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AOK GONE · 11-30-2007, 07:05 PM

Post a great passage by a great writer. Preferably fiction. Add who wrote it and what book and what page number if you have it near by.

I'll start.

This is the opening to Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." I was reading this passage came to the end of the passage and literally dropped the book on the ground saying, "Jesus Christ." Dude is flawless with his:

"When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath. he pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cae where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. Deep stone flutes where the water dripped and sang. Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. Until they stood in a great stone room where lay a black and ancient lake. And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders. It swung its head low over the water as if to take the scent of what it could not see. Crouching there pale and naked and translucent, its alabaster bones cast up in the shadow on the rocks behind it. Its bowels, its beating heart. The brain that pulsed in a dull glass bell. It swung its head from side to side and then gave out a low moan and turned and lurched away and loped soundless into the dark."

Another Cormac that is in Outer Dark where a guy is watching three strangers kill his baby by a campfire:

"Holme saw the blade wink in the light like a long cat's eye slant and malevolent and a dark smile erupted on the child's throat and went all broken down the front of it. The child made no sound. It hung there with its one eye glazing over like a wet stone and the black blood pumping down its naked belly."

Rocky Balthboa · 11-30-2007, 07:08 PM

"I RECORD DAILY" --Dan Podobedo
Peace.

IllaMentalz!!

11-30-2007, 07:09 PM

I'll play.

"

" - Daniel Podobed

11-30-2007, 07:11 PM

"and i wanna say peace to pittsburgh, i'ma miss you pizza face
and i wanna say peace to sif, now you runnin this place
you the new king of prowlaz, so yo hold it down
keep spittin them ebonics, and wearing that crown
YO I'MA MAN I GOT THOUSANDS OF FEET
I'LL FUCK YA MAMA AT LEAST FIVE TIMES AND I AM OUT
NO DOUBT"

- Defcon from "UPN Crossroads"

MMx
Illamentalz!!

11-30-2007, 07:14 PM

"DIS DA VOICE DATS GWANNA BE FAWKING U UP DAMARROW!!!!!" - Sir Daniel J. Podobed

MMx
Illamentalz!!

11-30-2007, 07:21 PM

Seriously though, from the greatest book ever written - Grendel (back me up Balth!):

Quote:

The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant. I blink. I stare in horror. "Scat!" I hiss. "Go back to your cave, go back to your cowshed - whatever." He cocks his head like an elderly, slow-witted king, considers the angles, decides to ignore me. I stamp. I hammer the ground with my fists. I hurl a skull-size stone at him. He will not budge. I shake my two hairy fists at the sky and I let out a howl so unspeakable that the water at my feet turns sudden ice and even I myself am left uneasy. But the ram stays; the season is upon us. And so begins the twelfth year of my idiotic war.

EDIT: This is on Page 5, the first page of the novel.

Rocky Balthboa · 11-30-2007, 07:47 PM

Well, bringing up Grendel is unfair, cause you could pretty much turn to any random page, and be amazed by the nigga; John Gardner was friggin' ridiculous. I especially love trying to figure out wtf the dragon was talking about, but as I said, the writing is amazing in that entire book; easily my favorite ever.
Peace.

IllaMentalz!!

11-30-2007, 07:49 PM

Word, I just read the first few pages again and almost skeeted on myself.

LINK

Rocky Balthboa · 11-30-2007, 07:54 PM

Here's a better website, Scourge: go here for all things Grendel-->

http://www.brtom.org/gr/grendintro.html
Peace.

IllaMentalz!!

Edit--> Here's another awesome quote, that I found randomly, by just literally opening the book to a random page: "All at once, as if by sudden vision, I understood the emptiness in the eyes of those humpbacked shapes back in the cave. (Were they my brothers, my uncles, those creatures shuffling brimstone-eyed from room to room, or sitting separate, isolated, muttering forever like underground rivers, each in his private, inviolable gloom?) I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly--as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink.--An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree!" (p. 21-22).

See? Friggin' awesome.

11-30-2007, 07:59 PM

LMAO AT THESE IDIOTS

http://p079.ezboard.com/chapter-1/ft...opicID=9.topic

Rocky Balthboa · 11-30-2007, 08:04 PM

Yeah, the posters are pretty clueless, but the site itself has a lot of good shit on it. For extra ROFLZ, read what they say about Chapter 12; I almost registered just to son these niggas into bolivian.
Peace.

IllaMentalz!!

Rocky Balthboa · 11-30-2007, 08:06 PM

Not all of the posts are pointless; this thread's pretty good:

http://p079.ezboard.com/Repost-of-Un...opicID=7.topic

Peace.

IllaMentalz!!

11-30-2007, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GHETTO FAM

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TO READ FOR THE SUMMER. I DONT KNOW WHY .BUT THEY DID. ON THE REAL I DONT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT THIS BOOK. SO IF YA'LL PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS BOOK .SO IF YA'LL UNDERSTAND THIS BOOK HOLLA BACK ON EZBOARD.COM . THANK YA'LL WONDERFUL PEOPLE FOR TAKING TIME OUT OF YA'LL BUZY SCHEDIZEE. SO I SEE YA'LL WHEN I SEE YA'LL

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LMAO

Rocky Balthboa · 11-30-2007, 08:24 PM

Nigga, that was. me posting on that. board; stop hatin. yo. Word Lyfe. Son.
Peace.

IllaMentalz!!

AOK GONE · 11-30-2007, 08:26 PM

K. Thanks for your submissions, guys. Now shut the fuck up with your corny ass side convo.

11-30-2007, 08:26 PM

LMAOLMAO

11-30-2007, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by This is an Alias

K. Thanks for your submissions, guys. Now shut the fuck up with your corny ass side convo.

This corny ass side convo is integral to building up the hype. Grendel will change your fucking life.

Rocky Balthboa · 11-30-2007, 08:28 PM

Nigga, 100% of every thread you have ever made is corny; I figured if you gonna be on some gay shit I'ma at least speak on some shit I like; don't be tryna son no HLBs you inet nobody ass nigga...ROFLZ
Peace.

IllaMentalz!!

EDIT--> WE BEEFING NOW NIGGA; I AM TYPIN STRICTLY IN CAPS FROM HERE ON OUT SON

AOK GONE · 11-30-2007, 08:40 PM

100% of every thread I make is gay? How is this gay? Furthermore, if it is gay then why are you the giddiest poster in it so far? Just shut the fuck up, man. Seriously, dude.

#1 Rated Boarder · 11-30-2007, 08:42 PM

Rorschach's journal. October 12th, 1985:

Dog carcass in the alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen it's true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicans will look up and shout "save us!"...and I'll look down and whisper "No."
They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father, or President Truman...decent men, who believed in a day's wok for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stand on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers...and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say"

- Alan Moore, the beginning of Watchmen

Stay strong,
The Rose

11-30-2007, 07:08 PM	#2
Rocky Balthboa Balthowsai ARCHIVIAL STATUS YO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BX, New York Posts: 11,021	"I RECORD DAILY" --Dan Podobedo Peace. IllaMentalz!! __________________ "From b-boys, to project rhyme, to rapmusic, to urbanprowlers, to hiphop-underground, to Lyric Olympics, to sohh, to visions2words, Richard Corey has spread his gospel, heralding the coming of a day when a new form of art will come to save the souls of hip-hoppers lost to the world." OMG

11-30-2007, 07:11 PM	#4
MMx floats like a lepidoptera Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cali Posts: 10,545	"and i wanna say peace to pittsburgh, i'ma miss you pizza face and i wanna say peace to sif, now you runnin this place you the new king of prowlaz, so yo hold it down keep spittin them ebonics, and wearing that crown YO I'MA MAN I GOT THOUSANDS OF FEET I'LL FUCK YA MAMA AT LEAST FIVE TIMES AND I AM OUT NO DOUBT" - Defcon from "UPN Crossroads" MMx Illamentalz!! __________________ Hey citrus, hey liquor, I love it when we come together Math Enthusiast / Bad Ass MC Last edited by MMx : 11-30-2007 at 07:13 PM.

11-30-2007, 07:14 PM	#5
MMx floats like a lepidoptera Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cali Posts: 10,545	"DIS DA VOICE DATS GWANNA BE FAWKING U UP DAMARROW!!!!!" - Sir Daniel J. Podobed MMx Illamentalz!! __________________ Hey citrus, hey liquor, I love it when we come together Math Enthusiast / Bad Ass MC Last edited by MMx : 11-30-2007 at 07:17 PM.

11-30-2007, 07:47 PM	#7
Rocky Balthboa Balthowsai ARCHIVIAL STATUS YO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BX, New York Posts: 11,021	Well, bringing up Grendel is unfair, cause you could pretty much turn to any random page, and be amazed by the nigga; John Gardner was friggin' ridiculous. I especially love trying to figure out wtf the dragon was talking about, but as I said, the writing is amazing in that entire book; easily my favorite ever. Peace. IllaMentalz!! __________________ "From b-boys, to project rhyme, to rapmusic, to urbanprowlers, to hiphop-underground, to Lyric Olympics, to sohh, to visions2words, Richard Corey has spread his gospel, heralding the coming of a day when a new form of art will come to save the souls of hip-hoppers lost to the world." OMG Last edited by Balthowsai : 11-30-2007 at 08:03 PM.

11-30-2007, 07:54 PM	#9
Rocky Balthboa Balthowsai ARCHIVIAL STATUS YO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BX, New York Posts: 11,021	Here's a better website, Scourge: go here for all things Grendel--> http://www.brtom.org/gr/grendintro.html Peace. IllaMentalz!! Edit--> Here's another awesome quote, that I found randomly, by just literally opening the book to a random page: "All at once, as if by sudden vision, I understood the emptiness in the eyes of those humpbacked shapes back in the cave. (Were they my brothers, my uncles, those creatures shuffling brimstone-eyed from room to room, or sitting separate, isolated, muttering forever like underground rivers, each in his private, inviolable gloom?) I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly--as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink.--An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree!" (p. 21-22). See? Friggin' awesome. __________________ "From b-boys, to project rhyme, to rapmusic, to urbanprowlers, to hiphop-underground, to Lyric Olympics, to sohh, to visions2words, Richard Corey has spread his gospel, heralding the coming of a day when a new form of art will come to save the souls of hip-hoppers lost to the world." OMG Last edited by Balthowsai : 11-30-2007 at 08:02 PM.

11-30-2007, 07:05 PM	#1
AOK GONE This is an Alias AOK GONE Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,108	Great Passages by Great Writers: Post a great passage by a great writer. Preferably fiction. Add who wrote it and what book and what page number if you have it near by. I'll start. This is the opening to Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." I was reading this passage came to the end of the passage and literally dropped the book on the ground saying, "Jesus Christ." Dude is flawless with his: "When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath. he pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cae where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. Deep stone flutes where the water dripped and sang. Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. Until they stood in a great stone room where lay a black and ancient lake. And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders. It swung its head low over the water as if to take the scent of what it could not see. Crouching there pale and naked and translucent, its alabaster bones cast up in the shadow on the rocks behind it. Its bowels, its beating heart. The brain that pulsed in a dull glass bell. It swung its head from side to side and then gave out a low moan and turned and lurched away and loped soundless into the dark." Another Cormac that is in Outer Dark where a guy is watching three strangers kill his baby by a campfire: "Holme saw the blade wink in the light like a long cat's eye slant and malevolent and a dark smile erupted on the child's throat and went all broken down the front of it. The child made no sound. It hung there with its one eye glazing over like a wet stone and the black blood pumping down its naked belly." __________________ [ROFLS BE GONE]

11-30-2007, 07:09 PM	#3
Scourge BAMA!!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 22,843	I'll play. " " - Daniel Podobed

11-30-2007, 07:49 PM	#8
Scourge BAMA!!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 22,843	Word, I just read the first few pages again and almost skeeted on myself. LINK

11-30-2007, 07:59 PM	#10
Scourge BAMA!!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 22,843	LMAO AT THESE IDIOTS http://p079.ezboard.com/chapter-1/ft...opicID=9.topic

11-30-2007, 08:04 PM	#11
Rocky Balthboa Balthowsai ARCHIVIAL STATUS YO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BX, New York Posts: 11,021	Yeah, the posters are pretty clueless, but the site itself has a lot of good shit on it. For extra ROFLZ, read what they say about Chapter 12; I almost registered just to son these niggas into bolivian. Peace. IllaMentalz!! __________________ "From b-boys, to project rhyme, to rapmusic, to urbanprowlers, to hiphop-underground, to Lyric Olympics, to sohh, to visions2words, Richard Corey has spread his gospel, heralding the coming of a day when a new form of art will come to save the souls of hip-hoppers lost to the world." OMG

11-30-2007, 08:06 PM	#12
Rocky Balthboa Balthowsai ARCHIVIAL STATUS YO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BX, New York Posts: 11,021	Not all of the posts are pointless; this thread's pretty good: http://p079.ezboard.com/Repost-of-Un...opicID=7.topic Peace. IllaMentalz!! __________________ "From b-boys, to project rhyme, to rapmusic, to urbanprowlers, to hiphop-underground, to Lyric Olympics, to sohh, to visions2words, Richard Corey has spread his gospel, heralding the coming of a day when a new form of art will come to save the souls of hip-hoppers lost to the world." OMG

11-30-2007, 08:24 PM	#14
Rocky Balthboa Balthowsai ARCHIVIAL STATUS YO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BX, New York Posts: 11,021	Nigga, that was. me posting on that. board; stop hatin. yo. Word Lyfe. Son. Peace. IllaMentalz!! __________________ "From b-boys, to project rhyme, to rapmusic, to urbanprowlers, to hiphop-underground, to Lyric Olympics, to sohh, to visions2words, Richard Corey has spread his gospel, heralding the coming of a day when a new form of art will come to save the souls of hip-hoppers lost to the world." OMG

11-30-2007, 08:26 PM	#15
AOK GONE This is an Alias AOK GONE Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,108	K. Thanks for your submissions, guys. Now shut the fuck up with your corny ass side convo. __________________ [ROFLS BE GONE]

11-30-2007, 08:28 PM	#18
Rocky Balthboa Balthowsai ARCHIVIAL STATUS YO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: BX, New York Posts: 11,021	Nigga, 100% of every thread you have ever made is corny; I figured if you gonna be on some gay shit I'ma at least speak on some shit I like; don't be tryna son no HLBs you inet nobody ass nigga...ROFLZ Peace. IllaMentalz!! EDIT--> WE BEEFING NOW NIGGA; I AM TYPIN STRICTLY IN CAPS FROM HERE ON OUT SON __________________ "From b-boys, to project rhyme, to rapmusic, to urbanprowlers, to hiphop-underground, to Lyric Olympics, to sohh, to visions2words, Richard Corey has spread his gospel, heralding the coming of a day when a new form of art will come to save the souls of hip-hoppers lost to the world." OMG

11-30-2007, 08:40 PM	#19
AOK GONE This is an Alias AOK GONE Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,108	100% of every thread I make is gay? How is this gay? Furthermore, if it is gay then why are you the giddiest poster in it so far? Just shut the fuck up, man. Seriously, dude. __________________ [ROFLS BE GONE]