Writing Woes

There's an episode in Big Bang Theory (American sitcom) where Leonard and Howard desperately want Sheldon back on the team. Sheldon is the heart, brain, spirit and substrate of that show. Sheldon writes a partial equation on a writing board and withdraws. He refuses to finish the equation. They want him back to emerge as a team. They don't know how to lure him back. Leonard deliberately writes a faulty construct in the equation on the board to incite him. Sheldon gazes at that board and lazily scratches something. Leonard and Howard are pleased on Sheldon's traction but their joy is short-lived when they notice that Sheldon erased the faulty construct and smudged a cartoon figure in its place, then mocks their attempt to lure him back.

The heart, brain, spirit and substrate of this snippety show is no Sheldon but is considerate and brave to have emerged with a kind gesture that has been the most awaited and forthcoming stride. Mary Poppins would have merited this fleeting moment only as a 'spoonful of sugar' but she also buoyantly instructed that 'every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake'.

 

You cannot fathom my cursive. It's horrible! Therefore, the capital lettering. Hence, less writing in general prior to the internet.

A rambler writes meandering posts, yet, his talk and standing is fetching and converges afar. They would still connect and string their writing together. On the other hand, a scribbler has no inclination to be sensible or coherent. She will write like she has hundred same things to say in thousand discrete ways. Scribblers are notorious for such gimmicks. Take that 'Scriblerus Club' of the Augustan Poets from the 18th century which included satirists like Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay and other men of letters. They invented a fictional writer known as 'Martinus Scriblerus' to publish their satirical works and profane the absurdities of the mannered and cultured society.

Like that founding insurgent Martinus Scriblerus, his acolytes, the scribblers, are never square and straight. They will write something to mean something other which people would infer as something else. When a rambler talks to a scribbler, it is never dull. They will never have a pedestrian day like below. When they talk, they arouse fun and playfulness. They bring out the best in each other and then ponder why other people find life bleached and boring. Even if we tried very hard, Cheeniya and I can never have a day so bland.

Source: Boner's Ark (one of my favvy strips)

 

Mary Poppins escapes consummation. You think you get her, then, when you further listen to her, you get her even more. Once might indict her of doing a number on you, that too an irrational number, but she is only instructing you on totting up your balanced book with careful measure. Is she?

People from time immemorial have struggled to define such supra women. To our rescue comes that Roman author Sallust. After nibbling on his quill for a considerable time to describe a similar woman of his age, he finally wrote thus about Sempronia: "She was a woman of no mean endowments".

Our Miss Supra Sempro Poppins is the embodiment of that sentiment. She may not be a woman of awards and pre-eminence but she is a woman of no mean endowments.