Word: elysian
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...boss (who struggles to even remember Mr. Zero’s name) casually announces that he is fired, as a new adding machine will replace him. Furious, Mr. Zero kills his boss and is subsequently imprisoned and sentenced to death—a punishment that sends him to the Elysian Fields, an eerie afterlife where he reflects on his past existence...
...Brutalism, a style that incarcerated generations of the English working-class in structures of almost defiant ugliness. "Municipal architecture [is] dispiriting at the best of times," he dryly intones," but when combined with the British genius for creating the dismal, makes for a cityscape that is anything but elysian...
...every mass they’ll stand up, give a “hey,” and then open the floor for sardonic stories and masturbation jokes. Perhaps they’ll have prepared a video presentation, in which a family of young hermaphrodites skips around an Elysian paradise shouting “cat anus” and winking at the camera. Laughter will abound. Everyone over 40 will feel uncomfortable. At the end of the sermon, you’ll ask yourself “What just happened?” and feel mischievously empowered when you don?...
...someday we’re all going to have to enter the crazy labyrinth. So, rather than be lonely minotaurs, I think it’s worth facing the labyrinth together, armed with the one thing that can defeat the darkness: love. An avenue called Elysian Fields leads between the Ninth Ward and the French Quarter. Maybe—just maybe—volunteers will bring from the French Quarter to the Ninth Ward an element of paradise...
...natural amphitheater of the majestic eastern cliffs of Table Mountain, musicians perform under clear skies as a golden sun plays on the forest canopy before dipping over the blue peak. The atmosphere is appropriately elysian. Capetonians, known for savoring a slow pace of life, feast on picnics of prawn salad and cold Karoo lamb, washed down with that year's sauvignon blanc from Constantia's famous vineyards, a 10-minute drive away...