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Unidentified Major Tom

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    On 4/10/2024 at 5:21 PM, Mash Tragic said:

    :stage: Quickly creeping out of the shadows: I just read a quote by Sartre that says "Les mots sont des pistolets chargés" (Words are like loaded guns/pistols) and it immediately made me think of the line "The poetry inside of me is warm like a gun."

     

    Do you think the similar imagery is a coincidence or that Lana could have read Sartre? :um2: Given her love for philosophy, I wouldn't be surprised but maybe it's a stretch. Idk. Maybe it comes from elsewhere, the imagery might not be super original. (Edit: just saw the post above about Happiness is a Warm Gun, I guess the imagery really isn't super original lmao). 

     

    I don't like Sartre anyway so it would suit me if it's a coincidence. :runs: It's just that I like to know what Lana reads/where she draws her inspiration from and I found the parallel interesting. 

    That's interesting, nice catch !

    My theory on this is that there are multiple parallels between the beat generation and existentialism, two close schools of thought from the same era, with similar ideas. I wouldn't be surprised if Sartre, Ginsberg or Kerouac met or read each other's essays/books.

    This may be a stretch, but she often spoke about Beat poetry, so I assume those words came from there.

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