Incandescence

Lacan.

Well, it's only fair I also show the image:

There are a lot of comments here that reflect, in diminished form, the anger and ideas of the student riots in Paris in May 1968--the most salient slogan of which ...

Why does the universe need a "beginning" anyway?

I have to say i agree with Nate, but would like to add a further question (besides his: what exactly is being compared--children fifty years ago weren't reading Tristram Shanty ...

Eh-lahn.

This debate is now way off-topic. I am going to make a brief comment and then lock it, as I and several others have already addressed Galerius's question. Those of ...

Galerius, As I pointed out earlier, Nazism is not "as bad" as Stalinism or any of the others you have listed. Nazism is fascism, which is fundamentally different than totalitarianism.

Galerius, Others have already pointed out why your five "issues" with the idiomatic use of "Nazi" are irrelevant/wrong. Let me add the Nazism was fascism whereas Mao and Stalin were ...

Hi Jig, This is problematic for me in a number of ways. First off, that opening line (and the rest of the italic sequences)? Terrible, just terrible. You must do ...

lukas8u, "a bit like poop" is not a very appealing way to describe anything--especially not when it's a pet the Narrator claims to love. The rhyme scheme needs to be ...

Passion, What (and whom) is this meant to address? Thematically, it's vague, and the target audience seems nonexistent. An important part of learning to write poetry, or anything else, is ...

Galerius, This is awful. The rhyme scheme in S1 is horribly mangled and then (thankfully) dropped (but to what end? Why introduce a structure only to take it away?). Many ...

Well, errtu2, I got no impression of a gritty, working-class tone from this, and what it has to do with a proletariat uprising I will never know. What I do ...

Sexy.