Talk:971: Alternative Literature

I would totally buy a blank book. I could hollow them out to make boxes, or wire up the insides to build a revolving door, or hire an artist to draw wonderful images in them to put on display for anyone who comes over to my home. Davidy²²[talk] 08:21, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Interestingly, this is exactly the argument used to explain why reading books is better than watching TV: TV gives too much of the ready context, while a book allows the reader to fill in the blanks with his own imagination. The empty books just go one step further. 108.162.246.11 22:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I dunno, I mean, there's plenty of space in TV to work in stuff, exercise your imagination. In my view a book is for having stuff in it. A story in a book gives you a structure to build on, a framework that lets you build higher than you would go on your own. -Pennpenn 108.162.250.162 04:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

I write short stories all the time but nobody reads them. Maybe I should get a printer?

"Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you're not, because you want their money, isn't just lying--it's like an example you'd make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong."

I think it is worse when vets do it to cattle and sheep. You never get to hear the farmer saying "Bah!" though. Odd, that. I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 19:10, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Anybody else reminded of "The Library of Babel" by Borges? 108.162.238.113 16:32, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Going way back to the 2013 comment (writing in 2021): there are excellent reasons to buy blank books. As you say, writing in them is a really good reason. Buying them to read is not, for my non-hallucinatory self, a good reason. Nitpicking (talk) 13:44, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Everybody here going on about the benefits of buying blank books to write and draw stuff. You guys know those are called notebooks, right? 172.70.254.27 19:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

I was simply reminded of John Cage's blank music piece. ConscriptGlossary (talk) 11:05, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

That's 4′33″, though of course that's deliberately "everything but the music", compared to "we put something in that's (apparently) related to the problem, but then diluted it out so you don't get any side-effects (but somehow still the effects that we imagine)". The Cage piece is more an honest "here, have an elaborate drink of water" than homeopathy's "you will hear whatever other symphony you desire, in your head!"... 172.70.86.142 12:31, 17 November 2024 (UTC)