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covelocos
Trad climber
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Apr 27, 2017 - 07:25pm PT
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The first rock climber! Don't get much darker than that!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 28, 2017 - 10:30am PT
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"It grew colder and the night lay long before him. He kept moving, following in the darkness the naked chimes of rock blown bare of snow. The stars burned with a lidless fixity and they drew nearer in the night until toward dawn he was stumbling among the whinstones of the uttermost ridge to heaven, a barren range of rock so enfolded in that gaudy house that stars lay awash at his feet and migratory spalls of burning matter crossed constantly about him on their chartless reckonings. In the predawn light he made his way out upon the premontory and there received first of any creature in that country the warmth of the sun's ascending."
CMC
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 28, 2017 - 10:34am PT
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"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth, Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it."
CMC
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
Will know soon
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Apr 28, 2017 - 04:08pm PT
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Belgian Beer, Leffe, Anno 1240, Brune (Brown). Very Good!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Once upon a time there was a nuclear blast and the only survivor was a lowly bank clerk with Coke bottle glasses, who seemed quite happy to have survived the blast because he had got his beloved books in the bank vault with him--until he had to go looking for food outside and accidentally stepped on his glasses...
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Marlow, thanks for reminding me. You know your stuff. Warren Zevon's the man to go to for the dark sh#t
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2017 - 07:00pm PT
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some of the content posted so far is dark, some not so dark, though I could not have been plainer in my post.
The scatological stuff is mildly amusing but not dark.
on the fence right now about Shostakovich. Leaning toward his stuff being not so dark, really.
clarity edit:
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is dark sh#t.
King Lear? Dark sh#t.
get it?
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2017 - 08:38pm PT
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^^^^^ what is it with you people? I make a simple request and I get youtube vids of Tenacious D impersonating KISS
here's still another example of bona fide dark shit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlk%C3%B6nig_(Goethe)
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