Rochelle brings us Friday Fictioneers. Picture prompt is below with my story following. They rest are > HERE < Enjoy!!!
Picture found on: http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/10-october-2014/ Source: PHOTO PROMPT Copyright-Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
This one came from the idea found in an old Sci-fi tale of which I cannot remember the name or the author. Apologies.
“Music Soothes the Savage Beast, All Else…”
By Scott L Vannatter – 100 Words
“You really don’t understand,” said Prof Jonhaven as they looked around the room.
Electrical music equipment, mostly keyboards, filled the area so much that the two could almost not move around.
“No, Professor, I guess I don’t,” replied Justin, a new music student.
Professor Von Josburg was a genius in the musical field. He could make music do almost anything.”
“I guess, Sir, but I don’t see why they hauled him away to prison just for that.”
“Simple. You see keyboards and musical instruments. He sought to find the perfect melody. In the end, it would have enslaved the world!”
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Namaste,
Scott L Vannatter
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Perhaps the perfect melody would have soothed the world and meant we got along peacefully. Ah, I see, then what would we do? Liked this take.
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So glad you did!
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I love the idea that a perfect melody would enslave the world – well written!
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Thank you so much!
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What a wonderful idea – the perfect melody. I’ve started reading ‘Orfeo’ by Richard Powers – on this year’s Man Booker long list, and it deals with similar ideas about music and national security. I haven’t got far into it yet, but so far I’m intrigued. I enjoyed your story.
Marg
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Thank you. Thanks for visiting…come back!
Scott
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Dear Scott, WOW! Good story and exceptional writing. Love it! Nan 🙂
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Why thank you! I do believe that over a year in FF and FSF have increased my abilities.
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Delightful, Scott. I agree with Rochelle, perhaps his “disappearance” was for the good.
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🙂
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Brilliant take. Liked this very much because I totally believe that music can enslave one but soothes also.
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Yes, story idea is mine, but original idea belongs to a story I read.
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And we can’t have the populace enslaved by something as seditious as music. I bet he isn’t in jail–he’s working for the government now. A terrific idea for the prompt.
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Thank you. I would agree, but I don’t think the government can do much of anything that has to do with doing things “in a chord”.
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References to music and SciFi always remind me of Orson Scott Card, whose Unaccompanied Sonata, is one of the finest short stories I’ve ever read.
The idea in your flash this week holds some potential. Might be something fun to flesh out in the future.
Cheers!
MG
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Thank you. I could continue along with this particular storyline. The idea has already been done to a degree as I got it from a wonderful story I read a long time ago (in an actual book!) in which a man discovers that perfect melody and can never get it out of his head – driving him mad.
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Haha! Very interesting. It’s true that some melodies could take over the world. I’ve been taken over by earwroms (those melodies that play in your head) a few times. Kieth Richards from the Rolling Stones really knows how to write catchy guitar riffs that stick with you. I’m cured now. No oppressive melodies. It was touch and go for a bit, “but it’s alright now, in fact it’s a gas…” 😉
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The same happened to me several times with Christina Perri’s song “Jar of Hearts”.
In the Sci-fi story I mentioned, the man who found the song went insane and could no longer detach from hearing the song.
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Lovely little snippet
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Thank you!!
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This has happened.. a custom of totalitarian states to see the threats of other enslavement than their own…
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Interesting!
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Dear Scott,
That would be some frighteningly good music. Fires the imagination.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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