SubJeff on 3/5/2007 at 02:29
Cause I think it's it's own colour. Individual. Yes, I know what colours it's made of but it's not like Yellow, which sometimes wants to be Green (as Blue does) or Red which is trying too hard to be Orange, and sometimes Pink :eww: . Black and White are just happy being, and Grey is happy being a mongrel (so happy it relishes being dirty, just like Brown).
But Purple guys, there isn't enough of it around. Everything else gets its fair share and from where I'm sitting I can't even see Purple anywhere.
belboz on 3/5/2007 at 03:45
Play lord of the rings on line, you'll see plenty of purple there.:ebil:
Telliamed on 3/5/2007 at 06:16
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Cause I think it's it's own colour. Individual. Yes, I
know what colours it's made
of but it's not like Yellow, which sometimes wants to be Green (as Blue does) or Red which is trying too hard to be Orange, and sometimes Pink :eww: . Black and White are just happy being, and Grey is happy being a mongrel (so happy it relishes being dirty, just like Brown).
I think I'll go watch Reservoir Dogs.
Fingernail on 3/5/2007 at 09:51
Quote Posted by Telliamed
I think I'll go watch Reservoir Dogs.
Telliamed, every time I read your signature it makes me wonder if you're quoting from Wagner's libretto to Tristan und Isolde or from TS Eliot's quotation of the line in The Waste Land?
I mean, obviously it's both at once, and obviously to read the poem is to discover the source of the quote, but I just wondered whether you saw the opera and thought "aha!" or read the poem and thought "aha!" first. I don't know why this sort of thing interests me.
I suspect it's more from the poem, though, because it's a famous work, and on the other hand, not many people sit down and study an opera libretto, especially one so lengthy and German.
Kolya on 3/5/2007 at 10:38
There was also a girl running around here (I think it was a girl) with another line from (
http://eliotswasteland.tripod.com/) TS Eliot's Waste Land: "Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch."
Telliamed on 4/5/2007 at 01:36
Both, really. I had hear the opera first, and though I don't care much for Wagner's music, Tristan and Isolde is one I can listen to. (Haven't heard it in a while... now that you bring it up I'm gonna have to find it again.)
Then I read the poem, and I think that was what I thinking of when I wrote the sig. I actually was about to use the preceding line ("... I will show you fear in a handful of dust") but that's what everyone quotes. This is a while ago, and lately I've considered changing it, but haven't been struck by anything significant and am too lazy to think about it very much.
I've got a mp3 of Eliot reading some of the lines, pretty neat. Not sure where it came from.
Aerothorn on 4/5/2007 at 04:07
Incidentally, a friend of mine is knitting me a Prince of All Cosmos hat in exchange for 8 games I gave her.
I will be the most popular person in college.
