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Saturday 15 February 2014

For Week Six



WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT MEETING PEOPLE OR A PERSON (OR ANIMAL, OR SPACEMAN, OR...) COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM YOU OR YOUR CHARACTER




This could be a cultural difference.   Suddenly you find yourself looking round to see what to do in the mosque,  or presenting yourself in a nudist colony.  

It could be a moral difference.   Someone one with completely different values from yourself/your character.    A suicide bomber,   a prostitute,   a mercenary. 

It could be life-style difference.   Someone vastly more wealthy, or vastly poorer, than yourself.   A star celebrity, a politician,  a phone-hacker, an ex-nazi.

Meeting a mystic or monk or nun dedicated to work away from ‘the world’,   a different life from the one you’ve been used to, but find you can no longer live.

A boy from all boy’s educated and no sisters meeting a girl.   Here the ‘completely different’ is in part in his mind as well as experience.

Meeting a lion -   safari, at the coliseum dream, a child's story, an SF in which it's been discovered how to represent lions' 'thoughts' in some way, perhaps with lines into their brains.


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