Out Of Context Quotes Thread Two!

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Wingyl, Dec 31, 2021.

  1. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

     
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  2. Wingyl

    Wingyl Allegedly Magic

     
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  3. BaseDeltaZero

    BaseDeltaZero Shitposting all night.

     
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  4. Wormwitch

    Wormwitch I'm building a squishmallow army!

    And it’s not like history is peppered with case studies of “sad sheep that died because they ate too many lemons”
     
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  5. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

     
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  8. TheSeer

    TheSeer 37 Bright Visionary Crushes The Doubtful

    Isn't that the same root as the literature term "catharsis" though? I thought that was the point, that tragedy is like a laxative for the emotions.
     
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  9. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    The context was "she cried cathartically", which I guess here is one of those phrases which makes sense with one meaning of the word and is disturbing with the other, like this one (paragraph beginning "But this was 1680...").
     
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    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

     
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  11. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

     
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  13. BaseDeltaZero

    BaseDeltaZero Shitposting all night.

     
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    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

     
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  15. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

     
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    ChelG Well-Known Member

     
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  17. VJ Wocky

    VJ Wocky 36 Somnolent Void Seeks Perfection in Dissonance

     
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  18. Wormwitch

    Wormwitch I'm building a squishmallow army!

    He needed a creepy floating italian man that punches frogs with the power of the sun!
     
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    VJ Wocky 36 Somnolent Void Seeks Perfection in Dissonance

     
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  20. Wormwitch

    Wormwitch I'm building a squishmallow army!

    I like how the doctor was so traumatized by the experience that he immediately decided to have a "mustache phase"
     
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