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 OneMoreRobot3021
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 7 Pages in 5 Hours 
#4110346 - 04/29/05 11:31 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I leave for the airport to go to Coachella at 5:15 PM EST, and I have a paper due at 5 PM EST. It is now 11:30 AM. Wish me luck on writing 7 pages..luckily, it's just writing about a mix I made of songs by British bands recorded post 9/11 that I think sum up the mindset of people outside my country looking in. Here's the tracklist
1. Morrissey - America Is Not the World
2. Bloc Party - Price of Gas
3. Muse - Time is Running Out
4. Augie March - This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers (such an amazing song)
5. Radiohead - I Will (No Man's Land)
6. Elbow - Fugitive Motel
7. Beta Band - Eclipse
8. Blur - We've Got a File On You
9. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
10. British Sea Power - Childhood Memories
11. The Stands - When This River Rolls Over You
12. David Bowie - Bring Me the Disco King
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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Boom
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Bang those pages out man. I gotta go do some serious studying and shit today, but I'm not going anywhere. Have a good time
JetBlue is awesome btw
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: 7 Pages in 5 Hours [Re: Boom]
#4110366 - 04/29/05 11:34 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Booooom said:
Have a good time
JetBlue is awesome btw
Thanks and 
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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 Madtowntripper
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I can usually whip out papers pretty easily for some reason. thats not an insame volume of work, if you know what your talking about, half-assed.
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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Yeah, it's my final project for a class and the teacher's cool so I'm writing about myself, essentially.
9/11 happened 2 weeks after I moved into my freshman dorm, and I saw one of the towers collapse. And now I'm graduating. So I'm writing about that, and comparing my view of it with an outside view, that of British musicians. He's cool enough that I can write a sentence like "I spent the next week walking the emptied streets of New York, stoned immaculate, highly perplexed, strangely vacant" and he'll love it.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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Madtowntripper
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Quote:
"I spent the next week walking the emptied streets of New York, stoned immaculate, highly perplexed, andstrangely vacant."
He'll only love it if you use proper sentance structure.
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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Meh, grammar can be substituted with poetic license. When all your sentences eschew grammar in the same stylistic way, you can get away with being ungrammatical.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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Boom
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Me likes you're sentence. You wrotes good.
Seriously though, that's a nice sentence. Maybe a little semi-colon action will look good. (I'm not an English major, however)
I spent the next week walking the emptied streets of New York; stoned immaculate, highly perplexed, strangely vacant.
That's how I felt, standing on the beach watching smoke lofting high above the skyline. 
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Re: 7 Pages in 5 Hours [Re: Boom]
#4110544 - 04/29/05 12:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Such a strange day.
I had no emotion, just...awe.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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Yup. No one knew what to think, really. A crowd of us just stood on the jetty, in silence. It was scary, knowing lots of my friends whose parents work in NYC, some in the WTC. Luckily, my one friend's dad (he worked on one of the top floors) called in sick that day.
My nieghbor made it down in time from the forty-something floor. He is real quiet bout it, still talks about the sounds of the firemen running up while they were running down.
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Re: 7 Pages in 5 Hours [Re: Boom]
#4110575 - 04/29/05 12:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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My aunt was late to work on the 80th floor.
Random.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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OneMoreRobot3021
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4 pages down.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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HELLA_TIGHT
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you should do a really bad job so you fail. cuz you'll fail at life anyways 
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Re: 7 Pages in 5 Hours [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#4110857 - 04/29/05 01:45 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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emptywisdom
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Need to write seven pages in five hours, umm, way to go on spending some of that time on the shroomery!  
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: 7 Pages in 5 Hours [Re: emptywisdom]
#4110873 - 04/29/05 01:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I always need distractions while I write papers. I'm churning it out nice and quick anyway.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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emptywisdom
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good job, I need distractions as well, usually something to smoke and music do the job, though.
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HELLA_TIGHT
Madge the Smoking Vag
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once i wrote a 5 page paper in HS.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: 7 Pages in 5 Hours [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#4110898 - 04/29/05 01:56 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've got a 12-pager due Wednesday.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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HELLA_TIGHT
Madge the Smoking Vag
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heey i'm joking. i never wrote anything over 3 pages while in HS. the 5 page paper i wrote was while i was in college. it was on buddhism and i got a b or something.
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