Sunday, March 6, 2016

Running through a puzzle paragraph

You wake up. Brush your teeth. Take a shower (maybe?, depends on how long you were up last night stu-DYING). You drive to school hoping not to crash or have someone shoot you through the passenger side of your car. You get to school. You sit in a desk for 6 hours; your only break being a smelly cafeteria that probably has as many germs as the bathrooms. You...wait hold on you're probably wondering what the heck I mean by "shoot you through the passenger side of your car", right? Wellllll let me explain!

The casino scene was in this anime which I also recommend 
The best place to start would be where I found this specific way of dying. No it wasn't on "1,000 Ways To Die". It was in a piece I read called, "Videotape" by Don DeLillo. I absolutely loved it. It was horrifying and exciting and just so so real. So real. One might say...surreal.ha ha ha jokes. The story reminded me of something I watched in my childhood. It was about a man who waltzed into a casino, and sat down at the bar. Suddenly, by pure coincidence, two masked men stormed into the bar and began to fire on the civilians. The man ended up dead, which is sad yes, but somehow the pieces just...clicked.  Anyways returning to the present, you might be wondering how in the world these two seemingly random things go together. It's the fact that in these stories, both men were killed by pure coincidence and you could be too. Some might say "Well no because if I live in a box I can't be attacked", while others might say "That's just stupid I won't be killed the chances of that happening are too slim." However you may wish to think, just remember you are no Lone Ranger. You are just like any other human. Take Jeanette Walls for instance. (For those of you that don't know she wrote "The Glass Castle", which is a beautiful memoir; I recommend it.) Her life was just a series of slim chances occurring one after another after another. Basically whatever shouldn't have happened did. And again, we are all in this together so what happe
The wonderful Jeannette Walls
ned to Jeanette Walls could happen to you too!!!!!! Don't go profiling others in an attempt to give yourself a false sense of security, because you are going to make matters that much worse when something unexpected happens.

And that ladies and gentlemen is how a puzzle paragraph is made. A lot of random thoughts plopped together with a central theme holding it all in one piece.

1 comment:

  1. Amun, I love you somehow connected your very random thoughts in this puzzle paragraph that is more than one paragraph. I also like how you synthesized to other things you have seen. In addition, I will be up quite late stu-DYING tonight. Bye.

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