Tagged: 300 Seconds
Writing Prompt 4 May 2021
300 Seconds: “Wombat! Wombat! Wombat!”
Nevada Jane Arlow
As I climbed out of my fighter (it was more like exhausted lurching, truth be told), I could hear them all chanting my callsign, even through my helmet: “Wombat! Wombat! Wombat!”
What had I done to deserve it? Things had been moving so fast…
When my feet touched the deck, I felt hands gripping me, steadying me, pulling my helmet and other gear off. I could hear my best friend and wingman’s voice in my ear, her accent amazed. “I’ve never seen anything like that! How in the Seven Hells…?!”
And then the sound died down, like turning off a tap. “Well done, pilot,” said the voice of the Jedi Master. “Clearly, the Force is strong with you.”
110 words/22 WPM
Writing Prompt 5 May 2021
Respond to the following statement
in 300 seconds (five minutes)
using any form you wish:“Violence is good for something…”
Prompt by nevada jane arlow
I remember preaching a sermon once in Trinity College [Toronto] Lady chapel. All the Bible readings except the Gospel basically said, “Rejoice!” The Gospel was John the Baptiser calling out, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”
Afterward, I went to the chaplain and said to her, “I was really uncomfortable preaching that text! I’m a pacifist, and John’s language seems quite violent.”
“It’s true,” she said. “But it seems to me that John’s rhetorical violence displaces physical violence in this text.”
That gave (and still gives) me a lot to ponder. When is it appropriate for my language to be violent? If violence is good for something, it seems to me that displacement rather than damage is a key ethical consideration.
128 words/25.6 WPM
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