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Moonhead -> RE: RIP Ray Bradbury (6/8/2012 12:44:39 PM)

Despite the fact that most of the fantasies it's based on are a little too generic to even qualify as cliches?
There is little or no imagination in most BDSM, simply because the whole of the fantasies involved are posted together from conceits that have long since worn very thin, and were utterly banal to start off with. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's a long way from what spent his career doing. Even if you're talking about the suspension of disbelief involved in roleplaying, there's still precious little imagination involved, and certainly none of the inventiveness and originality that always marked Bradbury's own flights of fancy, dig?
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mummyman321 -> RE: RIP Ray Bradbury (6/8/2012 1:05:13 PM)

wow.....so you are saying there is no imagination in BDSM? All I can say is your view and my view greatly differ. I have found a a true wealth of imagination in BDSM and it is far from mundane.



Moonhead -> RE: RIP Ray Bradbury (6/8/2012 1:16:11 PM)

You're entitled to your opinion, and I certainly wouldn't want to get into a pissing match about this in an obituary thread for one of my favourite writers, but yes, I find the imagery in BDSM extremely limited, horribly generic and increasing stripped of whatever ideative power it originally had by constant repetition. Imagination at heart, doesn't have that much to do with an awful lot of fantasies and fantasising, and imo all of the imagery in BDSM falls into that camp. It isn't an exercise of the imagination, it's a consolation and a reassurance. Your milage obviously varies, and fair play to you, but that's how I've always seen it myself. There probably wouldn't be any consensus about it if there was more imagination at work there, I suspect.



PeonForHer -> RE: RIP Ray Bradbury (6/8/2012 4:44:30 PM)

FR,

God, he had a long innings, though. Some of my favourite stories ever. Must remember to get my mother to read 'I Sing the Body Electric'. Yep, a giant.



LadyHibiscus -> RE: RIP Ray Bradbury (6/8/2012 4:52:35 PM)

Over the past several years he was writing endings for stories, tying up loose ends. A wrench, to say the least.



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