I like this prose, possibly because of the rhythm achieved by so many comma pauses. The writing feels sophisticated and direct. Vera says it's dry rep...
A Roarschach test of a story since it is left to the reader to imagine the preceding events and motivations of both woman and cop. Maybe the cop recog...
Solid writing but had first a bit of trouble with the order, time span of events and the narrator's recollection but got somewhat more comfortable wit...
Didn't give it my full attention and skimmed paragraphs because of its plodding length. Generally have the gist, given what others have said. Concur t...
Not sure what transpired in this story as it began to go off the rails. Don't have the attention span to try to piece the details together. The openin...
It's good. The pace of the story aside the subject matter, of spontaneous fortuitous homicide/suicide, makes me laugh. Nature works in mysterious and ...
Works well for me, enjoy the dialogue format a lot, feels clean and interesting. Only thing that bothers me is the significance of this program (Sarah...
The concept Gesamtkunstwerk helps me understand the oddity of the museum somewhat. The mix of war history with electronic dance music and the fun hous...
The writing style makes for very easy reading. It might be a fault of mine but I enjoy when reading doesn't require much effort. Flows simply and effo...
Surreal, grotesque and cynical reality television. Same guy who wrote about dead baby shoes? Sets the bar quite high writing wise. Could be an episode...
Does the last leaf of the cherry tree correspond to the last dress being made? Sounds as if the narrator is ill and this sort of pain about leaving li...
Your thread is possibly in the Lounge because the answer is straightforward and obvious, unless you want us to equivocate around your terms toward a c...
Yes, why make any criteria for absolute knowledge impossible. Instead we could just rely on ordinary language as when someone says "I know with absolu...
If we can dispense with the doubt that everything is possibly an illusion and therefore an epiphenomenon of an underlying truth, there are many indisp...
Being held responsible/reprimanded for an outcome that isn't my fault. Not being able to contact a service representative for poor/absent service as a...
Thanks for feed back. I could be referring to birds song if it could work that way. Can you speak a little bit more about referring to tone rather tha...
???? ????? ??? Kaori no ki Koada no ueni Tori utau A fragrant tree Upon its branches Birds sing ___________ If anyone speaks Japanese, do the particle...
Actually, button pressing and channel changing à la the metaphor is about ending one's life. A more direct, sober, offensive question is under what ci...
I keep asking ChatGPT at what ambient temperature it is impossible to eat pizza in and this it what it gives me: "there is no specific ambient tempera...
How do you know you're being objectively correct in attributing the change in taste to your appendectomy? It's not a matter of negative symptoms from ...
But to serve this cringey metaphor my way, there are plenty of button-like events that can turn off the television, which amounts to changing the chan...
Well we've encountered the obvious implicit yet again: the problem of a diffusion of responsibility and its relationship to the tragedy of commons. Th...
No. There are already plenty of laws that determine what you can and can't do with what is owned, depending on what that thing is. Neither ought we ha...
The annoying guru, Sadhguru, performs an age old ritual of supposedly turning mercury into a solid by mind alone. This is purely chemistry however, wh...
@"Daniel" Your revised ending is still too abrupt. Part of the charm of cosmic horror is the anticipation/suspense toward whatever the narrator is enc...
It's great IMO. Feels rather fantastic/rich gothic fiction and therefore I don't want it to have any concrete references that tie it to an ongoing atr...
What degree of certainty do we have about the immediate outcome of taking the red pill and forgoing simulated happiness? I feel like the red pill offe...
Nice one. Plenty of room for more tales from the girl in the mirror. Would like to imagine a mirror world in which she moves around but can only see a...
The blue pill gives us what is ostensibly certain, assuming we trust whoever allows us to make the decision. We get to live a long and happy life, aft...
Confused about who is talking. Mercy is asking "So Kevin, burial or cremation?"? Makes sense that the line would be delivered by Mercy in humor but Ru...
Funny and enjoyable but don't understand the title. My coffee/addict neurons are firing. I imagine these tasters dress like those in elite architectur...
Maybe your leaving out other scriptual/controversial/contradictory attributes of God that might clear up or further confuse this issue. It might be, t...
In the absence of some doctrinal/textual/institutional authority that speaks of a special nature of God, we can make up any relation we want. Here we ...
Pantheism = God is in all things Relative distinctions then collapse or they're arbitrary with respect to God. As I thrust the knife into my pig Marl'...
Language has no definite purpose. It solves what it solves and it fails where it fails. I've memories of perusing my university's philosophy section, ...
Can anyone elaborate why you'd call natural selection a statistical process? Statistics is a mathematical/scientific way of drawing useful information...
This AI art generation is terribly addictive. Though I feel bad for artist now, whose images are being referenced for generation just because they exi...
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