Noble Dust

Because Enlightenment philosophy through to current philosophy begins with an assumption about the nature of consciousness and an assumption about whe...

I came here for the same reasons as everyone else, but my interest in philosophy has waned. I'm more interested in consciousness and a spiritual path ...

@"Jamal" I see I didn't comment on this one, I think because I at first didn't care for it, but on a re-reading I find I like it quite a bit. I actual...

I normally wouldn't go for a format like this, but I really enjoyed this one, @"Benj96". Like in my comments, I don't know whether everything works ou...

Great job, @"Daniel". I hope you'll participate in the full-blown shorty story contest in the spring. This was one of my favorites.

I agree; the errors are much more glaring. More of a comment for the main thread, but with these tiny stories I liked most of them, didn't like a few,...

:razz: I'll pretend this was intentional. Eh, not a great title. I truly don't like titles. In my musical life I loath titling songs and releases, exc...

Open to interpretation, but my intent, as I tried to explain to Vera above, was more just an experience that unexpectedly jolts us out of our normal p...

Have you never worked a desk job or retail job and felt mentally imprisoned by your environment? The fact that nothing significant has happened often ...

That damned cobbler! I honestly don't know what to call the guy; as @"Jamal" mentioned, they tend to make keys and fix women's expensive hand bags and...

Sorry Amity, life suddenly got crazy this past week. I have the next two days off though; I'll try to get back into the festivities.

:naughty: I'll add @"Jamal" as the Hairpin to my list.

It is indeed a compliment to you!

I never thought about the cultural context of Jesus's second coming. I guess he'll probably arrive in a tricked out space ship with a lightsaber in on...

I'm personally enjoying the relaxed and slightly chaotic vibe of this non-competition.

You are not.

Neither flows in a literal sense, so either metaphor works.

I'm honored.

Wait I take that back. Too obvious!

Great guess. I second.

My record remains unstained so far.

I might, although this time around there's too many new authors for me to guess accurately. I don't really know most of their writing styles, so I won...

Fair enough. See my second comment above.

I think the image is stronger when the object of the previous sentence is referenced in the second sentence.

True, but my mind assigns the pronoun of a new sentence to the object of the previous one in an instance like this. I would find it easier to read if ...

I respectfully refer you to my almost 100% accuracy rating on the last guessing session. :joke:

Astronauts - @"god must be atheist"

Yeah, Benk is the sci-fi man.

I liked this a lot, although the first thing I noticed was this: Which should be "They flow like water."

I just read that one and think it's too literal to be Tobias.

That crossed my mind, but the lack of line breaks put me off the scent.

Yew wot mate?

These seem almost too obvious to me, but I'll hazard: Butterflies and Good-byes - @"Benkei" The Porn Shop - @"Bitter Crank" In the Wake of the Morisco...

50% new authors, unless I'm forgetting someone. Impressive! Might explain why I'm having a tough time at the guessing game this time around.

I thought it was a continuation of the hot/cold joke.

Clarky you gotta tag me. I didn't see this. I would have made a smart remark if I'd been quoted. Now it's too late.

I’m a complicated man, BC.

That’s how it gets cold. I use my youch grinder for hot coffee.

Interesting. I've never had heart. Seems dicey. I don't mind intestine; I've had some really good pig intestine tacos. Beef tongue tacos, when done ri...

Once you go burr you can't go back. They say the New York water does something special to both the bagels and the pizza. I think the bagel dough is al...

I took the conceit of this one to be a clever cycle of states of consciousness, but you could be right. If it is cyclical, though, the cycle doesn't m...

Breakfast: a plump sesame seed bagel from my favorite shop, toasted, with Irish butter, and coffee freshly ground in my burr grinder and made with an ...

I doubt that. Not absurd enough.

I guess I'm a bit daft, but I was initially thrown by the "Who am I?" question at the end, but on a second reading I see she's become ignorance again....

I was serious, but mentioned my interpretation as a joke...

I’ve done the same.

I thought it was a bumble bee...

Clever, and the change of pace on genre was refreshing.

Write the micro story. Maybe mimic @"Hanover"'s style to throw us off the scent, as it were.

Isn't it the opposite?