Quotes / The Irony of a Six Word Memoir

This was hillarious. Mostly because it’s so true! Six words cannot describe someone! Unless they were incredibly boring and lived underneath a rock. Even then he/she could describe what color the rock was and how it felt being mushed up all the time. Nice job.

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August 29, 2008

by Fenvy

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Right…

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It’s good, becuase it goes against that grain of brevity and reductionism. Everyone likes to hear those snappy brief descriptions of your life – but isn’t there more to life than just 6 words?

It was funny, thats it. Given by your comments theres not really anything here to review.

Honestly seems a little false here.  I’d almost perfer to here “Six words can’t describe me, yet.” or something.

Unique, good play on words given the circumstances.  

six words cant describe anyone, a whole book coul barely describe someone. We all change with the times, we are shape shifters in a sense. We can’t stand still for too long.

Good quote.

I totally agree with you!  Describing myself in six words has been a much bigger task than I thought possible.  I love this, do not change a word.

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August 08, 2008

by Fenvy

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thanks…

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nt bad, almost got a laugh :)

Hahaha this is great! Its an ironic irony! Its ironic that you can’t really describe yourself in a 6 word “momoir”, as you have stated. However, it’s ALSO ironic that in saying that you cannot describe yourself in 6 words you have, in fact, described yourself and even told us a lot about yourself (for one, you must be a complex person if the only way to describe yourself in 6 words is to state that you cannot be described in 6 words).

I love irony, I don’t know why… ESPECIALLY this kind of irony which is, in and of itself, also ironic.

So for the double irony and a well written and comical piece, you get high marks

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August 05, 2008

by Fenvy

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Thanks brohem!

August 05, 2008

by Static

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No sweat

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Short and banal. Actually, six words can go a long way toward describing almost anything or anyone, but you have to make that reader deconstruction phenomenom work for you. You plant the seed through suggestion within abstraction, then let the reader fill in the other three or four hundred words.