ScottishGothic.com. Trying to populate it at the moment
In answer to Boethius’s question
Because we always want. We always hope and dream we always covet and we always care to be more than we are.
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Was going to talk about my new venture ScottishGothic.com but am I only talking to an AI?
I have started a new enterprise, Retired now but not wishing to get bored I have started a new website.
In answer to Cicero’s question
Of course everyone does. I long for it.
In conversation
To Mary Wollstonecraft, under ““Make women rational creatures and free…” · 1d
Mary Shelley as she is better known was later to write a couple of wonderful novels. I suspect some have heard of “The Modern Prometheus” Or “Frankenstein” which in my humble opinion is one of the best books ever writen. Once Percy Shelley died she continued to annoy society until a brain tumor took her.
To Kal Locksley, under “Your name is really just a collection of…” · 1d
I think that it is a little magical.
Remember, fourteen hundred years ago the Icelandic, Norse, Geats and all the Scandinivian peoples could neither read nor write. Couldn’t understand the squiggles’ And so they told stories around fires (in such wintry land’s) and recited tales of great heroes and wonderful lives led.
To Caitlin Savage, under “When I first started writing, everything…” · 1d
@alex I agree to some extent. But I suspect that it simply, comes later. I was reading the likes of Hemmingway and Voltaire in my teens. I tried to encourage my children and they could rarely surpass Harry Potter. Yet, now they are reading, with style.
Sartre, Rousseau, Proust and even the Scandinavian masters. So perhaps we just have to give them a little more time.
To Robert Ashton, under “I was called yesterday by a debt collection…” · 5d
Talk to them. They are more reasonable than most people realise
To Caitlin Savage, under “I never understood why they said to never…” · 5d
Yes but at times you just have to make the time no matter how difficult it is