FICTIONWOCKY - DAY 11 THE QUOTE-MUTANT LEG

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Take a famous short prose, poem, aphorism, quote, proverb, prayer, song, whatever, and garble it, put it through the mincer. Let a piece come out of it.

But, by all means, misquote it, change rhymes, or translate it badly (or funnily). Make it too literal. Misattribute it even. Let the old meaning suffocate, or extend. Whichever suits you.

This is not only about clever parody. You can do anything with it, really. Just take the old thing and mess with it until it starts feeling funny. It’s all fun in the end.

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ok the formatting for this will be Me first—then HPL. That way, we don’t get the two confused.

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ME 👇

The most merciless certainty in the universe is the ability of the human body to muddle all its contents. We rot on a chaotic island of knowledge in the midst of shrinking white seas, and it was not meant that we should stay put. The culinary institutes, each sloughing in their predetermined direction, have done irreparable damage; but some enchanted evening, the shredding of associated ignorance will isolate such mundane pinpricks of fantasy, and of our joyous outer locus, that we shall either get hard from the obscuration or sprint toward the alluring darkness and out of the war and danger of old perceived enlightenment.

HPL 👇

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” — Call of Cthulhu.

Attached is an picture of a menu from a restaurant I went to in Lisbon. I told the bartender they missed a trick by not having Brown Jenkin’s Ale, but he had no clue what I was talking about.

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