fully rational answer?”(Davidson and Fraser 152)
I can certainly say that there is no single rational answer why this writing occurs, it may or may not make it intesting but at least it is a start.
Obviously it's given you some wonderful writing, though. Now you may want to temper all the references to disaster in the piece. In fact, much of that free write would do fine without ANY, or at least very few, of them. Those disasters GAVE you the impetus, but--as Hugo says--your job is get off subject, to shrug off the impetus.
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