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Forum: Member Contributions 02-18-2022
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Penumbra

People crowded the townhouse where the party was held. Some were dancing to the upbeat salsa music, others were talking and laughing and flirting. Everyone was drinking. Quincy drank, too, and he...
Forum: Themed Quotations 06-04-2021
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"In the construction of some great machine, and assuming you had the power, you wouldn't desire to make the parts of it self-aware; it would not even occur to you unless your mind was particularly...
Forum: Themed Quotations 04-12-2021
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"I am reminded of drowning rats when walking down the street; the elephantine sounds and minute terpsichorean maneuvers; the rote actions and mad dash for the same venal prize; the general malefic...
Forum: Themed Quotations 03-30-2021
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"The most pitiful lie is that of struggle--that our struggling constitutes something much more valuable than that of the poor wildebeest in its trek across the savannah, or some lowly fish whose...
Forum: Poetry 09-07-2020
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Views: 2,762
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The Fool's Dream

And what is left for man but to gaze on his own countenance;
To glory in himself. Is it not all his own invention at the last?
He marvels endlessly at his creation, all glittering
Future eternal...
Forum: Themed Quotations 04-27-2020
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"What did he fear? It was not fear or dread. It was a nothing he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness...
Forum: Themed Quotations 04-21-2020
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"I've tried to go through life avoiding the filling of forms as much as possible. Ideally, the only form I'd ever want to present is the birth certificate, as it signifies that I was indeed born, and...
Forum: Themed Quotations 04-17-2020
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"You asked me why I became a recluse, a hermit, out here in the woods when I had the world at my feet all those years ago. I couldn't answer you well then because my mind was still cloudy. It was...
Forum: Themed Quotations 06-27-2018
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so...
Forum: Prose 03-04-2018
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Views: 4,266
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Autumn Scene

It was with a sense of the forlorn that I looked up at the tall tree against the coal grey sky. All its leaves had fallen, heralding the coming winter. Bone-like branches protruded in twisted...
Forum: Themed Quotations 12-12-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
Posted By DarkView
Re: Original Quotes

"She firmly believed he had gone straight to hell; the fiery place of unimaginable pain and suffering, and not just some abstract separation from God. I admired such conviction but when I pressed her...
Forum: Themed Quotations 11-07-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"He never knew why he was unhappy because he had no idea who he was. Aware of the inner monologue, he believed his own motivations were well-known."
Forum: Themed Quotations 10-10-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
Posted By DarkView
Re: Original Quotes

"I don't have any reason to lie to you," she said.

"No one does, but that doesn't stop them."
Forum: Themed Quotations 07-30-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"And why shouldn't he drink? Could they give him one good reason? The problem was that people started thinking they would live forever if they made it into their thirties relatively intact, and his...
Forum: Themed Quotations 06-21-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
Posted By DarkView
Re: Original Quotes

"Each sunset brings with it a desperation, laying bare the feeble hold on life. With its slow slip below the horizon and its colors like drying blood staining the sky, I am primal man, understanding...
Forum: Themed Quotations 06-13-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"Nasty, brutish, and short," said the philosopher.

"But I have money," said the man.
Forum: Themed Quotations 05-27-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"All of life had made him a cynic. And he came back to the church fully expecting to bathe in an enlightened superiority among the congregation of his youth. But now in the midst of them and witness...
Forum: Themed Quotations 05-24-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"It is always better to come to accept that desolate knowledge in one's younger years. Yet many of the philosophical or scientific line who fancy themselves wise do not, in order that they may...
Forum: Themed Quotations 04-06-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"After the long silence of a sleepless night, where one fancies that he can work out the world and have its complete image in the mind, rendering all its horror somehow null, it comes as a comical...
Forum: Themed Quotations 04-02-2017
Replies: 132
Views: 87,792
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Re: Original Quotes

"The rain and snow had pelted the gravestones in the little plot of that empty town for over two hundred years. And when they came upon it in those deep woods, nothing was left save those blank stone...
Forum: General Discussion 03-26-2017
Replies: 65
Views: 28,724
Posted By DarkView
Re: Is Weird Fiction Slanted Towards Western Values?

The comfort and prosperity you mentioned is probably a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for something like "cosmicism" (I now hate the term after reading qcrisp's observations) to develop....
Forum: General Discussion 03-26-2017
Replies: 65
Views: 28,724
Posted By DarkView
Re: Is Weird Fiction Slanted Towards Western Values?

If we define Western Values as order derived technologically, and this comprehended by the Western mind as being an absolute value, I would say yes. Perhaps the only reason things seem amenable in...
Forum: Off Topic 03-16-2017
Replies: 105
Views: 47,196
Posted By DarkView
Re: Believing in God makes you a better person

Only insofar as the believer believes he is good.
Forum: Rants & Ravings 03-11-2017
Replies: 75
Views: 22,379
Posted By DarkView
Re: Are you a good person?

Good defined as what?
Forum: Rants & Ravings 03-08-2017
Replies: 170
Views: 86,570
Posted By DarkView
Re: (Why) Have we stopped reading fiction ?

I think it's a huge improvement on television.[/quote]

It has become much more multi-varied than television, yes. So, in that context you can say it's an improvement. In the sense of the effect it...
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