Saturday, February 21, 2015

Minimalism, The Harvest

"'Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.'
'You mean you can't take less,' said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take more than nothing.'"
Small is beautiful, or less is more, to be minimalistic, as I apply from John Barth's article in NY Times.
What I do not see is more beautiful and waiting to be unveiled, even when I cannot read it... I will know it when others review my work later... if at all.
So, I read this story, in fact began to read it the very next day, after it was posted, in my class offered by Prof. Jeff Sartain.
I went back again earlier.
Read it two more times, today, to know who was hurt, when and where was this.
No wonder, appearances matter, after they count their returns. The lawyers held the value, for the value they can harvest.
Doctors or surgeons, to the organs they could.
And, of course, the author remembered that we are products of the miracle, that progeny is created from.
Some one else may say, we are a miracle from heavenly beings.
Each time I read it, I find a need to go back and find more!
You bet your shirt.
Or whatever.
Carroll, Lewis's characters popped out in my memory!  Unlike Poe's, story telling by Carroll Lewis's although does not appear to be minimalistic, the context above, is a clear example of Minimalism applied by Mad Hatter and the mouse, Alice keeps wondering, why the cups keep accumulating, and no one is offering her any tea. It is because, the clock was their friend and they wanted tea time to last forever!
Amy Hampbell, as a narrator/ protagonist keeps giving information, in piece meals...
Like the beauty of night, beyond the brightness of the Eiffel tower, you go back, again and again to reread!