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Alex's Grandma

16:02 / 03.08.04

When I came back from the war it was with the thought of becoming a pig farmer, which maybe illustrates what I thought of life in general

Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow

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19:03 / 05.08.04

"When you refuse to give in with all your heart,
only then do you transcend your humanity."
-Alucard

unheimlich manoeuvre

23:25 / 05.08.04

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Kierkegaard

Triplets

21:38 / 08.08.04

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in the rain. Time ... to die.

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05:43 / 09.08.04

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die.

WTF?!

Who said that?! David Icke on DMT?

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:10 / 09.08.04

"You're 15 years old, aren't you? It's okay, you can admit it. You're 15, and your parents don't have a telly and don't buy newspapers. I understand. We all understand. We accept you. Just stop lying about your age."

- Me.

pointless and uncalled for

08:45 / 09.08.04

"The only substitute for good manners is quick reflexes."

- Anon

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14:58 / 09.08.04

Bastard Tweed

17:20 / 09.08.04

Yes, banana, it was. I think he was referring to his own generational abhorrence that you didn't recognize the greatest line in Blade Runner and one of the grooviest soliloquies in recent film history. The only explanation for which that he could conceive of is that you can't be a day older than fifteen.

And you have no telly.

Dude, you just got barbelith served.

Grey Area

17:50 / 09.08.04

"We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing."

Das war ein Vorspiel nur,
dort wo Man Bücher verbrennt,
verbrennt Man am Ende auch Menschen.
- Heinrich Heine
(That was merely a prelude. Wherever books are burnt, eventually they will burn people too)

Char Aina

18:34 / 09.08.04

its true.
in this country, like all civilised countries who love fereedom and pretty flowers, we force our young to watch blade runner on their sixteenth birthday.
usually this is done with the eyelids stapled to the forehead and head locked in position, while the lucky adolescent recieves oral sex and a pie.

maybe rob is just from somewhere foreign.

like wales.

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19:10 / 09.08.04

Nope, i've seen it twice, it was years ago though and i don't remember the line.

Grey Area

19:17 / 09.08.04

You don't remember the...what? It's only the climax of the feckin' movie!

...honestly, the youth of today.

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19:36 / 09.08.04

What? So is that what Rutger Hauer says right at the end?

So he was a ****** from there then i guess. (* for those that haven't seen it)

I'll hopefully watch that again and i'll like it a lot more, i do remember it being a really good film.

Except for the ending, i rememeber it being too sad.

< !- Barbelith mauling appears next -->

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19:37 / 09.08.04

*Too sad dammit! TOO SAD!!!*

Tezcatlipoca

19:42 / 09.08.04

"No, it’s better to live on your feet than die on your knees."

- The old Italian corrects Nately's usage of the famous quote, from Jospeh Heller's Catch-22.

Cat Chant

10:18 / 10.08.04

Here is a good quote I discovered today, by Nils Bohr, which my girlfriend immediately said should be barbelith's motto:

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.

(Sadly I found it in an incredibly bad Young Adult novel, whose author should have taken her own advice on about four hundred occasions. But it's still a good quote.)

(And banana: I'm not 15 and my parents do have a telly and I don't remember Bladerunner at all, because it was so boring, so you just hang in there.)

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:21 / 10.08.04

I wasn't really talking about Bladerunner.

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14:52 / 10.08.04

Ah i think i get it. It was the way i typed the message with the 'WTF?!' and the '!?' probably. I just made myself look silly.

I've just been reading Flyboys mind, that's why i think i know.

And if i'm wrong, i got the wrong mind.

Or did i?!?!?!? WTF!?!?!

*must..........log.........off............*

Char Aina

18:28 / 10.08.04

its because he fancies you.
wait for it, he'll being saying you've got fat thighs and big feet soon.

its all part of his plan to fool himself into not being chock full o'those RobFrost yearnings.

unheimlich manoeuvre

23:19 / 10.08.04

[threarot]
now what i'm wondering is, is there any connection between Tanhauser gate (Bladerunner quote), barbelith's own Haus and Wagner's Tannhauser?
[/threadrot]

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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

-Kahil Gibran

TK 2004

18:18 / 13.08.04

""Eat dessert first, Life is uncertain" -Anonymous

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." -Freya Stark

bio k9

01:53 / 19.08.04

"An ox is strong as a motherfucker and all he eats is grass."

-the RZA

unheimlich manoeuvre

14:31 / 18.09.04

“Nihil magis praestandum est, quam ne pecorum ritu sequamur antecedentium gregem, pergentes, non qua eundum est, sed qua itur.”
No name, however famous, should it oppose the discovery of truth, is to be held of any value; the track of reason is the only one for us to follow in.

Seneca via Kant

Benny the Ball

08:40 / 19.09.04

All through the day, I, me, mine, I, me, mine, I, me, mine...

George Harrison

Benny the Ball

09:02 / 19.09.04

The Son of God is not a monkey, Larry.

From Curb Your Enthusiasm

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22:46 / 19.09.04

"If you tighten the string too much it will snap; and if you leave it too slack, it won't play."

Buddha

unheimlich manoeuvre

23:33 / 12.11.04

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

pornotaxi

18:57 / 13.11.04

Where have I seen you before!
'Same place you saw me, I expect
I've got a good face for memories'

- Devoto, Philadelphia

Lord Morgue

00:51 / 14.11.04

"You are so going to get your fucking head beat in! Even if you suddenly desisted and lived out the rest of your life in utterly peaceful coexistence with your fellow man and the majority of nature, I would still beat your ass just to test the full extent of my enormous fucking power."

--Karate Snoopy

Regrettable Juvenilia

00:59 / 14.11.04

"I'm gonna be like a bird... I'm gonna live on birdseed!"

- staying on the run from the law, the Ol' Dirty Bastard way.

Papess

23:32 / 23.11.04

"I am the Illuminati! I can be nice or naughty!"

- Jim Carrey on the Oprah Show

Pants Payroll

03:09 / 24.11.04

"Don't ask me why I obsessively look to rock and roll bands as some kind of model for a better society. I guess it's just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for a prophecy, have been seeking its fulfillment ever since" --Lester Bangs

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07:10 / 13.12.04

Another one from Hunter S Thompson :

'The Great Scorer will like that story - and when he adds it in with the others, he will know that he is dealing with a warrior.'

sine

05:10 / 14.12.04

"Subtle, subtle, subtle. Its all very subtle, but you have to say it three times."

T. Bradley Richards

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