Jamal

It's in the Symposium but note: You mean authors aside from the members of TPF, like Chekhov and Borges etc? Maybe I can add another category. Or mayb...

How about now?

I hope it's not distracting attention from the ongoing competition.

To clarify, unlike the Symposium in general, anyone can start a thread in this sub-category.

Done. I'll just have to add an intro thread and a discussion thread, both pinned within the category only. Damn, did I just get roped into running thi...

No, the threads in the Symposium are not automatically stickied. We did that manually to the existing threads in the Symposium. I don't think we'd do ...

Well, I guess we're talking about a new sub-category, "Short Stories", within the Symposium category, yes? That way it won't be hidden like the Lounge...

:up: I'll ruminate.

Well, it's worth trying. I could be wrong.

My first instinct: it wouldn't have the energy, focus, and fun of these competitions and would only detract from what we have here now.

That's super interesting.

And to me this implies precisely that they are not philosophy. Isn't philosophy reason all the way down? On the other hand, stories do sometimes conta...

Don't go! I guess that's not helping you. :grin:

Devil's advocate: why should I read short stories written by amateurs when I don't have time to get through more than a fraction of the great works of...

My guess is most people just aren't interested. And that's ok, cos this is a philosophy forum. And, judging by what I know of the attitudes of people ...

Looks good. Should've done it that way this time :grin: The only person I don't trust not to vote for him or herself is me, but I managed to resist th...

Marco should get the extremely large door, dropped on his head.

Me, I'm fine with the competitive element. I found it motivating. Others might not care so much about that side of it.

Unfortunately, that's how polls work with this forum software. There was a discussion at the beginning of this thread about alternatives, but it was d...

You’re making a lot of sense here. I consider my question satisfactorily answered. I often agree with Nabokov and I’m happy he’s allowed me to avoid t...

Hi tricky, and welcome! :smile:

This definitely fits with my way of thinking about it, and with my experience, although my only experience of writing fiction is the story I wrote for...

:rofl: Drunk, no, but inspiration struck a couple of times when I'd had two or three glasses of wine.

Incidentally, I've had Demons by Dostoevsky on my reading list for a few months, but recently I discovered that he wrote it specifically to make a pol...

You make some good and interesting points, but I'm not sure about this bit. As one of the scribblers, I think I can say with confidence that I wasn't ...

Well said. But it’s still going to be fun to see what the authors say.

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Agreed. Come back @"Amity"!

Thanks! It was duck, again. :grin:

I think at the time I was ignorant of this fact, being more used to restaurants that had one or zero bottles of it available. I am tempted now to go a...

Excellent, I approve. I've done chicken that way. I didn't use calvados though, that must work nicely. A long time ago I ordered a glass of calvados t...

Not the end of the world anyway. The author can be publicly shamed in a few days and everything will be made right again. Keep up the good work. :grin...

I like rabbit, especially back legs cooked in the pan with red wine and garlic. Enjoy!

What I'm saying is, I wasn't "revealing" anything, except that there's been an ongoing problem with a guy called Marco, which only a few non-staff mem...

Well, that was my opinion. But it's possible it wasn't a moderator, and Baden in fact didn't notice it was under the requisite word count.

Yeah I've got one of those nearby, and I keep meaning to go.

I approve.

Oh yeah, I stuffed it with an apple, a pear, and eight garlic cloves.

Yes, it was extremely juicy. Yes, but maybe more than 30% now I think about it. The skin on the breast wasn't crispy. It didn't matter. It was the fir...

Ah, braised. That's what I was wondering. I roasted mine and managed to achieve around 30% crispiness.

How is it cooked?

Thank you, but I have to defend the ducks against your scurrilous accusations. In my opinion, it is not only I who should be honoured, but also the du...

Happy New Year! I ate too much duck last night.

Hi thaumasnot, and welcome to the forum :smile: The way it works is that members can't send PMs until they've posted 20 times on the forum.

Anyway, I will stop attacking you now. :smile:

That's the third time you've made a point of saying so.

I suspect you've already voted.

https://youtu.be/zlImOa9WVhA

Anyway it doesn't matter. We know there a few people who can't (be bothered to) read anything that's more than 500 words, like @"god must be atheist",...

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