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| Author: | Khross [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Somewhere Cold ... |
There’s a certain cadence to empire; the slow rhythm of a hegemonic behemoth coming to be and then passing. The Twentieth Century saw the convergence of four great empires, and we are left with the literary and economic aftermath in spectacular fashion. The Great War brought about the end of the Ottoman Empire; and it likewise marked the birth of the Greatest Generation in America; the prolonged and difficult contraction of the British Empire; and the rise of the Soviet Union. Consequently, the competing economy of ideas produced a truly panglossic marketplace of literary structures, modes, and genres. This exchange of thought and creation proliferated into an ontological paradise for artists, both low and high, of print and like-print media. By the end of the Twentieth Century, India would be free, and South Africa would be a slowly integrating nation. The reach of the British Empire remained in tact, but new commonwealths brought generations of newly free people voices and opportunities hitherto extremely rare and filtered; and with this, new chimera of form and mode. Indeed, as voices previously marginalized gained traction and tenor, new ideas were mined as resources for the intellectual industry of falling and rising monsters, each concurrently benevolent and sinister in almost all regard: a curious paradox of the boundary between empire and colony. In one such everywhere, the Magistrate follows his own conviction to the boundary between desire and death. His is the aphanisis of a very reluctant protagonist. |
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| Author: | Gorse [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Somewhere Cold ... |
I'm not around enough to know what this is in reference to. I could assume the death of Muammar Gaddafi, but we know about assumptions. Khross, you are the only person I know who would use "panglossic" in a generic internet post. |
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| Author: | Taskiss [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:51 am ] |
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Intact, not in tact. |
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| Author: | Micheal [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:35 am ] |
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It looks like alternate history, many thing listed there are different from our time line and the term "The Greatest Generation" was coined by and is a book by Tom Brokaw, before then the term wasn't known in reference to that generation. |
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| Author: | Khross [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Somewhere Cold ... |
The term "The Great War" refers to World War I, which ended in 1918, is the generation the grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The children born between 1910 and 1920 are the Greatest Generation. This generation was born at the convergence of 4 Great Empires. |
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| Author: | Corolinth [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:18 pm ] |
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One, not Two. |
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| Author: | Khross [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Somewhere Cold ... |
Well, yes, but I make typos ... sometimes. |
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| Author: | Jeryn [ Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:11 pm ] |
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Also, the Great War really refers to the war between the GTA/Vasudans and the Shivans. |
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