Stuff

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Putting stuff here.

You can put stuff here.

Because there's stuff.

We can even talk about stuff.

Comments about Shakespeare, reminded me of Byron:

"People are always saying “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” as if it’s all deep and meaningful when actually it comes from a prank letter in Twelfth Night

“This above all: to thine own self be true” comes from Polonius in Hamlet wherein the joke is that he’s an old pompous dude giving a long and rambling speech full of contradictory pointless advice to his son

“Brevity is the soul of wit” is another joke, because again, it’s made by Polonius who will just not shut up

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on” not “of “, as in, “such stuff as dreams are built on”

“Wherefore art thou, Romeo” doesn’t mean “where are you, Romeo” it means “why the fuck are you called Romeo, shit, I wanted to bang you but I can’t because you’re a goddamn Montague”

All these lines have acquired a kind of dignity in text that they never had in performance or are constantly misinterpreted"

 

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[Adre]

Eyer will be along soon to put stuff here.

 

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Eyer will be along soon to put stuff here.

There's about an 89% chance of that, yes. Some threads escape unscathed, and some are scathed as hell. Fortunately I won't be surprised by it and get all tetchy.

Some day he will spell your name right, I will be surprised on that day.

 

[Adre]

There's about an 89% chance of that, yes. Some threads escape unscathed, and some are scathed as hell. Fortunately I won't be surprised by it and get all tetchy.

Some day he will spell your name right, I will be surprised on that day.

I'd change the spelling myself but for some reason Andre does not go with my blond hair.

 

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I'd change the spelling myself but for some reason Andre does not go with my blond hair.

Adre is much cooler.

Plus if he ever alphabetizes, you'll be on top!

 

[Adre]

Adre is much cooler.

Plus if he ever alphabetizes, you'll be on top!

With his OCD you'd expect him to alphabetize, wouldn't you?

 

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With his OCD you'd expect him to alphabetize, wouldn't you?

That is genuinely the only thing that is killing me.

Hell, I have OCD enough to at least want to clean it up.

Wait...well, I can, can't I. I'll clean it up because yeah.

 

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Wouldn't it be CDO ... as ocd'ers want things in an order?

 

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Wouldn't it be CDO ... as ocd'ers want things in an order?

Yes! Exactly!

 

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[CyranoJ]

Byron sounds like he was a man after my own heart.

All these lines have acquired a kind of dignity in text that they never had in performance or are constantly misinterpreted"

Along similar lines: the "to be or not to be soliloquy" in Hamlet isn't written as a soliloquy. It's a speech Hamlet makes to Ophelia -- as his "mad" character -- when he's summoned to an empty hall where he finds her hanging out and reading a Bible.

(Also, a lot is made of Shakespeare's "universal" appeal -- but see if you can find any modern version of Hamlet that can make all of Ophelia's lines act-able and her abrupt departure into madness convincing for a modern audience.)

Lewis Carroll's famous line "'tis love that makes the world go 'round" is spoken in context by a potential child-murderer as part of a whole series of completely nonsensical examples of "finding morals in things."

(Also part of the Duchess' ramblings in the same scene: "birds of a feather flock together," as part of a "moral" which erroneously treats flamingoes and mustard as part of the same set because they both "bite." Carroll / Dodgson was also a mathematician and was usually mocking some form of theoretical mathematics with stuff like this.)

Nietzsche's "splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory" referred to in Thus Spoke Zarathustra wasn't a reference to Aryans (as the Nazis mistakenly imagined); it was a metaphor about lions and about the fundamental animal impulses at the heart of all "noble" enterprises.

 

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Byron sounds like he was a man after my own heart.



Along the same lines: the "to be or not to be soliloquy" in Hamlet isn't written as a soliloquy. It's a speech Hamlet makes to Ophelia -- as his "mad" character -- when he's summoned to an empty hall where he finds her hanging out and reading a Bible.

(Also, a lot is made of Shakespeare's "universal" appeal -- but see if you can find any modern version of Hamlet that can make all of Ophelia's lines act-able and her abrupt departure into madness convincing for a modern audience.)

Lewis Carroll's famous line "'tis love that makes the world go 'round" is spoken in context by a potential child-murderer as part of a whole series of completely nonsensical examples of "finding morals in things."

(Also part of the Duchess' ramblings in the same scene: "birds of a feather flock together," as part of a "moral" which erroneously treats flamingoes and mustard as part of the same set because they both "bite." Carroll / Dodgson was also a mathematician and was usually mocking some form of theoretical mathematics with stuff like this.)

Nietzsche's "splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory" referred to in Thus Spoke Zarathustra wasn't a reference to Aryans (as the Nazis mistakenly imagined); it was a metaphor about lions and about the fundamental animal impulses at the heart of all "noble" enterprises.

Excellent trivia!

My favorite from Charles Dodgson:

And what mean all these mysteries to me,
Whose life is filled with indices and surds?

x2 + 7x + 53 = 11/3

 

[CyranoJ]

^ That's a nice one.

 

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^ That's a nice one.

I don't really care for Alice in Wonderland much, but THAT...I love

 

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[butters]

That is genuinely the only thing that is killing me.

Hell, I have OCD enough to at least want to clean it up.

Wait...well, I can, can't I. I'll clean it up because yeah.

it's important for his narrative to have me right there at the top.
bless....


oh, and i like this thread!

and your current av. trés growwwl

 

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it's important for his narrative to have me right there at the top.
bless....


oh, and i like this thread!

and your current av. trés growwwl

Okay, yeah, occasionally dirty pictures are REALLY nice.

I saw this and was inspired:

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Okay, yeah, occasionally dirty pictures are REALLY nice.

I saw this and was inspired:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-8fL4zWsAAlEWM.jpg

srsly? is that for real? gives a whole new perspective to the *ding dong* Avon calling adverts

 

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srsly? is that for real? gives a whole new perspective to the *ding dong* Avon calling adverts

It's just adorable the way people try to terrify others.

Awww.

And yes, it is worth going to hell. I don't believe in it, but if I did, yes.

 

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Sir Ian McKellan mistaken for a tramp outside rehearsals for "Waiting for Godot"

That's Method.

 

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Sir Ian McKellan mistaken for a tramp outside rehearsals for "Waiting for Godot"

That's Method.

he just can't help himself, can he? acting all over the place... doesn't he get paid enough already? pfft

i him

there must be a part of him that is pleased his acting's so good warring with the part that's thinking 'doesn't she know who i am???'