Secret Vespers - futility

Posts Tagged ‘futility’

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Bridge

by Somerled on November 9, 2011 at 4:19 pm

Posted In: Comic

he swore off autobiographical work as often as he swore off booze

How do to keep yourself out of trouble?

└ Tags: futility, love, sketch

8 Comments

Planning

by Somerled on September 29, 2011 at 5:11 pm

Posted In: Comic

Great plans, laid to waste by great plannings.

└ Tags: futility, sketch

4 Comments

Wonderful

by Somerled on August 11, 2011 at 5:36 pm

Posted In: Comic

Was he ever going to like what he found?

What are the things you hope for?

└ Tags: death, futility

7 Comments

Choose How

by Somerled on May 25, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Posted In: Comic

I choose how I feel about unhelpful advice

Have you ever felt some way that was difficult to manage?

└ Tags: colour, futility, wishes

3 Comments

the hour and minute of the damage

by Somerled on March 9, 2011 at 8:33 am

Posted In: Lovesick

A hundred years ago a clock stopped and its hands show the same hour and minute to the city forever. In the back of a stone house there is a crack in the window and a plaque beneath it reads the hour and minute of the damage. The moment you fall in love. They say [...]

└ Tags: futility, journeys, loss, love, promises, wishes, zeitgeist

1 Comment

The Expat

by Somerled on February 6, 2011 at 12:00 am

Posted In: Comic

lovers are not props to help you feel love

Have you ever met an old ex-pat in a foreign country, a refugee of lost love and a prospector of new chases? I am trying new forms. I am thinking of dropping computer type for handwriting. I am going to work on this for the next few episodes, and see where it goes.

└ Tags: colour, distance, futility, journeys, love

2 Comments

I have not yet learned to sleep through the call to prayer

by Somerled on January 7, 2011 at 7:53 am

Posted In: Lovesick

I have not yet learned how to sleep through the call to prayer. It carries over the rooftops, ten thousand loudspeakers just out of sync, a rondo of monophonic voices that sweeps me into the seventh century. The call is both far and close; it is, like the Southern Cross, a whisper from another time. [...]

└ Tags: distance, futility, love, vespers, wishes, zeitgeist

3 Comments

Ideas Pile

by Somerled on October 30, 2010 at 12:00 am

Posted In: Comic

don't give me ideas, give me implementations

Some people think ideas are hard to come by. If only they were.

└ Tags: colour, futility, sketch

9 Comments

we passed each other notes

by Somerled on February 7, 2010 at 11:19 am

Posted In: Lovesick

Your window faced mine that summer, and every night we passed each other notes across the narrow alley. We were four stories above what used to be a canal. The buildings still lean in, as if they would crash together without the buttresses. The first time I saw you, you were tossing origami flowers, doves, [...]

└ Tags: distance, futility, journeys, mystery

2 Comments