Casual chatting thread

[mylovenovels]

Wouldn't be the first time

True that Americans are... well something

 

[Robinisback]

Nooo pleeease I haven't experienced tacos, maple syrup, the Amazon rainforest, tango, Surinameese roti, and the Andes yet.

None of that shit originated in America.

 

[mylovenovels]

None of that shit originated in America.

I think that was the point..

 

[Robinisback]

I think that was the point..

Well, I wouldn't know I'm sitting in a literary analysis class, I have an urge to analyze everything seriously. You cannot stop me.

 

[mylovenovels]

Well, I wouldn't know I'm sitting in a literary analysis class, I have an urge to analyze everything seriously. You cannot stop me.

I've been on the train for like a hour because I missed my stop

 

[cigarsuger]

I've been on the train for like a hour because I missed my stop

I would have just gave up going home and booked a room to stay in

 

[mylovenovels]

I would have just gave up going home and booked a room to stay in

Okay fancy rich lady

 

[TheSeer]

NATURE HAS GIVEN ME LEGS THAT MEANS I WILL USE MY LEGS UNTIL THEY GRIND TO DUST

 

[cigarsuger]

Okay fancy rich lady

Trust me the love hotels are the cheapest they are like 8000 to 20000 yen per night and 5000 for like a 2-3 hour rest

 

[mylovenovels]

Trust me the love hotels are the cheapest they are like 8000 to 20000 yen per night and 5000 for like a 2-3 hour rest

 

[Robinisback]

I've been on the train for like a hour because I missed my stop

The work opens not with the train, that definitive and anchored vessel of purpose, but with a train rendered immediately imprecise through the hedge "like." To have been on the train for like a hour (note the grammatically transgressive article, the phantom consonant silenced) is to exist in unmeasured duration. We are not told one hour. We are told approximately one hour. Time is felt here rather than clocked. This is Proustian, frankly.

The missed stop is the work's tragic fulcrum, a hamartia of attention. The speaker did not leap from the train. Did not fight the doors. They were carried forward, passive, complicit in their own displacement. The train becomes Charon's ferry and the missed stop a shore that recedes into the distance. We ask: what was the speaker doing when the stop arrived? Sleeping? Staring into the middle distance of a crumbling late-capitalist selfhood? The text is silent on the matter.

Note the present perfect progressive: I've been on the train. Not I was. Not I am still. The speaker occupies a grammatical purgatory, an action begun in the past and unresolved in the present. The future terminus remains unknown. This is Beckett's waiting, transposed from a country road to a commuter rail line. The train does not stop. The play does not end. The stop was missed and is, in some sense, still being missed.

The conjunction "because" does remarkable structural work. The speaker has interrogated their own predicament and returned with an answer. They know why they are on the train. This is not ignorance but the more sophisticated agony of comprehended helplessness. They see the chain of causation clearly: the missed stop produced the hour; the hour has produced the self that sends this message. The "because" is the speaker's confession booth, their Socratic examined life compressed into a subordinate clause.

In twenty words, give or take the gestural "like," the author has produced a complete phenomenology of modern dislocation. We are all on the train. We have all missed our stop. We have all been on it for like an hour, approximate, unresolved, waiting for the next platform, whatever that means.

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

AMERICA NUMBER ONE!!!​

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!​

 

[cigarsuger]

Not bad of a price

 

[Angry_Panda]

None of that shit originated in America.

...two of those things are literally in South America? (Obligatory reminder that 'America' is the name of two continents, even though everyone gets lazy and uses it as shorthand for the USA.)

 

[Manko-sensei]

Trust me the love hotels are the cheapest they are like 8000 to 20000 yen per night and 5000 for like a 2-3 hour rest

Try using "less expensive", I prefer pulling an all-nighter than paying that. Or walking some extra kilometres (don't tell Panda I wrote that word).

 

[TheSeer]

Try using "less expensive", I prefer pulling an all-nighter than paying that. Or walking some extra kilometres (don't tell Panda I wrote that word).

Based

 

[Manko-sensei]

I have no idea why MangaDex uses the "Girls' Love" tag

MangaUpdates and MAL don’t use the tag

All those English tags exist only because they thought that in V5 people wouldn't understand Japanese words anymore.

 

[DavidianMillerian]

(Obligatory reminder that 'America' is the name of two continents, even though everyone gets lazy and uses it as shorthand for the USA.)

...two continents?

 

[Angry_Panda]

...two continents?

North America and South America.

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

...two continents?

two continents one hemisphere