Comments on: Novellas 1.5 http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/ Occasional text by Ian Macleod, often lacking context. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:27:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Colin Fri, 04 May 2007 02:52:31 +0000 http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/#comment-464 It's not a waste of time! Is it? Now I am sad. It’s not a waste of time!
Is it?
Now I am sad.

]]> By: Bottle Imp http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Bottle Imp Wed, 02 May 2007 07:39:28 +0000 http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/#comment-463 You can indeed Laura. Your feelings are made more real by the fact that Colin and I have wasted even more time on this in a coffee shop, more than once. I've been wasting too much time on this. I'm going to have to cut down. Colin, at the core of my frustration here is that I am citing my opinions, while you say "vague imagery" as if this were a commonly agreed upon fact, and thus not requiring an example. You can indeed Laura. Your feelings are made more real by the fact that Colin and I have wasted even more time on this in a coffee shop, more than once. I’ve been wasting too much time on this. I’m going to have to cut down.

Colin, at the core of my frustration here is that I am citing my opinions, while you say “vague imagery” as if this were a commonly agreed upon fact, and thus not requiring an example.

]]> By: Laura http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Laura Tue, 01 May 2007 19:32:02 +0000 http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/#comment-462 Can I just say that I find the intensity of this dispute highly entertaining? Is that wrong? Can I just say that I find the intensity of this dispute highly entertaining? Is that wrong?

]]> By: Colin http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Colin Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:29:49 +0000 http://www.ianmacleod.net/2007/04/27/novellas-15/#comment-461 Real reply posted. Also, on the Gatsby front: It's not the cultural saturation that bugs me, it's the petty problems of shallowly drawn characters wrapped in vague imagery and sold as insight into the human condition. Real reply posted.

Also, on the Gatsby front: It’s not the cultural saturation that bugs me, it’s the petty problems of shallowly drawn characters wrapped in vague imagery and sold as insight into the human condition.

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