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Re: abject » alexandra_k

Posted by zeugma on March 17, 2005, at 16:26:54

In reply to Re: abject » zeugma, posted by alexandra_k on March 16, 2005, at 23:11:15

> I haven't heard that word before...
> Today everything seems 'dull flat and unprofitable'. Is that related at all?
>>

Yes, the Hamlet-like vacillations and equivocations. I'm sorry you didn't get in to grad school :-) You WILL have better luck in October, I am sure.

I feel a little better. But I do feel a little 'abject', chronically. I didn't pull the word from Shakespeare, though. Here's where I got it from:

What if the world crashed in
Refolding behind your eyelids
Cracked your mind
Cracked your mind

Janet and Johnny and James
Crash your mind
Behind your eyelids

The people behind you
With nepotism
Explodes
All that rubbish you create
In the [lock]
Suddenly [cranking]
Nepotism

Janet and Johnny and James
Janet and Johnny and James

Dearest Lord, hear me now
Janet and Johnny
Coming over the mountain
From New Guinea
They see the star
From you, our creator
A startling vision of a future that didn't happen
Ian and Eric
The stars trace
Over Janet and Judy
And James
And Susan and Johnny
The skies reflect
Dear Lord, help them in their abject search
From Guineas and the bearded man
From the hills
Never seen again
Janet and Johnny and James
Reflect on your life

-Mark E. Smith, The Fall


The Fall have a number of other songs where the word 'abject' turns up, and there is a motif of abjection pervading their work. I am a freak, because I obsess over music: I listen to ONE band at a time, and they're all I can listen to for months or even years. It's been the Fall since last fall. Abjection.

-z


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