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Clearly, Frank Sinatra inspired George Herbert, even though they were just three centuries apart. The big question is how: Was the Frank Sinatra we kn...

My identity is very important -- to me. Important enough that I spend quite a bit of time dithering about it -- privately. No, I have no doubts whatso...

I have not. Google enables me to sound erudite on the Internet, and nobody knows I am actually a dog. But yes, in English literature too, there are pe...

No. Mars is Roman. "Ares was the ancient Greek god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal wa...

Wikipedia has a chart of the Greek gods @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Greek_gods I thought Chronos was one of the ur-generation, ...

Apologies are not in order. Greek deities and their multitudinous forms and devious activities are a specialty field. Everything Greek and Roman is sp...

"Do you feel like you're wasting your time being here?" What is "wasted time"? No, we don't want to see more high quality stuff. Quality is too demand...

Hey there, welcome to THE Philosophy Forum. We are happy to have you here. Stay a long time! quote="niki wonoto;d13793"]Most people in this world are ...

Ha! Didn't notice the pigeon.

Would I like to be Eros? Sure. God of love and sex--I could work with that. Sounds like mission creep. I don't think authenticity was the remit of Ero...

I am afraid you have waded into deeper and hotter water than you supposed. Cupid is Roman. Eros is Greek. The name Cup?d? ('passionate desire') is a d...

Good on you!

I missed out on "Courtship of Eddie's Father". Did you catch the line "Dreaming in my Maid'nform bra / Dreamed I danced the Cha-Cha-Cha" was sung by a...

Boston, Austin, Wichita, and St Louie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwiqmv6Xeo

As do we all, O Noble Dust. Everything from run-of-the-mill paprika to Spanish paprika to Hungarian paprika. Spain culturally appropriated the basic p...

here is a much different UBI site, this one sponsored by CATYLIST (and the "Independent Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy research ...

Here is a link to the Basic Income Lab at Stanford University. It provides lists of projects, maps, features, charts, and MORE! These are all "toe in ...

Thanks for the clarification.

Tarot cards may be 100% hokum, but that wouldn't prevent someone from gaining personal benefit by using them. After all, a good share of psychoanalysi...

This is confusing. Streetlight has been absent from these hallowed servers for quite some time and his absence has been lamented (well short of univer...

The 4 that didn't begin with B began with J, A, and V, and commented in that order, are the first three letters of ?javi2541997. Seems suspicious if y...

When asked whether she was happy, the opera diva Beverly Sills said, "Let's just say I'm cheerful." I am happy. I am either at peace or resigned to th...

You asked A4H, but... what the hell. IF the 2nd coming were imminent, my guess is that going wild and enjoying the pleasures of the harbor during the ...

There you go. The trick is to have a close encounter with the grim reaper and live to tell about it.

The act like they are invincible because it seems like they are. Hey, young people can get away with all sorts of things that will be a lot less toler...

Thanks to everyone for your insightful observations. Hell! Thanks for reading the story in the first place. Excellence in commentary! Indeed, the porn...

George Washington was a Mason.

True.

My experience includes neither autopsies nor anatomy labs, so this was strictly second, third, and fourth hand information.

As one scrolls down the list of discussion topics and 200 word story titles, they start bleeding together as equally plausible titles.

Squishy, gooey sentimentality is avoided. The narrator sounds right,

It doesn't adhere to fairy tale conventions (witches, evil spells, wicked step sisters, forbidden doors that one just HAS to open, etc). It's too pat....

Sounds more like a cadaver anatomy lab than the morgue. Autopsies are "rip 'em open, check the parts, and zip 'em up." Anatomy labs, on the other hand...

Some author -- totally forgot who -- said that novelists have to capture the interest and confidence of the reader in a very few pages. IF the first t...

How odd are they? There should be an investigation. Astronauts do have a difficult preparation period with high standards and all, but that's nothing ...

Sundae Bloody Sundae I can see Hanover doing, but old ladies turning into snakes, not so much. The Last Transport is one of the best, I thought. I hav...

You are worried about reality when old ladies turn into big snakes? Were the two old ladies turned into young snakes or did they become geriatric rept...

Good story, told well within the close quarters of 199 words. Maybe not. Since the 1789 there have only been 1,994 senators. The "you can be anything ...

Either 'it' or 'they' are grammatically acceptable, because it isn't clear which noun the pronoun refers to -- hair or strands. Because they are both ...

Now I get it: Sundae Bloody Sundae vs Sunday Bloody Sunday. Bit slow on the uptake. Seems like I did see Sunday Bloody Sunday a long, long time ago.

Guts, yes; hearts, no? Doesn't make sense. It's muscle tissue -- not viscera like tripe or chitlins. I've tasted pork gut -- disgusting odor and textu...

Indeed. A good short story will launch in the first 200 words, but thousands will follow before the boat reaches port. I don't know how 19th century n...

"Even the hairs on your head are numbered." Matthew 10:26 Apparently God also has excellent inventory systems as well. Massive databases just to take ...

That's what I thought, too.

A bit of Alice down the rabbit hole.

The 200 word limit seems to result in 'stronger' words being used -- they have to carry much more freight than they would in a 2000 word story.

I voted OK; it's not great. It could be that he was murdered with the pencil. Maybe the prison gang killed him for not revealing where the money was? ...

It's a string of observed events that do not add up to a plot.

Who is supposed to run -- us or them?