#prolegomenon

just wanted to do something nice and simple for pride month, so here's roy. i think he probably sleepfloats when he gets in the swing of actually being able to float around like he does. anyway. have a good one folks.

prolegomenon (n.) 1650s, "preliminary observation," especially "a learned preamble or introductory discourse prefixed to a book," from Greek prolegomenon, noun use of neuter passive present participle of prolegein "to say beforehand," from pro "before" (see pro-) + legein "to speak" (from PIE root *leg- (1) "to collect, gather," with derivatives meaning "to speak (to 'pick out words')") + suffix -menos (as in alumnus). The same sense is in preface (n.). Related: Prolegomenary; prolegomenous. Plural prologomena.

-i think his favorite color is blue! it reminds him of his siblings!

-i think his favorite music is taylor swift! and he makes playlists for the people he likes!

-i think his favorite vacation spot is paris! he would love to kiss under the eiffel tower!

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Prolegomenon or, what is said before…

I have a story to tell you, my friend, about the kind of man I have become, who, choosing life, through living was condemned by the masses, but by others loved more than slanderers could ever comprehend. I speak of the consequences of choice, not of he who thinks of man as hemmed-in by the burden of responsibility, but who, seeing broken souls, loves to mend, to stitch together lost threads with his own, defying the domain of Gods to befriend the devil, though not those at his command, and, holding keys to heaven, does not ascend, inhaling fumes from the underground, exhaling dulcet tunes from voices penned by fate, all heaved upon the shoulders of a solitary Atlas, braced to transcend the world of judges waiting wolfishly for my story’s end.