Jamal

I didn't know the OP topic was coffee hipster bollocks

Ah, before my time :razz:

Thanks. I have a soft spot for Supertramp.

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We must wait to see who prevails in the battle between @"Baden", who runs the competitions, and @"Amity", who pushed for the creation of this new Shor...

I think you saw my enlightening post, felt foolish, and edited your own post to make it look like you had discovered it yourself.

"Eden by Night" is by Tobias.

I've never really understood the aversion to seeing fish eyes on the plate. Something to do with an association of eyes with faces, maybe. https://aeo...

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Do it in this category as a new thread.

I agree, but to say that genuine knowledge of the other is impossible is like Kant saying that an intellectual intuition is impossible: it doesn't fol...

Yes, but we TPFers might know you in certain ways better than people you see every day, like your local cheesemonger, who may have no opinion on your ...

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It's just chopped meat, vegetables, and mustard seeds in aspic. Less food poisony than regular minced (ground) meat. It looks like kholodets, which is...

They look like chipolatas, Nuremberg sausages, or short sausages, all of which I like to plunge into my soft eggs.

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Thanks, that was helpful.

Your version sounds excellent. Yeah I forgot about the tomato soup. I knew that. Maybe the ketchup thing was a Canadian idiosyncrasy. As for maple syr...

It's my scorched toast strategy.

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A lowly sheep stealer and proud of it! But no, I don't regard the history of clan warfare and squabbling with any affection or sense of belonging. And...

Yeah it's really weird and surprising to me how many people on this forum cannot set out their paragraphs properly. All it takes is an extra hit on th...

McGregor, like half of my own family. I confess I didn't realize people actually positively loved the food they sell there. I thought it was just for ...

I had a grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast. Or did I? I'm thinking ... you know how the Italians, and their servile bootlickers, will aggressively ...

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That might be to do with the community aspect of it. It is great to hear the stories about how stories were written, especially from people you know, ...

Symbolism can be cute, but it's not essential. Depends on the writer though I guess. But for me, Moby Dick is about whales.

The aim is for the writing to stand on its own. Of course it's natural to wonder what inspired the writers we like, but we only wonder that because we...

Once again, @"Amity" has got more out of me than I wanted to reveal at this stage. I was intending to start a separate discussion.

Maybe. I'm only concerned with whether it was interesting, cohesive, well-constructed, entertaining, convincing, fascinating, humane, beautiful, etc e...

My basic super-point is going to be that enjoyment and entertainment are what you should be looking for in fiction, that enjoyment and entertainment a...

I guess in a sense you could say that, but that's not the kind of hidden that I or Sontag are talking about.

Here's an easier example. In Plum Pie, the reader is (I hoped) led to realize, but not told explicitly, that Lucia is sometimes delusional, an unrelia...

The examples I'd use are Pale Fire, which I read recently, and Lolita, which I read once a long time ago but didn't really get. I haven't read his sho...

That description uses the phrase "hidden depths", but it could have been phrased differently. The puzzles are all on the surface, but they may take a ...

I know the context and I think I can hazard a guess as to what it means, but maybe I'll wait till I make the discussion. "Beauty is the wonder of wond...

I keep remembering the Marco story as "The Ballad of San Marco", which sounds like an interesting story about Venice.

At least one of them, perhaps. :grin:

Fiction that's real, real, mega good?

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Then you are my enemy. But you do you!

Must have missed that. This alone motivates me to go ahead and do it. I found "Against Interpretation" pretty clear.

By the way @"Amity", I've been thinking of starting a discussion about interpretation. I mostly agree with Susan Sontag ("Against Interpretation") and...

I was thinking of how writers hate being asked "where do you get your ideas?" and I realized why. It's because they get their ideas in the way that an...

Well, I didn't mean the four-part-ness of it, just the paragraph formatting and dialogue spacing really. This could be true though. I have no idea. I'...

Next time do it yourself please. I've edited the OP, especially for you.

You just click the button that says "Start a New Discussion". It's that simple. Oy vey. I've done it for you: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussio...