Comments on: Permanent Serendipity http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:01:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Rosemary http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-211 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:05:10 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-211 Steve traced the spiral staircase at the top of the tower with the tip of his first finger. He looked down over the millions of serengents puzzling over the mass of complicated priorities. He could sense there goal was not in money, or fame or wealth or power but he, as yet had not reached the conclusion of Antony that their only hope of reaching optimum serendipidy was to have access to something quite so organic and pure as celery. If he had of thought about it, yes, of course it would have made sense. "Beauty and contentment are only every present with simplicity" whispered Antony to himself as he studied the celery lying in the palm of his outstretched hand. The realisation dawned that he had power to motivate, to bribe, to persuade any one of the serengents to follow any of his orders. Antony knew just what his goal was. It was....... Steve traced the spiral staircase at the top of the tower with the tip of his first finger. He looked down over the millions of serengents puzzling over the mass of complicated priorities. He could sense there goal was not in money, or fame or wealth or power but he, as yet had not reached the conclusion of Antony that their only hope of reaching optimum serendipidy was to have access to something quite so organic and pure as celery. If he had of thought about it, yes, of course it would have made sense.
“Beauty and contentment are only every present with simplicity” whispered Antony to himself as he studied the celery lying in the palm of his outstretched hand. The realisation dawned that he had power to motivate, to bribe, to persuade any one of the serengents to follow any of his orders.
Antony knew just what his goal was. It was…….

]]> by: kyb http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-210 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:05:58 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-210 celery. (That was the shock ending....) celery. (That was the shock ending….)

]]> by: Rosemary http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-209 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:35:58 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-209 Antony realised to his horror that he was still Antony in the physical form. He was still a man. In some ways that should have been a comfort to him "Normality is defined by the behaviour of the majority" quacked the pig "I am abnormal" Antony cried "I am a man. A man who is talking to a quacking pig". The duck snorted Your nose!. The duck shook his curly tail. "what has happened to your nose?. Antony raised his hand. His now damp fingers traced the outline of his now severe shaped nose. His hand brushed over his wrinkly forehead. He swallowed. Painfully. "I am not turning into an animal. No. I am Antony the man. It is time that is now in control. Look at how I have aged. Feel my face!. Observe my hollowed wrinkled features!" The realisation then dawned. Time was in control and the world was under the influence of........ Antony realised to his horror that he was still Antony in the physical form. He was still a man. In some ways that should have been a comfort to him
“Normality is defined by the behaviour of the majority” quacked the pig
“I am abnormal” Antony cried “I am a man. A man who is talking to a quacking pig”.
The duck snorted
Your nose!. The duck shook his curly tail. “what has happened to your nose?.
Antony raised his hand. His now damp fingers traced the outline of his now severe shaped nose. His hand brushed over his wrinkly forehead. He swallowed. Painfully.
“I am not turning into an animal. No. I am Antony the man. It is time that is now in control. Look at how I have aged. Feel my face!. Observe my hollowed wrinkled features!”
The realisation then dawned. Time was in control and the world was under the influence of……..

]]> by: kyb http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-208 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:11:41 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-208 Thanks. I got the idea from <a href='http://rooreynolds.com/2007/02/01/wheres-roo-im-living-declaratively/#comment-2745' rel="nofollow">this conversation</a>. Thanks. I got the idea from this conversation.

]]> by: john http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-207 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:38:57 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-207 I like it a lot. I like it a lot.

]]> by: kyb http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-205 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:46:44 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-205 Within minutes, every person in the room had begun to change into a different animal - the duck became a pig, the abbot became a duck. Antony could feel his nose growing and his skin becoming increasingly wrinkly. ..... Within minutes, every person in the room had begun to change into a different animal - the duck became a pig, the abbot became a duck. Antony could feel his nose growing and his skin becoming increasingly wrinkly.

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]]> by: Rosemary http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-203 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:01:54 +0000 http://kybernetikos.com/2007/02/04/permanent-serendipity/#comment-203 The duck suddenly started to move. The abbott spluttered further. Both men watched as the gravy smothered bird that was, up until a few minutes ago,dead and lifeless upon the steel church plate rose up from the dead. 'oink, oink" came the noise out of the ducks bill. The abbott opened his dry mouth. The splutterings of seconds previously became a quack..... to be continued..... The duck suddenly started to move. The abbott spluttered further. Both men watched as the gravy smothered bird that was, up until a few minutes ago,dead and lifeless upon the steel church plate rose up from the dead.

‘oink, oink” came the noise out of the ducks bill.

The abbott opened his dry mouth. The splutterings of seconds previously became a quack…..

to be continued…..

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