Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:01:00 -0500
From: "the rags of time..." <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      [WRITERS] EXER: slightly twisted aphorisms...

Something you can do sitting in a boring meeting, while enjoying a
children's piano recital, or at other times...

take one aphorism or saying.

Then twist slightly.  Fold, spin dry, and mumble under your breath...

You might find yourself musing over the aptitude of something like:

"Two puppies hiding in the bushes aren't worth one piddling in your hand."

Shake it a little and see if a meaning falls out.  You never know where
significance may turn up...

"...I wander'd off by myself
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
        Walt Whitman

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