Novembers game in the What Will Be
almanac
‘Each participant indicates the gift that he or she would present to various historic figures on the occasion of their meeting. Thus, each player in turn can nominate an historic figure and all of the players then write down their response. Once all of the responses are written down and the round completed, they are read aloud within the circle.’
Results of game:
Jules Verne
‘Each participant indicates the gift that he or she would present to various historic figures on the occasion of their meeting. Thus, each player in turn can nominate an historic figure and all of the players then write down their response. Once all of the responses are written down and the round completed, they are read aloud within the circle.’
Results of game:
Jules Verne
Patrick: Empty glass
cabinet
Merl: The head of an
octopus mounted on a stick of rock
Kirsty: I knock on Verne’s
door, he doesn’t answer. So I ring the bell. He eventually answers. I give him…nothing.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Patrick: glass of ink
standing on a silver tray.
Merl: A diaphanous veil
of golden sand, draped across the breast of a small boy wearing a snorkel.
Kirsty: I sing him a song
backwards. A love song. And leave mud from my shoes on his carpet.
Elvis
Patrick: Pair of golden
underpants.
Merl: A huge bucket of
offal, dusted with icing sugar.
Kirsty: Laughter running
in circles producing a ring of smoke on the carpet.
Spartacus
Patrick: His own magpie
parlour
Merl: A litter of puppies
Kirsty: Leaves that have
been sliced into minute fragments by the fingernails of a distracted person.
Julius Caesar
Patrick: A blue sports
car
Merl: A potted yucca
plant inside a tar barrel at the bottom of the ocean
Kirsty: gasoline in the
eyes and a box, gold gift-wrapped, to put the charred eye lashes in.
Betty Boop
Patrick: A book for her
to write down her dreams in.
Merl: A big ripe smelly
wheel of Brie.
Kirsty: An invitation and
pre-paid flight to OUR real world. And the colours of this.
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