oh thumb drive, please shine your warm and forgiving orange-ish light on the D&D adventures that I save on your voluminous 4 gigabytes.
to my right is a white mouse
to my future are many cats, who will probably never get a chance to chase a mouse.
um, and I'm wearing red today.
I was sent an article written about St. Genesius, patron saint of actors, who is a saint because while performing a play where his character converted to christianity, he was so convincing that he matched reality to performance, and was more or less immediately put to death for doing so.
The article mentioned without quite focusing entirely on the idea that acting things can change the actor, and can become realities in various ways.
Now, I have so far NOT stabbed the eyes out of horses or travelled to the underworld to retrieve my dead wife, but I do like the idea that pretending can become real. And not in any way related to my magical fantasy world enjoyment hobby - I consider this a nice seasoning atop reality, but not a soup I actually want to boil in. More in the way that maybe if I pretend to be better than I am in a given way for long enough, i get practice at such betterment, and may eventually actually be better.
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