More useless trivia about me. Very, very useless.

[nonelvis]

We all have our own unique talents, but somehow I'd hoped that mine would turn out to be more socially relevant or useful than being able to write a 600-word Pynchon-pastiche crossover between Doctor Who and Gravity's Rainbow.

I don't know where this came from, but it took less than 45 minutes, including the time a couple weeks ago to write Slothrop's song, and I only changed a couple of words in the final editing process. As we say so often around here, the mind is a dark forest.

P.S. If you want to leave a comment -- and I am in no way trolling for comments here, just need to pass along this important information -- please don't reply to the lifeonmartha entry; reply here instead. We are trying to keep the drabble thread to stories only so that we know when the count hits 1,000.

Comments

[haineux.livejournal.com]

Not even Pynchon will tempt me.

No, you can't have a my-head-exploding. NOT YOURS.

[nonelvis]

That's okay. I realize the audience for this is extraordinarily limited. Like, me and the one person who was excited to hear about the idea in the first place.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

I like the GR part and of course don't get the Martha part, but you captured Tyrone beautifully.

My one, tiny nit: Shouldn't it be the "screaming" of the V-2 to evoke the first line of the book?

[nonelvis]

Thank you! And hmm, you may be right about that edit. I think I'll go change it for the final version to be posted when I archive everything.