(I started to write this ebfore Jodi and littlestar posted their comments, some time ago now, â?? both of which I think express similar unease and disappointment with Noraâ??s departing challenge and its associated final statement. I was originally happy to criticise Hosts modification to the challenge but â?¦)Well Nora you leave me with mixed feelings! I sense a degree of bitterness in your farewell statement, which makes me wonder if Host was indeed right in his decision to modify your final challenge. Was this challenge more than just a challenging idea? How devious are you?What I have found fascinating, as this reality show has proceeded, is the degree to which oneâ??s conceived characters of the authors enter into assessment of their contributions. In your case, Nora, this started to interest to me with my interpretation of your last contribution, when I understood that your content was not about â??real fictional charactersâ?? but rather about content of the mind â?? a subtle but significance difference. I felt that there was a strong sense of conflict, perhaps testing is a better word, going on within you, in your mind. Perhaps a suppressed intuitive you (or your literary concept), struggling against implanted beliefs and trying to make sense of not just reality but also of fantasy. What I donâ??t know is the extent to which this relates directly to you as an individual; it seems to me that there may be two extreme possibilities, at one end there is you and at the other an experimental literary concept of your making; the two are, of course, inseparable because both exist in your mind. The extent relates to the position your novella occupies between the two extremes. I definitely wanted to know more and I am sorry you are not still in the competition for that reason. If I am right your novella had a significantly deeper meaning than the content gave it the appearance of having. In which case perhaps your mistake was to dwell far too long on the sexual content, which while retaining a degree of stimulation, for the male mind at least, was tending to lose its significance if the intent was to explore deeper meanings (of course my whole assessment may well be totally wrong!).Your final challenge, when seen in the light of your farewell statement, indicates to me that it was very probably a premeditated move to oust Coco in the event of your demise. The question is, and it relates to what I have previously written,:- â??Is this you or is it a very deliberate ploy designed and initiated, as is so often the case with game shows, to deliberately stir the public?â??It all comes back to â??thinkingâ?? â?? it is a dangerous activity!! Thinking, on its own, is unbridled by the constraints of reality and has, as a result, a potentially very low probability of actually containing more than a smidgen of truth. Creations of the mind must be continually tested in reality if they are to be representative of truth; to complicate things, truth itself is a dimension, not an absolute.

by Cindy 11:05:59 PM 2012.03.26