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RE: INKtober 2026 - Contraption - There Number One
There was a time when I considered a device called the "Configurator"—conceived by Robert Sheckley in his short story "The Necessary Thing"—to be the strangest and most amusing contraption imaginable.
This device could produce anything you asked for, but it refused to create the same thing twice; for instance, if you had it conjure up a roast chicken out of raw matter, you would never be able to get another bird—in any form—from it again. Nowadays, however, I see quite a few other interesting and equally amusing gadgets! :)
That is interesting, but also a bit sad. I mean if you ask for a roast chicken and you can never ask for a bird again...it's better to ask for the alive bird... But just chicks...I don't know. We won't easily eat eagle or owl. 🤔
The drawing was quiet a burden and I cannot say I learned not to do it again 🤪
Today took me hours and I just made a sketch of the one for tomorrow. I already know I cannot make it the way I want so perhaps I should skip a day or let be and leave it as a draft.
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The story of that device ended up being far more tragicomic: not knowing how to get it to produce provisions, the astronauts asked the device to create another copy of itself—and that turned out to be the one thing the device actually enjoyed producing, over and over again! :)
Sometimes it’s fun to do a quick, five-minute sketch :)
I don’t do preliminary pencil sketches; I draw everything in one go. If it turns out well—great! If not—well, I’ll just draw it better next time :)
I cannot draw so I try to catch up somehow and wish I could do those five minute sketchesnce that is my intention since months.
I have no clue why I all of a sudden come up with these time consuming drawings.
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The good things is that it keeps me off the street (Dutch expression) and in the meanwhile I try out all those things I still have stored in my mind.
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Perhaps what you meant to say is that you don’t know how to draw the way your art teacher at school required? But who’s to say that they know how to draw the way you do? :)
I wonder if a person could describe the same dish but with different words, who knows maybe with time you still will run out of time
I might, unless I learn to draw in a different way and therefore faster, or smaller drawings 🤔
Thank you for the support.
Havin gthis kind of Configurator a person should have endless fantasy :)
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And a great deal of persuasive power and mental dexterity—to convince the configurator to do what we need it to do, rather than what it stubbornly refuses to do :) I suspect that a heavy hammer, pitted against the configurator’s own desire to continue existing, would serve as a compelling argument for further cooperation between a human and this very peculiar device :)