Monday, November 30, 2009

Best Wiki in Forever

libidinal panic which leaves a chaotic whirl of fractal patterns in the reader's mind

He promised cameos by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx, as well as "stupid songs" and "strange sexual practices".

"It is brilliant, but it is exhaustingly brilliant."

is a sensitively-handled coming of age tale in which a group of young boys face the consequences of the American policy of racial integration. At one point in the story, the boys attempt to understand the new policy by way of the mathematical function, the only sense of the word with which they are familiar.

lo real marvelloso

especially highlights this eternal and undeserved grace

that we should be holy and blameless before him

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards"

The wardrobe department for The Wizard of Oz unknowingly purchased a coat for character Professor Marvel from a second-hand store, which was later verified to have originally been owned by L. Frank Baum, the author of the novel on which the film was based.[10]

The point of the staging was apparently that the story of Hamlet is a universal one that was equally credible in the 20th century as in the 17th

In The Boondocks episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman" an example is the mention of Batman by one of the slaves, as Batman was created in 1939.

"Extra, extra! Newspaper boys are anachronisms in modern day society, read all about!".

Huh... Interesting
  • Haughty eyes
  • A lying tongue
  • Hands that shed innocent blood
  • A heart that devises wicked plots
  • Feet that are swift to run into mischief
  • A deceitful witness that uttereth lies
  • Him that soweth discord among brethren
...includes more of the traditional seven sins, although the list is substantially longer: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, "and such like"

unforgiven souls of the sin of lust are blown about in restless hurricane like winds

man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love.

Augustus Gloop represents Gluttony, Violet Bauraguarde represents Pride, Veruca Salt represents Greed, and Mike Teavee represents Wrath.

"It was the first that made a real splash."

first titled Donald Duck in Nutzi Land

Would the final state be different if the lamp had started out being on, instead of off?

sing to me sweet and slow tonight

beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer
event horizon

a 15-year-old who, in October 2009, was doused in rubbing alcohol and set on fire after assailants yelled, "He's a snitch, he's a snitch."

hypnagogia the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep
They often contain word play, neologisms and made-up names.
More rarely, poetry or music is heard.

OOPArts are often of interest to creationists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatopism

choosing to "selectively recreate the culture, choosing elements of the culture that interest and attract us."

"Thomas Pynchon loved this book, almost as much as he loves cameras!"

He also admits to hating water and birds because both remind him of God.
This is one of the most powerful quotes I've seen in a while.

'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.

If I live, I’ll kill you. If I die, I forgive you.

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