Category: Words
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Definitions
I asked AI if it could help me with a humorous description of an everyday word. It said: Which wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, but it gave me a chuckle. The word I had in mind was ‘but’, so I asked again. It said: The word “but” is a linguistic guillotine of expectation,…
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Distant Memories
Professor Soupal and the apprentice looked at each other wanting to speak but not finding the right words… eventually, the apprentice broke the awkward silence. ‘Well, you got that slightly wrong, Professor,’ he said looking at the large hole in the ground, ‘it was neither Mayan nor old… how did it get there, and where…
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Airborne
The pyramid rose like an impossible hot air balloon. Gently and slowly it left the remains of the building that used to house it crumbling into the crater it left behind. It climbed steadily and then each section, starting from the bottom upward began to rotate in turn – the grating sound from the stone…
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Inspired Thought
Plan your time and location correctly, and you’ll be surprised by how far you will be moved and how far your inspiration will take you. Think about that when next you write, or paint or draw, or play a musical instrument. You’ve heard of the right place, right time scenario, right? Consciously choose both… you…
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Red Lightning
The apprentice and the professor barely managed to get out of the campus storage facility before a beam of red light followed them out and struck the old oak tree on the opposite side of the road, with a deafening crackle and sending splinters of wood out in all directions. Eunice Fothergill sat with her…
The Mansionic Perspective 