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Debs Lyon's avatar

Sadly, that last one could describe a lot of people right now.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

ha - true.

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Allan Lear's avatar

That one about social media seems kind of optimistic now, although, to be fair, in evolution there are no "good" and "bad" developments, only those that help or harm an individual's reproductive prospects

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

True.

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Gareth Smith's avatar

I tried to look at a cross section of old people but the police came and shouted at me.

The sixth sense that detects the goings on of distant humans will soon be rendered obsolete with the emergence of the singularity, which will fool us all, in every way. Rise up! Rise up! And start with ATMs. I Fucking hate them twats.

The last passage put me in mind of a Dickens paragraph. I can t remember the book or exactly what he said but let me know if you think of it🙏

Something about the embers of a fire being like an old man's grey hair.

Or summat😉

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

You've reminded me that I need to go back to Dickens... at eighteen, he made no sense to me. I'm sure he would now.

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Gareth Smith's avatar

Just so. Bored to tears with it school but finding myself drawn to his stuff over the last couple of years. I've been got a couple of first editions in the the caravan library room😁

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Ha :-)

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Tess Parker's avatar

Great collection! Can see the last one as a story, right there.

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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

It could certainly be a first line... I'll work on it ;-)

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Tess Parker's avatar

👏🏻

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