The caravan is starting to get lively with the treasures I collected from the plentiful empty places I have been in, but still barren in the real world standards. I have food which will last me for 2 days maximum, so I hope for a meal soon, I have a knife as a versatile tool to make or break things, but the most important thing for me is not here right now, a pencil to write, I need to let out my thoughts as soon as possible before my memories become vague.
The caravan automatically driving itself to the next location, I settle myself with the next best thing after the silence of lying down the bed doing nothing but sleeping - having something to read without any distractions, even if it is a dictionary.
In real life, I will obviously never have a diary as reading material. Imagine if I am in a reading area where anything electronic is forbidden, which means no computers, no game consoles and no lighting fixtures (so if I really have to read something in the room during night time, I would have to use matches to light up a candle and put it in a lamp, the unrealistic scenario has gone on an unnecessary tangent...I'll just move on then).
There I will pick one of the books at random, it might be a fantasy epic (cliche and too structured, next), self-help books (do they help with my future? I'll take them especially when there are no laptops distracting me), academic journals (interesting in the knowledge standpoint, but as a narrative standpoint? I need a lot of effort to understand them and that takes too much time until the place is unusable.), comic books (the best kind of books for me...if I ever remember the details of some of the plotlines even when shown to my face) or game books (poor them, when the internet began they started to be less and less relevant as time goes on, even in the digital written form).
There are many interesting things you can read in that reading room, but main character for this of setting is always going to be pushed to a supporting role as hard as he tries to be on the spotlight. Because it is the role of a dictionary, when I do not one particular word, I will look through that word in the dictionary, from the first word to the last, painstakingly finding the meaning of the word, how does the word fit in to the story and later placing back the dictionary to the side while going back to the story, slowly forgetting the meaning of that word again unless I like the story so much to read again after some days, making the sole purpose of reading kinda useless.
Sometimes, the word from the work can make the dictionary admits he is out of his depth in his expertise and would ask for his specialized elder for help. Like the word adversaria-a book of accounts. The common & approachable dictionary may never even heard of it and would assume it is probably related to adversary-an enemy or opponent. Close enough, since adversaria is related to the 2 sides of an account book, debt & credit. Like the sun and moon, they are way too different from each other in principle, but they come from the same core quality and their differences enable people to use their qualities to complement each other, improving the quality of the account book.
The reasoning of the first definition makes way to the second definition of adversaria, a collection of notes or commentaries, as one account book contains perspectives from debit and credit, the knowledge provided is as fulfilling as an advanced dictionary if you know how to find the word as an advanced dictionary. Nowadays, simple people will learn about the word when they access a random word generator one day for fun and receive that word in a 1/170000 chance of getting this word, as hard as winning a lottery because not only the word is now obsolete and is replaced by the phrase commonplace-book, there are no benefits of using this word unless you are feeling creatively constructive and wanting to learn some quick & useless trivia like taking notes from a dictionary.
I amuse myself from having my mind wander again on a mindless thought after small pages of mindless reading when you have some entertainment within your creative grasp, the boring ones will always be targeted and passed over first.
So what page an I in?
Page 190, focusing on the words that start with an m, specifically the "mi" area, middle among the vowel combinations. There are always words I could recognize and vocalize with some familiarity, most of them won't be used by myself in writing or public conversation, a little of the nouns I don't really know what it is actually and some include names of organizations that are probably obsolete by the time this edition is released.
It is published in 2011, how many more abbreviations of MLA & MLC are there aside from the official definitions in this dictionary?
A middle finger blocking the pages separating them and I approach the driver's seat, there are still about 10 minutes more until the next location.
I go back to the usual place and open to look at page 190 again.
It's quite a long time of nothing, let's have some fun in creating quick sentences according to this page.
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Once upon a time, there is a land where priests misinform because they misinterpreted the meaning of the prophecy, causing disasters where citizens living there repeatedly fail as they always misjudge their own ability. Causing them to mislay their standing in this world from time to time. The prophecy also make the ruler mislead the public in doing bad things for him to hide his mismanagement of the country, causing corruption among the nation itself and create a misnomer for a misogynist who misplace his flag containing his ideas about gender role, with the words having an obvious misprint and misquote to get laughed at the public for his outdated ideas, to a park where women may misread the true intention behind this banner.
There is a girl who read the banner and becomes motivated to be a soldier despite her misrepresentation to create a coup to take action against the ruler's misrule. She is Miss Madeline Middleton, who had once missed her chance to become beauty queen during her middle years, where the winner's head is misshapen after a missile has struck her tiara holding head. The heart of the short-lived winner is now missing after a botched surgery.
Since the tragedy, she had thoughts of changing and the banner visualizes her mission to destroy the power of the missionary, where even their misspell of a word can be taken literally by them to have the priests to force the public into an apocalypse-ladden space while they are shrouded in the mist of gold and silver. There will be no mistakes from her, not since when she uses a mistletoe ointment that ended to mistreating her best friend when she became ill from working too much in a place that doesn't suit her.
She first becomes somebody else's mistress and later convinces her lover that his wife broke the teachings of the prophecy and managing to turn the wife's reasonable defense into a simple mistrial. As the wife is very influential among the nobles in the rich land, they started to mistrust among themselves, not helping they also have a lot of misty secrets in risk of easily blown off if not taken care of. As more misunderstandings happen among them, they misuse their powers for their own purpose, like mixing Mitchell grass and mite to create a salve that will mitigate the hostility between them and the public in order to get the public to support their cause.
The hostility between the newly created factions between everybody in this country became a full all out all, where everybody is wearing their nationally made mitt or mittens (it has gone to the point where they are arguing between the naming sense on the same item, it is really that bad). To make their lines clear, they mix paints with a clear color story and created a mixed mixture, applying onto their mitts.
Red resembles a mizzenmast (apparently the word is related to a mast), a millimeter of blue and green resembles the MLA & MLC respectively, the often ignored yellow with a line painted about 5mm represents the MMS, now at the phase of glorifying mnemonics.
During the war, the moaning people gathered around the moat, then the mob fought against each other for their frail pride. Some leaders carry their mobile forts to mobilize and motivate their moccasin wearing troops to keep fighting while the leaders themselves hide in their fort to drink their mocha to calm themselves from the ravages of war.
Behind the scenes Madeline silently mocks the public making a mockery amongst themselves while a neighboring country to preparing to plan to war against them. Now already escaped to their country for mod cons, she fully intends to change the mode of this country and hopefully become a role model in the future.
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As I finish creating a sentence with the last word on the page with a lot of effort, I put the dictionary down and lie on the floor, should I be a little more creative in my stories in the future?
The question is interrupted with the caravan stopping its movement and I lay still, intending to forget the previous story until I am mentally ready for my next task.