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It’s interesting. The first time I read it I might have been a bit put off by it, but when I really got into it on the second read, I didn’t even noti...

I can see how this might be jarring, but I like it. A word that would have the same striking effect and the same meaning is grim. Dire is better thoug...

Thanks ND, and I hope your next weeks are less onerous. Thanks! I actually didn’t see the connection between her howling and her imagined sexual perfo...

Yes. I said I didn’t know what the emotion was but I did think it had something to do with that.

I’m glad that the moral was not obvious; the story could be enjoyed as a very good story, rather than read as a delivery mechanism for an opinion.

Just after I wrote this I realized I’d unconsciously stolen part of it from Thomas Pynchon, who I’m reading at the moment. He has a lot of “one would ...

These responses are very pleasing to me, so thank you. Although this is your own horny nature more than anything I intended, I do like the interpretat...

Thank you Caldwell, great job. Big success.

Thank you. Yes, I’ve moved on. I happen to think my third entry was better—as yet unrevealed—but I guess that’s because I always favour the latest cre...

Oddly, for a long time the only fusion I really listened to was Weather Report. It’s only recently that I’ve begun to listen to Chick Corea/Return to ...

Thanks, that’s something like what I was going for: to see if I could use relatively disconnected sentences but still manage to tell some kind of stor...

Welcome back :smile:

Good point. Composers like Riley made intentional use of the so-called wolf tones.

Agreed.

Works for me. You too :party:

In fact I did have a good year after I did it.

Either because I’m a grouch, or because it’s simply meant to be said on or after the bells—saying it before that, without “when it comes,” is apt to b...

Not exactly the kind of video I was hoping for.

That was the track that got me into jazz. To this day I never tire of it, which is more than I can say for some of the other stuff I was into at the t...

@"universeness" Have you noticed that a lot of people say “Happy New Year” before midnight on Hogmanay? It seems it’s only the Scots who add “when it ...

Oh yeah! I did that when I was in Spain for new year a few years ago. I was in a bar and everyone else was doing it. I didn’t understand it but I was ...

I find with my own stories that I later interpret them as just another reader, and find things I hadn’t intended. This is more evidence for the idea t...

I think people are even less aware of the beaches in Moscow. https://cdni.rbth.com/rbthmedia/images/all/2017/06/21/03_royal_bar070615_009_b.jpg But no...

I’ve been swimming in them many times. Due to the Gulf Stream it’s not so cold as it could be. It’s never icy. That said, the weather is obviously oft...

What’s happening in this story is very interesting to me, but some aspects of the execution don’t sit right. Is it a poem? Every sentence takes a new ...

I’ve read this a few times because I didn’t know what I thought about it, and I’m still not sure. At first, there were two things that made my right e...

Recently I heard about a musician from a country in the Middle East or thereabouts—maybe it was Turkey, I can’t remember—who plays both in his local m...

Caldwell changed the rules in response to feedback, not least yours. It’s worked out well. My only slight annoyance is that when it was announced that...

Wasn’t me.

I'm a good boy despite everything.

Wikipedia's entry probably isn't the best introduction. Probably some good YouTube videos about it.

Awesome :blush:

Just intonation is a tuning system that's different from the standard "equal temperament" of Western classical and popular music. It adheres to natura...

:up: :cool:

The sound words in the story are great. Very funny. Anyway, the sounds that can be made with a grand piano are much more varied and weird than traditi...

I guess the "always" could mean ever since the moment of awakening at the start of the story; or it could mean that (they believe) they've always had ...

I've been watching this and I've deleted a couple of posts by people who haven't addressed the article or who clearly haven't read it, but my skill in...

A bit of both, maybe? Most importantly, it has allowed this notice to remain in or around the top of the main page, allowing all the active members to...

You too, AS.

I'm beginning to see your point.

Sometimes, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't keep trying, Agent Smith.

I like this one. It's compelling and fun, and that takes skill. To me it's like a dream, but the last line suggests that the narrator has actually wok...

No, I'm afraid it comes naturally.

Yes indeed. Me, I'm not a forgiving reader.

Ah. Oh well. But look: Don't try telling me you're not a tense-master.

Don't be sad. ND and I are very particular about these things. Reading more fiction in English would probably allow you to spot it easily.

:eyes:

It's a bird. It's the old name for a tit, and might still be used in North America for a particular genus of tits.

I was serious. I enjoyed your comments.

Your version works, yes. There are other possibilities.