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Discuss the parallels with Roger Water's Amused to Death album.Eric
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Yes I was going to mention Mr. Postman. I have actually read another of his books called "Techopoly". A very good read.Mr. McLuhan was a possibility I had not thought of. Thank...
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==============================================From Tru:I would like to transfer my posts regarding this over to this forum for archive's sake. I would like everyone else who has participated in this...
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Just to continue on this vein, here are a couple of excerpts from "Amusing Ourselves to Death".The Foreword: "We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful...
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I am so there with you on that, Tru.The information superhighway has given us the ability to access the accumulation of the world's knowledge, experience, and achievements.Unfortunately, the downside...
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Hehe Eugene I take it you are not a fan of the Republican stronghold, or as a generalization: The Powers That Is.Get me a seat on that bandwagon.Back to the spirit of the conversation, there are quite...
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In another thread willia1r mentioned there was a discussion about "book partners" going on in one of the previous forums. So if anyone remembers what was being said, please please please post your...
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I'll reply what little I remember. It was a thread about the connections between Stanley Kubric, Arthur C. Clark, and Roger Waters. Within one or two "degrees of separation," they were all connected...
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In the book Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey (page 142, 1st paragraph) it says; "Roger Waters, yet to balk at the sci-fi association, went so far as to say his "greatest regret" was that...
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Good stuff.Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke is another one of the "book partners".I am still looking for dialogue about HAL and MLoR, but I have not had any luck yet. There may be more to this Roger thing...
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Clarke wrote a book called Childhood's End, in which the children of earth evolve into the next form beyond humans. I haven't read it in years, but I seem to remember that they became some kind of...
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One thing that kept recurring to me during the original discussion of this topic was "evolution." Don't panic, I don't mean it like that. 2001 involved the "evolution" of proto-humans sitting on a...
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Quote: Getting back to the RW parallels, does anyone think that Division Bell was intended as an answer to ATD or KAOS?That is a good question. In KAOS, Roger in a way with "The Tide is Turning"...
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This thread seems to be getting a bit tangled.The discussion has strayed from Amused To Death, to Stanley Kubrick, to 2001, to Arthur C. Clarke, back to 2001, and now to evolution. Maybe a seperate...
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Yes, the posts have been straying off-topic, and for that I apologize. As discussions here mention something from previous boards and discussions, I've been trying to mentally connect them together...
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Eugene may get a kick out of this, I think it is very interesting. It is an analysis of the ending of "Amused to Death" from the album. We watched the tragedy unfold(The tragedy of Floyd becoming so...
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The Sun As Symbol "An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. If such a content should speak of the Sun and then identify it with the lion, the king, the hoard of gold...
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sorry wasn't sure if this would be the thread for this but...Roger to play Timothy White benefit concerts in Boston, and MSG in New York.www.rogerwaters.org/2001-...html#SEP02
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has anyone noticed that the second to last songs of ATD and TDB both use the F-word at the end of their songs?"...the piano lid comes down and breaks his f###ing fingers, its a miracle""...and they...
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It is possible that these are references to John the Revelator or the Gospel of John (John 3:16)Not Now John (F*** all that), I think is a satirical comment on how we are preoccupied with competition...
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The only other occurrence of that word is in "Animals"-Pigs(3 dif ones), which is the middle song. I'm not sure about Roger's other solo's, but I know TDB is the only occurrence with Gilmour.So far,...
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