Surgery: a metaphor
Jan. 3rd, 2009 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWhat's the surgical word for when you put something in, rather than cutting something out?
It's a most unusual procedure in this office, which is why I don't know the word, but I am embarked upon it. The patient is anaesthetised, and opened up; slowly, slowly we sew in the new matter...
Or in other words, I figured out what's wrong with this story. The place I'd paused, what I thought was a pause before we leaped forward into the heart of the piece, turns out to be the end of it. What I thought was going to be a loaf turns out to be a slice: which means that we have to cut that slice in half and insert meat, to make a sammich of it. This is not complicated, just difficult to do. It needs dexterity, and I'm all thumbs.
The beautiful boy whore turns out to be oh, so much more: a deliberate self-sacrifice, not an incidental victim. Surabaya Johnnie perhaps may be the victim, in so far as there is one, unlikely as it seems. His window is also broken. And the compass, the right compass: what of that...?
Onward and upward. Into a stiff wind, as it happens.
It's a most unusual procedure in this office, which is why I don't know the word, but I am embarked upon it. The patient is anaesthetised, and opened up; slowly, slowly we sew in the new matter...
Or in other words, I figured out what's wrong with this story. The place I'd paused, what I thought was a pause before we leaped forward into the heart of the piece, turns out to be the end of it. What I thought was going to be a loaf turns out to be a slice: which means that we have to cut that slice in half and insert meat, to make a sammich of it. This is not complicated, just difficult to do. It needs dexterity, and I'm all thumbs.
The beautiful boy whore turns out to be oh, so much more: a deliberate self-sacrifice, not an incidental victim. Surabaya Johnnie perhaps may be the victim, in so far as there is one, unlikely as it seems. His window is also broken. And the compass, the right compass: what of that...?
Onward and upward. Into a stiff wind, as it happens.