Summertime

03-31-2009, 01:58 AM

Summertime and the living is lousy. I hate summer. And I'm not alone. summertime in urban areas is riot-time, tourist-time, pollution-time and psycho-time. In rural areas it's mosquito-time, sunburn/heatstroke-time, pollen-time, litter-time, boredom-time, vandal-time and gangbang-time. There's no worse time for tragedy than the sticky heat of summer, or for frantic attemps at pleasure. Christmas "Joy" is an odious duty, but summer "gaiety" is a maladroit ritual performed with calculated chaos. Persons of refinement prefer the other seasons, which progress through their days less heavy-footedly. Despite nature's tantrums during other seasons, be they storms, floods, ice or snow-man has made summer his personal disaster season. Taking the warmth nature has provided, he has fashioned for himself an enviroment where his mindlessness flourishes most. It is the only season which validates slobs. Those who have found civilized behavior repugant the rest of the year can celebrate their boorishness in grand style. I would enjoy spring more were it not for the impending plague of summer with it's human locusts thriving in an atmosphere far deadlier(if radiation levels are considered) than the worst blizzards. Other seasons may be violent in themselves, but summer is virulent, an incubater for personal malaise and discord. I like autumn and winter best. A sunny autumn runs from august through october, and winter, from november to february. My favorite aspect of summer is that on the solstice the days finally grow shorter and the nights longer. The best thing about any day is its gentle lapse into night, the dark mantle whence all secrets evolve. Winter time is hell for many, and understandably. It's a tartarus that causes havoc. But within a sung harbor, winter can be the great season of contrast.

In my noir world, the sticky glare of summer has no place, save for those parts of the world where nature has cheated humankind by injecting regional and regular fog and rain. An ardent
supporter of controlled evironments, many years ago I fashioned a room, a true ritual chamber which I call the Cornell Woolrich Memorial Hotel Room. It could as easily have been named the weegee room or the reginald marsh room. It consists of an exact duplication of a seedy hotel room in an old but still sound brick building. The walls are prepared with faded yellow daisies and a bluish carpeting clashes pleasently with the brindle colored woodwork. Outside the single window it is always night and always raining, and an intermittent flash of a neon sign pulsates, and on a butt-scarred mahogany bureau an old veneered radio plays songs of lost love and after-the-war dreams. The wood-grained metal bed and upon which I rest bears the inevitable chinzt spread, and a nightstand supports a lamp ancient portable typwriter. And the artwork; framed prints of sad flowers trying to look cheery, a musty landscape with leaded sky, the casino as Catalina island, and a moran cowgirl sitting on the corral fence. A few clothes(vintage) hang on wire hangers on wire hooks, and on one dangles the obligatory shoulder holster. Above all, the frangrance of every such room that ever was mingles with the sweet scent of the wet pavements beyond. I have shown this room to a few. The famous or notorious love it and understand it, and want to spend a night or more. The pretentiously unaware are repelled, sickened, and cannot get out soon enough, which suits me fine.d

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n
-John Milton, paradise lost

Mr E Nigma · 03-31-2009, 05:27 AM

So you quote someone?

What? 'Cause you can't come up with your own sensible ideas or phrase sentences together in a coherent way to get your own point across, you have to copy someone else and post it as a thread? The fuck's the point?

03-31-2009, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr E Nigma

So you quote someone?

What? 'Cause you can't come up with your own sensible ideas or phrase sentences together in a coherent way to get your own point across, you have to copy someone else and post it as a thread? The fuck's the point?

LOL!!!! You believe what you want! That's my writing! Just because you can't write you half to call me who is a writer a quoter? So what do you think about summers?

Mr E Nigma · 03-31-2009, 06:08 AM

You... wrote that?...

I really wish I could put up my laughing monkey graphic saying "...and your sticking to that story?"

Oh wait! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...-story-ag1.gif

girasol · 03-31-2009, 06:28 AM

you added the person who wrote it at the end...

Also... this is my opinion on 'your' writing:

The first half made me think 'wow he must REALLY HATE summer' and towards the end of it I was wondering why you bothered writing overly dramaic dribble about the other seasons' downsides instead of sticking to pissing on summer...

The second half is full of stupid metaphors that aren't funny and even more exaggerated dramatic descriptions of some room you claim to have made? or dreamt of? I didn't get it...

Why didn't you just write a paragraph about how much you hate summer because of certain things you listed below

-it makes people stupid, careless and crazy
-it sucks...
-blah blah blah I made a room with flowery wallpaper that famous and infamous people loved...?!

As for summer... I hate summer too. Over here we are meant to be in autumn but it is still really hot. I burn easily and am a bit nuts about keeping skin tones even. What else... I catch buses - people stink in summer. What else... Its just shit. That is all.

isobel black · 03-31-2009, 06:30 AM

Apparently it's Lavey.

OBVIOUSLY only the last line is Milton.

Stormtrooper of Death · 03-31-2009, 07:41 AM

Winter can be a far larger pain in the ass for people in the frozen Midwest. DAMN YOU MINNESOTA!!!!

Underwater Ophelia · 03-31-2009, 09:50 AM

Why even bother claiming you wrote that when it's easily googled?

Mr E Nigma · 03-31-2009, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

Why even bother claiming you wrote that when it's easily googled?

I know right.. haha, it was posted on another forum 5 years ago too... hah

Alatariel · 03-31-2009, 10:47 PM

I personally love summer because I get cold easily, and I like it when I can actually go outside without a sweater/coat on.

And quoting someone at the end is annoying.

03-31-2009, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Alatariel

And quoting someone at the end is annoying.

Sorry you feel that way.

Godslayer Jillian · 03-31-2009, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Alatariel

And quoting someone at the end is annoying.

Why?blacktext