(THE ESSAY AS NON-EVENT)

by John Skipp

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 7:16 pm.
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9 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Frank Wydra

    Wow! Knocked me out. The economy of word and crispness of prose was awesome. What I particularly liked is how your diction emphasized the theme of the piece. It took me back to that old song, “I got plenty of nothin’ and nothin’s plenty for me.” This is–and will remain– a classic storyteller’s piece.

    Frank

  2. Brian Hodge

    And yet … I was left wanting more, somehow.

  3. John Skipp

    Dear Frank and Brian –

    And the moral of the story is…

    EMPTY JOKE = MODERN ART!!!

    Or, at least, that was my “dream effect”.

    I was really bummed when Blogger didn’t give me the full page of blank space I wanted for this “essay”. Essentially, that ruined my whole shitty joke.

    But the real truth is: I honestly dipped into the well, and there was NUTHIN’ THERE.

    So rather than just go blah blah blah, I gave you this literary nouvelle cuisine: VAPOR A LA SKIPP!

    Again: SORRY, EVERYBODY!

    Yer pal,
    Skipp

  4. Brian

    Is this a clever commentary on the emptiness and futility of modern day publishing?

    Very deep!

    Brian

  5. John B. Rosenman

    Silence is golden.

  6. David Niall Wilson

    Wow…I don’t get to read for a day or so (business trip) and…and…I miss NOTHING …

    D

  7. mortcastle

    No future
    no past
    just now

    You may leave the temple, grasshopper, but clean your room first.

    Mort

  8. Sully

    Am I still in KS (Kansas)?

    – Sully (Thomas Sullivan)

  9. Bev Vincent

    And still he gets more comments than my last post!!

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