Thursday 13 November 2003

Pic of the day: The prophet on his ass. (Based on painting from a German site.) Sadly for the prophet, only the donkey could see the angel. Sometimes I feel like that kind of prophet too.

Case of the missing entry

I am sorry for being late again. For this day I had written a fairly long red entry about "bad sex", such as incest and rape. This was because on Thursday I wrote two short chapters that touched on these topics, in my online novel. (Let's just say I don't glorify them at least.)

But now on Saturday when I was about to upload, I got two dizzy spells where I could not even sits upright in my chair. Most likely this has medical reasons (I now have running bowels), but the thought also struck me that this might happen in order to stop me from uploading something stupid or hurtful. After all, there is a story in the Bible about a prophet who was going a way God did not want, and his donkey told him to stop. (Name is spelled Bileam or Balaam, if you want to do a search.)

I have saved that entry in case I find out later that it was OK. Of course, we never know for sure that we will have a "later"; but it wasn't really something that humankind absolutely needs to know before I pass on. That alone is probably reason enough to think twice.

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Chapter 14 is much more cheerful, I'm happy to say. The defining moment in this chapter is where the two characters discover a shared sense of humor. Research has shown that women laugh approximately twice as much when they are together with men as when they are in the company of other women. Socio-biologists believe that this is an evolutionary adaptation for the females to pacify the big, dangerous males. This is certainly possible, and would fit right into my story. But in real life, another explanation comes to mind: Perhaps men are simply twice as silly as women?

You be the judge of that...