Saturday, July 15, 2006

www.oneword.com (one word - so little time) [opaque]

My thoughts turned opaque, reflecting all of my ideas in on themselves like paintings on the inner surface of a soap bubble, as though all that I had to direct me were my own distorted images. Did I create them, or were they haunting me from the minds of others whose influence had guided me, unknowing, all this time?

July 15, 2006 10:28 AM (13:28 EST)

3 comments:

Lynn said...

Oh Opaque,

I love that word. I see opals in my mind when I think of that word. Or rice paper. Or the reflection of your eye in a pearl.

Memories are opaque, and dreams too.

Osquer said...

Do you know the movie Labyrinth? I was thinking of the masqued ball inside the soap bubble/crystal in that movie. Soap bubbles remind me of opals when the sun hits them just right.

bslawg said...

Opaque always makes me think of the Labyrinth. I don't know why. Maybe it's the ball. Maybe it's the movement of the characters. Maybe they say it at some point. I don't know, but seriously, that's the word association with opaque for me.

How weird.