You may have notice a recent change in the publication status of Greater Lights: Adaptation. Your eyes do not deceive you. It has indeed been given the dreaded "On Hiatus" Kiss of Purgatory. Allow me to explain why this is the case.

I've been having something of a crisis of confidence in my abilities as a writer, which has been brewing for the last few months. There are two main contributing factors to my deteriorating state of mind.

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I thought I posted something about David Cameron’s 2013 New Yorker experiment, but I can’t find anything about it in my old posts:

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Post-modernists "mean" what they say

George Steiner is a literary theorist who has had appointments at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Geneva, despite not believing in literary theory. While reading his 1989 book Real Presences, I suddenly understood how post-modern thought works, and why it is self-consistent. All you have to do to understand it, it turns out, is believe that they mean what they say [1].

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I'm trying to catch up on 150 years of literature and literary theory. Now I'm listening to the Teaching Company audio course, Literary Modernism by Jeffrey Perl. It uses a division by Frank Kermode of modernists into paleomodernists (TS Eliot, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Ezra Pound, DH Lawrence, the late Yeats) and neomodernists (Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf).

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Maybe I should explain it.

"This Is Not An Adventure Clyde Adventure" is ... um.

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I asked a neural network about the origin of the title. The network guessed this:

Based on the context you provided, I suspect the title "I Can Read Names in Clouds" is referencing the song "I Can Read the Sky" by Tommy Makem.
The lyrics in the excerpted dialogue seem to play on the lines:
"I can read the sky and the faces of people passing by I can read their minds and their thoughts as they go walking by"

It is a very good guess...

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I've just returned from a week in Arundel. The previous day I visited a pub there with a rather enigmatic name that turned out to have a rather innocuous origin, but then I caught sight of a quote on the wall that suggested otherwise. I won't divulge exactly what this matter was but I will provide a translation of the quote into the language it was meant to have been spoken in. See if you can deduce what I mean.

Enigmatic figure: Kothen. Kothen. I lan ma, vahl?

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I'm taking a class on literary theory from a local university. It turned to say a very little about how to write (one short essay by Poe), a bit more about theories of how art works (Aristotle, Addison, Burke, and the New Critics), and still more about post-modern linguistics and theory. But half of the course is about politics which literary theorists today oppose (capitalism, patriarchy, and white hegemony).

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I just listened to Perl's lecture on modernism and politics, and also, by chance, read part of a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald called On Booze, which both cast light on the strange politics of literary modernists in the 1930s.

This post is poorly-organized, slightly cracked, and probably a waste of time. If you're not curious about the symbiosis between modernism and extremist politics, skip it.

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So, the following blog post is, at least partially based on the writings of others. Primarily, I recommend you peruse SoloBrony’s (unfortunately incomplete) writing on art under ADPA. I must also acknowledge that GhostofHeraclitus wrote a blogpost that has a similar theme in addressing the same problem. I recommend that, after you read this, you follow

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Let's mark July 4 with something from the Master of Chaos...

“How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!”

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Luckily I was smart put this in the hopper when Hailey started getting sick, because I sure wouldn't be able to set the story box stuff up today. This is the last good posting day before the contest deadline, so I'd better get it up.

TNight of the Sunflower

• Equestria Girls
• Romance
• Slice of Life

Sunset asked Wallflower on a date, and Wallflower is in a panic. Will the coolest girl fron Canterlot High even show up?

• Profanity
• Sunset Shimmer
• Wallflower Blush

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If you enjoy it, please upvote, bookshelf, and comment! The algorithm rules all.

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Is it bad that I like this? I mean how is it any morally better than 50 shades of grey?

- Old Klingon Proverb

This comment came up in one of the recent chapters of my story Obedience is Magic. Recent in terms of chapter order, if not chronologically.

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I Published A Story In 6 Plots: Leo & Other Grave Tales

The book collection was put together by Kenneth Kohl.

My story, ‘The Family Secret’ appears on page 57.

My story, ‘The Family Secret’ has been published in this literary collection.

You can see a preview of it on Amazon by following link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1512212954

Here is the Kindle edition: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XPRM6FM

Note to self: The next time that my writing happens to include griffon semen - I must make sure that I refer to it as "birdseed".

for example.
"Gideon the griffon smiled even as a final string of birdseed slowey dripped from the tip of his pecker onto the shag carpet"