Have you ever had a plan fall apart completely, only to discover something so much better you had missed in all your narrow planning?

This is the sixth and final element in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/. Each one uses a harlequin pattern and adds a couplet to the story. The hidden text of each one begins with “the romance of”.

Have you ever fallen in love with someone who turned out to be nothing like what you expected, and found that it was just perfect? This is the fifth in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/

Do you find it hard to leave yourself? Do you think it is important to try? What is a style, really? This is the fourth in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/

So many new substances are being invented that combine so many of the properties of existing substances, it’s an age of mash-up. It’s also a feeling I get; try anything, break things, do things that are hard. This is the third in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/

What are the ways you might pull yourself apart, and what do the results look like? This is the second in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/

Have you ever been drawn to something destructive, lost, or hopeless? Today’s installment is the first in a six-part series of harlequin images.