I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


flea - Oct 02, 2012 12:45:31 pm PDT #24197 of 30001
information libertarian

That sentence does make sense, but it took me a while to decode it as well, and I am not brain-fogged. It's the use of behold as a verb not in an imperative form that confuses, I think. "But those who have never experienced Wolfe’s hyperkinetic narrative style will [see] within ample measure of the man in full." And the last bit is so foofy.


Gudanov - Oct 02, 2012 12:48:20 pm PDT #24198 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Thanks, JenP. The more the merrier. I like hitting him up for the same word with multiple sentences, especially when I don't have to make them up :).


Kate P. - Oct 02, 2012 12:50:48 pm PDT #24199 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

flea, the way you wrote it is still confusing to me! (The last bit is a reference to the title of another book by Tom Wolfe. But yes, so foofy.)


DebetEsse - Oct 02, 2012 12:54:12 pm PDT #24200 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Flea, are you assuming that there is an implied object for "within"?


Ginger - Oct 02, 2012 12:54:39 pm PDT #24201 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

But those who have never experienced Wolfe’s hyperkinetic narrative style will behold within ample measure of the man in full.

Part of what's confusing is that it took several reads to realize that "behold within" must mean "behold within this book." Of course, Wolfe writes a lot of inexplicable sentences too.


Consuela - Oct 02, 2012 1:03:29 pm PDT #24202 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Part of what's confusing is that it took several reads to realize that "behold within" must mean "behold within this book."

Oh, DUH. That's why I couldn't parse it. I kept tripping over the "of".


brenda m - Oct 02, 2012 1:03:38 pm PDT #24203 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I didn't find it confusing but badly overwritten.

Those who don't know his crazy style will experience it here.

Still bordering on meaningless, IMO.


Kate P. - Oct 02, 2012 1:11:24 pm PDT #24204 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Oh, DUH. That's why I couldn't parse it. I kept tripping over the "of".

Aha! I get it now. Sheesh.

Thanks, y'all.


Sheryl - Oct 02, 2012 1:16:21 pm PDT #24205 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

We had the annual division picture today, followed by individual lab photos. There are two of us in my lab. A third person joined us.


Connie Neil - Oct 02, 2012 1:33:48 pm PDT #24206 of 30001
brillig

There are two of us in my lab. A third person joined us.

It was the Doctor! Establishing his presence in this time line!