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The Strength of Fragility

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Prelude : In a galaxy, far far away (from sensibility and people skills), Dr. Ment Alean Stahbl has been called forth to elucidate the nuances ingrained in the word "fragility", which out of sheer coincidence is this weeks topic of discussion in the literary wastelands of Squanderland, a world united in their literary misinterpretations and tomfoolery.
"Greetings and Salivations to the wonderfully distracting ladies and helplessly distracted gentlemen. Today, we embrace the ideologies of Dr. Ment Alean Stahbl regarding fragility, who unfortunately is present to lecture us upon the same. Dr., the threshold is yours"

"Good Morrow to all. I am going to fulfill my part in this festival of Malice in Squanderland and give you a new definition for fragility.
How exactly would you define fragility?
A definitive term to convey weakness? What you associate to the ones below you in the food chain, and what you expect as a set you fall under for those above?
What you think a breakable artwork exemplifies. Or emotions which your range of a teaspoon fails to handle eloquently?
Yes. But now on, my words will change what you think of the word. [undertone] Its getting out of hand. Damn you Visiting guest lecturers .inc [/undertone]
Yeah, so where was I. (Needlessly readjusting an otherwise perfectly aligned tie, he continues).
Fragility. Yes."

"The notion of fragility is actually a frame of mind. It is a state, a set of conditions under which the otherwise impregnable and insurmountable appears vulnerable.
For example, the viri causing uncommon hot amongst our people, is actaually potent and dangerous. Although, a subtle change in temperature prints its name in history books. A child, prone to damage physically, has an elite emotional strength. Our galaxy, the Creamy Hay, which was formed after the BadaBoom, as the astronomers call it, lacking the literary genius of their contemporaries, is mostly matter. Enough matter to make it materially immense, but during the time of creation, the difference in the amount of matter and antimatter was very fine, almost negligible to the unwary eye. A minuscule different in the percentage resulted in a matter dominated universe. That is fragility. A piece of pottery of the finest Shina, intricately desiged, is fragile to Squanderland's Cravitational pull. It shatters to irreversible shards, the debris meaningless, but intact, it has the artistic splendour, the strength to thwart its competitors. That is frag..."

Dr. Ment Alean Stahbl ceased to exist, that point forth it would have seemed, if the spotboy above was absent. He alone witnessed  the wooden planks forming the dias buckle under the Docs weight, and he fell right through the suddenly created orifice.
"Whoooo" was what most of the audience could manage to exclaim.

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"How is the Dr., Dr.?" asked the organiser.
"Well, he's well", replied the medic, reciprocating the alliteration.
"The fall was'nt much to worry about. The dias seemed rather fragile, if it let a man right through"
"Don't say the word"
"The man couldve injured himself rather seriously, his condition would've been rather fragile"
"The f word, doc, skip it"
"The f word? This is a medic mister, we don't use profanities"
"Fuck you"

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Fragility, i was supposed to write upon. What happened subsequently was totally unforseen, and uncalled for...
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I appreciate Douglas Adams beyond any yardstick of appreciation.
And satire has ALWAYS been the priority of my writings, i DO write dark poetry and stuff, but that is not my most comfortable genre...
Thnx a lot anyways... :stupidme: