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David Strugnell
03-07-2012, 11:57 AM
"Do you understand?"
"Not always."
"Why?"
"Not sure."
"You're saying Presley was no good."
"Yes."
"You like tulips?"
"Yes."
Buh4Bee
03-08-2012, 09:27 PM
How can anyone give feedback, if there is no context for the content? What is the point of this?
David Strugnell
03-09-2012, 07:55 AM
There's no point to it. Mind your own business.
Mutatis-Mutandis
03-09-2012, 10:18 AM
Mind your own business? Why did you even post this if you don't want people to comments on it?

Oh, and it sucks, by the way.
David Strugnell
03-09-2012, 10:54 AM
I wanted 'informed' response. Sucks? My girlfriend needs counselling.
Mutatis-Mutandis
03-09-2012, 11:27 AM
You want informed responses, yet you tell one poster there is no point to the story and then tell her to mind her own business. Your yearning for an informed response seems a bit veiled by your condescension.

Still, I'll indulge you.

Byh4Bee made a good point in the first place. We are given a slice of dialogue but given absolutely no information about the speakers. Beyond that, you can't infer anything about the speakers except that they are having an apparently nonsensical conversation with two subjects, Elvis Presely (presumably) and tulips. How are tulips and Elvis connected? What's the significance? Are you trying to create an atmosphere of mystery with this "story," or is it just a practice in absurdism? Whatever it is attempting to be, it resoundingly fails. It is an obvious spur-of-the-moment type-up with no forethought whatsoever, at most an attempt to be provocatively enigmatic. But, like I said, it fails.

Or, simply put, it sucks.
Jack of Hearts
03-09-2012, 06:14 PM
There's no point to it. Mind your own business.

Haha!









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AuntShecky
03-12-2012, 05:04 PM
I don't get it. Maybe it's me.
Still--how come back in the 20s when Gertrude Stein published stuff similar to this she was a genius, and when David posts similar stuff, it "sucks?"
Maybe you ought to change your name, David.
Mutatis-Mutandis
03-12-2012, 05:10 PM
I don't get it. Maybe it's me.
Still--how come back in the 20s when Gertrude Stein published stuff similar to this she was a genius, and when David posts similar stuff, it "sucks?"
Maybe you ought to change your name, David.

Well, at least it was original when she did it. Usually originality is the only thing going for gimmicks, so if the orignality isn't there, what is?
Buh4Bee
03-12-2012, 05:13 PM
I'm just going to mind my own business. But there is nothing to critique of there is no point.
Mutatis-Mutandis
03-12-2012, 06:46 PM
We can critique that there is no point.
tylerdf
03-31-2012, 10:41 PM
I really dig this. It does not surprise me that this went over some heads though.
True art stretches definitions and pushes boundaries.
Delta40
03-31-2012, 11:20 PM
It does not surprise me that this went over some heads though.

True art stretches definitions and pushes boundaries.

Help me understand your statements Tyler.

Are you saying it didn't go over your head and if it didn't, can you enlighten me?

What definition does it stretch and what boundary does it push?
tylerdf
04-01-2012, 12:01 AM
I am no scholar, but it is evident to me that this "story" doesn't fits the standard format of a "story". It is up to the reader to determine what meaning to take from it.
I have a weakness for all things that break the mold.
While I lack the ability to give it an intelligent analysis (I'm an economics major), I can say that I enjoyed its enigmatic qualities.