Comments on: A Love Universal http://writers-blog.org Writing a blog about writing Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeppe Grünberger http://writers-blog.org/texts-and-oddities/a-love-universal/comment-page-1/#comment-695 Jeppe Grünberger Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:29:09 +0000 http://writers-blog.org/?page_id=12#comment-695 I will answer your questions very directly, as I am unsure how else to: 1. No 2. A being of some sort. 3. On a planet of some sort inhabited by humanoid beings of some sort. 4. In seconds? I have no idea, but the protagonist didn't seem to perceive it as a very long time. 5. No he did not. Those questions failed to get anyone anywhere, right? I would recommend that you try a less puzzle-solving approach to literature of this kind; literature is more about the sensation caused by reading it and the world hidden in the omissions from the narrative and less about filling in the blanks. I will answer your questions very directly, as I am unsure how else to:
1. No
2. A being of some sort.
3. On a planet of some sort inhabited by humanoid beings of some sort.
4. In seconds? I have no idea, but the protagonist didn’t seem to perceive it as a very long time.
5. No he did not.

Those questions failed to get anyone anywhere, right? I would recommend that you try a less puzzle-solving approach to literature of this kind; literature is more about the sensation caused by reading it and the world hidden in the omissions from the narrative and less about filling in the blanks.

]]> By: That Critic http://writers-blog.org/texts-and-oddities/a-love-universal/comment-page-1/#comment-633 That Critic Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:36:03 +0000 http://writers-blog.org/?page_id=12#comment-633 Uh.. I didn't get it.. Did he just eat his wife? Annnd what was he? Where were they? How long did this story take place, over a millennium? Or did he actually forget her name, at the end, over the period of 20 seconds..? Uh.. I didn’t get it.. Did he just eat his wife?
Annnd what was he?
Where were they?
How long did this story take place, over a millennium?
Or did he actually forget her name, at the end, over the period of 20 seconds..?

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