Copyright – Kent Bonham
We visited a television studio last week-end. There were big lights hanging from bars on the ceiling and I kept staring at them. After we moved on, I had red spots flashing everywhere I looked. Dad said it was retinal persistence, that my eyes were over-stimulated and “remembered it”.
The tour guide explained that intense light was necessary to reflect off the set and back to the cameras to seem as bright as real daylight.
Maybe when they play too much, the actors get this always and end up thinking it’s real life?
Me, I play out in the sun.
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The above short story is an entry to a weekly challenge on WordPress called : Friday Fictioneers!
The idea is to write a hundred words short fiction ( flash ) story upon the prompt that is provided by Rochelle under the form of the above picture.
Thanks then to Rochelle whose blog is found here :
http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/friday-fictioneers-2/
http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/4-april-2014/
and I hope my readers will like it.
Tay.
Definitive Lapse of Reason 
I think famous actors can be in danger of believing their own hype, sometimes… Great story!
Thank you Freya! And yes they do. You might have heard about a well-known Hollywood actress that gave advice to women on her site : 300$ a day regime, 45 000$ Spring wardrobe and very recently how to decorate a game room for a Paltr.y 50K$ ? Of course, all single and suburban moms have that kind of cash to thr.ow around!
And money is only the tip of their utopian iceberg!
Sheesh, Tay.
Goodness me – no I hadn’t picked up on that story. I tend to avoid most of that gossip, if I can!
Interesting thought – the fake sun shining on artificial lives. I like how you made this into a child’s report, like a school project, and how the child is the one who sees through the actors’ stories.
Well, 8 year olds lie for survival and imagine wildly but they do so to fly and not to burrow. What else do we call “having kept your inner child alive or child spirit” but to dream sincerely? They haven’t even learned all the awful truths about the world nor the rules we try to teach them that make living together bearable. In a sense, their views are more serene and honest than that of adults. What else does the old French saying “The truth comes out of children’s mouth” conveys?
Thank you, Jennifer.
Dear Tay,
Love the child’s eye view of the TV studio. He asks a profound question about the actors. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
That’s why I picked and stayed with a kid hero, boss! Simpler views and simpler analysis often lead to more essential questions. The kids don’t delve in made-up complexities ; they ask why and “spot” the detour answers as fake?
Peace Roach, Tay.
A child’s point of view is always interesting and often funny (although not in this case.) I like the last line. I wish more children played in the sun these days. And while children can go straight to the truth, life is much more complex than their view is. A mix of child-like (not childish) and mature is the best, IMHO. 🙂
janet
Hence my answer above to Jennifer, Janet. The kids’ view is simpler and thus more fundamental. At the same time, with added knowledge an adult has ( or should have ) a more refined position. But too much fine detail equals undue complexity and it is indeed by basing the second on the former that one gets to make useful advances?
And as soon as the rain stops, I’ll put a leg over my bike and go play out in the Sun myself,
😉 Tay.
Lovely voice – especially the last line and the idea of actors playing too much.
TY Sarah Ann. Our little one got the inference well, if a little blinds you to what’s real then a lot …
I liked your dying actress too, Tay.
Well-written story. Leave it to a child to see through things that are artificial and comment on them. That child seemed to see and remember a lot.
Perfect analysis, myladies; nothing to add but TYVM, Tay.
That’s such a nice perspective from the eyes of a child. Really liked the ending.
Thanks! I have a problem with your blog though. Not a qualitative one mind you, purely technical : the page loads and goes blank? It might be something on it that my browser cannot digest. So just take it for granted that if I could read you I’d probably like it … I suppose?
Great day to you, Tay.