You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
“There was a young man who said "God Must find it exceedingly odd To think that the tree Should continue to be When there's no one about in the quad."
Reply: "Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd; I am always about in the quad. And that's why the tree Will continue to be Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God.”
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The funny thing is, Cinderella herself is (next to Prince Charming) the blandest and least interesting character in it.
She's an abused child who manages, in the end, the escape her abusive family and never look back. Sure, she doesn't kick butt like Mulan, but you know, some people are Mulans and some are Cinderellas.
Some of the best people in the world are like that, are bland and unassuming and hardworking, and they make the world go around. They're not the most interesting or engaging of folks, and not the most fun to read about, but in the end, they're the ones you miss when they're gone, they're the ones that give and give. There's a lot to be said for that, and that is what I like about Cinderella.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I will not hear Alice of Wonderland called bland :|
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The weird thing about that article is that there are several good and interesting points in it that have little to do with each other, and the "middlebrow" thing begins as a reference to something Hemingway himself said and ends up as this weird insult that isn't nearly so potent as the writer of the article seems to think it is.
(I would also add that having a judgemental, biased protagonist in an ultimately amoral, unfair world is probably more accurate than a more overtly moral or detached viewpoint.)
^^^^ Oh, I never said that. I'm just pointing out that the concluding paragraph seems to be pushing an agenda at the expense of a nuanced view on the subject at hand.
No, I just think middlebrow is an obnoxious phrase.
I think the essence of what's bothersome about it is that it implicitly buys into the idea that the highbrow/lowbrow distinction is meaningful and concrete.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
“There was a young man who said "God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there's no one about in the quad."
Reply:
"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God.”
👸🐟 Ariel
👸📚 Belle
👧🐇 Alice
👸👠 Cinderella
THE BLANDNESS GIRLS
(link fixed -- Central Avenue)
It rained.
A lot.
....that randomly popped into my head earlier. Not even the whole song just that line.
What.
And are half-blind
(I would also add that having a judgemental, biased protagonist in an ultimately amoral, unfair world is probably more accurate than a more overtly moral or detached viewpoint.)
I think the essence of what's bothersome about it is that it implicitly buys into the idea that the highbrow/lowbrow distinction is meaningful and concrete.