How Fishy On The Fishiness Scale? Ten

...the Landscape Inside Lord Of The Rings Was So Stunning And So Stupendous That It Could Be Absorbed As A Form Of Nourishment.

The Best Lies To Tell Are The Ones People Want To Believe

Literature Is Claimed To Be A Mirror Of The World,” I Said, “but The Outlanders Are Fooling Themselves. The Bookworld Is As Orderly As People In The Realworld *hope* Their Own World To Be—it Isn’t A Mirror, It’s An Aspiration.

Everything Comes To An End. A Good Bottle Of Wine, A Summer’s Day, A Long-running Sitcom, One’s Life, And Eventually Our Species. The Question For Many Of Us Is Not That Everything Will Come To An End But When. And Can We Do Anything Vaguely Useful Until It Does?

Writing Is Not Something You Can Do Or You Can't. It's Not Even Something That 'other People Do' Or 'for Smart People Only' Or Even 'for People Who Finished School And Went To University'. Nonsense. Anyone Can Do It. But No-one Can Do It Straight Off The Bat. Like Plastering, Brain Surgery Or Assembling Truck Engines, You Have To Do A Bit Of Training - Get Your Hands Dirty - And Make Some Mistakes.