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JT, is there something particularly about that era that speaks to your soul? I'm drawn to the world wars and interbellum period, a real ding dong daddy from dumas! And a great deal of it is based on how quickly people changed the way they viewed the world.

I would heartily recommend that you google slang from the 18th century colonies. It would also be very useful for you to become familiar with the local news of the area your stories are written for. I'll give you an example. 1910's America. "This new sky sure gon'na turn heads. This remake with...

Edwina the Just...my oh my....

In a sense, given that all Narnians would have suffered through the fall of this one man, and all of Narnians benefitted through the sacrifice of one saviour.

I don't know where to begin addressing your question properly, but I will share this bit of wisdom. Once a pharmaceutical group tried to write a computer program that would diagnose problems by asking a series of questions. That's called "keying down". Never could they ever write the program to...

Barrie wanted Peter Pan to be a source of revenue for the orphanage/hospital. Writing the play made him more sensitive to the needs of children without families. That sort of thing often happens...writing the story The Visitor made me more aware of the trauma facing families with a member in a...

Yes, but humans are--to use a programmer's term--more object oriented than procedural. If you came to me with your hair on fire and asked me what the square root of sixteen was, I wouldn't say "four". I'd say, "HELP!" A program to this day would identify your question as the issue at hand.

Oh yes, your deeds are important. Hence judgment. But people are "unwanted pregnancies" or "invalids" or "handicapped" or "too old" and in many societies these are treated as disposable humanity. Think Scrooge saying, "If they'd rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus...

Put two and two together. The lost boys and the real life orphanage and hospital for foundlings.

An existentialist (I realize there are more than one flavour) usually believes things simply ARE, and they have value by what they DO. That brings to mind the old trope going around the internet when a flight attendant giving a safety briefing asked you to put the oxygen mask on yourself first...

I'm old enough to have watched them on analog TV when they first came out. There are advantages to older age...the way my lower back feels is not one of them.

Only the lucky ones.

The Alternative Factor, TOS season 1 episode 27.

You would have to be a techno-nerd with a fascination for discrete versus continuous speech, and advanced parsing techniques like paralinguistics. Consider if you were an android and I said, "I didn't say you stole the money". 1 **I** didn't say you stole the money. 2 I **DIDN'T** say you...

Now that's more balanced and nuanced, Shasta. I am at heart an essentialist, not an existentialist.

Or, as one episode of Star Trek opined, a safety valve. ;-)

A whole host of it. Especially if you've chatted with Alexa in the last year or so.

Shasta, there are three ages of man. Believing in fantasies, Believing only in realities, and Realizing that all reality was originally God's fantasy. Which is to say never throw away the childlike with the childish. Always keep that sense of wonder. The older I get, the more I realize how much...

Ah, a thoughtful remark indeed. However I don't believe alternate realities form ex nilho without a creator. I suppose the best argument for other realities is the common sense outrage you'd feel if someone asked you why you NEEDED to have a second child if you already had ONE. Or why you NEED a...

So that, like Project Apollo, you can visit other worlds and end with a splashdown? ;-) I once thought it would be interesting to say that every century or so it actually rains in the world between the woods, and if the water gets deep enough some of the ponds temporarily merge.