The writer at work

[truepenny]

BEAR: I have practiced guitar, and am about to go look for the first line of Grail in the fridge.

MOLE: Oh, is that where you keep them? I suppose it keeps them fresh.

BEAR: Well, it wasn't in the guitar.

MOLE: Are you the first line of my novel?
No, I am not the first line of your novel. I am a guitar string.

Are you the first line of my novel?
No, I am not the first line of your novel. I am a sweet potato.

Are you the first line of my novel?
No, I am not the first line of your novel. I am unidentifiable leftovers that should have been thrown out a week ago.

Are you the first line of my novel?
No, I am not the first line of your novel. I am a bottle of imported beer.

BEAR: Oo. Beer.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Beer is shiny! Who knew?

I recently had a somewhat unfortunate experience with a sweet potato. Maybe I should be keeping them in the fridge? I notice that the stores don't.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Go with the beer.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

I love you guys.

[miss55.livejournal.com]

Is there some white wine in there?

[saoba.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

(also, note to self- need to take growler to local microbrew for moar beer.)

[ckd]

This! Is! Not! My! Cow!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

This is just to say / I have parodied the first line / That was in the ice box / and which you were probably saving / for a novel...

[(Anonymous)]

Dang, you beat me to it. :-)

~Megan

[pureyaoi.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

You win the internets.

[ken-schneyer.livejournal.com]

"You are not the first line of my novel. You are a snort!"

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

this was what I was thinking. :-D

[hackerguitar.livejournal.com]

carpe zytha

truth is where you find it.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

I was expecting something more like this:

Are you the first line of my novel?
No, I am not the first line of your novel. I am an excruciatingly close reading of a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Or this:

Are you the first line of my novel?
No, I am not the first line of your novel. I am a deconstruction of various tropes of "I Spy," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," and procedural police mysteries written for television, with particular interest in the lasting effects of psychological trauma.


Isn't that what everyone around here keeps in their refrigerator? :)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Close.

That first one is Carnival, and the second one is Shadow Unit.

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

*chuckles*

[calanthe-b.livejournal.com]

~dies laffing~

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I think "Oo. Beer." is a great first line. :)

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

Beeeeeeeeer-kunnnn!

Oh...uh...Beer buts, I meant. Beer. Nuts. :]

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

Check in the beer! Check in the beer!

(Granted, mine are usually hiding in the red wine . . . .)