Roberta Writes – Reena’s Exploration Challenges #296 and Sunday Stills, Orange #poetry #orange #photography

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Reena’s PROMPT #296 is as follows:

A phrase by Arundhati Roy (winner of the Booker Prize for fiction in 1997) caught my attention – Fiction in the time of fake news.

I coined a few of my own inspired by it.

  • Letters in the time of instant messaging
  • Books in the time of apps
  • Lies in the post-truth era
  • Human proficiency in ChatGPT era
  • Freedom in the times of listening devices

Feel free to coin some of your own in the same spirit, or use one or more from the above, including the inspiration from Arundhati Roy, and base your piece on it.

This is my tanka poem:

Evolution

How did news evolve?

Changing facts into fiction

Unreliable

Purposefully misleading

Making fools of all mankind

You can join in here: https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/reenas-xploration-challenge-296/

Sunday Stills

Terri’s theme for Sunday Stills this week is Orange. I love orange. Yellow, pink and orange are my favourite colours.

A mix of colours but plenty of orange in my latest oil pastel giraffe artwork
Orange clivias
Orange and blue bird of paradise flower
Peach fondant roses

You can join in Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/09/10/sunday-stills-monthly-color-challenge-incandescent-orange-and-glowing-gold/

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  8. “Fiction in the time of fake news”–something I as a teacher worry about, but I replace ‘fiction’ with ‘truth’. The same could be said of ChatGPT!

    Good grief another amazing painting from you, Robbie. Those giraffes are stunning. It’s easy to see how connected you are to these animals.

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    1. Hi Annette, I really don’t know how news gets so distorted. I think the reporters go with the popular form of facts and other peoples versions of news rather than doing their own research. People are also not impartial and independent when reporting news and their personal points of view taint the facts.

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  13. I absolutely love your choice of colours, Roberta, and your giraffe artwork.:) As far as books in time of apps are concerned, I just listened to a very interesting interview, where the writer Pierre Lemaitre speaks about his book “Le Grand Monde”.

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    1. Hi Martina, thank you, I’m delighted you like my giraffes. They are my favourite creature. 😁 As for apps, I think people who love to read will always read books. There have always been other distractions and it has always only been some people who chose books over other things. Socialising, drinking, going to the gym for long periods, and TV have been around as distractions my whole life.

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  14. I love all oranges and yellows. I have Clivia as house plants, all from one original. They need the right conditions to flower though, being kept very cool, but not too cold in winter. I have heard there was no name for the colour orange in English, it was just called dark yellow until oranges arrived in England.

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  19. Let’s see. How about “Logic in the time of fallacy” or “Supporting evidence in the time of brainwashing”? (The first one that popped into my head was Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera.)

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  25. Those sayings of Reena’s are great. Your poem is too. But how I wish they weren’t so true. We are force-fed so many lies and so much misinformation, and the people lap it all up and spit it all back as if it was true. Sadly so much of it makes it true. It’s downright depressing.
    On the otherhand, your beautiful giraffe painting is uplifting. It’s very beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.

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