A wonderful fact to reflect upon, (473 hits)
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Submitted by Charles Dickens (View user info) at 2006-09-29 10:32:55 EDT
that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter the city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundred of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page. It was appointed that the water be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my lovr, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexhorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?
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Submitted by Samo (user info) at 2006-09-30 11:18:01 EDT (#)
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You are a ray of sunshine
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-09-30 06:25:20 EDT (#)
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A bit abbreviated, but good writing.
Screw the paragraph-needy, I can take it. Hell I read Joyce: whole pages w/o a comma or even a period. (Funny, if Virginia Wolfe, James Joyce or Faulkner posted here, they'd be -2ed. You're in some fine company.)
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-09-29 20:57:57 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Samo (user info) at 2006-09-29 20:36:37 EDT (#)
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ten hours
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-09-29 20:32:15 EDT (#)
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Well, it's 'A Tale of Two Cities', but you ain't Charlie so you get a quote:
"It was the best of -2imes, it was the worst of -2imes."
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-09-29 20:31:53 EDT (#)
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Well, it's 'A Tale of Two Cities', but you ain't Charlie so you get a quote:
It was the best of -2imes, it was the worst of -2imes."
Submitted by consuelo212 (user info) at 2006-09-29 15:48:22 EDT (#)
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Looks pretty plagiarized to me.
Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2006-09-29 15:37:36 EDT (#)
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What's that say?
No bare feet?
No fighting?
No coloreds?
What?
Submitted by marginwalker (user info) at 2006-09-29 12:58:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Constipated text or not - the message is lovely.
Submitted by Samo (user info) at 2006-09-29 11:03:18 EDT (#)
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Never you mind what it is!
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-09-29 10:59:28 EDT (#)
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Nice block of words, fuckhead.
Submitted by Beano312003 (user info) at 2006-09-29 10:42:50 EDT (#)
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"Quick everyone run away from the block of text.....
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES !! ! ! !! "
Submitted by Nancypants (user info) at 2006-09-29 10:42:17 EDT (#)
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Worth reading (+0)
Submitted by Samo (user info) at 2006-09-29 10:39:19 EDT (#)
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Undoubtedly it was
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-09-29 10:36:33 EDT (#)
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Nice cutting and pasting you did there.