UN: Ulysses | Text

[restingstitchface]

Well, I would hardly claim this is my favoured method of passing time, but there’s no use protesting. Sometimes we need to knuckle down and ensure the work is done. Because as you can see for yourself, sometimes the work is dull.

In any case, I am offering everyone a pleasant extra-curricular activity to pass the time.

Try responding to this post with the first word that comes to mind. Respond to words posted by others with other words that come to mind. I am more than aware such games are not for everybody, but perhaps you should give it a shot.

Ah, I suppose I should get us started:

Police.

As in, somebody call the police because this is Hell.

[People who enjoy social media often press send before thinking about their answers. But how is that his problem?]

Comments

[fortitudosalutis]

Gotta find some way to spend the time

[ Idle hands and all that. ]

Sister

[restingstitchface]

Mother.

[Where there's family, there's drama.]

[fortitudosalutis]

Predictable.

[ Too obviously digging. But this is the game, isn't it?

Despite himself, Carver is enjoying it. ]

[restingstitchface]

Natural.

[Child. Woman. Crone. Daughter. Mother. Grandma. It was, for once, a natural connection to make.]

[fortitudosalutis]

System.

[restingstitchface]

Immune.

[fortitudosalutis]

Disease

[restingstitchface]

Disorder.

[fortitudosalutis]

Chaos.

[restingstitchface]

Upheaval.

[fortitudosalutis]

Clarity.

[restingstitchface]

Growth.

[fortitudosalutis]

Survival.

[restingstitchface]

Darwin.

[fortitudosalutis]

Factor

[restingstitchface]

Multiply.

[fortitudosalutis]

Conquer.

[restingstitchface]

Overcome.

[Dominate is another word of choice. But there is something affirming in overcoming a challenge.]

[fortitudosalutis]

Survive

[restingstitchface]

[Survival. Survive. Two words close enough one might consider it cheating. But he considers it enough of a tell that this man knows how to twist rules. Or comes from a place where rules must be broken. Same as Gotham, really.]

Endure.

[fortitudosalutis]

Focus.

You've got some training, huh?

[ A guess. But an educated one. ]

[restingstitchface]

Well, living where I do, you survive or become nothing.

For me, survival came through education. What about you?

[fortitudosalutis]

That's true most places.
Little bit of column a, little bit of column b. What's your poison?

[restingstitchface]

Crime. Corruption. Economics.

Or a little bit of columns a, b and c.

[fortitudosalutis]

Focus.

You've got some training, huh?

[ A guess. But an educated one. ]