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mission statement
so there's this bit in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead where a character describes Shakespeare plays as a variety of combinations of blood, love and rhetoric.
For me, ever since I saw the film version, it's been one of those brain thingies that stayed in my head ever since. Something about the simultaneous accuracy and comedy of it? The way the explanation is matter-of-fact but also kind of flamboyant? I don't know. The words go through my mind every time someone is asked to explain how options can combine, no matter what those options are or how many.
A few years ago there was a meme in which, among other things, authors were asked to say choose three words to describe themselves and their work, and that's where my brain went. I remember the moment I saw the meme really specifically, actually, for some reason - I was at my former office, making myself coffee in the kitchen, and just started giggling. And then it occurred to me that I could actually *use* that quote to describe my Authorial Mission Statement, so I did and posted the quote, changing the words blood, love, and rhetoric to pining, social commentary and dick jokes, at the top of my tumblr.
I'd forgotten about it until today, but it turns out that I still think it's hilarious and 100% accurate:
We're more of the pining, social commentary and dick jokes school. Well, we can do you pining and social commentary without the dick jokes, and we can do you pining and dick jokes without the social commentary, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you social commentary and dick jokes without the pining. Pining is compulsory. They're all pining, you see.
Anyway what's up, Dreamwidth friends? Do you have Authorial Mission Statements? Or quotes that go through your mind all the time?
For me, ever since I saw the film version, it's been one of those brain thingies that stayed in my head ever since. Something about the simultaneous accuracy and comedy of it? The way the explanation is matter-of-fact but also kind of flamboyant? I don't know. The words go through my mind every time someone is asked to explain how options can combine, no matter what those options are or how many.
A few years ago there was a meme in which, among other things, authors were asked to say choose three words to describe themselves and their work, and that's where my brain went. I remember the moment I saw the meme really specifically, actually, for some reason - I was at my former office, making myself coffee in the kitchen, and just started giggling. And then it occurred to me that I could actually *use* that quote to describe my Authorial Mission Statement, so I did and posted the quote, changing the words blood, love, and rhetoric to pining, social commentary and dick jokes, at the top of my tumblr.
I'd forgotten about it until today, but it turns out that I still think it's hilarious and 100% accurate:
We're more of the pining, social commentary and dick jokes school. Well, we can do you pining and social commentary without the dick jokes, and we can do you pining and dick jokes without the social commentary, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you social commentary and dick jokes without the pining. Pining is compulsory. They're all pining, you see.
Anyway what's up, Dreamwidth friends? Do you have Authorial Mission Statements? Or quotes that go through your mind all the time?