A hundred years is a long time at the growing pace of absurdity. Don't be so sure.Hermit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:26 pmDream 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.aufbahrung wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:01 amI'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.
Russia to be as a nation that never was
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“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.”
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.”
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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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You just broke another irony meter.aufbahrung wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:29 pmA hundred years is a long time at the growing pace of absurdity.Hermit wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 2:26 pmDream 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.aufbahrung wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:01 amI'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.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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One man's art is another man's crazed drivel...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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They said that about Jackson Pollock.
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