09-30-2015, 12:13 AM
Mercedes, thank you so much. I really stretched myself with a couple tricky refrains and almost wanted to abort at the third tercet.
Ella, thanks as always for your response and thoughts. Far be it from the narrator to discourage your love of oral sex. And that's not what was intended by "salty stew" (see below) so please come down from the fence.
Tec, it certainly is wordy. The more I read it aloud the more I realized it took practice to real aloud.
"Salty stew" was only meant as a reference to the highly saline water on Mars and a comparison to our own primordial ooze. As it's caused a hiccup with both you and Ella, I will rethink it. (I'm not sure if that's what you wanted me to explain??) It was meant to be a simple observation on the value we attribute to even the possibility of simple life on other planets and the disregard we have for it here at home. I don't think it's overly political to admit a disconnect. It could have just as easily talked about trees as embryos.
Thanks everyone,
Paul
Ella, thanks as always for your response and thoughts. Far be it from the narrator to discourage your love of oral sex. And that's not what was intended by "salty stew" (see below) so please come down from the fence.
Tec, it certainly is wordy. The more I read it aloud the more I realized it took practice to real aloud.
"Salty stew" was only meant as a reference to the highly saline water on Mars and a comparison to our own primordial ooze. As it's caused a hiccup with both you and Ella, I will rethink it. (I'm not sure if that's what you wanted me to explain??) It was meant to be a simple observation on the value we attribute to even the possibility of simple life on other planets and the disregard we have for it here at home. I don't think it's overly political to admit a disconnect. It could have just as easily talked about trees as embryos.Thanks everyone,
Paul