þÿ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta name="generator" content="RapidWeaver" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles.css" /><style type="text/css" media="all"></style><script type="text/javascript" src="../javascript.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"></script> <title>To Leech His Own</title> </head> <body class="blog-archive-background"> <!-- <div class="blog-archive-headings-wrapper"> <div class="blog-archive-month">%blog_permalink_name%</div> <div class="blog-archive-link">%blog_permalink_links%</div> </div> --> <div class="blog-archive-entries-wrapper"> <div id="unique-entry-id-402" class="blog-entry"><div class="blog-entry-title">To Leech His Own</div><div class="blog-entry-date">03/04/10 06:59 AM <span class="blog-entry-category"> | <a href="category-4.html">Gags</a></span></div><div class="blog-entry-body">Clean slate, white board, blank canvas. I sit here with nothing on my mind worth sharing. Not that I have nothing on my mind, I always do, but it is often trivial and uninspiring, to say the least. <br />No major life changing events happened in the last two days. No catastrophe was witnessed by me, or told profoundly to me by another so that it could grace these clean and blank spaces. Still, I sit and type because I decided that I need the practice. I need to continue to pull words out of my mind like the medical practitioners and barbers of the early days of the Americas did with body humors using leeches. This is not a telling of a particular tale or the disgorging of a monster of literature, this is a mental blood letting. <br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="leeches large" width="537" height="106" src="page11_blog_entry402_1.jpg"/><br />I love words and word play. I use them as toys, tools and even weapons occasionally. I don't pretend to be eloquent, but I can turn a phrase when it seems to be headed down the wrong path. I enjoy playing with the similes and the homilies as much as the next guy, and shaping them into a cogent description others can embrace too. I never hesitate or ask to risk an asterisk, if one is needed it goes into the fray without a tear or a frazzled, nay! <br />Metaphor? Yes, many times, we've metaphor and we will meet again on the battlefields of verbal conflict! (It's all so silly that the human mind can be a hopper waiting for an idea or odd description to fall out and be arranged into a thought. <br />How do lesser beings communicate? How does the work-a-day life of a cockroach, termite, field mouse or titmouse work? Pheromones and reflexes I guess, but this is why the mice and insects aren't building libraries! I would venture to say somewhere in the world there are mice or insects eating away at someone's prized books or papers as I write! Printed paper has proteins and is palatable in situations where other nourishment may not be available, and I don't blame the mice and insects for getting something out of a good book, it's just not literature! <br />Who knows, some unforeseen crisis down the road may even cause me to eat my own words! (Well the leeches have done their job. They have had their fill, detached from my cerebellum and flopped to the imagined floor to digest my words while you poor unwitting readers digest them as well. <span style="font:12px Times, Georgia, Courier, serif; "><br /></span><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="leech border" width="537" height="40" src="page11_blog_entry402_2.jpg"/><br /><span style="font-size:18px; font-weight:bold; color:#985206;"><em>Chuck Pace &copy;2010</em></span><span style="font:18px 'Lucida Grande', LucidaGrande, Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight:bold; color:#000f55;"><br /></span><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.haloscan.com/load/chuckpace"> </script><a href="javascript:HaloScan('3_0410');" target="_self"><script type="text/javascript">postCount('3_0410');</script></a> | <a href="javascript:HaloScanTB('3_0410');" target="_self"><script type="text/javascript">postCountTB('3_0410'); </script></a></div></div> </div> </body> </html>