Comments on: Muse Abuse http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/ Cheating on the Kobayashi Maru since 2001 Tue, 19 May 2026 01:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Jemima http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-21599 Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:58:54 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-21599 No, because I've never heard of it. Also, their web page seems to be 404. No, because I’ve never heard of it. Also, their web page seems to be 404.

]]> by: Qoheleth http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-21379 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:39:20 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-21379 Two questions. First, are you on the Subreality Cafe Mailing List? Second, if not, why not? Two questions. First, are you on the Subreality Cafe Mailing List? Second, if not, why not?

]]> by: Jemima http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-6855 Wed, 25 May 2005 20:32:22 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-6855 Kim: Because of the alliteration, and the mothering-a-toddler feel of the anti-muse lectures. Mike: Just like we don't really have honest-to-goodness pagans nowadays, though we do have tree-hugging earth-mothering types who call themselves pagans, I don't think we have people who speak of the muse and actually <em>believe</em> that it's some sort of separate deity/entity. If you can find me such a person, I'd be very interested to chat with them about it, but I think you're safe in assuming that no matter how people happen to speak about their muses, they know that they are really just some fugitive bit of their own brains. In other words, we're all materialists now. Kim: Because of the alliteration, and the mothering-a-toddler feel of the anti-muse lectures.

Mike: Just like we don’t really have honest-to-goodness pagans nowadays, though we do have tree-hugging earth-mothering types who call themselves pagans, I don’t think we have people who speak of the muse and actually believe that it’s some sort of separate deity/entity. If you can find me such a person, I’d be very interested to chat with them about it, but I think you’re safe in assuming that no matter how people happen to speak about their muses, they know that they are really just some fugitive bit of their own brains.

In other words, we’re all materialists now.

]]> by: mike hollihan http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-6854 Tue, 24 May 2005 15:16:36 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-6854 I suppose I'm a Muse Agnostic, but the folks who really irritate me are the ones who treat their muse as though it's a discrete entity, a ghost in the psyche if you will. Yes, sometimes ideas will come to me whole, connections between ideas will appear as though by magic, and I've been "in the zone" writing many, many times. But these are aspects of my brain, not some supernatural being visiting me with gifts. Just my two cents. I suppose I’m a Muse Agnostic, but the folks who really irritate me are the ones who treat their muse as though it’s a discrete entity, a ghost in the psyche if you will. Yes, sometimes ideas will come to me whole, connections between ideas will appear as though by magic, and I’ve been “in the zone” writing many, many times. But these are aspects of my brain, not some supernatural being visiting me with gifts. Just my two cents.

]]> by: Kim http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-6789 Mon, 23 May 2005 15:35:23 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2005/05/21/muse-abuse/#comment-6789 Why does it have to be "moms" against everything? Put me in the catagory that the muse not only lives, she takes over my life at the most inconvenient times, leaving great little ideas just when I can't write them down and laughs hysterically when I demand that she not only remember them (months, weeks, days, hours, minutes) later but remind me of them when I forget them entirely. Why does it have to be “moms” against everything?

Put me in the catagory that the muse not only lives, she takes over my life at the most inconvenient times, leaving great little ideas just when I can’t write them down and laughs hysterically when I demand that she not only remember them (months, weeks, days, hours, minutes) later but remind me of them when I forget them entirely.

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