its almost like there are variables
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brainsandbeauty
· 9 years ago
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I wouldn't duck if you threw an apple at my face. I would pull out a sword and become a fruit ninja.
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calmthelovelytits
· 9 years ago
I'd catch it and throw it back when they aren't looking.
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guest
· 9 years ago
I understand that a lot of people here will find the comment on it very funny but I thought it was innate a thing: the one where you don't disrespect or make fun of someone who (a) is dead; (b) is/was better at something than one; anyhow the point is those who look at the post should also consider the two different things Bukowski compares in there; it doesn't at all even relates to eating and being thrown apples at, in the right context. Some people on tumblr are really just running blogs and pay no attention to how their cheap-class humour will ingrain a disrespectful approach among others towards brilliant poets. I understand that I should be able to take a joke on the Internet. But c'mon guys. Brilliance. Not everyone has it.
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gary17
· 9 years ago
He may have been brilliant, but that doesn't mean everything he said was brilliant. I'll admit the comparison of the quote to the thing about apples was kind of bad, and sure, there's no need to disrespect the dead, but that doesn't make Bukowski's quote any better. If anything, I'd say the person on tumblr was smarter than most, because they saw past the name the quote was attributed to and the fact that it was supposed to be brilliant, and realized that it's kind of pointless.
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guest
· 9 years ago
Maybe, maybe. I like your perspective too. I'll come back with a good example later.
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