It seems like it's part of the cult fiction genre, possibly influenced by Irvine Welsh. I don't think that I saw it when I was reading the first set o...
It may be an example of an unreliable narrator because a person's perceptions of what is happening, especially of others' opinions, can be extremely d...
You are quite right. I was making assumptions, especially about the narrator being a woman. I had a look at it now and there is no indication whatsoev...
I think we should all be thanking you for your fantastic detail of reviews. I am trying to read them but there are just so many popping up. I do think...
I see the piece as a really descriptive piece, showing the tangled emotions of confronting a horrific death. It is interesting how the lover feels ang...
I am not sure if you are trying to advocate moral anarchy. If you are, that is in itself prescriptive to some extent. As far as chaos is concerned tha...
It is interesting to think would the AI beings and even the transhuman beings of the future be binary beings or androgynous? The further one goes beyo...
Perhaps, the narrator is just feeling sorry for himself. He had been greedy, eating more than his share of the sandwiches, after not wanting his dinne...
In some ways you frame the idea of morality within the Christian mythic assumptions. This has an underlying Nietzschian stance, with the idea of 'goin...
I see someone like Judith Butler as being a person living out the existential dramas of conflicting ideas and stereotypes. It is so easy for people to...
I like it because it has such an intense visual feel. It is like being drawn into the jungle scene and in a short form of description manages to captu...
Men and women project so much onto each other and there are so many cultural aspects of gender. For this reason, Judith Butler, spoke of gender as per...
I liked the description of the lonely woman, abandoned to a life of reflection. She seems rather like the lost soul of Miss Haversham with the endless...
I like the way it is broken up like a collage of 'stream of consciousness' associations, with John Lennon's song coming in. I also wondered if there w...
I found it interesting to read. It is a tricky topic though with the whole area which has opened up about priests molesting children. Having come from...
I imagine this as an adolescent dream of a potential musician. Often, it is hard for dreams to work in fiction unless they are unusual and this one is...
I am not opposed to statistics and evidence based research on creativity. It is simply that it can sometimes be so reductive and the spark of creativi...
I am replying mainly to your reply saying that you always wish to help people from committing suicide. I come from that angle too, because apart worki...
It is a very descriptive piece, conjuring up the sensory appreciation of nature which may become lost in the mundane day to day existence and experien...
I think that it works as a sketch but probably would need more to make it stand out as a worthwhile story. However, it is a worthwhile reflection on n...
It makes an important statement about what is projected onto the lover, especially the narcissistic aspects of romantic love. It does work as a piece ...
I am not sure that the statistical analysis of creativity would be particularly worthwhile. It would probably involve as much bias as IQ tests. Creati...
I am not sure that creative people are more 'messed up' than others. It may be more of a myth and a not particularly helpful one. It is associated wit...
You cannot possibly generalise whether men or women are more creative. Historically, women may have been given less opportunity, just as other sociall...
It definitely seems that many creative people aren't happy. Colin Wilson's, 'The Outsider' is filled with the stories of the torments of the unhappy c...
It would be ridiculous to make demands that in order to participate in the contest people have to make a number of critiques or be punished. It would ...
I do have an book called, 'The Book of Destiny' by Barbara Meiklejohn-Peters and Flavia Kate Peters. I have consulted a couple of times and found it h...
This is a particularly unusual story because it involves a transgender person and assisted suicide. I am startled that the person was given an assiste...
To be able to be creative 24/7 is something which may be possible but is not easy to achieve. I certainly don't find that I can be. I get stuck so oft...
The process of bringing forth creative ideas may be like digging in the ground. But some seem to have got it down to a fine art. To some extent it may...
I have been doing philosophy in my what is creativity thread because thinking/philosophy is my default mode, often done in bed. To get into a creative...
I had noticed that it had faded out and I was waiting until it picks up again to be involved. It will be a shame if it drifts away because likes have ...
The seeds of creative expression most probably stem from childhood. Apart from being an actress my mother went through a stage of writing song lyrics....
I have read some writing by Stravinsky and it is probably useful to think about the processes of performance and acting. At age 10 or 11, I was due to...
I think that we need to keep a sense of humour to survive and as a source of creativity. Yes, I am still looking for somewhere to live but it may not ...
Generally, I think that this forum is a great interactive way of learning. Of course, there are times when the threads going are of lesser personal in...
The idea of the Hindu trinity is interesting. Personally, what I find most interesting is the fantastic imagery of Hindu art more than simply the spec...
An interesting comparison- creativity being like pornography. There is also the question as to what extent is pornography creative? Here, it could be ...
I have always loved the yin and yang symbol. I once had a hoodie displaying it. The idea of repetition being ugly is important because it does seem th...
Your discussion of the Tarot is interesting because it includes the symbolic meanings. In thinking about the Tarot both this and the idea of divinatio...
I guess it does depend on what one understands opposites to be. It is a fuzzy concept because they are not aspects with clear distinct boundaries. Tha...
The Greeks don't discuss yin and yang as such but Heraclitus's ideas of opposites are fairly parallel. As far as my own understanding of yin and yang ...
I first came across the idea of the yin and the yang in Jung's writings. The idea of poles come into it and Heraclitus's concept of enantiodromia is i...
Many don't appreciate creative people and have the attitude that they should get a 'proper job'. It is also difficult to make money out of creativity ...
I was surprised to discover that in spite of his emphasis on objectivity in general, Kant, in his discussion of aesthetic judgment places a large emph...
Art therapy is the practice of art expression as a way of facilitating therapy, which may be done individually with a therapist or in a group. There a...
It is just so hard finding somewhere in London. The reason why I have to find somewhere (and the others here) is because the landlord, who was sublett...
I did wonder if there was some reason why you had not been involved in the micro fiction because you are usually present. So, I hope that the medical ...
You query what I am getting at, probably in the idea for the thread. I am interested in art,including aesthetic taste. There is the question whether s...
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