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September 30, 2005 |
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To Prevent a Horse from Eating
FOUND by Anthony LaBerge
in Plymouth, Minnesota
I found this note card on a projector cart at school. It was so strange and charming I had to send it in.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
What on earth?! This looks like notes taken by some advocate in a British court. So how did it wind up on a projector cart in Minnesota??
those danged horses, always trying to eat rows of beans...!
maybe someone was taking notes on a film?
Even though this is obviously just written by one person, for some reason it reminds me of a game my friends and I used to play in middle school where someone would write one word down, pass the paper, someone else would write down the next word, and it would keep going around until there was just complete nonsense written on the paper.
This just became my favorite find yet. I'm surprised it doesn't have more comments...it's cryptic and lyrical and yes, charming!
This reminds me of an excercise I did in a sociology class when I was in high school. It dealt with assumptions and relating to peers.
Looks like someone's lines from a student play; this person was playing the constable, "my lord" is the judge.
Maybe it's in code.
I agree that it is British, although that puzzles me even more. Why on earth would "prisoner" have a garden? and whose horse was it? the prison guards?
The whole thing seems very 19th century to me when they still had forced labor in the UK. But then why is it in the format of a legal deposition? It might be from a play, but that is a freakin' random play to be sure. "tis not oft a play o' Britain of yore be writ, without a hearkening sound of pretentious Sussex grit."
Looks like a piece of literature or a play. A prosecutor or policeman is giving a judge the facts of the case. The prisoner (who was a free man with a garden before being arrested and becoming a prisoner) was seen stopping a horse from eating beans in his garden around tea-time. Presumably that connects to the timeline of the case, or motive, or something.
Definitely notes being taken by a High School student about a movie/play s/he was watching in class, probably History or English. Those things happen fast and you have to take quick notes that will jog your memory later on!
I agree that a student was probably taking notes on a movie in class. Question is: what was he/she smoking right before class...? Whatever it was, I want some, because this movie sounds really cool.
This is some great nonsense! The use of the "@" symbol makes it even more absurd than it would be otherwise.
I hope the horse found something else to eat. Like maybe the prisoner's face.