Saturday, March 9, 2013
Stone-Cold
A "serious" Trifecta entry this weekend:
The word lithium comes from the Greek word lithos, which means stone (http://chemistry.about.com/od/lithium/a/10-Lithium-Facts.htm). This weekend, we want you to give us a thirty-three response using the word stone as one of your thirty-three words. You can use any definition of the word that you'd like, but we are specifically looking for serious, well-conceived entries. This isn't the weekend for light-hearted posts about the difficulty of posting before the linkz close, and we are not looking for hilarious commentary about your cats (THIS time). We want something serious and deep from you guys this weekend, because the sun is starting to shine a bit more, and we think we can handle it now. Take your time with it and give us your very best work.
So:
Do not burnish your ego until you can see yourself in its polished surface; reflections are but backwards shadows of reality. After all, the finest diamond is, in the end, just a stone.
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Ooohh. I like that Eric.
ReplyDeletevery nice words to live by
ReplyDeleteThank you. When I first wrote it, I thought it had a "fortune cookie" deel to it...
DeleteThat last line is great!
ReplyDeleteThanks. The last line actually came first; it was then simply a matter of fitting a "story" into the beginning.
DeleteThis is wonderful! Great take on the prompt - and I agree, your last line is superb!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteOh my,I wrote something similar (about a diamond being a stone till it is cut & polished)in one of the comments sometime back-cannot remember whose post it was.This is so beautifully written-love it:-)
ReplyDeleteYeah, the diamond rfereence isn't particularly original; I toyed with other gems there: ruby, emerald? But I felt that the diamond's very transparentness made the imagery better. Thank you for reading and commenting.
DeleteThat was very clever and I liked this. Short and sweet and no in depth explanation of why I did..I simply did.
ReplyDeleteHey, no depth required... if it engendered a reaction, that's all a writer can hope for...
DeleteI really enjoyed this. I especially liked "reflections are but backwards shadows of reality."
ReplyDeleteThank you. That is one of those lines that just kind of came out of nowhere, but made emminent sense to me.
DeleteIndeed. Great job!
ReplyDeleteoooo backwards shadows of reality...Awesome piece.
ReplyDeleteThanks Draug. It's very nice if you to comment so much. I appreciate you taking the time. I'm trying to get better at that myself.
DeleteI adore the message in this. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's good to know that there is meaning yo be taken from the words.
Delete"reflections are but backwards shadows of reality" - great line!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteWell done! So many thoughts wrapped up in a few words. I enjoyed reading it.
ReplyDeleteThanks. One if the great things about the weekend prompts is that they force efficacious efficiency with language. I often prefer them to longer pieces, fir precisely that reason...
DeleteI loved this and think I live it a little bit.
ReplyDeleteI think we all live it a little bit. Thanks for reading.
DeleteNot clear on what the first sentence means, but the last one is a beaut.
ReplyDeleteKymm,
DeleteI usually prefer to let the reader decide what the lines mean to him or herself, but I can tell you what I was thinking: There are copius amounts of evidence that we human beings, probably for evolutionary reasons, overestimate our own talents and effort, and underplay the role luck has in our own accomplishments. At the same time, we overestimate the part luck plays in others' lives. The idea I have is to try to be cognizant of our biases, so as to be better able to get sn accurate perception of ourselves.
Again, that's just me; I am open to other interpretations. Thank you for reading and letting me know what you think. I appreciate it.