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Modern culture has taught us to believe we're all in a film. And not a very good film. It's a big blockbuster with heroes and villains. Where every problem has a clear-cut resolution and every dog has his day. Swelling strings at the sad bits and a smug joke punctuating the funny bits. 
Meanwhile life—real-life—remains as complicated and subtle and difficult to navigate as ever. 
And as culture becomes ever more simplistic, and less able to reflect the absurdities of this world, we yearn for an art that expresses the true complexities of our experience.
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(07-13-2020, 05:00 AM)Exit Wrote:  Porno


Modern culture has taught us to believe we're all in a film. And not a very good film. It's a big blockbuster with heroes and villains. Where every problem has a clear-cut resolution and every dog has his day. Swelling strings at the sad bits and a smug joke punctuating the funny bits. 
Meanwhile life—real-life—remains as complicated and subtle and difficult to navigate as ever. 
And as culture becomes ever more simplistic, and less able to reflect the absurdities of this world, we yearn for an art that expresses the true complexities of our experience.

I don't know if the choice of font is deliberate.
I like it. It reads like Rob Brydon's small man in a box. It suggests that the writer is ashamed of making himself too visible, almost like writing in a bright yellow font.
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(07-13-2020, 07:04 AM)busker Wrote:  
(07-13-2020, 05:00 AM)Exit Wrote:  Porno


Modern culture has taught us to believe we're all in a film. And not a very good film. It's a big blockbuster with heroes and villains. Where every problem has a clear-cut resolution and every dog has his day. Swelling strings at the sad bits and a smug joke punctuating the funny bits. 
Meanwhile life—real-life—remains as complicated and subtle and difficult to navigate as ever. 
And as culture becomes ever more simplistic, and less able to reflect the absurdities of this world, we yearn for an art that expresses the true complexities of our experience.

I don't know if the choice of font is deliberate.
I like it. It reads like Rob Brydon's small man in a box. It suggests that the writer is ashamed of making himself too visible, almost like writing in a bright yellow font.

Well, I wish I could take credit for the font style or size, but I just copied and pasted it from plaintext editor and this is what happened. And I kind of liked the way it looked [and I don't have the technological nouse to change it]. A bit like the fine print in a signed agreement or the copyright page at the beginning of a book or liner notes in an album—like this is the serious bit. But, yeah, now you mention it it does read like Brydon's small man in a box. 
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(07-15-2020, 01:43 AM)JaggedEdge Wrote:  I don't like the size of the font, make it bigger. Also, the poem itself makes me think, and in a good philosophical way.

"I don't like the size of the font, make it bigger."  Thumbsup no.
and I'm sorry I made you think, I never meant to put you, or anyone else, through that.
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(07-15-2020, 08:27 AM)JaggedEdge Wrote:  
(07-15-2020, 07:11 AM)Exit Wrote:  
(07-15-2020, 01:43 AM)JaggedEdge Wrote:  I don't like the size of the font, make it bigger. Also, the poem itself makes me think, and in a good philosophical way.

"I don't like the size of the font, make it bigger."  Thumbsup no.
and I'm sorry I made you think, I never meant to put you, or anyone else, through that.
It's ok, also I want to mention that this poem has some interesting lines, in fact the whole poem shined through with meaningful imagery and great syntax, well done.

It has all the meaningful imagery and syntax! well my work here is done.
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