Flying Without A Net

There's no curtain here at the Quirky Muffin and sometimes things get retconned out. Specifically I had been thinking about the difficulties of continuing the story 'Wordspace', as repeatedly mentioned, and it occurred to me that all the trouble might be due to this portion of the story having naturally closed. It happens all the time, and I do have a crackpot theory about it, that stories naturally reach end or rest points, and that's really nothing you can do but end or rest when you reach them and then formally re-launch when you get going again. So, the last episode of 'Wordspace' has been obsoleted, put in the vocabulary burner, telescoped into oblivion, but remains there to be seen by anyone who can be bothered, but no longer canonical and leading nowhere. Ah, canon, that odd idea that someone gets to say what is and isn't official! Believe what you will, but it's the entertained who get to choose what's real in their own personal canons. You can end up thinking about the idea of canon a lot when you've seen, read and listened to enough 'Star Trek', but ultimately we all choose our own and discard the things that don't make sense.

Flying without a net, it's time to get on track, so with 'Wordspace' filed away with 'Triangles' in both having a chapter or phase done, one of 'The Glove' or 'Oneiromancy' gets upped to the front line, both of which are in prime states of development. Or, more honestly 'The Glove' is in a deep state of crisis but it can be salvaged. Is any of this interesting? Does it matter if it isn't? Difficult questions both, both of them subject to themselves too, recursively looping on forever. The annoying thing about 'The Glove' is that it doesn't have a central folly to power it, and so it flounders. No triangular portals to parallel dimensional versions of Aberystwyth, Plain Chocolate Digestive Detectives, words masquerading as characters or a narrative partly being conveyed via dreams. It's just Scottish people on another planet, with a possibly conspiracy in the background; hardly enough folly or conceit to power a small custard pie factory. Still, it will turn out well in the end, or at least turn out in some manner.

"To turn out well"?

Never before have I considered the origins or significance of that colloquialism. It's a baking term, surely? It refers to baked items coming out of their trays or moulds well when they're turned over, hence a well cooked cake 'turns out well' when it is done right. That never occurred to me. Has the 'Quirky Muffin' turned a corner into an imaginary street of accidentally educational content? Did the editors suddenly discover the truth behind the mothballing of the entire story 'Rasputin at the Linseed Shop'? Has your author turned over a new leaf? All will be revealed next time! Stand by for action!

O.

(Edited to allow for additional nonsense.)