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« Reply #135 on: October 28, 2011, 10:46:26 AM » |
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I would've thought trans-Pacific, but to each his own.
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« Reply #136 on: October 28, 2011, 11:23:06 AM » |
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Well, that all depends on where you start from and how the plane flies.
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« Reply #137 on: October 31, 2011, 06:43:59 PM » |
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Well, what if you fly from Atlanta to Gatwick, London and the plane goes over Greenland?  |
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« Reply #138 on: November 01, 2011, 08:14:41 AM » |
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Or New York to Anchorage to Russia?
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« Reply #139 on: November 01, 2011, 12:12:18 PM » |
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I'd say that's sort of trans-Arctic, in either case. Of course you can get some decent Thai food in Spitzbergen, too.
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« Reply #140 on: November 01, 2011, 01:03:26 PM » |
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How about trans-upside your head? Is that Atlantic enough??  Bob |
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« Reply #141 on: November 02, 2011, 01:15:31 PM » |
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Genus, he's doing it again.
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« Reply #142 on: November 07, 2011, 08:34:56 AM » |
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Genus, he's doing it again.
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« Reply #144 on: March 08, 2012, 05:02:14 PM » |
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Commenting waaaaaay too late on this thread, but I have to say that these are some of my favorite episodes. "Dreams" is a properly creepy story, especially for me, as I tend to have dreams that are very life-like or feel real to me. (Waking up after having dreamed that you've already gone to work and done your job for the day is the worst.
I really enjoyed the final episode, when you discussed the story in its larger social context. I really wish I could have seen that play. I think "Dreams" could potentially make an excellent film adaptation, provided a good artist for Brown Jenkin and just that sort of noirish awareness of how it seems that the city is sort-of colluding in the murders of these foreign children every year. *shudders*
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« Reply #145 on: March 12, 2012, 05:52:12 AM » |
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(Waking up after having dreamed that you've already gone to work and done your job for the day is the worst.
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« Reply #146 on: March 16, 2012, 12:13:30 PM » |
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(Waking up after having dreamed that you've already gone to work and done your job for the day is the worst.
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« Reply #147 on: April 29, 2012, 11:27:53 AM » |
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This is one of my favorite stories and according to my wife, one of the scariest. I also cop to personal issues with rodents.
I had always thought that Brown Jenkin was an homunculous and if not born from Keziah's body "made from" flesh she had to sacrifice.
What I don't understand is why nobody cracked open the walls before to clear out whatever had died. Every year they get this stench after the "holiday." But then, I've been through Providence and seen a number of multi-unit conversions to house college students that are clearly in the slum-lord category and that's nowadays.
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« Reply #148 on: April 30, 2012, 08:51:11 AM » |
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What I don't understand is why nobody cracked open the walls before to clear out whatever had died. Every year they get this stench after the "holiday." But then, I've been through Providence and seen a number of multi-unit conversions to house college students that are clearly in the slum-lord category and that's nowadays.
My wife and I bought a creepy old mansion is a decayed Pennsylvania steel town. We call it "Innsmouth" because it does have that feel! We spend 2 or 3 weekends a month there and the rest of our time in DC for work. There was a massive flood in the 1970's that damaged a lot of the downtown rowhouse. We noticed this weekend that there are still a number of them standing that were clearly flooded out that are only NOW being slated for demolition...almost 40 years later. Some of the old houses in that town that are owned by absentee landlords probably haven't been rennovated since the modern electricity and and plumbing was put in. |
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« Reply #149 on: April 30, 2012, 03:48:03 PM » |
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I support Mr. Lee here. Having worked for a construction company for some years, I don `t wonder at this at all. You can discover really strange things in old houses, forgotten rooms being definitely not the strangest. And of course young Gilman doesn `t seem to live in the best neighbourhood. Who care about some funny smells as long as the rent is cheap?
In terms of the story, I guess people were just afraid of what they might find there. Until the end it `s almost impossible to find some people willing to work on the ruins.
Moreover, the landlord is a Pole, isn `t he? So he must be all lazy and careless and stuff. Maybe he `s even swarthy...
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