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Bonaventure
Jun 23, 2005

by sebmojo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdWlPz5ixk

happier days...

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Bonaventure
Jun 23, 2005

by sebmojo

loddite posted:


So I never really something awfuled.

... I don't get about 98% of the lore of this site because of that. Also gotta say, I've looked at some old articles from back in the day and I *really* don't get what people are talking about with all this comedy genius stuff.

Anyway my primary exposure to Lowtax and SA culture was gaming garbage. I ate that poo poo up.

found Matthew Gault's account

Bonaventure
Jun 23, 2005

by sebmojo
back in the early 2000s, i used to laugh at things, and smile. i whip myself with a cat-o-nine-tails at matins and vespers each day, but i know that neither the blood i shed nor the thorn-braided hairshirt i wear can ever make up for what i did

Bonaventure
Jun 23, 2005

by sebmojo

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

He was funny at times, sure - especially with something rehearsed. That doesn't mean that he has to be forgiven for what he did later on.

If you want to practice death of the author, that's your prerogative of course - but at the very least, it seems to me to be a good idea to say that that's what you're doing?

you do not know what “death of the author” means

Bonaventure
Jun 23, 2005

by sebmojo

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

Well, I'm not completely sure about it, but so far as I remember, it's a concept in literary criticism which dictates that only what's in the text can be used to judge an authors work.

if by “judge” you mean interpret

quote:

other times it gets used to divorce the author from their work in case it turns out the author is a right prick.

:wrong:

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