Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.
This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.
Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…
We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.
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Yeah. I'm constantly questioning how much is just in my head and attempting to balance it with giving the reader enough info, but not too much!'Bad authors are those who write with reference to an inner context which the reader cannot know.'
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir? Hermann Hesse? Did not resonate?
Haaaaa was thinking… although I’m a bit of a fan of Camus, transcendentalism isn’t everyone’s cuppa by a few ark-lengths.
Hesse is great for teenagers, but I outgrew him. In truth I liked the descriptions of the beautifully bourgeois ordered lives that Hesse despised. French existentialists smell too much of stale tobacco and pseudo poverty. When you grow up without indoor plumbing and with even lower expectations then Pip - to become middle-class is the dream.
You certainly made the jump, and I am glad you did and you are here. Thank you.
