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This might be the most meaningless thread ever.
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I believe the artistic symbolism here is one of a break. A deliberate end and simultaneous reawakening of both meaningless drivel and one quiz at a time. The clear subtext being a sharp chastisement of those who would seek to debase one quiz at a time by constant iteration of a single theme. This is the port forum's Demoiselles D'Avignon moment.

Bravo!

The revisionist approach will of course be to consider it a development of the punctuation motif between Julian and Daniel on apostrophe crimes. I would not respect such opinions.
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I merely put this down to the mischievous nature of deus ex machina as opposed to some post existentialist twaddle. Or even some form of user error.
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No, I'm sorry Alex, you have completely misinterpreted your work.
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Alex: being an inspired creator does not necessarily mean that you a brilliant interpreter.

Indeed, the general technique is to tax the creators, give their loot to academics, who can then witter on about post-Marxist feminist contexualisation.
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I think you've all misunderstood what Owen was saying.

Basically:

Is this a caesura, with the potential to recommence after a drawing of breath, or a full stop, final, black, inevitable, inexorable?

If it is a mere break, is it just a tired, derivative stylistic interruption, or is it genuinely some kind of innovation (as Owen intimates, with Alex as some sort of unwitting Port Savant, like the caveman drawing Scrabble letters out of the bag in the Hitchhiker's Guide)?

And has it been getting bigger? Is it just me or does it seem to be filling more and more of the screen? I mean, I can't see anything else now, just a full stop, the end, The End, nothing else. The bottle is empty.
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jdaw1 wrote:Indeed, the general technique is to tax the creators, give their loot to academics, who can then witter on about post-Marxist feminist contexualisation.
Being both a creator and an academic has its merits. Poacher, meet gamekeeper. Oh I think we've already met.
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AHB wrote:some post existentialist twaddle.
jdaw1 wrote: witter on about post-Marxist feminist contexualisation.
I too should like to give my full backing to 'common sense'. Enough of actually thinking about things.
djewesbury wrote:If it is a mere break, is it just a tired, derivative stylistic interruption.
Bit harsh on Alex, still you have to take the reviews you get.
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To be fair, it's thinking about things that got us in this mess in the first place. Let's just be, and do. So much more vivifying, so much more now.
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LGTrotter wrote:
AHB wrote:some post existentialist twaddle.
jdaw1 wrote: witter on about post-Marxist feminist contexualisation.
I too should like to give my full backing to 'common sense'. Enough of actually thinking about things.
I'm worried that Julian's paper tiger might be about to knock over Alex's straw man. But because they spent their philosophy class flicking snot at the teacher, neither of them will know what to do when it happens.
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djewesbury wrote:But because they spent their philosophy class flicking snot at the teacher, neither of them will know what to do when it happens.
Libel. I have never taken a philosophy class.
djewesbury wrote:I'm worried that Julian's paper tiger might be about to knock over Alex's straw man.
Mao used the term “paper tiger” to refer to US Imperialism (how tiresome), and, more prophetically, to nuclear weapons.
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djewesbury wrote:so much more now.
But we are Port drinkers. We care about the distant past and distant future. All this “now” business is for the ‘yoof’ of today.
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djewesbury wrote:To be fair,
I never said anything about fair.
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jdaw1 wrote:Indeed, the general technique is to tax the creators, give their loot to academics, who can then witter on about post-Marxist feminist contexualisation.
Being both a creator and an academic has its merits. Poacher, meet gamekeeper. Oh I think we've already met.
Isn't there another poacher turned gamekeeper from the department of madeupology on this thread?
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jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:so much more now.
But we are Port drinkers. We care about the distant past and distant future. All this “now” business is for the ‘yoof’ of today.
Rubbish. Now is simply the distant past and the distant future viewed through a break in the mirror.
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jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:But because they spent their philosophy class flicking snot at the teacher, neither of them will know what to do when it happens.
Libel. I have never taken a philosophy class.
djewesbury wrote:I'm worried that Julian's paper tiger might be about to knock over Alex's straw man.
Mao used the term “paper tiger” to refer to US Imperialism (how tiresome), and, more prophetically, to nuclear weapons.
If you'd attended Logic & Reasoning 101 instead of drinking behind the SCR with Alex you'd have been warned away from non-sequiturs.
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jdaw1 wrote:
djewesbury wrote:so much more now.
But we are Port drinkers. We care about the distant past and distant future. All this “now” business is for the ‘yoof’ of today.
Couldn't agree more Julian. Will Self was making this point only the other day (not about port though).
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LGTrotter wrote:Couldn't agree more Julian.
Could someone check Julian hasn't fainted.
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I was merely trying to create a visual representation of what a port bottle would look like when reduced to a single dimension. I have now refined my earlier attempt and am pleased with the improvement.
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You are filthy; this is clearly a representation of 'o' from 'the story of o'.
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LGTrotter wrote:You are filthy; this is clearly a representation of 'o' from 'the story of o'.
No it's not. How could you suggest such a thing? I am referring to the prequel to Life of Pi.
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AHB wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:You are filthy; this is clearly a representation of 'o' from 'the story of o'.
No it's not. How could you suggest such a thing? I am referring to the prequel to Life of Pi.
Yeah right, you're dressed as an owl this minute, go on, admit it.
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LGTrotter wrote:Yeah right, you're dressed as an owl this minute, go on, admit it.
Does anyone know if Alex has ever dressed as an owl?
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LGTrotter wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Yeah right, you're dressed as an owl this minute, go on, admit it.
Does anyone know if Alex has ever dressed as an owl?
I think I have been on holiday with AHB at least ten times. I can say with all honesty, I couldn't possibly comment.
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