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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Maybe she changed over time or just made one mistake that lead to another and so forth. You need to make her have been good/worth loving at some point to keep the angst levels for the not-murderer nice and high.
I’m going back and forth between gradual downward spiral and a twisted past that she had escaped, but relapsed under bad influences from murderer.
Both have good possibilities. And both lead to plenty of “why didn’t I see until it was too late?” kinds of painful moments for not-murderer.
dunno, ask Tony Alameida.
Post-modernism is total crap, but unfortunately it’s what sells now. There’s no accounting for taste, I guess.
er, Almeida.
This is why I only read science fiction.
Science fiction, the real post-modernism!
or, for that matter, Bobby Ewing...
Some people are too young to get that reference. ;)
Maybe it should not be at all clear which way it went (spiral or backslide). That gives the non-murder even MORE to agonize about.
The sci-fi trend I don’t care for is post-humanism. As in, uploading your consciousness into a couch or a flock of birds. I picked up an anthology of short stories last year that was supposedly the best of the best and it was a miserable slog through story after story were humans were so bored with living they entertained themselves by finding new ways to kill themselves and then reincarnate in other forms. When do we stop being human? Are we there yet? *yawn*
Yeah. Found that one out already.
Yeah...but if she was very naive and innocent when he met her and went through the whole downward spiral on his watch, he gets to feel guilty for not protecting her.
That’s kind of nice...
But it’s harder to write. Especially since I’d have to have some other reason for her getting involved with murderer, rather than him just being a “friend” from a past life, coming back to haunt her.
er, the previous should read transhumanism. I think.
Spielberg seems to like such things. The point of a lot of his movies seems to be that there’s nothing truly special about human beings. No soul. If we could put human intelligence in a machine, there’s no difference.
With all this activity this is going to be a hard one to spam.
It is still worth a shot though, Precious.
Mine?
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