tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424802464209000270.post2378446783426390985..comments2023-11-02T12:19:52.629+00:00Comments on Writer by Night: New Year, clean hard drive...Chris Reganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15175026345423194092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424802464209000270.post-47573384787916119332009-01-20T14:04:00.000+00:002009-01-20T14:04:00.000+00:00G - Thanks for taking my tenuous link between the ...G - Thanks for taking my tenuous link between the two things and running with it - feels like a legitimate metaphor now.<BR/><BR/>J - I agree - I have this vague feeling that I've lost some of the greatest ideas ever written, I just didn't realise I had it at the time. But seeing as I can't remember any of them, they can't have been that great.Chris Reganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175026345423194092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424802464209000270.post-29865602760068133012009-01-19T22:58:00.000+00:002009-01-19T22:58:00.000+00:00Same computer amnesia thing happened to me years a...Same computer amnesia thing happened to me years ago. Eventually I figured that any idea I couldn't remember wasn't worth preserving.<BR/>That, of course, was madness, and now that I'm old and have to scrabble around for the barest crumb of inspiration I curse my old self. <BR/>Love the blog, by the way.Joelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834668284039874668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3424802464209000270.post-50062604335546739452009-01-19T20:30:00.000+00:002009-01-19T20:30:00.000+00:00I think Freud (FREUDE DEUD!) actually uses that as...I think Freud (FREUDE DEUD!) actually uses that as the definition of uncanny: Something inanimate, that is actually animate and later realised to be very familiar. Cool If your friend turns out to actually be made of clockwork, or better still contains your hard-drive, then you have got yourself a new piece of psychiatric baggage to carry round. Or you've been eating the brains of an opium fiend.<BR/>Either way. . . Groovy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com