tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 20 11:32:53 1996
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Re: KLBC:Name that Song
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: KLBC:Name that Song
- Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:27:17 +0200
At 07:57 PM 5/16/96 -0700, you wrote:
>beHwI"av writes:
>>>I thought that the band's name meant Rage [as a noun] to the detriment of
>>>the machine. Oh, but I also thought that the 'machine' in this case was the
>>>government or similar,
>>
>>In both you are correct, but the machine can also be seen as the constraints
>>that cause the inability to do something constuructive with ones live, thus
>>raging against the overpowering odds of Capitalisme, that which causes
missery.
>
>Okay, which is it? You seem to say that you agree with Ford that "Rage"
>is a noun, but you then use it as a verb. Is the band's name supposed to
>mean "complain angrily and violently about" the machine, or is it supposed
>to mean "violent anger which is placed adjacent to" the machine?
The former, "complain angrily and violently about", this is why I find it so
detrimental that there is not a word for "against". Can you understand how
important it is for the concept as a whole?
Qapla'
beHwI"av