Mise en Abyme (A Metafiction)

qcrisp · 08-19-2007

The following is part of my short short 'Mise en Abyme (A Metafiction)'. For an explanation, read the thread here. Please do not comment on this thread, unless you are posting a fragment of the story in question. I will erase (or transfer elsewhere) all comments on this thread. If you have a comment to make, rather than a fragment of the story to add, please make it here. Thank you very much. I am also trying this experiment here. Now, here is a fragment of the story to start you off:

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19) This study was a serious, almost interstellar place. Indeed, when he looked at the dark wallpaper, like the habitual ink cross-hatching of an obsessive draughtsman, he seemed to see stars in a night sky devoid of any planet called Home.

cw67q · 09-04-2007

Hello Quentin (and everyone else),

I have quote 35. I'm not sure if I'm doing the "quote box" correctly, but the relevant text is:

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35)
We are the Sideways People. Your comments have been received and read with interest. Expect instructions soon.

No sooner had he read this message than he heard the clatter of his letterbox. Waiting for him on the floor in the hall was a single letter, on the front of which was written “For the attention of Venn”. Holding this object at its edges, he took it into his study, sat down, and stared at it for some considerable time before breaking the seal and opening it.

Good luck with the experiment, Quentin.

Best wishes - Chris W

yellowish haze · 07-24-2009

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10) And yet, when he looks up from the page, he finds himself, like one of his characters, prisoner in a single, specific (fictional) world. How is this possible?

Kevin · 03-30-2017

It looks like this thread has languished for almost 8 years (!), but here goes:

#43/100

And sure enough, there followed instructions so minutely detailed that they ran to several pages, the bulk of which was concerned with the pattern of the wallpaper in the room adjoining Venn's study, and how this pattern should be altered. The diagrams, too, mainly showed how this alteration was to be effected.