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« on: December 25, 2009, 04:56:25 am » |
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OMG, all kinds of AUGH and SQUEE and EEEEEK, and much cause for heading straight for the FRTFO bench. I have only one question. Slow and savage, Todd smiled. "At last! My right arm is complete again!" Which Todd, Sol or Sweeney? |
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« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2009, 07:46:34 am » |
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Well, Sol has probably *seen* Sweeney....
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2009, 12:07:10 am » |
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I'm right over here on the FRTFO bench. I have cookies. My sugar cookie recipe makes a standard metric fuckton of cookies. I will share with everyone on the FRTFO bench.
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"We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins."
K. E. Gordon - The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Eager, the Innocent and the Doomed
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2009, 12:45:29 am » |
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Well, Sol has probably *seen* Sweeney....
I wouldn't be surprised. He knows everyone. It's odd phrasing though, invalidating both my off-the-cuff (heh) guesses. If it were a matter of his missing finger, it would be "hand", not "arm". If it were a reference to Eddie Cieslewicz, perhaps a some sort of possession, it would be the left arm. Like most of the rest of the puzzle-pieces, I will hold it in my mind, awaiting the pleasure of seeing it fit into place at the appropriate time. Or, with luck and cleverness, just before the appropriate time. |
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2009, 12:47:33 am » |
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(Sol's left hand is the maimed one. *g*)
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Chaz: "As if puberty weren't stressful enough."
Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2009, 12:50:14 am » |
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(Sol's left hand is the maimed one. *g*)
See? He's so deft with it, I couldn't even remember which hand it was. Doubly inappropriate idea, then. (Though now I've got this idea about Sweeny Todd and what happened to Sol's hand...) |
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2009, 01:25:45 am » |
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1) Am I missing something? You're not talking about "on faith", so where is this season 3 promo?
2) Knowing nothing of the context, my first thought was the scene in Niven's Footfall, when the captives got a hold of weapons at the end. The quote was obviously from something, but I'd never researched it, so a quick search gets me the Sweeney Todd references. Which overwhelm the search engines. Was Sweeney Todd quoting someone?
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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2009, 01:30:22 am » |
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Go back to "On Faith", click on Next Season On Shadow Unit... at the end. If you can take it!
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"I was waiting for the dotted yellow. I'm not Chaz." It was a rich, hallucinatory web of geometry...
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MadGastronomer
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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2009, 04:03:14 am » |
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Well, I dunno about the context in SU, but in Sweeney Todd, Sweeney says that line upon taking up his silver-chased razors again after many years without them.
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« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2009, 11:49:58 am » |
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2) Knowing nothing of the context, my first thought was the scene in Niven's Footfall, when the captives got a hold of weapons at the end. The quote was obviously from something, but I'd never researched it, so a quick search gets me the Sweeney Todd references. Which overwhelm the search engines. Was Sweeney Todd quoting someone?
Not that I know of; on the other hand, Footfall was set (and written) well after the musical Sweeney Todd came out, so I suspect the humans aboard were quoting the musical. |
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"Suddenly one of my great satisfactions in life is knowing I'm not a character in an Anne Rice novel." - Hafidha |
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« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2009, 12:12:24 pm » |
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Thanks, I found it.
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batwrangler
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« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2009, 01:04:35 pm » |
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Thanks, I found it.
wimper
I refuse to let the promo make me whimper, on the grounds that it's pretty much all out of context and designed so that it can be easily misinterpreted. (Did that sound convincing? Is this thing still on...?) |
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« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2009, 03:22:19 pm » |
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(Sol's left hand is the maimed one. *g*)
Oh fsck ohfsckohfsckohfsck I'll be over here on the FRTFO bench, because I was afraid of that. |
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« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2009, 06:24:12 pm » |
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I refuse to let the promo make me whimper, on the grounds that it's pretty much all out of context and designed so that it can be easily misinterpreted. (Did that sound convincing? Is this thing still on...?)
That's entirely convincing given the history -- compare the preview for Refining Fire, all the way at the bottom of Overkill. It was carefully underinformative and, as you say, led to misinterpretation. Unfortunately, I've found that "misinterpretation" in these parts usually translates to "it's far worse than you imagined". |
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« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2009, 07:50:48 pm » |
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Well, I dunno about the context in SU, but in Sweeney Todd, Sweeney says that line upon taking up his silver-chased razors again after many years without them.
Oh, thanks for the reminder on that one! So then, perhaps an allusion, but with pen rather than razor? Hrmm.... |
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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