Word: rants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Totally oblivious to questions at first, Daniel breaks his silence with a long, angry rant. He says he's "not a panhandler or person of the street" but has recently lost...
...this as a call for sympathy. ------writers deserve to be tested if they are to achieve honors at the College. What I am doing here is an age-old Crimson tradition in which editors, having exchanged their newspaper writing duties for the sometimes more subtle task of Thing authorship, rant about their lives so that juniors will be well aware of what they might be getting into next year. First-years and sophomores need not concern themselves with such ominous thoughts just yet. There will be plenty of time for that in coming years...
...borrow the rant of Network's furious prophet of the little screen, Howard Beale: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore...
Woodham specifically mentioned the Nietzsche character who declares God's death: "the madman," an enlightened being whom the rest of the world perceives as lunatic. The madman declares, "I have come too early ... My time is not yet." In his note, Woodham purportedly wrote his own rant: "I am not insane! I am angry. This world s___ on me for the final time. I am not spoiled or lazy; for murder is not weak and slow-witted; murder is gutsy and daring. I killed because People like me are mistreated every day... I am malicious because I am miserable...
...real excitement on this little EP, however, comes with the next three tracks. Together, they are smart, varied, powerful and uncompromising. At first, "As If Your Life Depended On It" seems to be a condemnation of used women in the vein of Hatfield's rant "Supermodel." However, an intricate pronoun game at work in the song reveals its actual subject: Hatfield herself. Instead of saying "I" over and over, Hatfield starts the song out in the second person, pointedly commenting on an unknown woman's pathetic dependency: "Crack a joke/light his smoke/as if your life depended...