I don't know if I had ever asked you, Maddy-fren, if the adaption of Ted Chiang's The Story Of Your Life as Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, had affected your writing-path's conceptuality the way it did my own, but I am more than enthusiastically chuffed that it did. The limitation of tense in the Octopod's context of language; that there is no distinction between past, present and future, like Lovecraftian Mythos' and its lack of attachment to 'when', but focusing more on 'why'. Arrival was recommended to me by my psychiatrist of the last 27 years, who is at least as huge a science-fiction fan as we both are, and had been many years before I was born, when I'd begun planning my novel of transhumanism and 'life on the assembly line', Assumption Of Pride, a couple of falls ago. He thought my watching, enjoying and studying it would help open up the floodgates therein me of morality, philosophy and exploded humanity, and I can say with certainty that the movie, and his suggestion begetting my watching it, did.

I intend on indulging for study and enjoyment in a PDF of Qoheleth at some point, if I may beg your pardon on Gumroad once again. ^_^

-2Paw.

I definitely welcome your thoughts should you read it! ^^

Congrats and good fortune to you. It's been many many years since I wrote for anyone but myself. Back then it was about the $ though.