Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet"
yakko@feddit.uk 1 day agoYeah I’d just laugh like oh, this is clearly hilarious. Unambiguous. You would have to be way subtler to make me think my waiter had become dangerously unglued.
phorq@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The key is to really make it sound like you’re telling a story, offhand jokes aren’t normally formatted like that.
"Be careful, a table accidentally lost their forks in the chicken, and I really used to like them… "
Do not give any details because in your mind it’s self explanatory what you mean. If they ask how that happened, that’s when you respond: “turns out soup is hot and wet.”
yakko@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Exactly. You gesture at a truth that is out of reach, build and release tension in rising waves, foster an ambiguous apprehension of threat.
Horror is put to much rubbish by the fine arts, but crafting a real sense of horror is an exceedingly subtle art.