Re: piffle ... That's like saying that it's the fault of the speaker that a deaf man ... Conversely you choose to put the onus on the reader,...Mozart and Stravinsky. ... Shakespeare was in fact a master of local idiom.... (misc.writing)
Re: Randomness from Westercon (Cost of Magic, As You Know Bob) ...Saying that these things are in the book is like saying that there's a pair of socks in a Rorschach blot. ... You don't provide the reader with an exact story. ... I do indeed provide an exact story, within the limits of language,... Certainly there wouldn't be anything like the discussions on Peter Jackson's adaptation of the trilogy, wherein you can have people with WILDLY varying opinions on how good or bad an adaptation it is, and yet virtually all of them agreeing on the STORY -- on what happened, on why it happened, even on the basic implications and motivations of the characters and the adapting scriptwriters, for that matter. ... (rec.arts.sf.composition)
Re: Atheists ...Reality;... Saying that the reader who can make it through The Road to Reality is an ... intelligent layman is a bit like saying that Mozart could carry a tune. ... If your message looks like spam I may not see it. ... (alt.usage.english)
Re: Phil Gordon addresses 2006 BARGE ... newgroup itself continues to exist as one huge unmoderated group (as many ... but there is an interface that implements the ... If he is saying what I believe he is saying, which is what I have been ... Writing software is what I do, and I don't think a reader like I've ... (rec.gambling.poker)
Re: Does your reading corrupt your writing? ...saying *without* trying, most of the time. ... It's about word choice and ... Is it still, in your sense, subtext if it is entirely due to the reader?... picture of a circle and asks what it makes the patient think of. ... (rec.arts.sf.composition)
