Spin me a tale
Feb. 27th, 2009 07:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusI'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!
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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Date: 2009-02-28 01:17 am (UTC)And do thank Hisae for her new blog suggestions! We are still enjoying the Ojiisan/Obaasan blog she recommended previously, and this leads to the photo we enclose for you today.
Ever since we saw Obaa-chan's post (http://sesenta.exblog.jp/3654623/) on ayu fish:
our mouths have been watering!
Well, it occurred to me that the name of this Japanese fish sounded curiously familiar.... Could it be that this Japanese word (http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/alt/japet&text_number=+709&root=config) is cognate with an Altaic form, as suggested (http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/alt/altet&text_number=++58&root=config) by Professor Starostin? I wondered.
Could this could be the same fish known to our Evenki friends as the aǯin and to the Nanai as aǯị?
Well, as you can see from the photo, we have secured one of the ingredients already. Tomorrow we head across the steppe and into pine forests searching for a tree bearing apples as delicious in appearance as Obaa-chan's! Do wish us luck!