Jamal

The Odyssey is great, but it’s not required for Ulysses. Joyce used it loosely as a convenient structure but it’s basically irrelevant, so I’ve been t...

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Have I posted Cardiacs before? I’ve been trying to like Cardiacs for years, and I’m pretty sure I’ll get there. Right now though, it seems to me they’...

The model of pop music: https://youtu.be/glgPZmSwC4M

Jamal does not scamper.

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But you’re one of the select few, no? The pickle munching East Coast intellectuals.

Nothing to do with King Crimson. https://youtu.be/haFemWYLm14

If it makes any non-native English speakers feel better, most native English speakers I know get it wrong too. Whose/who’s is one of those English bug...

Even when I give you honey, there’s always a sting in the tail.

Sorry man. I couldn’t resist the temptation to burst your bubble. I don’t know what that says about me. You wrote a beautiful, witty, creative post an...

*whose.

James Joyce’s Ulysses is famous for its stream of consciousness passages. Molly Bloom’s mental monologue is particularly famous, even though these day...

Yes, as I said in my first comment, I think the twist represents an abandonment of the story under pressure of time.

I want to commend the writer of this story for the simple idea—quite Ballardian—of an impossibly large conical building in the outskirts of London. Th...

It was a distraction only from the point of view of the ending. Before the twist, the bird names brilliantly conjured up a different kind of society. ...

I do actually think that Peake is a matter of taste. His great work is in my top five or even three, but I get why people—people who like literature, ...

Do it! I can totally understand someone abandoning it in the first hundred pages. It takes its time to tell the story. Even aside from what everyone e...

I enjoyed your hints, but they have led me no closer to the truth.

I’m confused. The stories I thought might be written by you all have comments from Benk.

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I drew from two passages:

Lovecraft is vague, Peake is precise. I attempted to be Peakean and was probably only partially successful, but from what I recall—I read Lovecraft in...

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There is no issue, it doesn’t matter, it’s a little less confusing than when it’s ordered by last updated (and therefore a little better), it doesn’t ...

My guess is he was guided by something (his unconscious?) to bring it, without being aware of it until the crucial moment. Probably just one of those ...

I agree that was the most effective bit. It came alive in that passage.

Actually, I should at least have run it by @"Noble Dust" and @"Baden", since they're running it, but I figured it was no big deal.

Peake would write it like this:

They'll get over it.

Done. Well, sort of. The only sort choices are by last updated, date ascending and date descending*. I chose date ascending. Now they're locked in pos...

Last I checked, having enough not to worry about it brings some happiness, but having more than that doesn’t.

I suggest a poll: Posters should be able to talk with the authors about the stories for as long as they want Threads should be closed when Jamal feels...

Yes, but the fact is that— Ah, ok.

I question this. When I'm in Spain I see houses and apartments with the Spanish flag flying, very rarely the regional flags. Off-topic I know.

A very Kraft-y pun.

I read this again and I like it even more. It's one of my favourites. Now, I thought I'd try an @"Amity" style breakdown... Assured economy of languag...

I forgot to mention that this story reminded me of Severian’s visit to the Botanic Gardens in Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun.

I was interested from the beginning and I was into it for the first five paragraphs, and then... Pretty much sums it up. Then it’s another twelve long...

I’m not sure I see more similarities between stories, but I do think people are writing in certain ways particular to this community, and it’s quite p...

No, but when I’m certain I’m usually right. After several competitions there are maybe three authors I can quickly recognize.

I saw a Russian squirrel today. It had a walnut.

In theory. But don’t worry, I won’t reveal anything just yet.

I disagree. Anyway I think I’ve identified the authors of three or four of the stories so far. One is definite, the others slightly less so.

Ok I’ve done my critical duty with the stories and now I have to wait another 12 or more days for the authors to be revealed, just as I was getting in...

Since "neat" is not especially complimentary, let me elaborate. I think the whole idea was great. I just felt it wasn't given enough space, or that it...

@"Baden" Would be good to have links to the short story and poetry categories in the OP. Too lazy to add them myself.

I forgot to mention the writing. When I noticed how long the second sentence was turning out to be I thought, come on, don’t fuck this up. But I had n...

I liked it. I wished it was longer and that it had been told with more realism—the last few paragraphs, through repetition of the earlier descriptions...