Collaborators, Unite!

A week ago, I discovered the blog of the author of one of my top, top favorite books. The book is The Manual of Detection; the writer is Jedediah Berry, the blog is The Third Archive. On the blog, I found this post:

"Some weeks ago, Wah-Ming Chang and I started writing a sentence together. We took turns writing it, one word at a time, in the comments section of this post, and completed it yesterday. Here it is:

Mr. Bluemoon, of that exceptional tribe named for its perpetually growing sense of devotion towards miniature galaxies, never once imagined he himself would stand, with thirteen engines sounding like thirteen ghoulish mourners, aboard the Flying Wastrel, hand flat against the lever that directed heaven’s temperament.

We’ve decided not to abandon Mr. Bluemoon quite yet, so the rest of his story will be written right here, using the same method. I for one am curious to find out what happens to him."

Ladies and gentlemen, this is, as I recall, a collaborative projects blog...and we have been lazy. I suggest that this is the perfect task for us. Each person contributes one word every day, and we will meet back here to pet and coo at our first sentence.

Just add a word in the comments section. Once there is a complete sentence (the person with the last word also adds the punctuation), we will start the next post, which will contain the first complete sentence, and so on until the end of time. Or something.


FIRST WORD:
Madame