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Title: Surrealness
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on November 13, 2004, 03:46:17 AM: So i was thinking today on my way home, being very tired and listening to "Flood", and I was wondering why we (I) like things that are very surreal - I mean, I know why off-the-wall things are funny. If you're expecting one thing and you get another, that's funny.

I think there's some kind of thrill of hearing words put together in a combination that's never been used before.

I mean, THINK of the enormity- the english language as we know it has been around for like 500 years at least or something and yet until 1990 I bet no one ever uttered the sentence "Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads." I mean - WOW. Of the millions of english-speaking people who have lived, it has to take real work to come up with a new sentence that hasn't been used before!

And so, I think Gemm is an artist.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: JP Dogberry on November 13, 2004, 03:55:20 AM: Across the merry halls, do waver many times
For many soldiers falling forward, braving quantam stories
A storm bethroes, it's quieting chitter bereaving stonings past
An olive ocelet licks it's lips, contaminating future's bride.

Yeah, I can pump out surrealistic nonsense all day. The thing is, unlike Gemm, I can also pump out rational words.

But yeah, Surrealness is awesome.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on November 13, 2004, 04:26:23 AM: Yes but you don't do it the same way he does.

You can string random words together to mean nothing, but there's a kind of sanity in the madness of not making sense but still making sense.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: JP Dogberry on November 13, 2004, 04:48:05 AM: Hang on...How does Gemm still make sense?

Now that's a surreal idea.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 13, 2004, 08:42:12 AM: yeah, a lot of people can string out nonsense and the surreal. But you have to admit, Gemm does it with flare. In a way that no one else can copy. If William Burroughs is a great writer (imo, no, he isn't) than Gemm is a friggin genius.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 13, 2004, 11:25:18 AM: Oh my. Well, thank you? But I can't really take all the credit. I'm just the product of self-graditude as portrayed by the John's. I don't really try to do what I do, but I let it go anyways.

But yeah.... thanks I believe.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Entsuropi on November 13, 2004, 12:31:53 PM: /me stabs gemm with the sharpened corner of a hardback copy of RoTK
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: JP Dogberry on November 13, 2004, 08:19:54 PM: No, Entropy, it's supposed to be surreal.

/me stabs Gemm with the acheing sorrows of a thousand screaming matchsticks.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Entsuropi on November 13, 2004, 08:24:22 PM: /me parries... and wins.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 13, 2004, 11:56:48 PM: Man, you guys slay me like no Iron maiden can.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on November 15, 2004, 06:01:54 AM: The only way to fight Gem is with mundanity.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Oldie Black Witch on November 18, 2004, 12:10:33 PM: Nice choice of weapon there, Ent.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Entsuropi on November 18, 2004, 12:30:43 PM: Yep. I would have used the silmarrion, but its not usually in hardback :(
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Oldie Black Witch on November 18, 2004, 12:40:46 PM: If you could find a hardback copy of the Silmarillion, you wouldn't need to sharpen a corner. It's usually heavy enough in prose that it'd just work as a great bludgeon.
Title: Re: Surrealness
Post by: Entsuropi on November 18, 2004, 01:04:37 PM: Really? My copies of the silmarrion are rather slim. Though admittedly they are next to the hardback LOTR's.