There are few things as depressing to me than coming around the curve on Spaghetti Junction and seeing a vast parking lot on 285 westbound all the way to the horizon.
*sigh*
On the positive side, I got to observe, for a looong time, in my rearview mirror, a juxtaposition of roles.
There was a youngish woman with short cropped, bleach blond hair in a Dodge Ram pickup truck. In the passenger seat was a young boy whose eyes were just above the dash, kilroy-fashion.
The mom was hyper-kinetic. She was smoking a cigarette, bouncing in her seat (not dancing, I don’t think… just bouncing), adjusting her mirror, reaching across to roll up and down the window, tapping her cigarette out her own window, adjusting the radio.
Meanwhile, the smallish boy sat passively staring straight ahead, not reacting at all.
I don’t know what it means, but I couldn’t stop watching.
Zoloft
In what way was that a juxtaposition?
A Literary Review of This Post
[10:44:41]: I do not think “juxtaposition” means what you think it means. : Let’s see… : Juxtapose – To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. : Juxtaposition – The act or an instance of juxtaposing or the state of being juxtaposed. : In your post, you seemed to think there was a bit of role-reversal. The mom was jittery like a kid, while the kid was subdued like an adult. : True. : I think the sentence works, though. : So I don’t think “juxtaposition” is the word you really wanted, to convey that. : I did want to convey the juxtaposition, but I did also want to convey that it was a role-reversal. : So I only accomplished half my task. : Juxtaposition of role-reversal? : That doesn’t seem right, either. : You were juxtaposing the two people merely by mentioning them both. : So using the word itself was redundant. : But what I was seeing was a literal juxtaposition. : Which is half of what I wanted to convey. : Seeing such a thing with them right next to each other. : Almost as if they were side-by-side in the front seat of a car? : Exactly as if they were side-by-side in the front seat of a car. : So, again, your use of “juxtaposition” was unnecessary. : In the sense that a lead in sentence was unnecessary. : Or a headline is unnecessary. : Is it acceptable to say “I had an amazing adventure…” and then relate the amazing adventure, or would “amazing” be redundant? : It wouldn’t be redundant, because you want to hook your reader. : Right. : People want to read something they think will be amazing. : But no one’s reading your post and thinking, “A juxtaposition?! OMG! I must read more!” : Unless they liked juxtapositions. : I’m betting most folks are agnostic on the matter. : of juxtapositions? or the proper use of the word juxtapositions? : I think my failure was in the “of roles” portion rather than “juxtaposition” portion. : Juxtapositions per se don’t excite them, is what I’m saying. : I mean ipso facto. : It excited me.
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Re: A Literary Review of This Post
I wonder if any other Live Journal post has had such a high relative usage of the letter “x”.
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Someone should write a piece of software to analyze that.
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Certainly sounds more interesting than what I am supposed to be doing right now.
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You’re hired!
I want it by Monday.
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Sorry, but I am already doing three days work by end of day tomorrow.
It’s just boring work. Testing a document retrieval system. Yawn.
Relative to what?
Relative to other letters of the alphabet. “X” is not a common letter, but you guys slapped the heck out of it in that chat log.
Now lets see you push for a high partial pressure of “Q” Added points for a high Q/U ratio.
Must be real conversation. No algebra allowed.
Oh, that’s easy. We just need to get in a heated debate about Iraq and Al-Qaeda.
Is there an al-Qaeda base in Qatar?
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Dear God: Take me now and spare me the pain.
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kids, quit squabbling or I’m turning this LJ around.
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Don’t make me stop this post!
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He IMed me first!
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Just because Master Glenn does something doesn’t make it right. If he put his head in a pile of poo, would you do that too?
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What kind of poo? Is it cool poo? Then, yes.
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Girls, girls…you’re both pretty.
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*sulk*
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I think you need to play in your yard and Glenn needs to play in his for a few days.
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*sulk*
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But which yard has the pile of nice cool poo?
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What are you doing here? I thought you were on restriction.
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I still have one toe in my room!
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*holds breath for attention*
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You better run that lip back in.
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Quit it. All of you. Don’t make me give you something to post about.