Like the important form which has been photocopied from a photocopy so many times it's become a sort of wobbly ghost.
I thought of those overwrought Tokugawa-era fanboys who would cut off a finger and throw it onstage to prove their love to their favourite onnagata.
#mathematics
Last night I muttered about how John Wick pretty much succeeds in everything he tries -- you end up with not so much a story as a series of events. I wonder what the impact on creativity is of always being to create as you please. (I'm learning a hell of a lot by trying to write 4000-word stories.)
True story: I was going to write a piece about how the ancient Egyptians had no spider hieroglyph, but then someone found one
While we wait, why not a series of Doctor Who novels for adult readers?
I'm struggling to recall the term for when you clone a clone, or grow bacteria by sampling a good healthy batch but then sampling the sample. Repeat, and soon so many errors accumulate that the last copies in the chain die. It's not "generation loss", but something like that?
Skeeting is educational in the same way: it forces you to only say the most important stuff.
