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Exercise #15: Pick Six
Posted 8/8/03
For this exercise, pick a number from 1 to 6, three times. Got your three numbers?
The first number represents an odor:
1. Fresh-cut grass
2. Baking pumpkin pie
3. Something you just stepped in
4. Cologne or perfume
5. Smoke
6. Air after a rain
The second, a thing:
1. A neighbor
2. An impala
3. An estimate
4. A bushel
5. A raven
6. A towel
And the third, a quotation:
1. “With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.” (Charles Dickens)
2. “Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.” (George Santayana)
3. “His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.” (J. R. R. Tolkien)
4. “The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.” (Jean Cocteau)
5. “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” (Upton Sinclair)
6. “The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.” (Confucius)
Got your three? Replace two items in your quotation from set three with the two items from sets one and two. For your SUB, give us the new quote, then write about it. Explain it, or use it in a story. Let your imagination fly.
Word limit: 1200
Please use the subject line:
SUB: Exercise #15/yourname
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