are you fricking kidding! swift = aggggggggggggggAxtech wrote:OMG We're reading that for English! I love Swift. A Modest Proposal is probably one of the best things I've ever read.
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oh, readings for school count? alright, add 'the great gatsby' to my list. i despise this book with a passion already, and now i'm being forced to analyze it. ugh.
"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
i read almost all of the great gatsby, but didn't have the willpower to finish it 
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Gatsby is good!Sonya wrote:oh, readings for school count? alright, add 'the great gatsby' to my list. i despise this book with a passion already, and now i'm being forced to analyze it. ugh.
I don't think I really enjoyed it when I was reading it, but it really made sense of the whole midwest-hometown thing. I never really understood the politics behind that until I read that book. And then there is the entire debate about being victims of circumstance. Which I had never realy thought about until I read that book. And then there was the whole "omg affairs and scandal!" thing that made reading a book like that in school, awesome. There is so much subltly to Gatsby that I love.
There is just something about it that I like when I think about it. Like how every character is presented as an idiot. But then they arn't. But then you find out they really are. Its good stuff.
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Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
Hope wrote:are you fricking kidding! swift = aggggggggggggggAxtech wrote:OMG We're reading that for English! I love Swift. A Modest Proposal is probably one of the best things I've ever read.
WHAT?! He's awesome! The very prospect of writing an essay declairing that the way to solve Ireland's poverty and famine problems by harvesting and eating children? Brilliant!
"Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed, and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken to ease the nation of so grievous an encumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the young laborers, they are now in as hopeful a condition"
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^^ me too. i had to write my own modest proposal in grade 8. i forget what i wrote about, though.
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hahaha
I just came back to this thread to post that I'm reading Swift to prepare for my exam tomorrow, and the last convo in here was the last time I mentioned Swift!
Anyways, I'm reading Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In Ireland From Being A Burden To Their Parents Or Country, And For Making Them Beneficial To The Public"
I just came back to this thread to post that I'm reading Swift to prepare for my exam tomorrow, and the last convo in here was the last time I mentioned Swift!
Anyways, I'm reading Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In Ireland From Being A Burden To Their Parents Or Country, And For Making Them Beneficial To The Public"
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
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ooh I haven't read that in years!! I wonder if I still have that somewhere... I've moved so many times in the last few years I don't know where anything is anymore.afealicious wrote:i'm reading The Princess Bride again.
<I><B>"I know this sounds corny, and I might be a little bit drunk, but honest to god, thank you everybody"</B></I>
my english lit class read that last week. i couldn't stop giggling through the entire thing.Axtech wrote:hahaha
I just came back to this thread to post that I'm reading Swift to prepare for my exam tomorrow, and the last convo in here was the last time I mentioned Swift!
Anyways, I'm reading Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In Ireland From Being A Burden To Their Parents Or Country, And For Making Them Beneficial To The Public"
"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
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Okay, firstly I LOVE GATSBY. Seriously. Love it.
And...I just finished "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, and it was really really good. So different from his other work, but really goood.
And now I'm reading "Requiem For A Dream" by Hubert Selby jr. (again) <3 this book.
And...I just finished "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, and it was really really good. So different from his other work, but really goood.
And now I'm reading "Requiem For A Dream" by Hubert Selby jr. (again) <3 this book.
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<b> "well i'm not sleeping, you're not here"</b><br>
"and the lonliness leads to bad dreams, and the <b>bad dreams lead me to calling you</b>, and i call you and say...<i>come here</i>"
