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To: Luke Skyfreeper
Oh freddled gruntbuggley, thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!

Criticism:
In the first line, we start out as a quasi-Wordsworthian ode a la Grunthos the Flatulent's "Ode to a Lump of Green Putty I Found Under My Armpit One Midsummer Morning." Although micturation might be found in a dictionary, it is redeemed by being a little-known sysnonym of urination. That gruntbuggley is not or should not be alive produces a bleak modernistic image, or something.
The second line contains an interesting parallel. Although this was written in blank verse(I think! One atrociously metered rhyme out of four ain't even a quorum) "plurdled" and "freddled" work very well together. Note comparing the inanimate gruntbuggley with a bee(let's assume it's stinging things) and implying that gabbleblotchits are rather freddled. My inclination is to believe that gabbleblotchits would be mouth-shaped spots too big to be freddled(stained with dots, rusty freckles for machines? Or are the gabbleblotchits what the machine has left?) so perhaps there is a machine that is coughing out liquid that is slowly swelling and taking over or ruining the world. Note how Jeltz feels at home as the world is being destroyed.

75 posted on 05/09/2003 9:06:38 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
Hey, if you didn't understand what I said, then I wasn't talking to you.

There are definitely people out there who understand perfectly what I was talking about, and others who can easily figure it out with a little research.

But granted, I was starting a little bit ahead of "the average bear."

115 posted on 05/09/2003 8:25:13 PM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: js1138
(This was, after all, a thread about the metaphysics and philosophy behind "The Matrix.")
116 posted on 05/09/2003 8:26:47 PM PDT by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: js1138
I have seen this before.
where is it from?
(should I have merely said "whoa... deja vu."?)
132 posted on 05/10/2003 8:18:54 AM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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To: js1138
This is TOO GOOD, and I have NO CLUE what you said.
137 posted on 05/10/2003 9:31:44 AM PDT by jocon307 (i just post without looking now!)
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