"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
02/21/2019 at 17:04 • Filed to: New York City, is a hole
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
02/21/2019 at 17:04 • Filed to: New York City, is a hole | 2
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From a conversation earlier I found the full text I was looking for (below the image)
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places
it’s prepared to put up with living. Anywhere it can get some
kind of a grip, whether it’s the intoxicating seas of Santraginus
V, where the fish never seem to care whatever the heck kind
of direction they swim in, the fire storms of Frastra where, they
say, life begins at 40,000 degrees, or just burrowing around in
the lower intestine of a rat for the sheer unadulterated hell of
it, life will always find a way of hanging on in somewhere.
It will even live in New York, though it’s hard to know why.
In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal
minimum, or rather it would do if anybody had the common
sense to set a legal minimum. The last time anybody made a
list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers,
common sense snuck in at number 79.
In the summer it’s too darn hot. It’s one thing to be the sort
of life form that thrives on heat and finds, as the Frastrans do,
that the temperature range between 40,000 and 40,004 is very
equable, but it’s quite another to be the sort of animal that has
to wrap itself up in lots of other animals at one point in your
planet’s orbit, and then find, half an orbit later, that your skin’s
bubbling.
Spring is over-rated. A lot of the inhabitants of New York
will honk on mightily about the pleasures of spring, but if they
actually knew the first thing about the pleasures of spring they
would know of at least five thousand nine hundred and eighty-
t hree better places to spend it than New York, and that’s just
on the same latitude.
Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in
New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of
rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower
intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyway, so their opinion
can and should be discounted. When it’s fall in New York, the air
smells as if someone’s been frying goats in it, and if you are keen
to breathe, the best plan is to open a window and stick your head
in a building.
IF you want to read the rest of this excellent book (in a horrible format ) go here
http://www.clearwhitelight.org/hitch/harmless.txt
VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/21/2019 at 17:16 |
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Honestly I thought that aside from the closure portions, Mostly Harmless was the weakest in the trilogy.
I had to read the end bits a few times before I figured out what he was on about.
Maybe I should read it again. I enjoyed Logan, and Mostly Harmless seems like he has kind of has the same attitude about it.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/21/2019 at 17:17 |
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Eh New York isn’t so bad, you can pretty much get any cuisine from any country around the world in NYC. It does get fuck
o
ff hot in the summer though.
Ash78, voting early and often
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
02/21/2019 at 17:36 |
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This perfectly describes EPCOT, as well.
WilliamsSW
> VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
02/21/2019 at 17:38 |
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It is the weakest of the series, but still entertaining.
Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/21/2019 at 18:04 |
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If I owned New York and NowWhat , I’d rent out New York and live on NowWhat .
And if you understood those references, you need something better to do with your time.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Chariotoflove
02/21/2019 at 18:06 |
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phew
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Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/21/2019 at 18:20 |
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A planet in the Hitchhiker’s books
A
quote
attributed to General Sheridan and adapted in apparent homage by
The Chronicles of Riddick
.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Chariotoflove
02/21/2019 at 18:25 |
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I forgot about nowwhat. I guess I need to re-read.
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Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/21/2019 at 18:32 |
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There are so many to remember, but for some reason, the Boghogs stuck with me.
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TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Ash78, voting early and often
02/21/2019 at 18:56 |
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Epcot is in Florida,
about a 100
countries shy and more expensive than NYC though.