Noble Dust

i.e. I don't know what my final vote is, because I voted positively for a few stories, but I don't quite remember which, since I enjoyed a few of them...

How does me doing that affect the final vote?

By the way, I'm totally with you here. let's get woo...

How is their superiority measured? How can you demonstrate the universality of those principles and techniques? From your classical view of what is su...

One note about the voting system; I've voted "I like it" (or whatever) for a few stories, but as I'm re-reading and reflecting, I think I know my favo...

Maybe reminds me of Murakami a bit, I’m realizing.

I agree; I was having a hard time articulating what you just said.

I think I have 9 out of 11 authors guessed pretty closely. :razz: Although it's always possible there are new entrants that haven't entered before.

I think you can also just read the last paragraph as a description of the sexual act. Read it that way and see what you think. The flood is just a met...

That was my assumption.

Word. Check back with me in a week. :up:

It's a very nice description of a western draw scene.

Uh...yeah. Impossible not to have fun with it. But what the fuck is it? I'f I'm wrong about who wrote it I should die, logically.

I'm really trying to read this whole thing...

Btw, I will be re-reading this one. :fire:

I'm a Philip K. Dick fan, so I usually don't go for this kind of more "hard" sci-fi. But I stuck with it and actually liked the ending, although I don...

I agree on the need for paragraph breaks. I kind of dug the weird vibe, though, but it was maybe a bit spastic.

I actually really loved this one and got lost in it. I just felt like it was a bit cold; there's a sense of the narrator being very far away from what...

I need to re-read this one. I loved it, but noticed a lot of typos, but then @"ucarr"'s comments made me wonder if I was missing something more subtle...

There's a sadness to this, and I actually absolutely love the story arc, but I'm not feeling the story at all. If it was written in such a way that al...

I need to re-read this, but my first impression is that I hated it, even though it's very well done.

Really dug this one. A bit dark for me though. Incredibly vivd, though. :clap: A funny note, as a transplant who's lived in NY nearly 10 years, I woul...

Anyone feel like we're all harsher in our critiques without @"Amity"? :meh:

Yeah, it felt a bit too on the nose, but the technical aspect of the writing was good so I made it through. Nothing about the ending made me feel glad...

Interesting, any specifics? Didn't get this at all but curious.

My ear was fucked up for two weeks (long story, audio engineer background blah blah blah), and it was finally good to go as of basically yesterday. Th...

Aha, so as I thought, you don't like this stuff. In some ways I'm partial. However. What sets the classical laws of art in place? The philosophy of th...

Digging the stories so far overall. For some reason I feel the need to read them all before commenting.

It looks a bit gloomy.

:sweat: I could use a new career path actually...

I'm half way through the stories and have only read one where I'm not sure of the author. Of course I could be very wrong.

The combo. Classic summer picnic food where I grew up. In the pasta salad I put rotini (a type I don't normally use, but it's good for this applicatio...

Bratwurst, pasta salad and baked beans for dinner. 'Murica!

I would have thought it would have been easier to just say "they're doing quite well, thanks". Strange. To each their own...?

Oh yeah? How the goats doing? Still alive and well I presume?

What the hell are you talking about?

I love that story so much; thanks.

Yeah sure, of course it requires skill, but the skill is just the prerequisite to the talent, the creativity, the emotional sensibility to come up wit...

Lemme grab my hard seltzer and tuck in under the covers with my girlfriend. She doesn't totally understand what's going on because I also have my comp...

Can you tell us a story while we wait please? Thanks.

I consider this talented guitar playing; it doesn't require that much skill though. It's probably my favorite style of guitar playing. https://www.you...

Yes this is all true, but also see our sporadic discussion here about outsider art. This is why the older I get, the less strict I am on definitions a...

:party:

Ok, so art proper is "just another thing we do" right?

Hmmm, I disagree. I don't count art as being on the same level of other things we do, assuming that includes basically everything, given the triteness...

I like this, but how does it apply to art?

:pray: Sifting is the proper word, I think. Excellent.

Maybe it is a given and I'm just wasting my breath, but I doubt it. Not even sure my contributions are useful for this crowd, but I'm not mad about it...

One problem here is that realism does in fact require the existence of "mistakes", whereas cubism (and countless other art forms across mediums) do no...

"Lucrative" and "elite" are certainly the right buzzwords, but they say nothing about what I'm provisionally, at the moment, referring to as "intentio...