Monday 17 December 2007

D Is For Dangerous

The Comedy Of Memory is a bizarre story about two girls. One has no future to boot and the other comes from the future. Almost everyone have their names that begins with the letter D.

Darcy.
Dorian.
Daniel.
Dahlia.
Furiya. (Probably have to kill him off in the story for not having a D in his name.)

It's a common habit not to name characters with the same letters as to avoid confusion. And then I read Austen's Persuasion. I think there were three or four dudes named Charles in the book. It was hard at first, I have to identify which Charles was who by finding who's with hanging out with him at that time.

Thus, the experiment with the D's. Will good management with the storytelling able to ease reader's way into easily identifying characters with similar names?

D Is For Damage.

Dorian jumps the tracks of time against her will by a greater plan. She's a space monkey, training to press a couple of buttons, whom will never know what was her purpose or why she had died. Like a phoenix, she was nauseatingly reborn again and again into a variety of space, time, culture and locations. Determined to learn about her purpose and the identity of the higher power that shuffles her in the flux of time, she had to remember to remember.

Question: What effect will time travel have on people?

Brain damage! Time travel shatters memories. It was not known if Dorian's selective amnesia was deliberate or due to the trauma of time jumping. Dorian have no effective time based perception, deficit in attention span and possesses a damaged retrospective memory. Dorian functions instead by prospective memory which are event based. She can only progress her life with cues.

Stuff her into a MRI machine and have her on a CT scan, Dorian will present a complicated case of neurological disorders with plenty of lesions and stenosis, preferably in the prefrontal lobe and the hippocampus region.

D Is For Darcy

The questions with Darcy.

Darcy's occupation - Chiromancer or hair dresser? It's a tougie, though I thought it would be interesting to feature palmistry in the story.

Darcy's involvement in the greater plan? I'm still trying to figure that out. Can a single person ever strive to doom a planet?

D Is For D-Cup
Unfortunately, there is no person with such bust size in the story. Only God, Bryan, Chang and all those who knows me knows I love Big Busty Naturals.


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