Trifextra Challenge: Week 54

February 9, 2013 by UndercoverL | 18 Comments

I am going to make an admission here.  (We’ll call this Confession Week 2013.)  I almost bailed on the Trifextra Challenge this week.  Why?  Well, it’s a really hard one.  This week we are meant to pull 33 words from something we’ve read.  And, despite the fact that I consider myself a ‘writer’ (using the term most loosely), I don’t know how to read.  Just kidding.  I love to read.  Picking a favorite work, author, or even piece to draw from for this challenge required wayyy too much brain power for the weekend.  Then this morning, I allowed myself a small moment of victory and I said, “Eff this shiznit.  I am going to do this.”  So without further ado, one of my favorite sections from a horrible book I recently read:

I hope that the powers that be at Trifecta allow me a moment to make a few explanations following the entry.  If not, they can disqualify me for the week because I probably won’t win this week, just like I never do.  (Again, I am spunky this morning and I am joking.  This group that I am up against are some immensely and enviously talented authors who really do blow my mind weekly.  Every one of them deserves their victory.)

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“…this high… mighty god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified, that gazing on it… you feel the Deity and the dread powers more forcibly than… any object in… nature.”

-Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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As you can see, there are some superfluous words edited out here because Melville is long-winded (the biggest reason it took 6 months for me to finish the book), so if that doesn’t get me disqualified, then we are still good.  I chose this because I hate having a large forehead.  Now I don’t feel so bad about it.  My forehead is big enough for me to get it tattooed with the following statement:

“My forehead is big enough to get this tattooed on here.  That means I am smarter than you.  Herman Melville told me that.”