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Today, 10:16 PM

PeterL created a blog entry Its Natural Manure in Memories of the 28th Century

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith Paris Nov. 13. 1787. the people can not be all, & always, well informed. the part which is...

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Today, 10:14 PM

PeterL replied to a thread Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Be Writing Books, and This is a Threat to Writers! in General Literature

This is a wonderful thing to worry about. People have written about it at least since the 1940's, but the AI's have not, yet, taken up the pen. There...

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Yesterday, 11:18 AM

MANICHAEAN started a thread How Do You Write? in General Literature

How Do You Write? Working on the assumption, (whether correct or not), that most Lit Netters are not only avid readers, but writers as well;...

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01-16-2021, 12:23 PM

MANICHAEAN replied to a thread Banished Words for 2021 in General Writing

Wait until you throw in the different pronunciations! My favourite USA / UK ones are the words, "route, root & rout."

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01-16-2021, 11:19 AM

MANICHAEAN started a thread Unplanned Redemption. in Short Story Sharing

Unplanned Redemption. It happened the first time inside a church in Mexico City. Well, not inside exactly. The church happened to be closed; but...

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01-15-2021, 07:08 PM

kev67 replied to a thread Wives and Daughters in Wives and Daughters

I have finished reading it. I gather it is many people's favourite book of Gaskell's. I did not like it as much. I hope Roger married Molly. I...

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01-15-2021, 06:49 PM

kev67 replied to a thread Thoughts on Mr Gibson in Wives and Daughters

He works 14 hour days, but then he's a doctor and there were a lot of sick people around Hollingford.

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01-15-2021, 02:40 PM

AuntShecky replied to a thread Banished Words for 2021 in General Writing

Weather reports: "Peaks of sun" when they mean "peeks." More and more I'm seeing the word "roll" confused with the noun "role." It popped up...

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01-14-2021, 11:50 AM

MANICHAEAN started a thread Genesis 6: The Sons of God and Daughters of Men. in Religious Texts

Genesis 6: “the sons of God and daughters of men”. An Old Testament theme, where the Nephilim were seen as the offspring of sexual relationships...

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01-13-2021, 11:49 PM

EmptySeraph replied to a thread Is literary modernism defined by form exclusively or content as well? in General Literature

The safest way in which one could define modernism in literature is by highlighting its proclivity to ignorance insofar as content is concerned....

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01-13-2021, 09:01 PM

Sancho replied to a thread Corunavirus Journal in Serious Discussions

Sorry everybody. Looks like I killed that other thread we were all having so much on. Stomped that sucker flat, in fact. And thing we’re just...

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01-13-2021, 01:39 PM

Sancho replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Ha! And often times, Wolf, your offense leads to my offense, eh? In the words of Rodney King, “Can we all just get along?” I think one of the...

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01-13-2021, 12:25 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

I didn't bother to read JCamilo's post. Long and dreary experience warns me against even attempting it. Enough of this petty sniping, though! To...

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01-13-2021, 09:39 AM

JCamilo replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Says little. But a lot about yours: Ad Hominem is as I described an appeal to personal offenses. Like when you repeatedly try to talk about my...

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01-13-2021, 06:51 AM

MANICHAEAN started a thread Aliens In Cuba. in Short Story Sharing

Meanwhile, back in the La Bodeguita del Medio bar in Havana, Hemingway was engaged, in what initially was a meaningful tete a tete with Marlon...

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01-12-2021, 08:37 PM

PeterL created a blog entry From Ignorance to Insurrection in Memories of the 28th Century

While thinking about the insurrection invading the U.S. Capitol, I realized that the underlying reason for it was ignorance; although there may...

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01-12-2021, 07:37 PM

Sancho replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Wolf! Ha! You crack me up, and you may be onto something. As a young man I was once arrested for urinating in public. Well okay, I wasn’t really...

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01-12-2021, 11:00 AM

Ecurb replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

By the way, I posted about Brazil's history of racism only because WolfLarsen claimed Brazil was a superior country to the U.S. It had nothing to do...

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01-12-2021, 10:59 AM

MANICHAEAN started a thread Transient Reality. in Short Story Sharing

It was a narrow fronted, poorly lit bookshop of rectangular shape, somewhere in the Sakuragi-Cho District of old Yokohama; and upon seeing inside,...

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01-12-2021, 10:53 AM

Ecurb replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Verbal jousting with JCamilo is like fighting a five-year-old. Victory is easy, but there's not much glory in it. "Ad hominem" means "to the...

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01-12-2021, 01:01 AM

JCamilo replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

This is a bit embarassing. Christianism is not the invention of anyone alive, yet, several christiams share the same idea, Ecurb. The meaning of the...

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01-11-2021, 08:04 PM

Ecurb replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

"Sharing"? It wasn't your idea, JCamilo. Besides, you are now just making another ad hominem argument -- if Jorge Luis Borge made a claim, it MUST...

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01-11-2021, 04:03 PM

JCamilo replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

I honestly hope things could improve, considering the impact Trump had here, activelly helping Bolsonaro to get elected (if not him, at least the...

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01-11-2021, 03:59 PM

JCamilo replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Not mine only. Jorge Luis Borges too. I am pretty sure a nonsensical joke about something I never said about another tale is satisfactory to you. To...

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01-11-2021, 03:44 PM

Sancho replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Whoops, we’re tandem posting, Wolf. I was responding to your earlier entry. Cheers

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01-11-2021, 03:43 PM

Sancho replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Comparisons can be fun and informative though, even if they’re only anecdotal. I haven’t been to Brazil in around 10 years, but I used to go there...

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01-11-2021, 12:10 PM

tonywalt replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Humans are naturally tribal, hence the above. I accept it. It is time we all accept it. (It's not going away). But yea, it's ugly.

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01-11-2021, 11:24 AM

Ecurb replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

I can see why you listed it as a contender for "Great American Novel". Not only is it a great novel, but Bo Mason embodies a certain type of the...

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01-11-2021, 10:45 AM

JCamilo replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

His problem is that he does not know Budha legend. Anyways, why do bother when someone talks about other nation and then just come saying that he...

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01-10-2021, 09:10 PM

Sancho replied to a thread Congrats US? in Serious Discussions

Yeah, it’s weird how many of those flags you see up in the panhandle of Idaho?! I didn’t really mean to go down the free-speech rabbit hole here....

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