hey Plei, if you are going to write that essay, you should look up who said that the definition of the Beautiful was the image of a dead woman. (er, roughly something like that)
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
hey Plei, if you are going to write that essay, you should look up who said that the definition of the Beautiful was the image of a dead woman. (er, roughly something like that)
I am going to write it, but I only have the vaguest familiarity with that.
My memory is very vague, can't bring up the who said it at all, but I'm thinking late Victorian maybe?
It sounds late Victorian.
Google didn't find me much yet, but it DID find me this amazing essay on the notion at hand when applied to Blade Runner: [link]
Wow.
That's... yes. That!
Thank you Bartletts! It's from Edgar Allan Poe: "The death ... of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
Hmm, that link justs gets me to the author's bio.
Hey! I was just about to post that I found that!
Also, that I feel I have lost mass goth points for only having the vague, "Eh? Sounds familiar..." response.
Also, that I feel I have lost mass goth points for only having the vague, "Eh? Sounds familiar..." response.
heh, well me too.
The body-count by sex came up before ages back... I only remember because like most things, it led me to make a spreadsheet. I wonder if I can dig up the conversation.