One Word - Sept 28
One word, sixty seconds. Write your bit, then post it here as a comment.
OneWord
Edit: The word for Sept 28 was 'Thread'
posted by Hythian at 10:03:00 am
28 September 2005
OneWord
Edit: The word for Sept 28 was 'Thread'
4 Comments:
The weaver's hands moved over the loom, the shuttle click-clacking as it wove the thread into the greater tapestry that was being made. A spinning wheel spun in the cornor, the lady at it pressing upon the foot pedal to turn more of the combed wool to thread. And a third sat upon a stool, carding the wool with a comb.
I have to admit, I ran out of time before I finished typing comb.
Wed Sept 28, 10:09:00 am GMT-7
Look, Ma! My English education on the classics is useful!
Penelope pulled at the silken thread, and delicately bit it, severing it between her pearly teeth. The needle clattered like ice on the floor, but the tapestry was done.
Until she picked it all out again.
Wed Sept 28, 01:37:00 pm GMT-7
Hythian, yours reminded me of those Piers Anthony books, the Intimations of Immortality, I think? But then, those three weaving women are popular figures in myth.
Wed Sept 28, 01:38:00 pm GMT-7
I haven't read those in years.. Used to have a copy of them, think I gave them away at some point. I was actually thinking more of their showing up in Sandman or in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles. The Fates, the Grey Ladies, etc.
Wed Sept 28, 03:20:00 pm GMT-7
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