tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post8202503162013379933..comments2024-03-24T17:06:47.135-04:00Comments on Story Bones: Story BoneSteve Buchheithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-30307567846072700482012-02-15T20:30:56.988-05:002012-02-15T20:30:56.988-05:00Eric, thanks, that was a good laugh.Eric, thanks, that was a good laugh.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-61039639980035689582012-02-15T17:17:52.855-05:002012-02-15T17:17:52.855-05:00Nobody has gotten the onscreen message right, but ...Nobody has gotten the onscreen message right, but you gotta admit it's kinda weird the way everybody keeps incorrectly guessing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini#Debunking_spiritualists" rel="nofollow">"Rosabelle, believe"</a>.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-35365095008982099312012-02-15T13:54:37.411-05:002012-02-15T13:54:37.411-05:00Rick, well, I start with a "wild lark", ...Rick, well, I start with a "wild lark", but then it the noun as adverb feels weirder to me than to "ing" a word. Or, I really disagree with standard language structures and have a constitutional aversion to draw within the lines. Or something like that.<br /><br />Eric, yeah, I've got too much on my plate. I have enough projects in "stub" status. I don't need to have anymore.<br /><br />And actually, there is an ongoing experiment to test for near death experiences. The researcher's name escapes me at the moment, but her team places digital readouts above emergency surgery rooms. The display is positioned so anyone "floating" above the room could see it, but not anybody at ground/standing level. Whenever anyone reports an out of body experience, they interview them to see if they saw their message. IIRC, so far nobody has.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-37313834011492080612012-02-15T13:34:18.609-05:002012-02-15T13:34:18.609-05:00Huh.
Here's another thought (touched on but s...Huh.<br /><br />Here's another thought (touched on but slightly different from a question in paragraph two): posit that this is a high-tech/magic society in which sacrificial victims are killed and immediately brought back. A magical society in which D&D style resurrection spells are common is one version, but it seems even more interesting to postulate a high-tech society (near-future contemporary, perhaps) in which people are medically killed in hospitals and then almost immediately resuscitated once they've had enough time to stick their toes into that proverbial light.<br /><br />Do hospitals now keep professional death interpreters on hand outside the emergency room doors to whisper questions in patients' ears as they're wheeled in and ask them what they saw as they're wheeled out? Is their a professional dying class whose full-time job is to die as many times as their constitution can stand, with a huge bonus to be paid out to their families if the next death is the last one? How does this culture's version of the Hippocratic Oath run, if they have one? What are the theological implications?<br /><br />You sure you don't want to write this one, Steve? I have too much on my plate already, though it seems there's a fair bit to work with here.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275812152895151542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-87004153917033712652012-02-15T13:22:59.132-05:002012-02-15T13:22:59.132-05:00A wild larking idea it is!
Now if I only knew wha...A wild larking idea it is!<br /><br />Now if I only knew what a wild larking was.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14546882686381428986noreply@blogger.com