Folly

Hedgewitch aka Joy invited us to write about folly. 

So, many ideas came to mind.

The Challenge: 

So, toads and readers, it's time to build a Folly. 

Here are a few suggestions:

• Write about something in your life into which you've put large amounts of your resources, something silly but decorative and pleasing, or something purely eccentric, even bizarre.

• Possibly you have experienced someone elses' Folly in a way that was significant to you, for good or ill.

• There could also be something darker in this concept: something dishonest, arrogant, wasteful, submerged as Wright's Folly was under a murky veneer of wealth and respectability. Go for it.

• Perhaps you'd like to dig a little deeper into that classic snake-oil salesman J Whittaker Wright himself; his mind, his life or death, his scams or his fall from grace.

• Your Folly might also be an historical parallel, or a more contemporary or general one. ( Both Bernie Madoff and politics come to mind.) 

• You might want to write from the point of view of an onlooker, a swindled investor, Wright himself, or even Neptune. 

   

  

  "Lobster Telephone," by Salvador Dali, 1936

   

   Dilly Dali

  
  

  Would you answer

  a Crustacean sensation?

  I sat on a West woman's lips

    Want a ride in my

    rainy rolls

  a burning giraffe

  melted my time piece

  on a Horseback Salad

  8 pages in Vogue

  Wallis posed

  I painted her a lobster

  crotch- 

  I have my eye

  on time

  wanna see?

   

  

   *****