Spin me a tale

[imomus]

I'm spending the day on ICE trains, getting from Berlin to Holland, then performing in the evening, wearing funny clothes and making stuff up.



I planned to give Click Opera a holiday today, but at the last minute I thought I'd post this photo and ask you, dear reader, to make stuff up yourself: a short (fifty words or so?) narrative related in some way to the picture.

I won't say anything at this stage about what the photo is, who took it, who's in it, where or why it came about. Think of it as a Rorschach onto which you can project whatever you like -- a rumination, a story about the characters, a joke, a piece of philosophising, a weather forecast, a sci-fi scenario, a haiku, a fashion report. Be creative, be kind, give me something interesting to read when my iPod crackles to life in the Dutch wifi!

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Lapp

[(Anonymous)]

The Lapps, genetically closer to the North African Berbers than to their European neighbours, had always puzzled the Bishop. Peering at the photo, he thought of another group of exiles in Europe - the Jews. Who had the more genuine life, the people who sealed themselves off from the world with a book, or the people who had embraced the land so different from their ancestors? The Bishop felt his clerical collar, as if to feel whether it was a shackle, or a symbol of learning.