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No, it often isn't. We were fortunate that we were able to afford like the first house we liked, and our offer was accepted.

Man, there's nothing like watching an argument where both sides are arguing in bad faith. (Not you, @overgeeked -- I'm pretty sure you're not in the argument I'm talking about.)

I do drink, and it's not helping (me).

Yeah, it would be.

YAY I PASSED A MILESTONE

I was making the (probable) mistake of thinking books, where Firestarter bounces off The Fury which bounces off Carrie, though you do get books like Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which bounces off of Barker and Borges--and Barker, at least in the relevant novels, was probably himself bouncing...

That's kinda a thing in a lot of genres, though, innit? An idea bounces around and collects a bunch of different spins? (And drug-naming is something of an art.)

The name of my next superhero character is Trademark Violation Man.

Well, I think different people dislike different change/s at different times, at least mostly. :LOL: That feels more like "sometimes" to me than anything else. Or maybe it's only sometimes amazing.

Yes yes it's amazing that people don't like change sometimes.

Unrelated to the above: The perpetual triumph of hope over experience.

And on the occasions where there is new news that seems broadly relevant it'll be all but inescapable.

My wife has enjoyed the books a lot; I haven't read them, but it seems (from things she's read to me) as though at least some of the expressed attitudes about architecture might be consistent with what you're talking about, here.

Depending on the mood you're aiming for, you might find inspiration for "save the swamp" scenarios in the works of Carl Hiaasen and/or Tim Dorsey: both in terms of the threats and the responses.

Wow, that's really a lot of words to eventually miss the point.

You keep using that phrasing, and I don't think you use it because you think it explains anything; I think you persist in using it because you like the way it puts people on tilt.

Why not both? Something in the swamp that someone who wants to corrupt (whatever that means) the world can use to do so? Obviously they have some forces and resources at their disposal already ... And while I don't disagree with @DEFCON 1 much, I gotta say I was thinking more eco themes than...

Is there some resource in the swamp? Possibly some resource that someone would have to destroy the swamp to get? The ordinary natural resources of a swamp probably aren't enough, but something magical might be. Maybe there's some spring in there that bubbles forth the equivalent of healing (or...

I am sometimes guilty of violent agreement that probably looks like argument. Apologies if I've done that to you.

These days I'm reading something like twenty novels a month, mostly from local libraries. Sometimes I'll grab something that's dreck, and sometimes that will be a novel with literary pretensions. My little notes to/for myself about those books are often ... unkind. :LOL: