I don't know this one.
1984.
But this must be Fahrenheit 451, right?
Yep.
Man, you just get darker and darker, and the weird thing is, your aura? Beige.
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Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:15:58 am PST #6642 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kate P. - Dec 16, 2004 5:17:25 am PST #6643 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, right. I read 1984 probably ten years ago.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 16, 2004 5:27:18 am PST #6644 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
No clue.
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:29:23 am PST #6645 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wow. I haven't even heard of that.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2004 5:31:22 am PST #6646 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's the famousest albino.
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2004 5:32:15 am PST #6647 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought that was the guy with the wheelbarrow in The Princess Bride.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2004 5:33:48 am PST #6648 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Paleface-come-lately, him.
JohnSweden - Dec 16, 2004 5:36:51 am PST #6649 of 10002
I can't even.
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné if I'm not mistaken.
Yup, the Melvinbone. Pretty influential stuff. There's also that "O, Prince" line that starts off Conan the Barbarian.
dcp - Dec 16, 2004 5:43:04 am PST #6650 of 10002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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Jim - Dec 16, 2004 5:47:39 am PST #6651 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
SF/=Fantasy. Otherwise you have to argue with "OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree..." and you lose , bitca.