Thursday, October 3, 2013

Toilet Paper Story

People who soliloquize in public are often deemed crazy by the society. By that definition, I think a writer is the craziest person alive. Imagine putting the thoughts that you often rehearse to yourself in a sheet of paper or on the surrogate computer screen.
All of the time you are like- talking to yourself.
You talking to you. You saying things to you. You smiling at you.
Damn.
Writers are crazy people.
And by the notion of such a cliché, Mr. Henry was damn crazy.
First things first.

Mr. Henry did not consider himself a writer, he was rather a man of many worlds, most of which remained confined within his skull, and often penetrated into sheets of toilet paper.
Mr. Henry was considered crazy because he used to write little stories on sheets of toilet paper.
Toilet paper- expendable, biodegradable, difficult to write on.

Mr. Henry’s crazy obsession reached epic proportion when he brought toilet papers that would last a year if used continuously by a person suffering from chronic diarrhea. A hobby gone way too far, if one may say.
But critics in the end would agree that he wrote beautiful stories. Stories made up of beautiful names and places, that if read out loud would dulcify the auditory atmosphere. More like poetry.
Poetry in prose.
The device that works nine out of ten times. 

After Mr. Henry had written continuously for a year, and weaved out his beautiful thoughts in words in a seemingly truculent manner, the world had decided to take notice.
The toilet paper company aware of the development had decided to print the stories in the next product of their toilet paper. It must have been a fair marketing strategy. If anyone listened to the Intellectuals anymore, they would hear-
‘A cultural revolution was taking place.’

A special edition of toilet paper with printed stories were now available in the honor of Mr. Henry.
It would perhaps forge the consciousness of an entire generation united in latrine reading,
much to the utter dismay and brouhaha of some well-read men frequenting public libraries.
  
The climax of the generation winked maliciously and said,
where there was a dearth of readers, the only way to reach them was by wiping their ass.


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