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  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Our Just Desserts

    Why, oh why must such a brilliant poet forget the punctuation? You know what to do - get those commas, colons, semi-colons etc IN. Your rhythm is pretty good, though ...

    Mar 9, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Juveniles in the adult justice system

    The problem is getting an unbaised account out of the child - Samuel and Bryant (amazing people, truly - everyone should read their stuff, it's useful all over the place) ...

    Mar 9, 2006
  • Randomosity Archive Re: Rate the Signature Above You.

    9/10 You would've had the other point, but imaginibus can be translated as 'imagination', and I'd never want to escape from that :)

    Mar 9, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: should football players be payed tons of money

    Quite right: whether we like it or not, and however important we think footballers etc. are, they are paid that much because they do something that lots of people like, ...

    Mar 9, 2006
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Favourite Fantasy Writer

    C.S. Lewis isn't just for children! :) 'Till We Have Faces is absolutely amazing... Well, people have pretty much taken all my names already - I could've copied Caligula's list ...

    Mar 9, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    Alright, Qi, that kind of language isn't necessary. There will always be certain people who cannot understand the consequences of their actions - namely, some mentally ill people and young ...

    Mar 9, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    In cases of rape, I've already said I can't deny the right to an abortion. In that case and no other is the woman entirely absolved of responsibility; rape within ...

    Mar 8, 2006
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: Haiku to gloom

    "The sun shines now." The = 1 sun = 1 shines = 1 now = 1 --------- total = 4 To be honest, I think giving you an extra syllable ...

    Mar 8, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    As Bobo said - there is always a choice. To be honest, it's not really about my personal beliefs or forcing them on anyone - simply put, you have a ...

    Mar 8, 2006
  • Lyric Poetry Re: Lost

    Okydoky. Starting with the typos: "Im" in the second line should be "I'm"; "cant" in the fourth line should be "can't"; "im" in the seventh line should be "I'm"; "cant" ...

    Mar 7, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    I don't need imagination to reason out the moral imperitives: I will never be able to comprehend the situation of growing up in a Rio de Janerio ghetto and facing ...

    Mar 7, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Creationism

    Scientific evidence is a matter of observing the effects of a force - you cannot measure or record "gravity" so you must record the effects of it: "the ball falls ...

    Mar 7, 2006
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion

    To be honest, I fail to see why it matters whether it's a 40 year-old man or a 16 year-old woman: the moral and ethical arguments stay the same whoever ...

    Mar 7, 2006
  • Poetry Discussion Re: who's/what's your fav poet or poetry

    Yes: it needed more punctuation, but I somehow forgot to tell you. Apart from that, it was extremely powerful.

    Mar 7, 2006
  • Other Poetry Re: Crash

    Last line: "peace" :) Your main mistake is that each line is a seperate sentence; because not only are they all different syllable lengths (and therefore your rhythm is off) ...

    Mar 7, 2006


Writing is the geometry of the soul.
— Plato