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KingOctavious
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States324 Posts
May 12 2011 12:40 GMT
#1
A quick video for your amusement. I thought I'd quote some lines from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in some of my matches. This is literally the first match I tried it in upon coming up with the idea. The outcome is hilarious. I never knew that poetry was so OP.



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Check out my book, The Year in StarCraft II: 2011, http://yearinsc2.com/ :D:D
Bio-Leera
Profile Joined May 2010
United States65 Posts
May 12 2011 12:56 GMT
#2
this is amazing
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4011 Posts
May 12 2011 12:58 GMT
#3
Time to start using the Wasteland.
Moderator@SirJolt
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
May 12 2011 13:11 GMT
#4
nice opening
Yhamm is the god of predictions
VGhost
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3618 Posts
May 12 2011 13:20 GMT
#5
As they say, the keyboard is mightier than the swarm. Or something.

(With all the other TLFE response blogs popping up, I was surprised that a) this wasn't one and b) you didn't go with titling it "T. S. Elephant" just to fit in. )
#4427 || I am not going to scan a ferret.
KingOctavious
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States324 Posts
May 12 2011 13:22 GMT
#6
On May 12 2011 21:58 SirJolt wrote:
Time to start using the Wasteland.


Agreed! How awesome would it be if quoting T.S. Eliot turned into a normal thing on the ladder?
Check out my book, The Year in StarCraft II: 2011, http://yearinsc2.com/ :D:D
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19203 Posts
May 12 2011 15:35 GMT
#7
Try blowing someone's mind with r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r by e.e. cummings next time.
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4011 Posts
May 12 2011 15:47 GMT
#8
On May 13 2011 00:35 tofucake wrote:
Try blowing someone's mind with r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r by e.e. cummings next time.


Any Cummings would work well; I'd be utterly paralysed if someone playing against me quoted, line by line,

"Anyone lived in a pretty how town,
With up so floating many bells down..."

The man was a genius.
Moderator@SirJolt
Glaven
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada554 Posts
May 12 2011 15:58 GMT
#9
Haha that's pretty good. I was hoping that he'd continue citing the poem which would have been baller.
Special Tactics
Kamille
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Monaco1035 Posts
May 12 2011 16:04 GMT
#10
Print out lines of Prufrock? You should be ashamed that you don't have it memorized!

Some parts of The Wasteland are far too depressing to be quoted. The initial lines, however, are gorgeous.

"April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
Priphea
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
May 12 2011 16:38 GMT
#11
Bust out some of that TSLiot when watching the TSL this weekend.
KingOctavious
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States324 Posts
May 12 2011 16:42 GMT
#12
On May 13 2011 01:04 Kamille wrote:
Print out lines of Prufrock? You should be ashamed that you don't have it memorized!



Whoa, whoa, whoa, I didn't say I needed to print them out. I was just suggesting that for others.

Granted, TLSoJAP is far too long to completely memorize, but those first lines were all me (though, admittedly, I did have my Eliot book nearby for reference).

Other lines I was going to quote (from memory) were.

"Do I dare to eat a peach?"

and I thought this one would be good, especially if I started losing:

I grow old,
I grow old,
I will wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Check out my book, The Year in StarCraft II: 2011, http://yearinsc2.com/ :D:D
SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4011 Posts
May 12 2011 16:45 GMT
#13
On May 13 2011 01:04 Kamille wrote:
Some parts of The Wasteland are far too depressing to be quoted.


The literary GG:

"I apologise, the tears have blurred my vision such that I can no longer effectively micro my zerglings. Thank you for this education."

**SirJolt has left the game**
Moderator@SirJolt
Kamille
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Monaco1035 Posts
May 12 2011 17:07 GMT
#14
"I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker.
I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid."

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws,
Scuttling the floors of silent seas."

Here are some of my favorite selections.
Priphea
KingOctavious
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States324 Posts
May 12 2011 18:32 GMT
#15
On May 13 2011 02:07 Kamille wrote:
"I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker.
I have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid."



Win.

I think I just found an awesome one to say to your teammates if you're losing a team game. The final three lines of TLSoJAP:

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
Check out my book, The Year in StarCraft II: 2011, http://yearinsc2.com/ :D:D
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