What is Entwacklopædia Corner ?

You may well indeed ask 'What is entwacklopædia corner ?' Luckily I have the answer but as always, I may need to digress a little first. Don't sigh, it's just how it is. Fifteen minutes ago I had nothing in the cupboard and then realised I'd opened the wrong door and this one, well, it's just brimming. That word has obviously been in my mind after reading Jeff's post. In fact, if you need a little guidance to get back on the straight and narrow, you may like to have a read of it.

Where was I ? Ah yes, digressing, though actually, it's connected, sort of. We talk of 'inspiration' when it comes to writing, in particular, where do we get it from and why is it never there when you need it ? For the last, goodness knows how long, my morning process seems to be running along the same track. I have no idea what I'm going to write about. Occasionally I will, but these days that seems to be a rarity.

I'll do all my morning chores and some that don't need doing, in the hope that something will spring forth and I'll have to rush to the keyboard. Nope, just not happening at the moment. Obviously it will at some point or you wouldn't be sat here reading this and hoping that there's even a small glimmer of a chance of me getting to whatever point it is I'm trying to make.

You have to read that last sentence in one breath to get the full effect, a purposeful, distinct lack of punctuation. My bat, my ball.

Did you know that Sarah Brightman had a sister ? Amelia Brightman. I didn't until only recently, when I saw her performing with 'Gregorian'. Please don't ask me why I was listening to Gregorian. Anyway, we are going back through my thought process here, not my taste in music. So, I thought about Sarah Brightman because she was married To Andrew Lloyd Webber. He had come to mind because I remembered his brother, Julian (A wicked cellist).

I wonder what a digression within a digression is called ? Yesterday, I briefly and I mean briefly, no more than a sentence, touched upon my school-days in my post. This was picked up by more than one of you. In and of itself it's not very interesting, at least to me. It is, however, a huge resource of material. In fact, all of your lives are exactly that. You are you, there is no one the same as you and your life is completely unique. Think about that. Eighteen, twenty, thirty, fifty even eighty plus years of 'one off' experiences. Oh the stories you could tell.

So, if you're ever stuck for something to write about, take a meander down the lanes of your own memories and see what's there. None of it, initially, will surprise you I'm sure, until like me, you start to do some random associations. Then you have access to all those things that you'd forgotten about.

Let's drag my bad self back. I was thinking about the past, due to the mention of school, and

how it is a permanent reference library on tap. That in turn led me to thinking about post titles. You know, those one off, personal posts/anecdotes. 'Waking up tied to a lamppost' type of post, not that I ever did, I hasten to add. The one that came to mind was to do with Julian Lloyd Webber, hence why my train of thought went off down the winding path, that it did. CODA.

'Entwacklopædia Corner', or maybe 'Encyclopædia Twackica'. This is for me, when I am lacking in the inspiration department and it also allows me the chance to challenge myself. Actually I won't be using those titles, as this is for a site under a different guise, so as to allow me a certain latitude, you understand.

The plan is simple. I now have one 'digital' encyclopædia, hopefully with page numbers. If it hasn't' then it all falls apart, which would be a shame. Then I use a random number generator, to pick a number using the parameters laid out by the page numbers. 1 to 4578, or whatever it is. That will be the page. Depending on the number of entries on that page we'll run the generator again. If that number is 7, then I will count the entries until I reach said number. Wherever we end up will be the subject of the post. Like I said, random. As you can tell, I'm very excited.

I could end up writing about nail varnish or Pericles. It will be a good exercise, hone those research skills and try to turn banal into beautiful and dreary into cheery.

Well, I'd better 'do one' as I'm sure you have more pressing engagements to attend to. I'm off to read some posts and run a bath, in no particular order. I should see if there page numbers on this CD-Rom, not sure what to do if there aren't.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend, one and all.

Bought to you whilst enjoying the sounds of N'to (live) at the DGTL Festival in Amsterdam 2016 (scaled & pitch shifted to 432 Hz)

Twack Romero