Russia to be as a nation that never was

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Re: Russia to be as a nation that never was

Post by aufbahrung » Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:29 pm

Hermit wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:26 pm
aufbahrung wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:01 am
I'm not expecting to be understood today. A hundred years from now, though. They'll be saying how did he see things so clearly in such a backwards era.
Dream on. If "they" stumble upon your output in a hundred years from now they'll be saying much the same things about it we are saying now.
A hundred years is a long time at the growing pace of absurdity. Don't be so sure.
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Re: Russia to be as a nation that never was

Post by Hermit » Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:33 pm

JimC wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:05 am
I appreciate the posts in question as a surreal artwork... :tea:
Surreal, maybe, though 'absurd' is a slightly more appropriate adjective. Artwork? Doesn't even work as some sort of metaphor. I suggest 'confabulation'.
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Re: Russia to be as a nation that never was

Post by Hermit » Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:37 pm

aufbahrung wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:29 pm
Hermit wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:26 pm
aufbahrung wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:01 am
I'm not expecting to be understood today. A hundred years from now, though. They'll be saying how did he see things so clearly in such a backwards era.
Dream on. If "they" stumble upon your output in a hundred years from now they'll be saying much the same things about it we are saying now.
A hundred years is a long time at the growing pace of absurdity.
You just broke another irony meter.
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Re: Russia to be as a nation that never was

Post by JimC » Mon Mar 07, 2022 7:45 pm

Hermit wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:33 pm
JimC wrote:
Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:05 am
I appreciate the posts in question as a surreal artwork... :tea:
Surreal, maybe, though 'absurd' is a slightly more appropriate adjective. Artwork? Doesn't even work as some sort of metaphor. I suggest 'confabulation'.
One man's art is another man's crazed drivel... :tea:
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Re: Russia to be as a nation that never was

Post by macdoc » Tue Mar 08, 2022 4:08 am

They said that about Jackson Pollock.
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