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Yup, Mara. I was the same way. Scrolling past it time and again, because I didn't think I, at that moment, felt prepared. It's different from a lot of other movies on the topic. We're never inside the camp. We don't literally see one moment of violence, but its presence, in the background...

Zone of Interest EDIT: I was so affected by this movie, I wrote some stuff and posted it. But I just deleted it because, a day later, still affected, I'm not sure I was capable of adequate comment, didn't like my trying-to-be-clever tone. So just this: I think it's as important (and in its...

Let me check. It was the first free one: 3.5. I'd be curious if someone with an upgraded version got the same answers, about Bach, prison, and the Well-Tempered Clavier (book 1). I think what might have confused it is that, although it is a cool and common story, that the WTC was composed in...

This might be a little off topic, but it relates to the capabilities of robots like Chat GPT. One of the few things I learned from my higher education is the necessity, in academic writing, of proper documentation. (Including how to build a correct "Works Cited" page--talk about persnickety...

Re. the AI, I join my fellow Luddites, mlessman and Celtic Rambler. It doesn't bother me. I don't need it. I don't want it. Although, for people who actually construct films, and probably especially for animators, I can kind of get why it could be troublesome. But for writers, I just can't...

Re. Epicycles (and entropy) I thought of this, a bit from a script I wrote where a guy, in a mall, is having an hallucinatory episode. It reminds me of your film.

A few more words: Just watched Epicycle, from the link above. Dang! The colors, the sound, and the images in this surrealistic dip are cool. And there's an intellectual component, here, that gets me: something like the pointless, claustrophobic, mechanistic nature of life and universe--I don't...

Not sure i get it, but i like it :). I've been trying to understand physics--both astro- and, specifically, quantum--lately, and entropy is a big big deal: the movement from high-entropy states to low-entropy states, and vice versa, is hard to get one's brain around. As is, of course, quantum...

Yup, lol. It's like a paradox, only all mixed up. (Watched a sweet little bio on Yogi Berra, "It Ain't Over", on Netflix, and trying to come up with one of my own :)) Edit: Just realized: that's probably why I said the line, in the dream. Anyway.

I was talking about writing. In a dream last night. Can't remember the context, but remember the line, which seems, upon waking this morning (all right fine, this afternoon) pretty good, pretty smart, pretty amusing, and, sadly, pretty accurate: "My issue with writing stuff is that I'm...

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a poem that I made a long time ago. (Actually, this might be the best poem I ever wrote, lol. And anyone else for a poetry thread?) A Poem It's the kind of thing About which one Might write a poem She said, It being, Three couples Dancing without Music.

just sitting here playing poker, listening to moldy oldies on the pandora, and feeling inexplicably cheerful.

couldn't listen to the whole thing -- too scary! :)

I Just listened to a lecture by Prof Greenberg where he quoted this (teaching company, now rebranded Wondrium!, lol.) However, he does say that the harpsichord (named so, I just learned, because it's a horizontal harp!) is a perfect instrument for contrapuntal keyboard stuff like fugues and...