The second glance - the one you take when when you think you've just seen something out of the corner of your eye - is too dismissive. You see nothing is there, or it's just a tree/bird/commonplace event, and think nothing of it. What made you think you saw something? What made you think you saw what you saw? And why does it always warrant a second glance?Why does it happen when it does?
There's something there...
The figure that just dashed across the window or door behind you. The familiar face you recognise in a complete stranger. The unusual thing that seems not to exist when you look properly.
What if there was something truthful to the images you saw before you looked again? Something that kicks the second glance filter into gear and eradicates plausibility. Maybe there are lessons to be learned about oneself...
Or maybe something's being hidden.
But how can you search for answers when the only way to find them is looking without looking?
Dale.
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Another story idea/blurb like thing. Originally I was going calling this idea Second Glance, but Jodi Picoult already has a book with that title. Grr...
Aw. Hate when that happens.
Sounds tres interesting though, will we see anything come of it??
... and I know you guys have stopped doing this, but my captcha was: "pleglya"... too strange *not* to write down!
Jimzip :D
Well I still think you could get away with calling it Second Glance. (Or 2nd Glance.) ;) But you made Looking without looking work well for that entry.
I had a theory at one point that when you almost bump into people in the street (you know, when you go to go left but they go same direction, so you go to go right, just as they then try to make that move too) that it's your subconscious trying not to let them get past because in a past llife they were a lover or an enemy or a family member etc.
Never said it was a good theory. :p Safe to say the second glance thing is a better basis for a story!
PS. James my captcha is Ickbardi - clearly that beats yours for coolness. :P
Hopefully something will come of this and hopefully you'll get to see more of it yes, Jimzip. Maybe you could come up with a story about a guy who starts to see codes within captcha's - codes that predict his own future. I'd say "pleglya" would be a reference to someone pulling an April Fools joke on you. Someone who is p(ulling your)leg(and being a)lya (= "liar")
Lol Luke, that's... interesting. :P I'd like to see that played out. And as for your future... Do you know anyone called bardi? Otherwise Shakespeare is going to come back from the dead and lick you.
Holy mackerel Dale, you put waaaay too much effort into pleglya! Somewhat impressed, but I'd hate the story to turn out starring Nicholas Cage... :shudder:
Jimzip :D
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