Paul Imgrund on Nether Street Blues

No need to give me a shout unless you really feel it's justified; I was joking about not being mentioned (Liza and Tolley have much larger followings and they're spearheading this debate). Also, impressive you read all these and wrote and published an article all on lunch! Thanks for elaborating. I think you're hitting the whole point of my article exactly; anything that goes in a story should serve to develop plot, character, or theme; anything else can go. Since gratuitous graphic details don't do any of the three, they have no business in a story. I struggle to think of an example, even one where the plot revolves around someone's sex life, where bodily fluids and penises and vaginas need to be called out by name. I think it's the same with gory violence; unless it really advances any of those three things, why do we need to know a guy's intestines were ripped out all over the floor? Oh, and that was actually my brother who wrote the Gnosticism article!