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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on October 22, 2009, 11:22:40 pm ---A little Jack doesn't hurt.
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Especially with Coke or ginger ale. ...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on October 23, 2009, 04:39:45 am ---I think the mountain boiling with demonic energy is a bit more far off, a bit more into the field of fantasy. But maybe that's just me, maybe I have too much of it (fantasy, that is). I can easily see the mountain boiling, bubbling and being wobbly - just like a highly piled up jelly pudding, when you shake the plate. But you have to picture it in slow motion of course.
As if the mountain were rearing up (again: in slow-mo) like a horse (or bull), to shake off the rider; the mountain was rearing up to shake off the two intruders who had lived in its paradise long enough.
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I just think of a low rumbling noise, like the sound when a pan of water first comes to boil.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on October 23, 2009, 03:22:25 am ---'Course one's fiction and the other's journalism.
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True, though sometimes they do overlap. But not, for the record, the way some people might think.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 23, 2009, 08:46:50 am ---True, though sometimes they do overlap. But not, for the record, the way some people might think.
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And sometimes they overlap exactly the way some people might think! ;D
But that's generally found out in the end. 8)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 23, 2009, 11:37:34 am ---And sometimes they overlap exactly the way some people might think! ;D
But that's generally found out in the end. 8)
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That's true. They sure overlapped for Stephen Glass, Jason Blair and Janet whatsername, the woman who wrote about the 10-year-old crack addict -- people knowingly, deliberately writing fiction and calling it journalism.
But the contention that much of mainstream journalism is fictional is patently false. Even what Fox News presents isn't fiction, it's slanted facts.
They do overlap when journalism uses the techniques of fiction -- when somebody writing journalism refers to a boneless blue sky, for instance. If the sky really was boneless (or cloudless), it's not fiction.
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