Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Library Stalking
Once I got over the awkward darting eyes during the library activity, I realized that this activity actually does push myself as a writer. Finding a subject to write on wasn't too difficult. He is sitting with both feet on the floor, working on the assignment, nothing too surprising. And then I got to... "Make metaphoric equivalences for your observations". What kind of metaphoric equivalence could I possibly make out of "Size: Average"? I then found myself making many references to animals when making my metaphors. I think I was struggling for some sort of sensible metaphor to an obvious observation. Making metaphoric equivalences is a good exercise though. I would assume that to be a great writer you should be able to make an exact metaphors for seemingly apparent observations. This was the frustrating yet necessary element of the library stalking.
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I disagree because I believe that the metaphoric equivalences part of the assignment was the easiest. Once you had the real concrete descriptions, you have the ability to play with that information and make it into whatever you want. For example your subject was working on the assignment, you could have compared that to a spider working on building his web...just use your imagination. I know I let my imagination run wild with that part of the assignment.
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