Tonight's Zelda's exercise: given the ccupation of "astronaut", we generated a list of nouns: cup girl dog sunglasses road water lamp-post police chocolate whiskey
and one of verbs: fly explore orbit launch land train whirl vomit experiment crash breathe navigate float repair walk
and put them together in interesting combinations, like so:
I wanted to explore that girl, like a strange new world.
Whirling around the lamp-post like a stripper around a pole.
Breathing whiskey, the fumes rising from the glass.
Dog vomits at 3 a.m. Not a good night.
The police experimented on the prisoner. Not a good night.
Chocolate trained her to behave.
Sunglasses launched into flight, glinting and tumbling in the sunlight.
We navigate upon the water but the water navigates itself, responding to gravity and mechanical forces, it knows exactly where to go.
Sunglasses repaired with a piece of paper clip wire, functional but ugly, I kept them in the car as back-ups on sunny days, would never wear them out in public.
The cup crashed down the stairs, falling, rolling, clunking halfway down - but did not break.
Just walking down the road can be enough, if it's the right road.
Exploring the water, the child learning to swim.
The girl orbited him, caught in his graviational pull; I wondered how long it would be until her orbit decayed and crashed.
The girl and the boy orbited each other, a binary star, their barycenter belonging to neither and both.
I experimented with whiskey and chocolate. It was a good night.
I was struck by one Steve came up with: "Buddha sings deep and guttural, like the earth."