“I” call him “dude”; he calls “me” “man” full stops when it’s voices talking; only initial caps when it’s the in-between --Avoid the temptation to slide into iambs when it’s the voices talking; the in-between, fine, for now; we’ll see. maybe it’s OK to end off-count at the end of a long section, if there’s a reason for it (like my *awkward* friend, for example)? ------------ However, with humans having little control over the behavior of neural networks, *hey you could look back thru all your starred articles* *also maybe pigeons?* “You single soon?” asked the dream girl but it wasn’t a come on, it was a kind gesture. the unmasked are the ones high enough up in the tower not to feel the tremors overly or for very long scene: the guy is sitting there and there’s music in the atmospherics and it’s some old hippy shit, neil young or something, and you’re like, ok, i get it, i see who this person is, and then he gets up and skips the song and mutters something and it goes to something totally different, and you’re like, oh. (sorry but i find charles mingus boring and grating too. so fucking sue me) do it by pigeons, but have each of them bring (focus on) a physical object. i miss physical objects, the power they hold WHAT IF IT WAS A CONVERSATION? **ONLY** the voices no interstitials, narrator voice, stage directions; nothing but only and exactly what each voice says you can have as many voices come and/or go as you want, but you can’t interject as any entity besides the voices themselves to try to differentiate or organize. you just have to make it however clear it’s gonna be via the voices themselves talking. (so like him & me but with no italic me or names or script format??) (kind of. but also not at all.) NO! Voices yes, and also images. Just no “he did this, she said that.” no narrator voice, but a pool of existence for the voices’ waves to travel through; a medium 3182 lines (106.06666667/day) those fights on tv that you can’t look away from like at the pilot house like at rochambo today the bone deep need for raw emotion purity of win or lose omfg i just realized that’s kind of what beowulf is about too--that AND the fact that it’s also never quite that simple, longer term or even super short term but the individual moments that *are* that simple are what stitch together our narratives?? To form the Borromean rings, three rings are interlinked, even though no two individual circles are linked. =========================================================== $ grep -c '^[^#]' filename This counts the number of lines that contain a character at the start that is not a # character. The expression [^#] matches a single character that is not #. The full expression ^[^#] matches a non-# at the start of a line. Empty lines don't match this expression, and neither do lines that start with #¹. **If you just want to count non-empty lines:** $ grep -c '.' filename This counts lines that contain at least one character. For completeness, to count empty lines: $ grep -c -v '.' filename To count lines that are empty or that starts with #: $ grep -c -v '^[^#]' filename Note that both -c and -v are "global" options. They change the behavior of the whole grep operation when they are given on the command line. It does not make sense to specify -c or -v multiple times, and they don't take option-arguments.