Posts by merc
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If you've ever been blooded, and half part Hun and have Geman short haired pointers as family pets and hunting dogs, and only hunt pigs with a knife because, hell, that's a waste of a bullet, you'll understand.
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Aghhh Post-Colonial, arrrrrr, run's screaming from the room, ears hand-cupped, and not quite sure why...
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This threads not going to go all Lord of the Flies now is it?
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And then there was this time at Band Camp. Really there's enough generalised hate to go round, but where is it going? If we want to be really silly we could say that at least the French weren't so uptight about sex when they colonised, but really, what would we achieve?
Don't you realize it is politically expediant for the US and British powers that be to demonize France right now, due to Iraq? -
Oh goodness, I forgot Grave's, White Goddess, very hard read but rewarding, especially the Druidic tree alphabet and early Celtic poetry references, and The White Goddess herself in all her glory.
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Speaking of Graves, his autoboigraphy, Goodbye To All That, was an interesting account of WW1 trench warfare. Graves was also a poet, but not of the ilk of Wilfred Owen, a poet who died in the trences but beforehand wrote some amazing poetry.
How many amazing minds were lost to WW1? -
There is no poetry of the EMO kind, I will not let that meme stick, I think poetry of that kind is a mood tinged poetry, described as poesy, or better still, duende.
Smiths Dream the movie, I enjoyed very much, perhaps it was when Smith started to feel, that everything went wrong, an interesting NZ theme. -
No, that I didn't know, sounds like one of Riddley's favourites too. I read a little Carlos debunking, but felt that anyone who can stimulate that much thought in me, deserves to be left intact, especially,
Stopping the world and the second attention; saved from many a boardroom disaster. -
spooky. i just bought some
Cake?
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What form?