Re: DCL's "break," you - being here - and how that effects your creativity.....

[Sparky Kronkite]

I thinky being here both squanders my creative output and enhances it through shared ideas. Maybe it's a wash.

For certain my story output has stopped. But do I care?

For sure, being here, knowledge is accumulated. And it's fun too.

Any input here?

 

[Expertise]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......well........ummmmmmmmmm

I'd like to..... but this joint has turned my brain to bisque.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Ummmmmm.....

Cranial bisque - a spoon full of thoughts - a ladels worth of ideas.

Slurp.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

First of all it's "affects" not "effects". Sorry. Pet Peeve.

Writing erotica and posting here always kept my fingers typing, and that's a good thing creativity-wise. But it can also be a trap. Once you get comfortable spending an hour commenting on everything from Hannibal the Cannibal to Smelly Cum you tend to neglect real work. That happened to me.

Balzac used to have his servant chain him to his desk so he'd write -- but Balzac didn't have a window to the planet sitting on top of his "Gargantua" draft, did he? The 'puter is too enormous a distraction to not mediate. Discipline is needed. I had to "unchain" myself from the Internet, so I took a break. It helped. I don't spend half as much time on line as I did two months ago, and I've been more productive in my other work as a result.

Still, working on an occassional post here or a dirty story there can be a valuable engine starter.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Thanks Dix. I was very......

effected by your reply.

Dig, dig, dig.

You know I don't know words - I just spew shit. I'll try to remember though.

Pardon me while I pick my nose.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

You know I don't know words - I just spew shit.

I beg to differ. You're literate and spew less shit than you let on. Never apologize for having a brain.

 

[Siren]

How about apologizing for NOT having a brain?

 

[Nobody Special]

You know I don't know words - I just spew shit.

I beg to differ. You're literate and spew less shit than you let on. Never apologize for having a brain.

so Sparky when are you going to use it??
the brain that is..

E

 

[RonG]

Balzac used to have his servant chain him to his desk so he'd write -- but Balzac didn't have a window to the planet sitting on top of his "Gargantua" draft, did he?

I wouldn't have blamed Balzac for putting a computer on top of Gargantua and Pantagruel. The damn thing was written 300 years earlier by Rabelais and is damn near unreadable.

All kidding aside, I tend to think that the value of visiting a place like Literotica depends on your purpose going in. From an entertainment perspective, it is a fun diversion. But spending too much time here versus real work or brainstretching or direct human interaction would be disastrous for me. A few minutes every day or so is about right.

 

[CreamyLady]

Gargantua and Pantagruel is unreadable; Rabelais is best accessed through Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Well beat me with a copy of Beowulf.

I'm a Machiavelli man myself.

 

[Cheri]

Yeah and such a quick study you haven't even bothered to take over anything save a flock of adoring females.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I am a "Prince" in my very own undiscovered country, thank you very much.

 

[CreamyLady]

I know it's futile, but I still root for Grendel and his mom.

 

[Cheri]

Ooooh, the power you hold. roflol

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Hold, squeeze, jerk -- same thing.

 

[Cheri]

You just aren't gonna let me have the last word, are you?

 

[Pyper]

Go Grendel Go! And while I'm at it, go dragon go! Kill Beowulf, muahahaha!

 

[Endlessly]

Machiavelli kicks ass. We had to read The Prince in third grade (Private School for gifted children), and my mother refused to allow me to read it. She even went to the principal. "You want ENDLESSLY to read The Prince? Do you even KNOW my daughter?" She thought it was a bit.. dangerous.

I read it a couple years later and adored it.

 

[Thumper]

Geez...

You all make me feel like a rube...a mental backwater...

Let me guess, everyone of you read Beowulf in the original tongue?

And those other two mentioned...WTF???

Here I thought Machiavelli was just another Italian pizza wine.

Guess I shoulda put down the Mad magazines huh?

This BB has "affected" me...can't....break...free....

 

[Purple Haze]

I'm with ya Thumper. Every once in a while they gotta go high-brow and leave me sittin' here all inadequate.

Did you hear about Peter Criss? Eric Singer is impostering him.

Whattya think?

http://www.kissonline.com/news/images/eric/eric.jpg

 

[Thumper]

As the Horse on Ren and Stimpy says..

No sir, I don't like it.

When they start having others assume the identity, then it becomes a revue or a stage show...like theatre. So I guess will go on forever, just different people wearing the makeup.

Pass the cheetos...I think Cops is coming on.

 

[RonG]

Steempy, Yoo Eeediot!

I prefer the Ren and Stimpy episode based on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. "The Tooth Beaver" was so true to the original vision - the Ren's ailing tooth representing Raskolnikov's past deeds, the Tooth Beaver representing the slaughtered landlady's haunting presence in Raskolnikov's conscience, and the eternal goodness of Stimpy so reflective of Sonya's enigmatic smile.

Kricfalusi was heavily influenced by the classics - the rubber nipple salesmen episode is an homage to Arthur Miller and the episode of Stimpy sacrificing his butt fat so that the frivolous Ren can have pectoral implants is evocative of King Lear.