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    Stuart Dren reacted to Naomasa298's post in the thread Show, Don't Tell: What it Is and Isn't with Like Like.
    I don't see anything controversial about this. We've probably all seen flat dialogue that doesn't add to the story, substituting for...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to Homer Potvin's post in the thread Ghosts with Like Like.
    I forgot about that scene. There was like 50 more like it. Book wasn't great either. That was right when King was pivoting toward a...
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    Stuart Dren replied to the thread Ghosts.
    Poor Thomas Jane. He ended up with some real duds in spite of his talent. Yeah no regrets watching the movie. It's bad but the story is...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to Username: required's status with Like Like.
    Rapid fire status messages, but here I go, off to my concert. Extremely nervous, but... ready, to say the least. Wish me luck!
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    Stuart Dren replied to the thread Optimistic Idealism. Dead? Boring?.
    I like this take. Though I don't know if I would consider the Bible, or many religious texts, to be utopian fiction, unless we're...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to Pyroglyphian's post in the thread Optimistic Idealism. Dead? Boring? with Like Like.
    The anthropologist David Graeber observed that societies throughout history exhibit a dialectic between the everyday life of a people...
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    Stuart Dren replied to the thread Ghosts.
    That's sobering. It's the opposite of a campfire ghost story. Made me feel melancholic. I quite enjoy the tension that comes from...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to Rzero's post in the thread Ghosts with Like Like.
    I agree that the reasons or logic behind the haunting is a big part of what makes the ghost(s) interesting. I like a little lore in my...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to Trish's post in the thread Your word count today with Beer Beer.
    Today's word count is 7,120! I spent way too many hours staring at a screen, but have found the zone again!
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    Stuart Dren reacted to RMBrown's post in the thread What made me happy today? with Like Like.
    The Falls next to my. house are 65 feet tall, the ones in front are 168 feet tall. When the ice goes out it shakes the house. It happens...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to Username: required's post in the thread Favourite Quotes with Like Like.
    “Never use the word ‘audience.’ The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don’t have an...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to JLT's post in the thread Favourite Quotes with Like Like.
    I came across a quote in Facebook whose origin I'd like to track down. It said, basically, that in a poetry reading there is really no...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to JLT's post in the thread Today I learned... with Like Like.
    Mark Twain on the German language: "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him...
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    Stuart Dren reacted to CatrionaGrace's post in the thread Suggestions and ideas with Like Like.
    I thought it meant Cover Your Own Ass and was enjoying so many interesting thoughts about what that kind of literature might entail.
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    Stuart Dren reacted to RMBrown's post in the thread Ghosts with Like Like.
    On a more serious note. I remember as a kid having only one spooky old building that was in town, it was an abandoned old hospital. I...
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