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UncleGrandpa
 Post subject: Ah, the classics...
PostPosted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:31 pm 
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Just reading through Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" in translation.

Guess what hit my eyes? PS., Fastchapter, avert yours.

Pushkin wrote:
Chapter 1, stanza XXXII

Diana's breast, the cheeks of Flora,
all these are charming! but to put
it frankly, I'm a firm adorer
of the Terpsichorean foot.



So even back then, poor Flora's frontage wasn't her best asset :-)
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Heh... Her... Cheeks? HAHAHA!!!!!

=^.^=
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Hm...quite fascinating. Of course, we all know it's a different Flora, but still, I can see the comedy in this passage. Good eye, Gramps.
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FastChapter
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UncleGrandpa wrote:
Just reading through Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" in translation.

Guess what hit my eyes? PS., Fastchapter, avert yours.

Pushkin wrote:
Chapter 1, stanza XXXII

Diana's breast, the cheeks of Flora,
all these are charming! but to put
it frankly, I'm a firm adorer
of the Terpsichorean foot.



So even back then, poor Flora's frontage wasn't her best asset :-)


I guess I'm allergic to boobs, XD

I take different meaning of the word "firm" just out of spite.
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SpikeRulesHell
 Post subject: Re: Ah, the classics...
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FastChapter wrote:
I take different meaning of the word "firm".


Who's firm? The girl, or you? 'Cause, one way it's funny, the other way it's hilarious...

Not really sure which, though. =^.^=
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:c It was a flimsy gag to begin with, aw...
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FastChapter wrote:
a flimsy gag to begin with
HahahhahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
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AWWWWWWW...
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Lol, gotta love innuendos.

But, someone's gotta photoshop Flora into a picture of the author of that book. And you'd better make the scene lewd!
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UncleGrandpa
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SpikeRulesHell wrote:
But, someone's gotta photoshop Flora into a picture of the author of that book. And you'd better make the scene lewd!


Your wish is my command (except for the lewd part... come on, it's a classic :-) ).

Anyway, here's looking at her:

Image

Kinda looks like she's having a nightmare...
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Yikes...
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FastChapter wrote:
Yikes...


I'll take that as a complement :-)
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Thank you for the horrible nightmares that will ensue.
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XD I looked at it and for a moment thought she was going to fall into debt, be raped by her debtor, and be shunned by her family *for* her debt until she kills herself in a shabby apartment.

Yeah, that cover looks too much like my copy of "The American." :P
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Does any book with a happy ending *ever* make it to "classics" status, or only the depressing stuff?

either way, the ones that get mentioned the most are downright wrist slashingly distressing.
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