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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a book genuinely changes how you see the world, do you think that happened because of the story or because of how you were taught to read it?”
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knives out wake up dead man good spiritual film
Recently, I saw knives out wake up dead man on Netflix and was surprised at how poignant and special some of the scenes with the earnest priest were. In many ways, it kind of reminds me of how this Uptrusting platform is trying to be.... this is tagged as transportation systems, when really that’s just part of a metaphor in this context and not really what the content is about. would be interested to see if we can capture that in the prompting for tag... The Robert Anton Wilson bit is a cool trick to keep the meta awareness about the construct, but I wonder if it falls into a kind of nihilism or hides its authenticity for fear of falling back into the trap of taking it’s trappings too... - Joanna...
i love this in a bunch of ways. 1) I almost always read with a pen, and I scribble in the margins. Stephanie sometimes challenges me to check out books from the library, and I do, but the experience of reading is a little less because my dialogue with the author is less... - JulieI...
Why BOLD? Because it says something (probably a lot of things) about what We (or Alexander?) believe about ourselves. He thinks We are the "???" (forgot the exact word, sorry) we will ever encounter. Do I agree? What is his premise? Lots of questions there and...... - onHow to really tick me off as a fiction writer, and part 2 of my review of Carr's multiply named novel.by
I love the idea, and of course it would depend a lot on the execution. What differentiates this from what Carr did, and puts it firmly in the postmodernist camp is that you're breaking the fourth wall for a purpose.... This is an interesting point. I think partly we're hampered because we're testing the limits of the vague definition of how severance works, and the fact that deep down it probably doesn't actually make sense (also, there are, deliberately, conflicting accounts of how it works... - nat...
So I did ask GPT and it refers to this erotic energy as charged energy, which I like. Here's what I got: To your question about media and cultural narratives: I do think there are some, though they’re often subtle or framed in non-explicit terms....