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[GlyphGryph]

It comes, weak and screaming into the world, with but a post to its name. The mother looks down and smiles, shining her kind blue eyes, deep as the ocean, an ocean wide and blue, sometimes green and grey, mostly green in warmer climates near tropical island, and greyer in the cold oceans of the far north and south. The steel grey water in those locations are as drained of color as the air is of heat, a visual mirror for concepts beyond the physical.

Extend the 'Pataphore!
The rules are simple. One person makes a statement. The next makes it into a metaphor. The third makes it into a 'pataphor, and that 'pataphor is used as the basis for the next literal statement.

To sum up what a 'pataphor is:
- An extended metaphor that creates its own context.
- That which occurs when a lizard's tail has grown so long it breaks off and grows a new lizard.

For details:
http://www.pataphor.com/whatisapataphor.html

I'll start us off:
I paused, staring at the screen, unsure what to to write for the first example.

[Loud Whispers]

He paused gazing off into the dim twilight of this eternal tapestry, the author exchanging glances with the spirits of the internet.