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Forum in English / Re: "The Hunt" -> US television?

« dnia: Września 12, 2005, 05:03:43 am »

I never saw Titanic.

Please don't tell me that this is a SciFi Channel production.  They can ruin anything, no matter whom they hire to do it.  
Oh...I just checked your link and I see that it is indeed the dastardly SciFi Channel at it again.  I wish they would go back to playing re-runs of Star Trek for nine hours a day.

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Forum in English / Re: Inspired by Stanislaw Lem

« dnia: Września 12, 2005, 04:54:01 am »

That`ll fligh to space without the wings

I don't know if you just meant to say 'fly,' but your 'fligh' adds a connotation of weightlessness--it associates your journey to space with sigh, weigh, light, and other breathy 'gh' words.  For some reason, it also made me read the rest of the poem with an Irish accent.

I have nothing but encouragement to offer anyone brave enough to share their work.

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Forum in English / Re: "There are no answers. There are only Cho

« dnia: Sierpnia 29, 2005, 07:13:54 am »

It is the little dash ( - ) between them that is important. That little dash represents the years he lived.

Well, that just blew my mind.  During one of my stints in graduate school, I wrote a seminar paper on the hyphenated terms (politico-feminine is one I remember) used to discuss Nietzsche.  I don't remember much of it, except that I concluded that the hyphen (-) correlated to the 'uber' within the concept of the ubermensch.  As such it represented the crossing-over of the Abyss, and the lifelong commitment of the ubermensch to active nihilism.  That concept has since continued to rattle around in the back of my mind, and I always pay suspicious attention to hyphens.  Your reading of the hyphen as a representation of a man's life almost brings me to belive in the collective unconscoius!  Is it possible that my graduate work exists somewhere in the aether?

And to cckeiser, your argument has convinced me...I'm going to watch Solaris with your comments in mind.   Have you, by chance, read much of Richard Feynman?  

I apologize for posting to a thread that has been dormant, but I only just discovered it for myself.

AFK