The Hall of Fire

Nice idea, Faramond! I've got to come back to this either late tonight or tomorrow, as I'm behind in my work right now.

(Shot my posting wad poking fun at Dick and Jane.)

Jn

Shhhhh! Tsk - you're not supposed to tell that part!

Jn

Yov, this is the part where you step up to the plate and give the pussycat any meaning that you like. If you can plump out your ascribed meanings to 200 pages or so, you will be awarded a Ph.D. in literature.


<Comforts vison>

Jn

Except in very bright light, when they come out of their shells and become .... uncommunicative.

(don't let your cat see your snake)

Jnyusa

You think!

But a good deconstructionist will find references to anal sex everywhere. Why is Sally drawn to describe the tail of the duck specifically, and not its feathers, eh?

Jn

One thing about satire is that it usually tries to be more absurd than what it's satirizing. Comparing the opening salvo to bt's, it is clear that this is not the case.... In this case it wasn't possible to be more absurd than the opening salvo. When that happens, a true comedian will understate hi...

Yov, it's probably your age that stood in the way of your 'getting it.' You're too young to have learned English from the Dick and Jane series, as all of us did. B.t. was deconstructing the book but doing it in a way that poked fun both at the book and at deconstruction. "Life in the foreground...

Perhaps it is written in a neocomedic paradigm that I am unfamiliar with.

Very dry wit.

Jnyusa

And it would be so much more fun if the critics of academia knew when to laugh ...

Jnyusa

the Dickjanian family bt, you've coined a word that belongs in Webster's. It foretells a climate change well in advance of the"cool" that became "beat" that became "hip" that became "groovy," and, in the sureness of time, became you and I. You had me at 'groo...

Teremia's observation ties into my own about an otherwise brilliant if very discomortable film: There's nothing wrong at all with depicting the evils of Fascism, but it's more than a little dishonest to portray the Resistance as squeaky-clean whitehat noble freedom fighters. Well, he goes beyond th...

Or everything can be made to seem like nothing, which is sort of what the whole post-modern movement is getting at (the only truth is that there is no truth). Yeah, I feel that this is very much what post-modernism is about. I wish I could figure out what it's revolting against , specifically. Jn

*insert jaw dropping smiley* :scratch: 8) [EDIT IN: Teremia, I went looking for your review while you were posting here! And didn't realize we had cross-posted. Oh well, this sort of answers your point above as well! :oops: ] I went looking for Teremia's review because I know she's into the metapho...

I thought double jeopardy only applied to being tried for the same offense twice. It must happen frequently that someone is ... involved in a robberyin which a victim was shot to death let's say, and charged with the robbery alone until the state has more evidence as to which defendent actually pull...

To Don Rummy: It's the boots on the ground, stupid. All the hitech toys in the world are no substitute for the Mk I Grunt. With this I agree, though I would add that in this situation a lot more of those boots need to be housing the feet of linguists. the British Army is reporting that Taliban forc...

I couldn't get away with that in my syllabus, Lord M. The words 'pseudo-deep' come to mind; imo, you were wise to skip the course.

Jn

Connecticutt is definitely doable!

Thank you, Brigand, for such a thorough summary!

Jn

There was an interesting set of interviews on NPR earlier this week, though an admittedly biased selection of English-speaking Iraqi's who were all well-educated and probably more pro-American than the average Iraqi-in-the-street would be. Not all had a favorable view of "the surge" by any...

The one fellow who basically said that I should have kept my own opinions about the changes to myself (and mind you, I actually toned down my criticisms quite a bit) also made a somewhat snide comment to the effect that if I didn't like Christopher's version of the Silmarillion, I should create my ...

Wow, Oregon must be law abiding! We have criminal cases coming out our ears, and about 100 people show up for jury duty every single day in our county alone. It's SRO in the waiting room, and I've never received a summons without being called in to voir dire. They start at least two new trials every...