Nov 15, 2012
Paradoxically - November 2012
A. Gates raises a curious question about the newsworthiness of an incident. Who decides what is NEWS, anyway? Click below to view the toon of te month!
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Paradoxically - November 2012
A. Gates raises a curious question about the newsworthiness of an incident. Who decides what is NEWS, anyway? Click below to view the toon of te month!
Paradoxically - October 2012
Artery | Paradoxically| A. Gates puts forth a basic question in an issue dedicated to human beings, the one about equality. A creative take on the October'12 theme, do take a look!
Paradoxically - September 2012
Artery | Are all questions answered adequately? Are all answers the reasons explaining the questions asked? A. Gates asks a powerful question capturing the September'12 theme beautifully with her profound art.
Variations
Talespun | Flash fiction from A. Gates, A metaphysical interpretation of the September'12 theme, depicting the different moods and colours of the bittersweet word, "why."
Her teeth chattered although the day was shockingly hot. His cold tone boldly assaulting her with the question, “Why are you asking me?”
“Why?” she flung back at him, enigmatically.
The force of his attack had squandered his reserves.
“You aren’t answering my question,” he muttered.
Silence grew between them.
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I admit it. It was my own experience.
Writing it down made it seem less personal.
But then, I was nagged by the question: Why not write “me” instead of “she”?
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“Why are you doing it?” he charged.
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“Why do you ask?”
“Why won’t you answer my question?”
“ Are you asking me to justify myself? Or to share the
secret of my being?”
“You think too much.”
“Why do you say that?”
“You ask too many questions!”
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Yet, the second variation seemed too true.
Why not become my own fiction?
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My teeth chattered although the day was shockingly hot. The tone itself convulsing your question, “Why?” into an assault, shattering every word my suggestion had naively offered to you.
Unwilling to wage battle, I gave you back one word, “Why.” Flatly intoned.
The “?” was mine.
I felt empowered by the fiction of my own being.
Paradoxically - August 2012
Artery | Paradoxically | A. Gates pays a perfect tribute to India with her take on the misused theory of independence. Take a look.
Paradoxically - July 12
Picspeek | Is night the absence of day? Who created the day and who created the night? A celestial paradox is offered to you by A.Gates.
Paradoxically - June 12
Paradoxically - May'12