Waters best metaphor?
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Shine on Jason!
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Terry, we are two fish sloshed in a fish bowl.
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actually the 2nd last line is, water doesnt actually laugh. does anyobne here even know what a metaphor is?Damn!t wrote:Yes, these are great lines, but thats not a metaphor.Syd'sSexy wrote: Hear the lark harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground.
See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.
And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer
Making for the sea.
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Don't confuse it with a good old Roger's grin
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That's just "personification" not really a metaphor.Duckboy wrote:actually the 2nd last line is, water doesnt actually laugh. does anyobne here even know what a metaphor is?Syd'sSexy wrote: And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
Laughing as it passes through the endless summer
Making for the sea.
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I'm not sure what you mean my the quotation marks, was it meant to be snide or sarcastic or were you actually quoting from somewhere?
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I wasn't sure if that was the correct spelling of the word.
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eh... its good enough, I understood it. I think it is correct anyway.
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Duncarin, it appears to me you have selected Roger's best line ever (the former) and one of his very worst (the latter).Duncarin wrote:"All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" is brilliant. Not a metaphot though, more like a fact.
"It all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence" that one is great too.
You need to reconcile that.
Nice handle, btw. Now all you need is a cool avatar. Might I suggest this:
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"A pretty fair forgery"
Right there, that's Waters best metaphor.
Right there, that's Waters best metaphor.
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I'd still go with the "Donald Duck light".
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Waters was a big Science Fiction fan (as related by Gilmour and Mason at the time, and evidenced by his dealings with Kubrick over 2001 - both ways!) and liked Doctor Who and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - if only Floyd and the RW had worked together!! - the Dr Who theme even crops up in some Animals-era tour stuff, and later (post-waters) in One of These Days, thogh they used to do it live long before (and when The Orb were still in short trousers).Tenniru wrote:The entire "hot stuff with a hatpin" bit in Pigs (the Maggie Thatcher verse) is just genius. Just when a very close look at the lyrics is getting very dark, you stumble across Roger Waters subtly calling her a prostitute. Genius.
Mary Whitehouse - and her mean-spirited set of censorious 70s micropcephalopoids - had it in for Dr Who which was a favourite show of many 60s musicians and even 70s Hells Angels (there's a famous film on t'internet of the latter enjoying "Planet of the Daleks")... another reason to excoriate her.
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mosespa wrote:a place to stay
enough to eat
somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
where you can speak out loud
about your doubts and fears
and what's more no-one ever disappears
you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door
you can relax on both sides of the tracks
and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
and everyone has recourse to the law
and no-one kills the children anymore
and no-one kills the children anymore
Has there ever been a more moving description of Utopia?
I TOTALLY AGREE !!!