Comments | dherblay: The Squared Circle rides again!

dherblay

The Squared Circle rides again!

Jul 26, 2003 16:20

I don't usually gakk stuff -- but then, when you come right down to it, I don't usually post -- but this bit of ponygirl2000's is too good to pass up. Though I tend to denigrate the conspiratorial mindset, I have to admit that the possibilities of historical figures having met under strange circumstances sends my mind to some interesting spaces. The fact that ( Read more... )

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Bravo! ponygirl2000 July 26 2003, 15:31:00 UTC

If only all history could be taught by turning it into a kick-ass action/adventure story!

I wanted to include Aphra Behn on my team too, but I tossed her aside for a little Ewan-inspired eye candy. I am that shallow.

What is this "gakk"? I've had grok explained to me, in great detail, but gakk just makes me think yak, which is off-putting due to some personal issues I have with Asian oxen type creatures.

Re: Bravo! dherblay July 26 2003, 16:02:46 UTC

Having never previously gakked anything, I don't know where it comes from or from what it derives; it seems to be endemic to LiveJournals. If you see someone take a quiz and post the results on her LJ, and then you do the same, you have effectively gakked. It is unpleasant sounding, yes, and apparently unrelated to the term for the feeling of intoxification under the influence of methamphetamine. Apparently. I guess it's just onomatopoeia.

I have learned more history from kick-ass action/adventure stories than from most sources, which presents me with a certain, how should I say, Dumasian view of history, i.e., inaccurate. I continue to think of Catherine de Medicis as an evil old poisoner with occult tendencies. On the other hand, I know more about the Valois than is really necessary. (I am, however, disappointed that Dumas did not continue the story of Chicot the Jester and The Forty-Five through the murders in Henri III's Blois bedchambers of the Duc de Guise and his brother, the Cardinal of Lorraine, and the subsequent ( ... )

Re: Bravo! angeyja July 26 2003, 19:14:09 UTC

Try http://www.lit-arts.net/Behn/docs.htm

In the UK at present londonkds July 27 2003, 02:24:24 UTC

"Gack" or "Gakk" is a current slang noun for powdered cocaine itself. Does this mean LJ users tend to be on uppers? Explains a few things if it's true.

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LOL about Wren londonkds July 27 2003, 02:28:04 UTC

Behn, Blood and Wilmot are a great combination. Have a purely personal antipathy to Hobbes as his physical excursions have been used a good deal recently by cognitive relativists to "prove" that scientists make it all up.

This has given me some ideas. How about Shakespeare's fictitious characters?

Off the top of my head dherblay July 27 2003, 11:03:24 UTC

Falstaff, Mercutio, Lady Macbeth, Portia and Prospero would make for a fun team.