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  1. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    'when he finally calmed down, he threw his arms wide open and said, "Well, friends of that most hateful enemy of mine, Sonic the Hedgehog" - at which everyone in the room cheered - "I, the most brilliant mind on Mobius, the greatly distinguished and eggstroadinarily brilliant Dr Ivo Robotnik" - at which everyone hissed - "have finally built the weapon to destroy him completely. But before he gets his once and for all, I am going to test it on you! I shall now give you a short eggsegesis of my theory."'

    Sonic the Hedgehog in Dr Robotnik's Laboratory [Martin Adams]
     
  2. Roffa

    Roffa Senior Member

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    controversial stuff that!

    P-P, I've been away from home for a few days and am starting to suspect you've been raiding my bookshelves ...
     
  3. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    Hahaha, I never expected anyone else would have Calhoun's volume on Habermas. What drew you to the book? Did you study sociology, or was it general interest reading?
     
  4. Roffa

    Roffa Senior Member

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    Well, I got into Habermas via my original specialism of linguistics - I was interested in his notion of "communicative competence". I think I got that particular book because it was going cheap at Sandpiper Books in Brighton.
     
  5. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    " The tintinabulation of the Bells, drove Poe insane; he stabbed himself to death with a state-controlled raven."

    The Little Pot Boiler [Spike Milligan]
     
  6. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    "In delusional speech the Other is truly excluded, there is no truth behind, there is so little truth that the subject places none there himself, and in the face of this phenomenon, this ultimately raw phenomenon, his attitude is one of perplexity."

    Jacques Lacan, "The Psychoses" p.53:stunned:
     
  7. Raskalization

    Raskalization Making plans for Nigel

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    Spike laughed and raised the glass of Bank's bitter, halting it an inch from his lips. - cheers Bob, he grinned, his deep-set eyes furrowing into one narrow slit which looked like a mouth, moy all your problems be small uns!

    Irvine Welsh- Ecstasy/Wolverhampton 1963
     
  8. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    "Turning around, trying to make it to the big doors to the doors trying to mkae it to the doors being dragged under trying to make it to the doors dragged under when a bouncer beam swoops down on waves of ice and all the dancers around are stuck sudden on full freeze and I'm caught in the same cold crush jungle slow-motion overload and running now like tepid flesh smoke too much fucking glitch in my system! straight into the arms of corporate security with the MC's voice booming over the speakers...
    It's soundclash time!"

    Homo Karaoke (short story 12), Pixel Juice [ Jeff Noon]
     
  9. Roffa

    Roffa Senior Member

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    "The difficulty of Western military forces maintaing control over the Middle East was great in 1920. But it has increased over this century. Almost exactly seventy years before Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait, British troops were fighting a widespread rebellion in Mesopotamia, as Iraq was then known. Even at that time, military experts were privately concerned that the costs of projecting power into a hostile Middle East would prove too high."

    The Great Reckoning - How the World will Change before the Year 2000, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg, 1992.
     
  10. Peace-Phoenix

    Peace-Phoenix Senior Member

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    "What was appropriate for Muhammad's community in the seventh century CE must be appropriate for all communities to come, regardless of the circumstances."

    Reza Aslan - No God But God

    p162

    - Important to note he's criticising this position, not supporting it....
     
  11. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    "During the course of the day her menstrual blood had begun to flow, and what she had taken previously as a matter of course now filled her with unfamiliar feelings."

    The Chymical Wedding [Lindsay Clarke]
     
  12. mellowthyme

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    As a teacher and painter Klee was invariably conscientious, painstaking and well-prepared.

    Bauhaus, Frank Whitford.
     
  13. Roffa

    Roffa Senior Member

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    Adverb phrases do not appear in predicative position.

    - Nigel Fabb, Sentence Structure.
     
  14. CrucifiedDreams

    CrucifiedDreams Members

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    "You can do a lot to a person - you can utterly destroy a person - all without leaving a single visible mark."

    Adbusters
     
  15. lithium

    lithium frogboy

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    "She looked around this place they'd never fully moved into - had they? - so why this sad feeling of imminent goodbye?"

    Thomas Pynchon, "Vineland" p.89
     
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    CrucifiedDreams Members

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    "All of these outcomes in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq could have been foreseen and almost certainly were"

    Adbusters
     
  17. mellowthyme

    mellowthyme Member

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    This is for real. The first book and page I looked at.

    masturbate v.t./i. stimulates the genitals (of) manually. masturbation n.

    Pg 310. The Oxford minidictionary, second edition compiled Joyce M Hawkins. Printed 1988.


    You know, that's gave me a creative an practical idea.[​IMG]
     
  18. Roffa

    Roffa Senior Member

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    I remember when I was at school looking up "masturbation" in the dictionary and it said "Bodily self-pollution". I'm not kidding - this was a long time ago mind.
     
  19. phoenix_indigo

    phoenix_indigo dreadfully real

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    Seriously opened to here ... not makin it up. ;)


    "[Even in] the disco when Lexo nodded ower at her dancin and sais tae ays: - That ****'s ours the night, I just thought it wis like, wishful thinkin."

    pg [180] 181 Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
     
  20. fountains of nay

    fountains of nay Planet Nayhem!

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    "Respond to the following, using take something off and the information in brackets in an appropriate way in each case"

    Really learn 100 Phrasal Verbs [Oxford University Press]

    (I'm not learning phrasals...I have to teach them this week!)
     

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