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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Damned Near Poetic
'Be damned near poetic' --- I can't figure this out. The Japanese subtitles goes, literally translated back, 'it's such an irony of life you are getting into.' Can anyone please help me with this? How is 'poetic,' expressing ideas sensitively and beautifully as in poems, turned to mean anything that has to do with 'irony'?
Is this analyzed as
It would be damned (=really) nearly poetic
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... Only one that can do it is the one with that gun. Don't act so surprised. I heard you tell the hero the same thing. Hell, there's only one bullet left - be damned near poetic. ('Lost,' Tabula Rasa)
Is this analyzed as
It would be damned (=really) nearly poetic
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... Only one that can do it is the one with that gun. Don't act so surprised. I heard you tell the hero the same thing. Hell, there's only one bullet left - be damned near poetic. ('Lost,' Tabula Rasa)
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That's a little hard to follow. " Poetry embraces the whole of human experience - not just the beautiful and the sensitive.
- That's a little hard to follow.
- " Poetry embraces the whole of human experience - not just the beautiful and the sensitive.
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That's a little hard to follow.
Try Googling "poetic justice."
Poetry embraces the whole of human experience - not just the beautiful and the sensitive.
Try Googling "poetic justice."
Poetry embraces the whole of human experience - not just the beautiful and the sensitive.
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