Showing posts with label interrogative mode. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interrogative mode. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (29)

If you were granted sole authority and power to delete one holiday (religious or secular, or both, or neither) and replace it with an observance of your own choosing and discretion, what would those choices be?

Monday, December 21, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (28)

If you were given the opportunity -- nay, the mandate -- to deliver a 30-second public-service announcement (PSA) to the whole planet, with translations in every known language (as well as Latin, Esperanto, and Sanskrit) freely supplied, what would the text of your message consist of? 

Thursday, December 17, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (27)

Exactly, or approximately, when is the when of "when in the course of human events," a gloriously elongated sentence independent of modern minimalism, a declaration bolstered by subordinate clauses and prepositional phrases and infinitives galore?

Friday, December 11, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (26)

As they were enjoying an evening walk, they were arrested by the site of one -- and then two -- pale lavender myrtle blossoms amidst a sea of ground-creeping greenery, and wondered and asked no one (or everyone) in particular: what sight or sound caught your attention today, stopped you in your tracks (if you had your awareness antennae turned on)?

Thursday, December 10, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (25)

It is said "freedom isn't free," and yet, assuming freedom means liberation from enslavement; means release from shackles of habit, addiction, custom, attachment, pain, joy, possessions, prejudices, or ecstasy; then what metaphorical pawn for a knight, bishop for a rook, rook for a queen would you trade to be free? 

 

Wednesday, December 09, 2020

My Interogative Mode (24)

You are about to drive across the country, in a sedan, from one coast to the other, East to West or West to East, no time limit; who is/are your preferred fellow traveller/travellers, famous or infamous, known or unknown, rich or poor, living or dead?

Monday, December 07, 2020

Saturday, December 05, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (22)

Irrespective of qualifications, training, opportunity, or practicality, what job would you want more than any other in the whole wide world?

Monday, November 23, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (19)

 

At what point did you realize that: (a) this is what it's all about (b) this is not what it ever was about (c) all of the above (d) none of the above? 

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Monday, November 16, 2020

My Interrogative Mode (11)

How -- by what series of intentional or aleatory clicks, events, or promptings -- is it that you came to be staring at (or listening to an audio transcription of) these words on a screen right now?

Words, and Then Some

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