You may have noticed that the three music related posts contain within Their titles a joke, minus the first line.
The joke is this:
Author: I’m writing a book
Critic: What’s it Sbout?
Author: It’s about 400 pages.
*Pause*
Author: They all serve the same nobleman.
The first 3 lines are a classic joke, conflating the two meanings of the word “about” the critic meaning what’s the topic and the author replying with the approximate length of the work. The additional line however re-contextualises the author’s reply, by implying that the author correctly interpreted the context of the word “about” but that we as an audience (and from the silent pause, the critic also) incorrectly interpreted the meaning of the word “pages” which could mean a side of paper in a book bit could also mean a servant to nobility. Hence About 400 Pages is a post regarding a lack of topic, a book about the properties of the book if you will. Shows which repeat the same theme over and over on the other hand, is touched upon in They All Serve The Same Nobleman, which is a more obvious reference. Then finally I ended the series on What’s it About, which touched upon how to create cohesion between effects without hanging them on a single peg, by looking for connections between different effects and creating a flow.
Because of the huge time gap between the first two and the last one I kind of lost my flow and in the intervening time my focus was drawn by… other things.
Which is why my next post will be about the Magic Circle’s exposure rule.