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brave new world still a bit timid

by FreeFormFixation

Member since 2003 · Posted 29 Oct 2005 · 15 comments

i feel like neutral milk hotel felt after reading ann frank's diary. such a lame and standard novel fed to us among the drivel of our standardized education. i guess it's lame to see this as a feely fraught with emptiness charged upon each other. this site, these lives, these open channels broadband subterranean tunnels link us to each other. though we'd never have one another.

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[6] zodiac 29-Oct-05/2:23 AM Reply
Anne Frank, with an E. Drop ever instance of 'each other' or 'one another'.
[6] zodiac 29-Oct-05/2:24 AM Reply
PS-Nice self-voting. You must be basking in all your made-up greatness.
[n/a] FreeFormFixation › zodiac 29-Oct-05/3:00 AM Reply
an experiment, my friend. never tried it before, feel guilty, never will do again.
[9] INTRANSIT 29-Oct-05/6:29 AM Reply
"broadband subterranean tunnels" perfect.
[7] Dovina 29-Oct-05/11:52 AM Reply
"freely" should be a noun form, I think.
"we'd" seems grammetically bad. Maybe "we"
[n/a] Niphredil › Dovina 30-Oct-05/2:32 AM Reply
No, he means 'feely' - a play on 'movie', in which the viewer can also feel the sensations that correspond to the scenes projected on the screen. It's a term introduced in Huxley's Brave New World.
[7] Dovina › Niphredil 30-Oct-05/5:15 PM Reply
Alright, if it's in a book or a movie, then its ok to use anywhere, unquoted, unreferenced, uncapitalized and uncouth?
[6] zodiac › Dovina 31-Oct-05/2:19 AM Reply
Feely isn't a quote, it's a coinage. If you had to quote-mark and reference coinages you'd never make it through a sentence.

You're just bummed because everybody knew it and you didn't. Don't be. People who've read Brave New World are gay.
[n/a] FreeFormFixation › zodiac 31-Oct-05/4:12 AM Reply
especially RuPaul.
[n/a] ALChemy 30-Oct-05/4:50 AM Reply
Anne Frank's novel?!
Are you saying she made all that shit up?
If it's lame it can't be a standard novel, same with drivel as standardized education. Standard means acceptable.
Who is neutral milk hotel and why isn't he/she or it capitalized?
"a feely fraught with emptiness" is contradictory but I'm sure you'd meant to be oxymoronic.

Good use of alliteration.
[n/a] FreeFormFixation › ALChemy 31-Oct-05/4:12 AM Reply
no, i believe in the halocaust. millions died unnecessarily. but, as woody allen said, unfortunately all records are made to be broken.
[n/a] ALChemy › FreeFormFixation 31-Oct-05/7:59 AM Reply
In a Barry Sanders vs. Emmitt Smith kinda way the record has been broken by the Hutu in Rwanda.
[7] wilco 30-Oct-05/4:00 PM Reply
Although I think you're completely misinterpreting Jeff Mangum's lyrics, there are still parts of this that I like (such as the third stanza). Also, points for knowing who Neutral Milk Hotel is...
[n/a] FreeFormFixation › wilco 31-Oct-05/4:09 AM Reply
i dont think i misinterpreted. or maybe i have, but not in this poem. i was just saying a lot of people i talked to thought it was lame that he was touched by that book because they blew it off in school. eh, i hope you get it. it's not terribly complicated.
[n/a] FreeFormFixation › FreeFormFixation 31-Oct-05/4:10 AM Reply
ps i mean my comment not the books or the lyrics.