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|    Message 902 of 1,564    |
|    John W. Kennedy to Paul Harper    |
|    Re: JMS ( babylon 5 ) experiences the st    |
|    05 Aug 06 18:20:24    |
      XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.movies.current-films       XPost: rec.arts.sf.written       From: jwkenne@attglobal.net              Paul Harper wrote:       > Troy.Heagy@gmail.com wrote:       >> Paul Harper wrote:       >>> dialogue is some of the shittiest exposition I have every had to listen       >>> to. When his characters were *supposed* to be making speeches, then       >>> fine, but even when they weren't, they were *still* making speeches.       >> Sounds like Shakespeare. He did alright (or so I'm told).       >       > We have progress. At least in that posting you admit you don't know       > what you are talking about.       >       > And anyone who thinks that...       >       > "A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy       > state of Rome, a little ere the mightiest Julius fell, the graves stood       > tenantless, and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman       > streets; as stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, disasters in       > the sun; and the moist star upon whose influence Neptune's empire       > stands was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse."       >       > is comparable to...       >       > "Get the hell out of our Galaxy"       >       > Has lost his mind some considerable distance beyond redemption.              A) You need to learn the difference between verse and prose, which makes       you a moron.              B) You're cherry-picking, which makes you a weasel.              C) In the context of your own premise, the above example is completely       irrelevant, which makes you insane.              None of which, of course, are your /real/ problem, which is that you're       nothing but a fanboy who was disappointed when his idol didn't dance to       his fantune. Like many another such fanboy in such a situation, you've       simply gone rabid.              (Si parva licet componere magnis, Dorothy L. Sayers believed that       something of the sort is the theory that best explains Judas....)              --       John W. Kennedy       "The blind rulers of Logres       Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."        -- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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