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Grex Poetry Item 25: "62,400" toking [linked]
Entered by toking on Fri Feb 5 11:23:12 UTC 1999:

62,400 repetitions
that's what they say
that's what you need for a single truth
62,400 repetitions
and I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten
ohh dear god, 
62,396 to go
how can I survive?
and I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten
PLEASE! I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME
62,392 to go
and I"ve only 60 years to make it
and I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten
PLEASE! I can still smell his breath
62,388 to go
before I die I just want to say
that I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten
I have forgotten

15 responses total.

#1 of 15 by lumen on Fri Feb 5 23:49:23 1999:

I'm not sure I understand this poem.  Where did you get the number 
62,400?

Other than not understanding the content, the style doesn't particularly 
strike me.

#2 of 15 by cloud on Sat Feb 6 01:39:04 1999:

Personally, I like the esoteric nature of this.  It remindes me vaguely of
the "six degrees of seperation" shtick.

Here's the plot, as I read it: Some person has a had a very traumatic
experience.  He's trying to forget it, but he won't, for whatever reason,
untill he's said it 62400 times (and probably won't then).

"I have forgotten," is of course, what he's trying to make true, but isn't.

I really like this.  I get a very scary, panicy type of "mood" off it.  Well
done.

#3 of 15 by toking on Sat Feb 6 06:01:55 1999:

I've yet too read the book, but I just watched the movie "Brave New 
World" 62,400 repetitions of the same idea is what it takes to 
condition that idea into fact

#4 of 15 by cloud on Sat Feb 6 15:30:17 1999:

Oh, yes, that's right.  Read the book, BTW, it's much, much better.  I'd have
to say it's one of the few books that have genuinly scared me.

#5 of 15 by jazz on Sat Feb 6 19:26:22 1999:

        It's much easier to make someone believe it's a fact - three to
fourteen.

#6 of 15 by brighn on Sat Feb 6 23:28:11 1999:

but it's nearly impossible to make yourself belief some things... especially
"I have forgotten." The more you say it, the more you're focussing on what
you're trying to forget =}

#7 of 15 by bookworm on Mon Feb 8 00:39:07 1999:

Um...  This one's a little deep for me.

#8 of 15 by zoe on Mon Feb 8 03:07:07 1999:

i finally got off my ass and read this one.. i like... 62,400 
repetitions make one disgusting lie... i told you that you'd enjoy the 
movie...

#9 of 15 by brighn on Mon Feb 8 04:57:22 1999:

Are we refering to the 1998 Peter Gallagher version (which I haven't seen),
or the 1980 version (which was pretty good)? both were TV movies.

The Huxley novel, at any rate, was at one time my favorite novel. I read it
in the neighborhood of 7 times.

#10 of 15 by toking on Mon Feb 8 12:57:48 1999:

I'm assuming its the `98 version

#11 of 15 by zoe on Mon Feb 8 15:10:27 1999:

it was on  last year so i supose it would be the'98 version... besides, 
it was pretty modern..

#12 of 15 by toking on Mon Feb 8 15:17:54 1999:

ehhh?  how'd you manage to get on at 10 in the morning?

#13 of 15 by zoe on Mon Feb 8 16:08:38 1999:

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#14 of 15 by zoe on Mon Feb 8 16:10:29 1999:

i'm came home sick from school... :)

#15 of 15 by toking on Wed Feb 17 18:50:03 1999:

(linked to the new peotry conf)

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