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aldersprigTo lilfluff's prompt
Casey woke up, showered, got dressed, went to work, stopping for a breakfast pastry and a hot drink on the way. Worked for ten hours, with a half-hour break for lunch, went home, cooked dinner, went to sleep.
Nine days out of ten, with a break on the tenth day - and on the tenth day, Casey went to the park, and lay out in the sun, reading a book, enjoying the cacophony of the other 10% of the population taking their day off. The sun was warm, the rain had fallen early in the morning, and the cheap paperback was entertaining, if one Casey had read before.
"Have you ever wondered," the girl on the next blanket looked a little nonuniform, her hair wild, her tunic trimmed with bright embroidery. Maybe an artist? They had more leeway in such things.
"Wondered?" Casey didn't wonder.
"What you did before?"
"Before what? Yesterday, I worked. Last week, I came here and read a book. Before that, I worked."
"And before that?" she prompted, leaning forward, encroaching on Casey's blanket.
"Before that? The same as..." Casey trailed off. Was life really that boring? Was every day so similar that there really was no memory of the past? "The same as every other ten-day." But was it?
"You see? I am thirty days into a mural. I will be done in thirty more. But I cannot remember any other mural I've ever worked on. And neither can anyone else I talk to. It's as if we have no history beyond thirty days ago."
Work, sleep, eat... Casey tried to remember further back, and could not. "That's impossible." But was it?
"I think we're past that stage," the artist said dryly. "I think now, we should be on to 'why.' And, of course... 'how.'"
lilfluff's promptCasey woke up, showered, got dressed, went to work, stopping for a breakfast pastry and a hot drink on the way. Worked for ten hours, with a half-hour break for lunch, went home, cooked dinner, went to sleep.
Nine days out of ten, with a break on the tenth day - and on the tenth day, Casey went to the park, and lay out in the sun, reading a book, enjoying the cacophony of the other 10% of the population taking their day off. The sun was warm, the rain had fallen early in the morning, and the cheap paperback was entertaining, if one Casey had read before.
"Have you ever wondered," the girl on the next blanket looked a little nonuniform, her hair wild, her tunic trimmed with bright embroidery. Maybe an artist? They had more leeway in such things.
"Wondered?" Casey didn't wonder.
"What you did before?"
"Before what? Yesterday, I worked. Last week, I came here and read a book. Before that, I worked."
"And before that?" she prompted, leaning forward, encroaching on Casey's blanket.
"Before that? The same as..." Casey trailed off. Was life really that boring? Was every day so similar that there really was no memory of the past? "The same as every other ten-day." But was it?
"You see? I am thirty days into a mural. I will be done in thirty more. But I cannot remember any other mural I've ever worked on. And neither can anyone else I talk to. It's as if we have no history beyond thirty days ago."
Work, sleep, eat... Casey tried to remember further back, and could not. "That's impossible." But was it?
"I think we're past that stage," the artist said dryly. "I think now, we should be on to 'why.' And, of course... 'how.'"
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Date: 2012-01-31 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-01-31 04:20 pm (UTC)Nifty! I somehow blanked out on having left this prompt and didn't remember which it was until halfway through. Hehe. One person asks, "And before that?" Then another, then everything gets thrown into question. :)
(Although, eek! A ten hour workday with a ten day week? Although with no history that might last longer than it did for revolutionary France and Russia)
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Date: 2012-02-01 07:38 pm (UTC)The third paragraph is confusing. It lacks a speech verb.
Ooh... cool. I want to know the answers to those questions, too!
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Date: 2012-02-01 08:42 pm (UTC)