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Vera Mont

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Couple of possibly irrelevant remarks about suicide. It is quite prevalent - and therefore, I suppose, a subject of discussion - in the northern latit...
December 13, 2023 at 15:06
You might benefit from a change in lifestyle. Volunteer to do something for people or animals who don't need a rational explanation for wanting to liv...
December 13, 2023 at 14:48
Yes, as I said, over the crumbs off the rich man's table. IF. But they don't raise their heirs at all, do they? Nannies, tutors, private schools and a...
December 13, 2023 at 14:40
We can each describe only how we see it. Fosse was discussing his own experience - and yet, it sounds to me that he was, in contradiction of his own w...
December 13, 2023 at 13:44
I haven't been keeping track. According to this site, Luxembourg must, since it's rated highest for quality of life. But we're all caught in the web o...
December 13, 2023 at 01:25
Your controlling a part of that co-op doesn't prevent anyone else from having the same degree of control; you can all agree to pool land and resources...
December 12, 2023 at 23:05
And, famously, Will and Ariel Durant.
December 12, 2023 at 22:36
Sure. They can all vie for the title of Who Acquired More Stuff for Their Heirs to Sue Over. Within the admittedly poor limits of my knowledge, the ma...
December 12, 2023 at 20:14
As we here all attest.
December 12, 2023 at 19:47
From birth to dotage, for self-esteem, the love of a happy family, the respect of his fellow citizens, the satisfaction of contribution to the common ...
December 12, 2023 at 19:15
I've heard of good collaborations and read a few examples and actually edited a story that resulted from the contribution of four or five posters on a...
December 12, 2023 at 17:24
No; it's not about them: some of them are benevolent, some malevolent, some are unintentionally destructive others do it on purpose; some wield the po...
December 12, 2023 at 17:09
Not my credit, exactly. I gave up several times. But The Old Man - who was quite young, back then - kept nagging that he wanted to read it, and whenev...
December 12, 2023 at 14:44
Of course. Evil always triumphs, because it's not hampered by principles, fairness, compassion or shame.
December 12, 2023 at 13:59
I live near a town called Durham (there are 24 of them in North America). This one is pronounced Durram. I guess nobody has much regard for a central ...
December 12, 2023 at 13:55
Exactly as wealthy as the poorest. They would both own their homes and control enough land to cultivate food for their family and community, have thei...
December 12, 2023 at 13:51
It varies greatly by book and by author. In my region, there was a charity event where writers spent a single holiday weekend at a lodge and they each...
December 12, 2023 at 13:42
*swoon!* Classy gobbledygook! I'm retired and the time I waste is coming out of my rapidly dwindling sojourn on this planet. With a novel, you sometim...
December 12, 2023 at 04:49
Not to me! I'm avoiding the blank screen of Chapter 3 - very successfully, so far. Today I gave myself permission and it feels just fine.
December 12, 2023 at 01:54
No ructions, no disagreements, misunderstandings or surprises? Sounds dull.
December 11, 2023 at 23:37
Is that a the correct word for it? Ok - I don't speak Dutch.
December 09, 2023 at 19:59
Er-hem! You're not making new friends here....
December 09, 2023 at 18:50
I have no idea what you're sorry for. I didn't understand any of that ^^^ post.
December 09, 2023 at 16:55
in American, 'princess' usually refers to the daughter of parents who have wealth and social status; their children are accustomed to having everythin...
December 09, 2023 at 14:02
It failed to pull me. Actually, your prose reminds me a little of Joyce's.
December 09, 2023 at 05:00
Really? I tried three or four times and found it simply unreadable.
December 08, 2023 at 23:11
Clarity and concision are important to me in a short story, though I allow longer flights of description and internal monologue in a novel, where the ...
December 08, 2023 at 16:04
How many of us write perfect prose in a second language? Or even our native language?
December 08, 2023 at 15:31
You most certainly will not! Your stories are comprehensible and relatable.
December 08, 2023 at 14:20
Exactly. Being is a verb. Honest isn't.
December 07, 2023 at 17:39
So far, I've encountered nothing in cyberspace or the walking world that could dissuade me from writing. The only reason I didn't enter the last round...
December 07, 2023 at 17:31
I think, on this subject, two reasons: I don't write competitively as a rule, and because there are no metrics; no set criteria for victory as in a po...
December 07, 2023 at 14:58
ie adjective describing an action Never "Jack honested to Jill about his gambling addiction.", but rather 'confessed' or 'admitted' or ' revealed' Tho...
December 07, 2023 at 14:38
Sounds like fun.
December 07, 2023 at 03:09
Honesty, yes, may be motivated by different influences. But that's not the same thing as an honest person. The one who is only honest because he's afr...
December 07, 2023 at 01:17
Maybe if you said things in fewer and simpler words, they would be easier to follow.
December 06, 2023 at 19:53
Adjectives can describe both of those conditions, plus several others: matters of taste, like sexy or ugly; matters of happenstance, like sick or luck...
December 06, 2023 at 19:45
How can you read too much into it? That's the whole point: honesty is a quality. "Honest" describes both a facet of someone's character (the way they ...
December 06, 2023 at 19:33
My Gr 13 final exam included a list of titles, from which we had to choose one and write a story. It worked out well for me, because one of the titles...
December 06, 2023 at 04:39
Sorry, what?
December 06, 2023 at 03:28
Neither. It's an adjective: An honest person is one who can be relied on not to cheat, deceive or mislead others. Honesty is the characteristic such a...
December 06, 2023 at 03:23
I may have mentioned that. Yes; Why make such a song-and-dance about it?
December 06, 2023 at 03:15
What, like lunch at the club every Tuesday?
December 05, 2023 at 05:19
Survival and subsistence are not necessarily pleasurable - indeed, for many individuals, they are distinctly unpleasant. Also difficult, disappointing...
December 05, 2023 at 05:15
I hope even primates can evolve out of their savage ways, if the way is shown, not by chimpanzees but mountain gorillas like Ishmael ... but then, isn...
December 02, 2023 at 15:14
I much prefer a rating system to a Yes/No choice... if it must be a contest. Personally, I would prefer just to say what I liked and didn't like about...
December 01, 2023 at 20:03
Born in Hungary, lived briefly in Ireland and the US, mostly in Canada.
December 01, 2023 at 03:07
Does that mean each Christian denomination has a separate consciousness because each has a separate organizational hierarchy? And does that account fo...
November 29, 2023 at 14:18
Okay.
November 26, 2023 at 17:08
Who is the proposed standard-setter and arbiter of all these qualifying criteria, child welfare, potential harm, etc? In what sort of environment coul...
November 26, 2023 at 14:39