tornskate

I like to fool things. Consider it a type of hobby. Or, if you wish to really throw things into a twist, consider this a product of my obsession, or simply a condition that I might have been born with: perhaps, OCD? Well, nevertheless, the fact remains that I do, indeed, love to fool things.
Great, that is off my shoulders. Now, may I continue?


I do not like to fool animate things.
Animate meaning lifelike, things that can breathe, feel, predict things. You see, fooling animate things is much too easy, much too boring. I need something to fool that is unpredictable, cunning, full of unprecedented wisdom, et cetera.


That is why I like to fool inanimate objects.
It seems illogical, I know, considering inanimate objects don’t react to any such…fooling. It would seem that way, would it not? But nay! I have seen it happen! I have fooled with many objects—staplers and push pins, lamps, computers… Oh yes, and I find it quite amusing. Quite would actually be an understatement, I consider it teeming with amusement.


…You’re probably saying to yourself, “why am I even reading this?”
You know what; I ask you the same thing. Why? Why would such a strange title draw in a reader, such an illogical title?
Quite frankly, I have no idea where I am going with this.
I just like to fool things.


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Tell me what you think, please. Harsh criticism, compliments tossed in there, whatever.

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But in the long run we have found

That silent pictures are full of sound

alanmt

the "of" before "objects" in the third line of the third paragraph seems extraneous.

I found this short piece quite delightful, definitely engaging, as a personality study of the narrator. arch? mephistophelian? or having much knowledge but no sense - the best sort of fool? I couldn't really decide.

the only discordant note was the description of inanimate objects as cunning and full of unprecedented wisdom; there isn't really a satisfactory explanation for this in the next paragraph, although there most likely isn't intended to be. It tripped me up as a reader, though.

tornskate

Haha, thank you.

I'll go through and see what I can do to make it better.

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But in the long run we have found

That silent pictures are full of sound

The Cloaked Stranger

see, and I thought you were trying to fool us in this.

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