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Is ugly the opposite of beautiful or the opposite of pretty? Facts can be ugly but truth is still beautiful, just as the potato eaters are ugly but the painting is beautiful. Does beauty exist or is beauty in the eyes of the beholder? Think of a beautiful colour or colour combination, then...

It is true that there are very few themes to write about, but there are so many ways to write about them as there are different ways to see or feel about those themes. There is also the question of form - how to write about them.

There are lots of books set in London, Paris and New York. As lies has already recommended some about London and Paris, I would like to recommend "Manhattan Transfer" by John Dos Passos. Munich is harder. Most books I know are between Munich and somewhere else, like the short story "Death in...

Best way to attract trolls - to have a thread about them. Any troll doing a search will find it and have a field day.

To keep the birdie in the air, like in goodmington. When is not a real dialogue but an alternation of monologues, the birdie goes out of the players' reach and fall. It is cacophony; nobody really listening so the sounds clash with each other. The Hebrew vision appeals to me more than the...

A rose by any other name is still a rose, but how many would agree and how long it took before someone realised that that was the case? Too much credit where none is due. I have never read Irving, Pynchon or Stein. I have heard Stein's quote before but it was not what I had in mind. I was...

What you said about the painting and Beatrice reminded me of ’s The Plumed Serpent. The main female character – I always forget characters’ names – had two husbands. The first, an Irish politician worshipped her, put her in a pedestal; the second, a Mexican revolutionary general, was her master...

Do firewords exist? So many people believe they do. Magic is based on it, on believing that certain words have power to transform reality. It is not the meaning of the words but the sound of the words. Religions too, whether mantras or the different names of god, some of which are considered to...

Maybe it is neither circles nor straight lines. Cycles with peaks and troughs, like light waves or brain waves on an ECG. We go back but we do not return to the same place because things have changed and we have changed; it is the same river, but not the same water. [/size] I do not know how...

And that's exactly why Amazon publishes her reviews. They want to sell. If the books are rubbish, readers interested on them will have no critical eye either. They see five stars and buy the goods. The last thing Amazon wants is a proper review with a low star rating.

Words are instruments of thought and some linguists say they shape people's vision of the world. If this is the case, people speaking different languages see the world in different ways and the conclusions you draw about 'sound' and 'play' or 'about' only arise for English speakers. I don't...

I don't know why you are so surprised about this person's motivation. If she is the first to post a review, she gets a voucher. Why do you think so many people do it?

I've never seen a five-point system available in any forum, but I've seen it used in several. People post and say how many points are giving to this and how many to that. It has two drawbacks - no secret voting and someone has to add the votes up at the end.

Can we have a different voting system next time? I wanted to vote for more than one story, but it was impossible. For instance, voters could have 5 points and divide them as they wished.

And the adaptation took great liberties to make it PC.

What I would like to know is who told you that Jesus wrote the Bible. Nobody says that.

Photos are not enough. To be taken seriously, the photographer needs to give exact details of when and where it was taken to eliminate other celestial objects.

No (I hate the 10 characters rule)

OK, kids can post too :D

the zoo keeper, but