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I did too, but as it was quickly resolved I didn’t mind.

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Scabrously brilliant and funny. The profusion of outrageous metaphors and similes is pleasingly mad. I was less keen at first on Shaun’s righteous lec...

I like it. Unlike @"Noble Dust", I actually wish there had been more focus on the physical, more description of fabrics and dressmaking. This would ha...

I don’t know anything about haikus but I think this is great.

It’s not particularly long for a short story, on the short side in fact.

A good puzzle has everything you need to solve it. Nabokov is a good example. This one, though, seems underdetermined to me. That’s just me though. I ...

I loved the first two paragraphs, setting the scene. But after she got pulled over by the cop, it didn’t make any sense to me, same as for @"Tobias"—a...

I mostly enjoyed this, although I think it needs a lot of editing and revision, and the writing lacks something—muscularity or strength or something. ...

I liked this one a lot until Heron woke up in the forest and Merlin’s narrative broke down. From that point, it looks like the author abandoned the st...

A man can do both. I’ve read one, not sure what to say about it. Will read more.

Weird roughage :up:

Must be those “intellectual gnats” again eh?

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I wonder if you asked it to do it in the style of Charles Darwin it would use humblebee, as he does.

I’ve seen that plenty, in books of yore.

I like it, although the “doth” was going too far.

Good stuff.

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:up: For love not money.

It might not help to know. There will be stories that are just not for me, and it might not be a matter of literary merit, but rather of taste. And if...

Thank you for calling me young man. I appreciate it.

This is quite something. Others may be aware of it already since it’s been used in some TV shows recently, but I found it just yesterday after it was ...

No I’m very much an amateur, but I shall endeavour to improve.

I might not agree with you, and might even sometimes suspect you’re crazy, but I always read your comments carefully just for gems like this. Very enj...

Solid advice I reckon.

I appreciate you saying so but I don’t think I’m advanced. Just opinionated and quite good at reading. I haven’t read much literary criticism or liter...

Or rather, can only be known to apply to phenomena.

Plurality is a category and can only apply to phenomena, so...

This was one of Schopenhauer's criticisms of Kant.

:up: In British English it’s only very mildly insulting. You got off lightly :wink:

Don’t be a pillock. I was very clear about what I was responding to. I even bolded the crucial line.

That seems fairly obvious. I was just correcting your anglocentric assumptions.

I think one has to be balanced. For example... I really hated this story, not only for the lack of imagination, the insipid prose, and the incredible ...

Note that this is cultural. Russians have no word for blue*. Light and dark blue, goluboy and siniy, are seen as different colours, as different as re...

Thank you. :blush: However, allow me to criticize your comment... Experience and ability are good, but I believe everyone should be encouraged to crit...

Oh, I agree. Gracias amiga. Fair enough. For me it's about criticism. If it's not obvious, I mean it in the literary sense of "the analysis and judgem...

I quite enjoy that actually. I've been very critical of some stories--which you would know if you'd been giving my posts the attention I crave--but I ...

Gracias amigo. I will be on-hand for criticism.

Alas, no. I didn't see it coming, and when it was announced there were only two weeks to go, and I was extremely busy with less interesting things any...

:up: But I’m on shaky ground when it comes to modern logic and the debates about existence and fiction therein. I suspect you approve of my intuitive ...

Yeah, there are different ways of treating fictional things, and that's probably a side-issue just with respect to Kant. I guess we have to distinguis...

It’s in the category “Politics and Current Affairs” and it fits perfectly in it. If you have more complaints about staff decisions, there’s a category...

I wouldn’t say so. It would be saying there’s a man called Sherlock Holmes about whom we can predicate properties. (Or to be more logical, there’s a s...

To clarify the quotation from Kant, it’s best not to think he’s saying that existence, while it looks like a predicate, is not actually one, but rathe...

A bold claim from someone who doesn’t know what Kant said. Read on… Kant admits that existence can be predicated of something. What he says is that ex...

A valiant attempt, which I appreciate. Perhaps if I’d left this discussion on the main page, your post would have produced an interesting discussion.

So what?

I was genuinely open to persuasion, but since you characteristically responded obnoxiously, to the Lounge it goes.