Same Rock, Two Perspectives

 

(For one of my college writing classes, the teacher handed each of us a small stone. "We'll say I'm blind," she declared. "Tell me what it looks like!" This was our first class, so I took her challenge seriously at first. But I am irrepressible and have earned my nickname, Sunni, well and truly. So I gave in to a fit of humor. Hence, two descriptions.)

 

The more literal description:

I have a small, smooth, mottled coffee-brown rock. It's oval and lanced clear through with one off-white stripe and one predawn-sky blue stripe. The stripes start together near the middle and cut downward at divergent angles. One side of the rock is flat with a small depression. The opposing side is rounded like a home-made loaf of bread.

The fun description:

Me got dis little rock, see? It be smooth, oval, mottle brown. Dere be two stripes: one dirty white, one blue like night sky in da morning. Dey go slantwise 'cross de middle, different-like. One side be flat wit' spot for de t'umb. De odder side, it be rounded like home-bake breadloaf. Y'see?

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