Well, at least the very good ones open such worlds. But they are few and far between in our times.

For sure it's 'neurobiological'. Who could doubt that?

I stole the books with sexy bits from my father's bookshelves. He never knew. I remember taking Catch-22, which was pretty dirty, and also The Canterbury Tales (incredible sexy, but very, very difficult to understand!). This was my education (in those days, no one had the bad taste to teach sex).

Thank you kindly, Marianne!

Thanks. Yes, I knew about cows. But not humans. That was the point of my curiosity. We know a dead cow can't fart, but perhaps a human who has eaten a dead cow is also a problem.

Is this from human farting, like the cows? It's true that this is frequent after beef burgers.

That's kind of you to say so. It gives me much pleasure. Thanks! As a bonus, here's a short passage on Bach from the same novel (The hero is talking to his parrot, by the way; he's discovered that 'Yorick' loves classical music).

Why do all such questions ask about 'WIPs'? Has no one actually finished and published anything here that they can talk about?😜

Just send the file to yourself by email each day, or hour, or minute, depending on your level of paranoia (mine is high). I figure that Google will survive me, so I'm safe.

Thanks! One can say what some music endeavours to 'describe' - Smetana's Moldau, for example, or Beethoven's Pastoral symphony, are extremely evocative. Then, one can also describe what effect the music has on us, emotionally. Here's an extract from one of my novels where I endeavour to do this.

What do you mean, though? To describe music? To write prose which has its own word music? Or ...?

Four bestselling authors recently put their readers to the test and published their own short texts next to AI work on the same theme. A large 'blind' poll found that their readers simply couldn't tell the difference. I did the test - AI was much better written and more interesting.

😀 Definitely not to be meddled with! And you should see her zucchini.

If perhaps you can find such a thing as your 'true self' 😀 In my case, it never existed. I had to invent it from scratch. I don't think I'm the only one obliged to do this, in an epoch where ways of thinking and beliefs are less and less inherited, our parents having, rightly, given up such ambition

Thank you kindly. Maybe indeed it's why my book sales on Amazon this past week are at nothing...