"Deus ex Milton" still means "god out of the Milton," and I don't like it.
"Deus ex Milton" still means "god out of the Milton," and I don't like it.
@J.C. the only way "deus ex machina" makes any sense to me is if "machina" is the text itself, or at least the plot. Qualify the statements you make, please.
I don't presume to know you. Sorry if I seemed presumptuous.
check out this douchebag:
after I buy this cd
I'm gonna skin it and wear it as a hat
on my head
everyday
when it's deaaaaaaaad.
"deus ex Milton"
You shoulda said "Milton ex machina," you illiterate so and so. "Deus ex Milton" means "god in the Milton."
And gosh darn it, after all that, I used "to" instead of "too."
You're not going to register for this site, but you pored over every response until you found mine, then logged in just to comment on it? Sounds like you might be one of those AV Club writers to me.
I came up with all the ideas for Star Wars. Pez dispensers? Yours truly.
typo
and add -ed.
typo
cut the -ing from "asking" in the second paragraph.
you guys are trying to bait me, aren't you?
Didn't read the article at all, after I figured out that all the people giving opinions are AV Club writers.
Yeah, I know I said "I quit," but…
good God, you fuckers are a bunch of smug bastards. If The Onion had half the, I dunno, wit it had ten years ago, it would do an article called "Smartass Little Useless Bastards Have Self-Serving Opinions On Everything, Including Articles From The Fake Newspaper That Spawned Their…
I quit. You people are hopeless, with your snotty arguments over pop-culture references you barely understand.
I agree, Catch-22 shows the insanity of war in such a way that has never been done before or since, and I can appreciate your pride in finishing it; I picked it up and put it down several times before I could "get into it" or whatever, and the jagged pace and broken timeline of the narrative can be difficult to follow…
30 rock was never funny
the jagoffs writing for this site and others like it, entertainment rags, etc. all kissed that show's ass in its first season because it was promoted as "smart" humor. No self-respecting entertainment journalist would dare say he or she didn't like a "smart" show, because in order for…
"Spittle-flecked political ignorance" is the most apt description of Glen Beck's philosophy I have ever read or heard.
what a surprise…
the AV Club made a list…
There's a Kurosawa film from 1991 called "Rhapsody in August" that is set in Nagasaki 40-something years after the atomic bombs were dropped. Some kids learn things about the bombing from their grandma, who was present during the bombing of Nagasaki…she survived because there was a mountain between her house and…
Rhapsody In August is a pretty good movie…
that deals with lingering societal after-effects of the atomic bombing at Nagasaki at the end of WWII. Released in 1991, featuring Richard Gere.