Desert Island Books

[shereads]

Good call.


I'd want a five star hotel. Is that inanimate enough?

Cheaters. I thought this object had to have no practical use. if you can have a wormhole and a hotel, I can have a jet, some fuel, a pilot, a runway, and the pornographer of my choice.

Inanimate object with no practical use: President of the United States. He's said to be a likeable guy in person, he could be trained to make and serve coffee, and he'd be where he couldn't cause any trouble. Plus, he likes to make up nicknames for people and that would give us something to do. I have some names for him already. His family and their network of friends and associates have sufficient wealth to find and rescue him, and I could tag along.

 

[shereads]

Wilson?

Ok, he was a basketball, but still, reminded me of Tom Hanks and that film which I just cannot remember the name of. Yes I have, it just came to me: Castaway.
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Wilson was a soccer ball, wasn't he? In fact he...


AAAAEEEEE!!!! The ice skate! The ice skate! The toothache and the ice skate!

I had forgotten that scene until you mentioned Wilson. I have to go hide from the pain now.

 

[Guest]

Wilson was a soccer ball, wasn't he? In fact he...


AAAAEEEEE!!!! The ice skate! The ice skate! The toothache and the ice skate!

I had forgotten that scene until you mentioned Wilson. I have to go hide from the pain now.

He might well have been. In fact, when I first typed out that reply, I was going to say he was a football, but then I remembered it was an American film and know you don't have proper football over there. So I said basketball.



Oooooooooooh! OUCH! Yes, very nasty scene. UGH!

 

[oggbashan]

The book: Thomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall

The useless inanimate object: A Guinness clock, the sort that does many things on the quarter, half and hour.

Og

 

[BlackShanglan]

Hmmm musical instrument is a very nice choice of inanimate object. I nearly changed until reading the note observing that with time (plenty of that available) one could probably make one. Should I ever become shipwrecked on a deserted island, I will be sure to keep that in mind.

(Between writing. I think I'll write the narrative of my voyage, stranding, and life on the island, get rescued, sell the story for an obscene sum, and then go buy a more conveniently located and better stocked island of my own.)

Shanglan