That's been niggling at me, too. How about: Nick accompanies or follows Lawrence on each of his missions of revenge/liberation. Lawrence has acquired ...
When pigs fly... Hell, no! None of them will peacefully reform any time soon, to any kind of new configuration in which they would willingly surrender...
It was already too late. I had done both the review and the rating according to my own second-reading judgment. Assuming both participants were boys w...
And Russia reforms and the US reforms. They won't do it voluntarily, not any of 'em. So they'd have to break up - very probably thorough violent confl...
I don't do much anymore, for various reasons. We stopped eating meat some 40 years ago, which forced me to be creative with vegetables, pulses and tof...
I can identify with that; it doesn't surprise me that that varied temperaments have a similar frames of reference. Interiors are where most of our wak...
No, I like early summer best. June, when the landscape is as green as it can possibly get, flowers bloom in profusion, my tomatoes and peppers are gro...
Some of it evidently happened in church; the narrator was in the choir. My guess is, the uncle was the organist, music teacher and molester. None of t...
I don't know... I've spent some quality time in the prairies. True, that unbelievably big dome of sky can be enchanting whether it's high and clear or...
I have only three before my favourite spring twilights begin. In between, we're likely to have opaque veils of snow blowing across the road, dark dism...
I've always been in full agreement with that. The same is true of Canada. The prairie provinces have more in common with the prairie states, geographi...
Did he also shove Labrador and Newfoundland in with New England? I doubt it. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, maybe. What have Iowa, Oklahoma and Ontari...
Of course it is. The same sun's rays hit different parts of the earth at different angles and intensities at every minute as the Earth orbits and rota...
My what??? Over which??? The states had way too much independence at the time of federation; that's why the southern ones were given that concession t...
Oh, yes. I was talking about the sophisticated mental feat of recognizing another as being a self, like themselves. Whether fish understand this withi...
The great leap to which referred earlier. What I'm asking is: had the non-life been evolving to that point, or did evolution begin there, like a biolo...
I also think that bedroom is ominous. That's the significant bit: the trauma. Presumably the same ubiquitous pianist - a close relative who was arouse...
Where does evolution begin? Did inanimate matter evolve? If not, how is this relevant? Why wouldn't we? I think this requires a level of intelligence ...
The oddest word out there is 'emotions'. What humans mean by that word is ambiguous - when not prejudicial - in reference to the experience of non-hum...
No matter how long and how much work it took to master the craft; no matter how meticulous the care it took to polish the final product, any performan...
And I thought this story was engaging enough to captivate a musical ignoramus like me... How much more it must mean to someone who speaks that languag...
But at least they'd get a chance to do it! People can do this; they have done this. Sure, there will be disruptive elements to deal with; there will b...
You've had plenty of advice, here and elsewhere. Maybe you can still read a couple of self-help books. Whether you take any of the advice or not; whet...
For me, the preferred overseer would be the the World Court, under UN auspices. Not only is their declaration of human rights completely acceptable, b...
I don't desire it, but many of the citizens would, so of course it has to be allowed scope. In my experience, the period of liberal ecumenicalism of t...
Recent science indicates that trees and other vegetation in a forest communicate with one another through a complex network of fungi. You could consid...
You can copy it and make your own spaces. I have sometimes done that in a workshop: pasted one paragraph, commented on it, then pasted another... mayb...
I would say plants are not, but I'm not at all sure about that, given recent discoveries. So I'll only say that plankton probably are not, bacteria pr...
So true! As would more resources allocated to low-income housing, welfare, health and other and social services, as would curbing the power of propert...
All that is true - but so is overreaction to peaceful protest, breaking up legal strikes, 'clearing out' homeless encampments by any means, smashing d...
Not quite an accurate depiction of either event. Factions always exist. They are always supported by their supporters, who are not always of a single ...
The whole thing is: Last tooth hanging by a sinew? The shack? Adults sleeping all day, ignoring the child? The wrestling scene with Santa? I'm a life-...
It would be constituted locally, for the needs of the local population, without all the heavy armaments, license to search, seize and destroy. Powers ...
Their revenue base is small and uncertain; they would have to depend too heavily on big business, which, in turn, would exert too much influence. Whic...
No, I didn't imply anything of the kind. No nation is a single unified entity that feels, thinks and acts with a single mind. The premise I was attemp...
That's mostly down to me, 'splainin. They're difficult to interpret. So, to me, is The Story of THING, but others were impressed by the wealth of desc...
I had no trouble reading the story, even though the abrupt changes of scene and mood made it difficult. My take on the narrator is that he imagines hi...
But the first coup wasn't their idea. That was interference from a world power with hugely disproportionate economic resources. Especially when you're...
People are silly a lot of the time. Especially when they're disillusioned and feel betrayed, they tend to reach for the security blanket of tradition....
I can imagine 8 or so separate regional 'nations' working in some kind of uneasy trade and diplomatic relationship - so long as the populations are al...
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