Word Associations, Sounds and Spectrums

This is a little different, and we flatter ourselves that we thought it interesting, but maybe for those who are struggling for inspiration (aka, me), it might be a link to a spark to an idea. Forgive repeated themes, some became more famous more quickly than others...

Things i heard:

Angel: Father; protector; negative gesture; madhouse; hope; safe; help; gave up; control; fantasy; sorry; rigid; ragged; pile of rags; existence; consequences; garbage; burst; game; thorough; "feed me something, anything"; too late; why.

Eitra: Exciting; enemy is the spouse, living with your greatest enemy behind the lines; trainwreck; mythology; treasure; embezzled; failed; "publish his poetry"; wisdom; prodical; weak character; ignore news of sexual indiscretion; "It's best not to know."

Adam: Spoke down; rub up; dysfunctional; politically correct; "I thought the meeting was over"; pod area; involve; insubordinate.

Rob: Aftereffects; shame; monitor; finally agree; colourblind; automatically; "trees arch closer together"; faded; enduring attraction; two empty hooks.

Shira: Execution; ready; "Good shoes had always been a passion"; dry moat; beyond the chateau; polygon; last rites; faced off; "exploded in the deathly silence of he morning"; the ceremony of execution vs. the crime (?) of murder.

LaRondo: Dark brown books muffling noise; family secrets, family only; "throb with my own importance"; terrified concentration; hyper-awareness; details; black eyes.

Katie: Deathouse letters; censorship; simplification; wedge; effort; not alone; "Everybody must have been a spy"; help; "This is quite serious"; "nearsighted and psychopathic".

Hannah: Anarchy; cataract; uncompromise; cloven; shouted against the shouting; not to rebut, but to earn; frantic; melancholy; inexperienced.

Terry: Pity; old man; free of income tax; renaissance; cuckoo clock; detachment.

Alex: Diplomatic skill; Balthazar; connoisseur; borders; Infanta Isabella; 1628; Milan; opening negotiations of peace and truce through paintings.

Jared: Disco Bloodbath; memoir vs. fiction; manipulations of addictions; awareness.

Tiffany: Abruptly frightening; burst of intuition; angst; muted; "Better frightened than lied to."



You can forgive me for this too, but i won't apologise for it, that i'm immediately attracted to sound ideas; so phrases like, "the sounds of my mother feeding my brothers"--aside from being an amazing segment of literature--are instantly interesting to me.

Lastly i'll take this post op to propose a Risk Spectrum, since we talked quite a bit about risks and the extents to which we go to "feel something finally": In the middle you have Addicts and Thrill Seekers, a person consumed with his self and his own world; at one end, say the right end, you have the Believers and Sacrificers, those consumed with a wider idea, usually what they perceive to be a positive idea. Open to debate, but i think at the opposite are the Anarchists, (according to Chesterton) those who thrive on the power, status, clout that they derive from destroying things with malicious intent.