So, I used to read a lot of Margaret Atwood
back in the day, when I used to care about feminism. Now I'm a lapsed feminist and am too damn busy to read anything anyway.
But the other day I remembered about The Robber Bride. Specifically, about the character Tony, who spells all words backwards and creates another world from them. I mentioned it to Charlie, and now everything is backwards. We can't stop, it's unstoppable. Eblappotsnu.
Tony talks about how renaming people with their mirror-names reveals another side of their personality. Because this is now my game, I get to assign identities. So, I am Ycul Skrab, fierce Mongol pirate-god, in the Ghengis Khan model. Charlie is Reilrahc Kcaj, Norse explorer and inventor of steamtrains, but also has a second secret identity as Eilrahc, the mythical bringer of jam to foreign lands.
Now I only answer to my Mongol name. I sign my emails with it and have long conversations with people about the feasability of annexing Leicestershire.
I urge everyone to fulfill their potential and unlock their inner mirror-person.
But the other day I remembered about The Robber Bride. Specifically, about the character Tony, who spells all words backwards and creates another world from them. I mentioned it to Charlie, and now everything is backwards. We can't stop, it's unstoppable. Eblappotsnu.
Tony talks about how renaming people with their mirror-names reveals another side of their personality. Because this is now my game, I get to assign identities. So, I am Ycul Skrab, fierce Mongol pirate-god, in the Ghengis Khan model. Charlie is Reilrahc Kcaj, Norse explorer and inventor of steamtrains, but also has a second secret identity as Eilrahc, the mythical bringer of jam to foreign lands.
Now I only answer to my Mongol name. I sign my emails with it and have long conversations with people about the feasability of annexing Leicestershire.
I urge everyone to fulfill their potential and unlock their inner mirror-person.
posted by Lucy at 12:43 pm
4 Comments:
Surely it should be "Skrab Ycul" and not "Ycul Skrab" then, no???
Ehpotsirhc*
*That really doesn't work.
Pipe down, Ehpotsirhc, Arab seller of cooking vessels! It's my game.
I am Yelyhw Semaj, apparently. What does that make me?
Yelyhw Semaj, cowardly Russian prospector of gold!
(Also know as Selyom Semaj, Russian Jew on the run following the failure of his transistor radio business.)
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