Baden

Thanks for the intro, Ron, and welcome! :smile:

You've taken HexHammer's angry babble and turned into something more coherent and focused. But to be clear, discussions like his will continue to be c...

It's not a farce in my view (like a PJ Wodehouse type thing, an amusing story as you put it) and it's not just a vehicle for the author's erotic fanta...

This is a debate over the merits of a short story. Not all that important. If you feel undermined because someone has a different opinion on it, that'...

The specifics were the questions I asked that you didn't answer (such as regarding what symbolism you were referring to). Anyway, the editing that I d...

I did laugh. Shame on me.

Just saw the edit. If you have a lot to say on it and want to start a new discussion I'll join it and try to contribute more.

So far, I can see it's in a different (better) universe to "Cat Person". The writing is light and jazzy and it functions to bustle us along almost aga...

"To Build a Fire" is great. I'll read "The Babysitter".

Just to quickly note that I would agree with that, but the New Yorker is not the literary equivalent of a museum (even if it does have a historically ...

To make us better people. To communicate quality.

Yes, it shows us he was a bad guy and that her fears were justified with a metaphorical sledgehammer in the form of a text message. I can think of a m...

I'm talking evaluatively, and my evaluation is that it's not art at all and therefore it's not good art either. Being published in the New Yorker does...

Oh, we're all good here. Now the Koreans and Chinese, that may be a different story.

Um, if she doesn't want it, can you send it over here to Thailand? I'm sure that wouldn't cost much. 'Sides you owe me for my lying to jrob about what...

That's F-ed up. NicK needs to pull his spousal socks up.

You haven't addressed my questions on specifics. Anyhow, if it helps to clarify... I haven't read it although I saw at least some of the movie a while...

Ok, that is the crux of our disagreement then. I'm saying form is always relevant along with content in assessing any text in terms of its artistic me...

But how could this not be used as a defense of any kind of any badly written and/or kitschy story that just happened to be topical? If we're going to ...

He's right in my view. The decision to publish was almost certainly commercial rather than artistic. Because as I keep contending, it's not art, it's ...

Paging @"Michael".

:up: The ideal of success now is to become a brand™. That's how far self-commodification has gone. Our prize will be more flattening of individual cha...

Needs a bit of an edit here and there in my view, but it's a lot better than "Cat Person" :) . I interpret it as the cat being the narrators' "magic" ...

Cool. I expanded a bit in the next post above, which might give you more info on where I'm coming from including regarding the ending, and I don't dis...

Sure, and I get that's an understandable angle to take, but it's not just that characters are thinly drawn but how they're drawn thinly that matters. ...

So, this means you wanna date, right? :razz: :up: As I said above, I'm going to try to unearth some of the value you, Street, TL and others see in thi...

Well, I should try to justify my criticism. I read it through again and I'll try to be more nuanced while still contending that it fails both in terms...

:) That was my hot take @"csalisbury". And I don't want to sound like I'm being contemptuous for the sake of it. I am serious in my view that this is ...

I recommend anyone try this exercise. Read "Cat Person". Then read "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates. https://www.cusd20...

And not much more well-formed. But of course it's clever. In a commercial way. It's Mills & Boon for millenials. Be careful. You might have the basis ...

"Robert" looks like Margot cut him from an empty cornflakes' box and stuck him on her wall.

I'd give it an F. It's badly-written, boring, and painfully contrived. And like one of the more popular episodes of a soap opera that resonates with t...

Long as no-one mods csal we're good. :up:

Although that line could be an excuse because I'd rather be editing the pictures I took today. There's some ethical element to it that isn't there wit...

I don't know. When you talk about it, it kind of runs away.

Bet you're fun around the dinner table. Vaga's mum: "Can you pass the salt, please?" Vaga: *Consults "The Prince". Schemes furiously over next move.*

:up: One reason we don't like being in lifts with strangers. We almost have to talk and not talk to them at the same time.

:victory:

Not sure about architecture per se, but I like man-made structures that appear in context in interesting patterns like below: /uploads/resized/files/v...

Yes, you've got it backwards. The community here offered a place for you to come and spread your ideas for free. Part of that deal is that you accept ...

Well, the mod team were split on it. But if you were totally serious, there is a reasonable argument to be made that it contravened the guidelines. An...

OK, given your consent, I'm going to close it.

Fair enough. It depends on the discussion. I already said by PM before I even posted here that it was fine to start this one.

Damn... :scream:

I was just going to add that you did contact me first. I was speaking generally.

Anyone can start a Feedback discussion any time they want. A little patience would be helpful sometimes as it may be possible to solve the problem wit...

Not just saying this, but TL is one of the more restrained of us in the mod forum.

(Admittedly, I slept through most of the controversy, so I got the timing right for a change. ;) )

Appreciate your understanding. :up:

Hanover looks good with a baton.