Episode Seventy
We are so much Creatures of Habit that it never occurs to us to say “organisms of habit” or “beings of habit.” We latch onto phrases that sound good and soon they become comforting cliches.
And we like our entertainment to be predictable as well. The well-wrought movie IN THE HEART OF THE SEA got a lousy Tomatometer rating, I think, because the story didn’t cleave to cinematic cliche of intro/rising action/crisis/payoff. So critics and other audience members couldn’t fit its square pegs into their round holes.
Episodic continuity is not only in our TV shows and comic books, it is in our daily/weekly/holiday life. When you get up and have your morning coffee, it is part of a pattern that, disrupted, adds to your stress.
Entertaining shopping sprees
Picaresqueness with a breeze
If the sins of Prez or Rev
Slump, then check out Campbell, Neve
Or explore a tomb well hidden
Don’t heed curses–Carter didn’t
Each and every means employ
Effortlessly to enjoy
Word balloon 1: Egad, Elmer! Ecclesiastical Encyclicals! Enjoy!
Word balloon 2: Pablo, please palpate Pam’s peritoneum.
Word balloon 3: I ignite ingots, Ignatz.
Word balloon 4: Savoring salads sows salubrity.
Word balloon 5: Oh, Oliver, our Oleander!
Word balloon 6: Dear Diedre, Dastardly Dick’s dead.
Word balloon 7: Egad, Elmer–ecdysiasts!
One with Clay, Image and Text 