• meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Plot twist: She’s already a lamp and this is inception

    But the real Chad response would be: “Listen, as long as you light up my life…”

  • Godort@lemm.ee
    15·
    12 hours ago

    Oh man, lets play in that space! I have several questions:

    • Are you some kind of magic lamp that I can talk to that will respond?

    • If you’re responsive, are you the same person as you are now, but in lamp form, or are you a different person?

    • We’re you always a lamp or were you transformed by some kind of wizard curse?

    • If you were a lamp before we met, how did we meet?

    • what was our first date like?

    • Am I a lamp too? If so, was I also turned into one from a wizard curse?

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
      5·
      9 hours ago

      „Wait, does that mean you’d love me more, if you could turn me on whenever you like? Can’t you turn me on now? Is it that complicated that you’d rather exchange me for a lamp?!“

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    8·
    12 hours ago

    the lesson of the moth by archy

    The character of Archy, created by Don Marquis in 1916, was a cockroach who had been a poet in a previous incarnation. To write he must leap headfirst onto the keys of a typewriter, and thus is unable to capitalize his letters.

    i was talking to a moth
    the other evening
    he was trying to break into
    an electric light bulb
    and fry himself on the wires

    why do you fellows
    pull this stunt i asked him
    because it is the conventional
    thing for moths or why
    if that had been an uncovered
    candle instead of an electric
    light bulb you would
    now be a small unsightly cinder
    have you no sense

    plenty of it he answered
    but at times we get tired
    of using it
    we get bored with the routine
    and crave beauty
    and excitement
    fire is beautiful
    and we know that if we get
    too close it will kill us
    but what does that matter
    it is better to be happy
    for a moment
    and be burned up with beauty
    than to live a long time
    and be bored all the while
    so we wad all our life up
    into one little roll
    and then we shoot the roll
    that is what life is for
    it is better to be a part of beauty
    for one instant and then to cease to
    exist than to exist forever
    and never be a part of beauty
    our attitude toward life
    is to come easy go easy
    we are like human beings
    used to be before they became
    too civilized to enjoy themselves

    and before i could argue him
    out of his philosophy
    he went and immolated himself
    on a patent cigar lighter
    i do not agree with him
    myself i would rather have
    half the happiness and twice
    the longevity

    but at the same time i wish
    there was something i wanted
    as badly as he wanted to fry himself

    archy

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    11 hours ago

    Sometimes I wonder if this sort of question is like an instinctual parental fitness test. Kids ask all sorts of wild questions, maybe this is a test to see if you can navigate that kind of question with tact.