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Mon Oct 5, 2009, 2:47 AM
I'm reading Moby-Dick! This line amuses me waaay too much:

"Why it is that all Merchant-seamen, and also all Pirates and Man-of-War's men, and Slave-ship sailors, cherish such a scornful feeling towards Whale-ships; this is a question it would be hard to answer. Because, in the case of pirates, say, I should like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows. And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude. Hence, I conclude, that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on."

I also only just realised that the phrase 'thaaar she blows' refers to whales. NOW IT MAKES SENSE.

Anyway. Yes. Uni has begun again with its usual chaos and disarray and 9am starts. Today it's raining, that kind of blustery autumn drizzle that makes you feel universally cold, and soggy rather than wet. I love how many words the English language has for being damp.

Soggy, wet, damp, moist, soaked, drenched, saturated, dank, sodden, sultry, waterlogged...

  • Mood: Amused
  • Listening to: Depeche Mode - Lilian
  • Reading: Moby Dick, Genesis (42)
  • Watching: Darker than Black
  • Playing: Tales of Monkey Island Episode 3
  • Drinking: Coffeeeeee. :3

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:iconkiraiko44:
is your cepha club still active or no?

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oh noes! :O

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:icontyphun:
Cheers for the Lurk, have one back atcha!


and OMFG you like HG wells!!!!! The Shape of Things to Come was AWESOME, and mildly terrifying considering he wrote it in 1890-something :B

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:iconpspynett:
Thanks! :3

Whoo, rare to find someone who's read anything by him other than War of the Worlds (don't get me started on the movie version...) or the Invisible Man. I've not read Shape of Things to Come yet, but it sounds amazing... Have you read War in the Air? That's similar, written in about 1905 and predicts aerial combat. Such a visionary. <3
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The Tom Cruise film, if you take it as a standalone peice of fiction that has littl or nothing to do with HG Wells, was .....alright. I personally would have backhanded both children across the face within 30 seconds of seeing them myself (("YOU! stop screaming! YOU! Get a Grip, Stop being an emo twatface, pull yur finger out and get on with SURVIVNG!")), But i MUCH prefer Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation.

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When the engine doth stop, and it loses its prop,
and the pilots inclined to resign.
I'll rejoice till I die, that I learned how to fly,
in that old-fasioned Avro of mine!
:iconpspynett:
Ah, the Jeff Wayne one looks so good, I've yet to see it. I don't think any modernisations really work for War of the Worlds; the aliens aren't a threat when you could always just nuke them. It's more fun to go up against them with Victorian policemen and soldiers on horseback. :D
:icontyphun:
Aye, and the way Wells portrays a common soldiers interpretations of what he's jsut seen, trying to describe advanced mechanics in a time wehn it simply did not exist - "They were inside the hoods of, machines they'd made, - massive metal things on legs, taht walked like somebody twisitng a milking stool - picking up men and bashing them against trees, jsut hunks of metal - but it knew exactly what it was doing!" - Its also nice to see that these machines arent invincible - Engagement at weybridge, Thunderchild et al - and thats what makes the defeat of mankind all the more poigniant for me. =)

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When the engine doth stop, and it loses its prop,
and the pilots inclined to resign.
I'll rejoice till I die, that I learned how to fly,
in that old-fasioned Avro of mine!
:iconaniris:
and thank you for watching me~! :3

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:iconkiava:
Thanks for the watch <3

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