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Title: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 05, 2009, 04:45:52 AM
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Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders with clusters of arrows clenched in their jaws and their shields winking in the dust and up the far side of the ruined ranks in a piping of bone flutes and dropping down off the sides of their mounts with one heel hung in the withers strap and their short bows flexing beneath the outstretched necks of the ponies until they had circled the company and cut their ranks in two and then rising up again like funhouse figures, some with nightmare faces painted on their breasts, riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with a peculiar bandylegged trot like creatures driven to alien forms of locomotion and stripping the clothes from the dead and seizing them up by the hair and passing their blades about the skulls of the living and the dead alike and snatching aloft the bloody wigs and hacking and chopping at the naked bodies, ripping off limbs, heads, gutting the strange white torsos and holding up great handfuls of viscera, genitals, some of the savages so slathered up with gore they might have rolled in it like dogs and some who fell upon the dying and sodomized them with loud cries to their fellows
:omg

Folks, only a handful of passages of the written word have given me pause, causing me to shake my head in utter disbelief and shock

-Jesus dying (in the bible)
-Thinking Hagrid died in one of the early Deathly Hallows chapters
-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal

This tops them all. Blood Meridian :bow
Title: You never studied.
Post by: Mandark on February 05, 2009, 05:14:55 AM
Folks, only a handful of passages of the written word have given me pause, causing me to shake my head in utter disbelief and shock

-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal


liar
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: cloudwalking on February 05, 2009, 05:21:51 AM
yaere is th.
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Reb on February 05, 2009, 05:22:33 AM
:bow
yaere is th.
:bow2
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Cormacaroni on February 05, 2009, 07:45:31 AM
How on earth did you avoid Bible spoilers??
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Eric P on February 05, 2009, 08:50:50 AM
How on earth did you avoid Bible spoilers??
aw come on

christians don't read past leviticus

Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 05, 2009, 10:05:30 AM
yaere is th.

What's the origin of this?
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Himu on February 05, 2009, 10:57:18 AM
Folks, only a handful of passages of the written word have given me pause, causing me to shake my head in utter disbelief and shock

-Jesus dying (in the bible)
-Thinking Hagrid died in one of the early Deathly Hallows chapters
-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal

This tops them all. Blood Meridian :bow

:lol

"Jesus dies?!"

"Hagrid dies?!"

"Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are getting married?!"

You're so cute, Maurice.
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Brehvolution on February 05, 2009, 11:01:34 AM
yaere is th.

What's the origin of this?

I think it was a Father Mike post.

Here it is in the original context.
http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=8429.msg758807#msg758807
Title: Re: You never studied.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 05, 2009, 12:16:05 PM
Folks, only a handful of passages of the written word have given me pause, causing me to shake my head in utter disbelief and shock

-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal


liar

totally didn't see it coming man
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 05, 2009, 12:23:15 PM
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Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 05, 2009, 12:30:48 PM
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-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal

i still haven't read it, is it good shock or bad shock (like the ending of Jane Eyre)
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Robo on February 05, 2009, 12:50:34 PM
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-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal

i still haven't read it, is it good shock or bad shock (like the ending of Jane Eyre)

I drew a picture of this for an English project in high school.  A guy in a top hat with boiling skin and an eyeball melting into his hand and flames blowing out of his skull.  It was pretty good, I think.
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 05, 2009, 03:08:22 PM
i was thinking more of the very last chapter when it suddenly gets all religious and imperialist and stuff.
Title: Re: You never studied.
Post by: elektrikluv on February 05, 2009, 03:21:08 PM
Folks, only a handful of passages of the written word have given me pause, causing me to shake my head in utter disbelief and shock

-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal


liar

totally didn't see it coming man

Despite the fact that every book Jane Austen has written ends in marriage?  :P
I thought it was pretty weak, actually. I haven't read the book since like 9th grade, so I can't remember everything, but from what I remember, she thought Darcy was a huge douchebag throughout the book until she visited his estate somewhere in the hills, and which point she fell in love with him. That made her come off as pretty damn shallow and materialistic, IMO. But then again, I didn't think Darcy was actually that big a douchebag. If I remember correctly, the whole reason they didn't like him at first was because he didn't want to dance at a party. There are tons of guys out there who don't like dancing; he's not special.

I should re-read the book to see if some of that stuff is intentional and ironic.

Ah no you have it all wrong, the development between Elizabeth and Mr Darcy goes nothing like that, and the reason she didn't like him at first was because he purposely said that she was plain and nothing special, within her earshot! Everyone else didn't like him because he was cold and unresponsive and thought himself above everyone else at the party. Oh and even when she visited his estate she still didn't like him, it was he who was falling for her at that point.
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Mandark on February 05, 2009, 03:24:19 PM
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-Elizabeth accepting Mr. Darcy's marriage proposal

i still haven't read it, is it good shock or bad shock (like the ending of Jane Eyre)

It's not a shock at all.  In fact (and here's how you know PD didn't read P&P), Austen doesn't even give Elizabeth dialogue in that scene.  It's awesome; Austen obviously loved writing the badinage but once the conflicts are resolved she's all "so they poured their hearts out and um, some lovey-dovey crap like that, blah blah".

Besides, everyone knows the real shock of P&P is

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Charlotte marrying Mr. Collins.
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Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Robo on February 05, 2009, 03:32:03 PM
i was thinking more of the very last chapter when it suddenly gets all religious and imperialist and stuff.

I'm pretty sure I didn't actually read that book.  My drawing was based on a Cliff's Notes description.
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 05, 2009, 03:36:44 PM
SMH @ people taking the P&P troll seriously. Or Jesus for that matter. Hagrid on the other hand  :'(
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 05, 2009, 04:46:13 PM
This is your fallback response when anything you do backfires, PD.

smh
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Guybrush Threepwood on February 05, 2009, 05:07:41 PM
yaere is th. makes no sense.

At first I thought he, in attempt to write "ya there is," accidentally clicked the mouse next to "ya" after writing "th" and continued typing.

BUT HOW DID THE PERIOD GET THERE?
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Reb on February 05, 2009, 05:09:10 PM
yaere is th. makes no sense.

At first I thought he, in attempt to write "ya there is," accidentally clicked the mouse next to "ya" after writing "th" and continued typing.

BUT HOW DID THE PERIOD GET THERE?

Oh wow, never thought about the period...
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 05, 2009, 05:22:48 PM
This is your fallback response when anything you do backfires, PD.

smh

seriously ::)
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Robo on February 05, 2009, 05:23:35 PM
yaere is th. makes no sense.

At first I thought he, in attempt to write "ya there is," accidentally clicked the mouse next to "ya" after writing "th" and continued typing.

BUT HOW DID THE PERIOD GET THERE?

itstery is a my.
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: cloudwalking on February 05, 2009, 05:27:30 PM
yaere is th. makes no sense.

At first I thought he, in attempt to write "ya there is," accidentally clicked the mouse next to "ya" after writing "th" and continued typing.

BUT HOW DID THE PERIOD GET THERE?

itstery is a my.

fuck, we should all start writing like this. it's like arvie devised a new language completely by accident. a "canadian pig latin," if you will.

itsesome fucking aw.
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 05, 2009, 05:31:13 PM
adain orstrait Cancan  usenot pig-la Cantin adian .
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 05, 2009, 06:28:17 PM
There are better sentences in that book, PD.   :-*

And Jane Austen has some of the best turns of phrases in the english language.  You don't have to like her books, but if you don't appreciate her prose you're a fucking idiot.

:bow :bow :bow
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 05, 2009, 06:29:04 PM
yaere is th. makes no sense.

At first I thought he, in attempt to write "ya there is," accidentally clicked the mouse next to "ya" after writing "th" and continued typing.

BUT HOW DID THE PERIOD GET THERE?

itstery is a my.

fuck, we should all start writing like this. it's like arvie devised a new language completely by accident. a "canadian pig latin," if you will.

itsesome fucking aw.

i supendever thportis
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 05, 2009, 06:33:48 PM
i thought arvie was asking what year it is, and fucked up with a period instead of a question mark, rendering the entire sentence the typographical equivalent of an amtrak derailing
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 05, 2009, 07:11:04 PM
The moumpse did ju!  Wilswearco edited in the period I!
Title: Re: Greatest sentence of all time
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 05, 2009, 10:16:19 PM
perarvie le.