First Contact

People were so frightened, they hadn’t known what to do. What do you do when you learn Aliens are real? They acted badly, they made mistakes, and as a repercussion, all friendly relations were severed. They hadn’t known they wanted to be friends, their language was beyond their understanding. They assumed the words were a threat. Of course, they did, they always do. Professor Donald Boulder was one of the top linguists in the world and he worked tirelessly to unlock the secrets of their language, and when someone works with that dedication, of course, they accomplish their task, sadly he was too late, the Aliens has already left. 

Humanity, embarrassed by their actions, joined together to build the worlds fastest and most technologically advanced spaceship to ever exist.  A team was put together, a strategist was brought in from Russia, a scientist from Germany, a robotics mechanic from Japan, a spaceship pilot and a linguist from America. With sad farewells and heavy hearts, the team left their known world and headed off into space, following the thick exhaust trail of the retreating aliens. 

First contact had happened and they had failed. But the vastness of space with twinkling lights seemed to offer hope…

Earth

(From last year.  Not my favorite, but it was enjoyable to write.)

 

Set apart from millions 

a world crafted of eons 

stretching into eternity,

a single spark among infinity.

Glittering in the deep 

this waking world never sleeps. 

Ever-dreaming, ever-living,

around a sun ever-burning.

A planet filled with smoke and scars,

listen, listen to the silence of the stars. 

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Symbolism​ to the Extreme: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury different characters attach different degrees of symbolic meaning to objects. The character of Quentin is one who is obsessed with viewing the world through a philosophical and symbolic lens. One item that receives particular importance is that of time, particularly in the form of the watch Quentin received from his father.  Continue reading “Symbolism​ to the Extreme: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner”