What do you wish SK would write about?

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Scratch

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I enjoy stories about insanity told from the view of the insane. There have been times when what I know to be reality has taken a detour and you either ignore it or scratch your head and figure there has to be SOME explanation. What you can't do is forget. I once talked to a guy who said when he was off his meds he heard voices. He knew perfectly well they were not real but it still did not shut them up. My instances have been very sporatic and often supported by those I was with but it makes them no less strange. I feel that we must all have a few times when it seems what we experience cannot be real.
 

kingricefan

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I enjoy stories about insanity told from the view of the insane. There have been times when what I know to be reality has taken a detour and you either ignore it or scratch your head and figure there has to be SOME explanation. What you can't do is forget. I once talked to a guy who said when he was off his meds he heard voices. He knew perfectly well they were not real but it still did not shut them up. My instances have been very sporatic and often supported by those I was with but it makes them no less strange. I feel that we must all have a few times when it seems what we experience cannot be real.

This is what it's going to feel like when our beloved Marsha retir........er.......can't type it, just can't type it.....
 

blunthead

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I enjoy stories about insanity told from the view of the insane. There have been times when what I know to be reality has taken a detour and you either ignore it or scratch your head and figure there has to be SOME explanation. What you can't do is forget. I once talked to a guy who said when he was off his meds he heard voices. He knew perfectly well they were not real but it still did not shut them up. My instances have been very sporatic and often supported by those I was with but it makes them no less strange. I feel that we must all have a few times when it seems what we experience cannot be real.
Your post reminds me of something I've occasionally considered, that the human mind is constructed essentially a certain way, with places which, in some cases, tend to crack. To me the difference between a sane person and one who is not is not a very big one, and the idea that we're all closer to a certain dangerous edge than we are necessarily consciously aware seems at least possible. This suggests that none of us really know where we stand in terms of that edge, so that no one is necessarily safe from it. I believe society is subconsciously aware, however; collectively so, and fear of going over that edge causes us to behave badly, to isolate those who are weaker, to make some weaker or decide that they are, in order to create an artifical barrier against that edge filled with those we deem lesser fortunate.
 
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Scratch

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Some days I feel like I'm the only sane person and then I meet someone more sane and realize I may be farther down the greased pole than I thought. All we have to gauge by is each other. I like what you said. It's a sort of collective agreement isn't it? If the norm was cannibalism then those who didn't partake would be abnormal just being in the minority. I'm pretty comfortable where I'm at on the scale just watching the evening news though.
 

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I listened to the Colorado kid audio book and I was surprised by Stephen King. Usually, he stays far away from writing plots where little to no suspense or action occurs. I walked away without a clue about what he was talking about, but I don't think it was a bad try for interpretive fiction. He definitely has the skill to write under the surface, so i would like to see more of that.
 

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I am curious about the town of Ludlow and its peculiar history as described by Jud Crandall. A prequel about Jud and Norma would probably be too kitschy. I'm also interested in his developing the idea of "you stole my story" which he explored in his novella, "Secret Window, Secret Garden".