We don't have a mask rule because we're "afraid".

You can't imagine the courage it takes to protect ourselves--when MSM and public dialogue don't just disdain but actively vilify us for protecting ourselves in! public! Ugh!

I feel this about dialogue! So I love, for example, the opening scene in White Fang. 6 and a half paragraphs before any speech and then it packs a punch.

It's cinematic for me. I can mentally create the whole shebang. Colour, movement, sounds, and other senses. It might be for this reason that I love film adaptations, but have to read the book first and then compare the film-makers vision to my own.

Yep. And the 'advice' out there is to write what people want to read. So we're getting an increasingly channeled set of pre-defined genres with only the occasional break out. I don't think the best books of the last 200 years fit this notion.

I think I started with the same price everywhere but couldn't keep up with the changes. I may have ignored IS for a while.