Comments | enfa: Hangin out

enfa

Hangin out

Oct 14, 2003 13:50

Thought about getting up and stretching early this morning. Didn't. Couldn't, actually, because I am a tablet. Theres a lot of pressure here to stay in one spot. Around 2500 years ago, one of the grain inventory tablets decided she was going to try for the surface to check if the scribes had possibly lost us. She moved about 10 feet upward in ( Read more... )

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justinsomnia October 14 2003, 15:18:22 UTC

Hello tablet. I'm manuscript, from the Society for the Proliferation of Romance Languages and the Western Tradition (SPLRetTO - French acronym, of course). I find your journal offensive. I find the support of non-dominant traditions offensive. Why don't you get something useful on you, like Latin? How can you be "reflective" if you're obviously using a language that represents inferior thought processes and civilization?

I had to use a translator to write this, in fact, because I scoff at your brutish writing of the Angles and the Saxons. So please don't scorn the translator, justinsomnia. She is just the mouthpiece for my ethnocentric viewpoints.

enfa October 14 2003, 16:01:17 UTC

Hello Manuscript.

See, the thing is, I'm a baked clay tablet. My text is quite permanently attached. If you want to write in your "superior" romance language upon my surface, you're more than welcome.

The thing is, I have lasted underground for quite some time, much longer than any of the cultures which SPLRetTO promotes. I've been sitting in a clay pot with a bunch of other tablets, and all our writing is still pretty legible. Cause we're not made out of paper. I'm not sure how you, paper based manuscript, plan on surviving. We tablets survive.

Here's a quarter, kid. Go buy yrself a kiln.

justinsomnia October 14 2003, 17:14:44 UTC

While you've been sitting in a clay pot, I've been out promoting literature and culture. That's why my tradition is superior even though you've been around longer. We survive through the dilligent work of our most ardent scholarly friends, who support us and keep us alive for centuries to come.

I think I'll take you up on that offer to write on you. ::takes out chisel and copy of Horace::