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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Die Zeit wartet auf niemand und auch nicht auf mich
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:55:46 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <9301230810.AA14661@prg.ox.ac.uk> gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Craig Shergold) writes:
- >
- >Mr Shergold is also faint with delight at this opportunity to confirm
- >that in all probability it was being filmed on tape that came in nasty
- >little plastic cassettes, in ugly great aluminium and plywood boxes; /
- >and that the extended metaphor is one of the few art forms which can /
- >safely be practiced by everybody, be they ever so humble. / g
-
- It's not an extended metaphor, but a literal use, and an incorrect literal
- use as I wish to point out.
- --scott
- (actually, there is still a lot of nontheatrical film work going on in
- the UK because the materials and equipment cost matrix is pretty
- significantly different than it is in the US, and also because more
- people out there realize that video looks rotten.)
-