Recent content by JLT

Something I probably posted on the old forum, but worth repeating for the newcomers: "I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned." --Richard Feinmann “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it...

Understood. I'll just be patient.

Well, you've already seen the link on the old forums, and I haven't received any complaints about it. As for the 100-post rule, I don't suppose you could count the almost 2000 posts from the other site, could you? And there are probably a lot more of us "old timers" who have drifted over to this...

A question: On the old forum, I put a URL in my sig line to steer people to my non-profit blog of miscellaneous works. Will that still be allowed?

I can't say I'm passionate about the genre, but I do feel moved to express something in a poem or a song rather than as prose. I think of genres as tools, where one type is more suited to a given task than another... screwdrivers can be used as awls, or wrenches as hammers, but they won't be as...

It means the language is still alive, sloughing off what's not longer useful and creating new words to fit new realities, IMO. Which brings me to Benjamin Dreyer's opinion of the word "peruse"' .

"And the night is black and still now On the hills where the angels sing Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle Looks just like a diamond ring And it's far, far from me." --John Prine, whose lyrics often approach great poetry

You beat me to it, Louanne! But I'll put in my bit, a quote from my favorite author: "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." --Mark Twain