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Date Posted: 18:06:37 03/04/01 Sun
Author: si
Subject: comments?
Can we expect a professional man, a member of P.A.N.Y., to break his word because the die, with the odds heavily against it, determined rape? No, obviously not. I am clearly not guilty. I felt like spitting neatly into some conveniently located spittoon in front of my jury.
But on the whole it semed a pretty weak defense, and I began vaguely hunting for a new one when I became ablaze at the thought: I am right: I must always obey the dice. Lead where they will, I must follow. All power to the die!
Excited and proud, I stood for a moment on my own personal Rubicon. And then I stepped across. I established in my mind at that moment and for all time, the never-to-be-questioned principle that what the die dictates, I will perform.
The next moment was anticlimactic. I picked up the die and announced: 'If it's a one, three or five, I'll go to bed; if it's a two I'll go downstairs and ask Jake if I can try to rape Arlene again; if it's a four or a six I'll stay up and think about this some more.' I shook the die violently in the cup of my two hands and flipped it out onto the poker table, it rolled to a stop: five. Astonished and a bit let down, I went to bed. It was a lesson I was to learn many times in subsequent casts; the dice can show almost as poor judgement as a human.
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These things have a limit of 100 words -- james, 19:14:55 03/10/01 Sat
Im not really sure what to say about this. I think its quite twisted, trying to justify rape with odds being heavily against it and it being anticlimactic because there was no rape or even more thought of it. The fact that there were subsequent casts and that he had already tried to rape Arlene makes it all the more unsettling too. He is also making it all out to be only the dices choice which i find quite interesting, especially with the last line.
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not if i have anything to say about it, they don't. ta-daa. meanwhile, back at the ranch... relax, james, there /has/ already been a rape, sort of. so you don't have to worry about it having been missed out...:) thought you'd find it unsettling, especially re: the responsibility issue. are we always responsible for our actions? -- si, 21:55:14 03/10/01 Sat
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and how rude of you not to enter my 'spot the quote' competition. especially after your rhymed whingeing about my absence. answer my posts, or i'll vanish again, and that's a threat, not a promise... -- si, 21:57:00 03/10/01 Sat
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who wrote this? I like it. It is true sometimes you can't dedied on something and so you flip for it and it is only when the get the wrong thing when you realise what you wanted to do in the first place. -- Maggie, 10:21:08 03/12/01 Mon
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it's from a book called 'the dice man' by a writer called luke rhinehart... charts his descent/ascent into relying completely on the dice... very weird reading, but kind of tempting. -- si, 12:06:55 03/12/01 Mon
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Funny how "The next moment was anticlimatic" is itself anticlimatic. I don't really like this. My mum has read the book, she said it was quite good, very bizarre. -- luke, 07:07:55 03/19/01 Mon
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but 'i don't really like this' doesn't tell us anything. let's get more specific... -- si, 13:47:33 03/19/01 Mon
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