indelibleink's blog

Letters flow freely, draping themselves across a page with minimal concern to visual aesthetics or their melody when spoken. Punctuation and capitalization are optional. An abundant sense of self importance is not.

I can remember when the internet was an empty room, a journal that talked back. Some things only felt real to me if I could articulate them, hold them up for measurement and judgment by strangers whose opinions I found myself valuing more than my own.

In Faulkner’s much vaunted The Sound and the Fury Caddie Compson responds to her brother’s questions of why she allowed a boy kiss her by taunting his horror of the defilement of what he perceives to be her honor, claiming

“I didn’t let him, I made him!”

Prom: A Four-Letter-Word

Among the wide range of four letter words not to be said too loudly in school hallways, the very worst may come as a surprise to those not in their junior or senior year of high school: Prom. From February to June the very mention of the epic event may incite anything from squeals of anticipation to panic attacks. So why all the fuss over a formal dance?