| Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All | |
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KelinciHutan Global Nomad
Join date : 2009-06-03 Age : 40 Location : USS Enterprise
| Subject: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:25 pm | |
| This has got to be my very favorite Oldie ever. I would give my eyeteeth to hear Tom Baker do a dramatic reading of this. Spacedust And Chaos: A Requiem, by Chuck Williamson. It's been said that this fic sets the bar for purple prose, and the bar is high indeed. It's also technically NWS, but you'd hardly know it. - Quote :
- Transient footsteps, old ghosts clamored with dumb homilies dragging ectoplasmic chains at their sides, spectral overcoats hiding naked
shames for the past had no place in the house of lepers, hypochondriacs, quadriplegics, junkies, senescence, the downtrodden, the weak, the cancerous, the dead and buried. I dare, nay, I defy anyone to find a single, comprehensible thought in that sentence. Or in this one. - Quote :
- Shell-shocked, eyes peeled from the back of her pupils by the glaring overhead light emitted from above, she screamed and screamed and screamed, cathartic pleas from the bottom of her spine up to a gray skull and the sorrow-stained residue in-between.
I think my favorite part of this second sentence is that her eyes are peeling from her pupils, which I think means that either her eyeballs are being turned inside out, or are being dragged into her brain. Either way, it sounds painful. | |
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Solitia
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 46 Location : Columbus, Ohio
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:43 am | |
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- Shell-shocked, eyes peeled from the back of her pupils by the glaring overhead light emitted from above, she screamed and screamed and screamed, cathartic pleas from the bottom of her spine up to a gray skull and the sorrow-stained residue in-between.
All I could think is "BY THE POWER OF GREY SKULL!" | |
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Chris91 Knight of the Bleach
Join date : 2009-06-13 Age : 57 Location : Salem, Mass., USA
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:40 pm | |
| I just tried to access that link...all I got was a blank screen. | |
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KJM Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-11 Age : 46
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:27 pm | |
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Zeiss Manifold Ants got into everyone
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 33 Location : In the Land of Foppery and Whim
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:38 am | |
| It looks like the fic's been taken down from FF.net as well.
Hmmm. | |
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KelinciHutan Global Nomad
Join date : 2009-06-03 Age : 40 Location : USS Enterprise
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:25 pm | |
| Well, if I ever resurrect my old compy, I do have a copy of it, so I don't think it's gone forever. But my google-fu is failing me at finding web copies. *laments the loss of her favorite oldie* | |
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KelinciHutan Global Nomad
Join date : 2009-06-03 Age : 40 Location : USS Enterprise
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:34 pm | |
| We have recovered it, ladies and dudes! Spacedust And Chaos: The Full Monty | |
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InkWeaver Harriet Tubman
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 34 Location : Home of the peanuts.
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:20 pm | |
| OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH. I wanted to show this to my fiction teacher! | |
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Zeiss Manifold Ants got into everyone
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 33 Location : In the Land of Foppery and Whim
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Miss Prince Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 36
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:07 am | |
| I am snarking this as we speak! | |
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Miss Prince Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 36
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:28 pm | |
| Double-posting to make this jump to the top.
Moar edit: Awesome, got everybody I need! Thanks all, I'll send out the script shortly.
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Zeiss Manifold Ants got into everyone
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 33 Location : In the Land of Foppery and Whim
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:45 pm | |
| I don't know if I can record for it (though I want to, I've got a new roomate that doesn't leave that much), but I'll be glad to provide some background music. | |
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Miss Prince Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 36
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:51 pm | |
| That'd be awesome; I was pondering adding background music but I don't have much I could use for it.
You want me to send you the finished recording and you can artfully add some back-up? | |
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Zeiss Manifold Ants got into everyone
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 33 Location : In the Land of Foppery and Whim
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:06 pm | |
| (I originally just posted "sure", but it made me sound like Chris. SO HERE'S A CAP FOR Y'ALL) | |
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unskilled78 Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-03 Age : 35 Location : a hell of his own creation.
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:12 pm | |
| I have Audacity, and I can do male or female voice. | |
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Miss Prince Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 36
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:13 pm | |
| Awesomesauce, Zeiss. - unskilled78 wrote:
- I have Audacity, and I can do male or female voice.
You're in, Unskilled. I've sent the script out! \o/ | |
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frostflowers Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-10-20 Location : The comics bunker
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:50 am | |
| Mmm, I remember this so well. It's one of my favourite Oldies, because it's just.... there's no eye-bleaching horror, no terrible spelling a la legolas by laura - it's just this perfectly incomprehensible block of thesaurus-vomit. It's beautiful. - Quote :
- Time will carry on undeterred and the
respirators will die in a wearied mechanical whir, a symmetrical din, a death knell shall toll, men and woman shall weep for they knew this girl, this very special girl, but our youth is ever lasting, the erudite banquet of love eternal, in dreams, in music, in a requiem where men, women, and old ghosts long forgotten waltz in the pale moonlight, the rapturous and the sincere, and if you look hard in the distance you will find two girls, frolicking in verdant fields between Heaven and Hell, underneath the cerulean skies. I mean, look at this crap: " Erudite banquet of love eternal"? I don't think that word means what you think it means. But then, the same could be said for this entire fic. Oh god, what a glorious travesty. If there ever was a challenger to The Eye of Argon in awkward sentence-structure and abuse of a thesaurus, this is it. | |
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Miss Prince Shitgobbling pissdrinker
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 36
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:09 pm | |
| Nihilist got schoolwork dumped all over him, so we're back to needing one more voice! Anybody want to read Asuka?Okay, we're good
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Alea Iacta Est
Join date : 2009-10-24 Age : 56 Location : The Land of the Green Isles
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:10 am | |
| It could be beautiful, and that's the worst part. | |
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KelinciHutan Global Nomad
Join date : 2009-06-03 Age : 40 Location : USS Enterprise
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:36 pm | |
| The link died again. So, once more, here is a new link to this fic: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=12o0GdN_lcYJpONYcVG-3G7knPazr3wCiW61KkgtA39Q Let's see Google vanish from the face of the net, taking Spacedust with it! *dares the interweb* | |
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Summercorn Sporkbender
Join date : 2011-08-18 Location : The Garden of England.
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:55 pm | |
| - Quote :
- "Asuka..." But Rei's preamble was cut short, strangled mid-articulation, the howl of the wind and trees croaked with her as the infinite cosmos absolved itself into a dew,
Resolved perhaps? Otherwise, how the heck does the cosmos absolve itself? From what sin? It gave me a headache just trying to read it. Good luck to the readers attempting it. - Quote :
- It was an operatic ballad, doleful and disposed to dreamscapes, and it stopped shortly thereafter, as Asuka, wild-eyed with animal grace, held herself upward, turned her head upon the callous form of Rei Ayanami, who was seemingly dressed casually, the seams of her school uniform taut and immaculate.
The point of a school uniform is that it isn't casual. It's a uniform, therefore formal wear. | |
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KJM Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-11 Age : 46
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Fri Nov 16, 2012 5:28 pm | |
| - Summercorn wrote:
Otherwise, how the heck does the cosmos absolve itself? From what sin? From the sin of existing within this fic. | |
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ViewSonic Sporkbender
Join date : 2013-05-05 Location : Where the lonely people come from
| Subject: Re: Spacedust And Chaos, wherein Nothing Makes Any Sense At All Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:58 am | |
| So what, this is is just Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Novelization? | |
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