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F-Hole (2016)

14 points by tintinnabula 10y ago

zitterbewegung 10y ago
The article seems to meander. I'm not sure what the author is trying to convey. It goes into tangents and seems to be extremely wordy and hard to read in general. Half the article seems to be about living outside of a car and the rest is about photographic guitars (why these aren't in two separate articles I am not sure).
- mikestew 10y ago
  This is one of those that makes me ask "why is this on HN?" Not the passive-aggressive "I don't think this should be on HN" kind of thing. More, "no, seriously, why on earth did you think anyone but you would be interested in this rambling stream of consciousness. I'd really like to know because I'm obviously missing something."
  - camtarn 10y ago
    At least one person (me) liked it, as a rambly interesting thing to read in the five minutes before leaving the office. So - I have no idea why the OP posted it, and it's definitely rather different from the usual things you see on HN, but I appreciate that they did. Cheers :) (That said, I share another poster's confusion that F-holes are not mentioned!)
    - burgerdev 10y ago
      Five minutes seems overly optimistic ;)
  - brudgers 10y ago
    ...splits me in two when I see my eleven-year-old’s body, damp and limp, innocently tangled in his sheets...
- sp332 10y ago
  It's in the first paragraph. I would like to publicly renounce a belief system that once seemed useful and true to me; I’ve outgrown the romantic escapism of this mode of travel. She recently published a book of photographs http://aperture.org/shop/highway-kind http://aperture.org/shop/highway-kind about "the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality".
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tyingq 10y ago
I'm not making the connection to the title. Yes, some guitars have f-holes, but most don't. F-holes aren't mentioned in the body of the article either. None of the guitar pictures feature guitars that do have F-holes.
- jgust 10y ago
  I drew a connection to her getting out of owning the van, and the word "f-hole", which can also be short for "fuck hole". The van for a long time was a place of comfort, but over time it turned into prison made of memories. Her father lived in an f-hole, she's taking steps to avoid that. I took it as a reminder to not get stuck in a rut just because it's comfortable or familiar.
  - tyingq 10y ago
    Ahhh. I would call that a s-hole. The slang version of f-hole is something else entirely to me :)

F-Hole (2016)

14 points by tintinnabula 10y ago

The article seems to meander. I'm not sure what the author is trying to convey. It goes into tangents and seems to be extremely wordy and hard to read in general. Half the article seems to be about living outside of a car and the rest is about photographic guitars (why these aren't in two separate articles I am not sure).

mikestew 10y ago
This is one of those that makes me ask "why is this on HN?" Not the passive-aggressive "I don't think this should be on HN" kind of thing. More, "no, seriously, why on earth did you think anyone but you would be interested in this rambling stream of consciousness. I'd really like to know because I'm obviously missing something."
- camtarn 10y ago
  At least one person (me) liked it, as a rambly interesting thing to read in the five minutes before leaving the office. So - I have no idea why the OP posted it, and it's definitely rather different from the usual things you see on HN, but I appreciate that they did. Cheers :) (That said, I share another poster's confusion that F-holes are not mentioned!)
  - burgerdev 10y ago
    Five minutes seems overly optimistic ;)
- brudgers 10y ago
  ...splits me in two when I see my eleven-year-old’s body, damp and limp, innocently tangled in his sheets...
sp332 10y ago
It's in the first paragraph. I would like to publicly renounce a belief system that once seemed useful and true to me; I’ve outgrown the romantic escapism of this mode of travel. She recently published a book of photographs http://aperture.org/shop/highway-kind http://aperture.org/shop/highway-kind about "the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality".
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tyingq 10y ago

I'm not making the connection to the title. Yes, some guitars have f-holes, but most don't. F-holes aren't mentioned in the body of the article either. None of the guitar pictures feature guitars that do have F-holes.

jgust 10y ago
I drew a connection to her getting out of owning the van, and the word "f-hole", which can also be short for "fuck hole". The van for a long time was a place of comfort, but over time it turned into prison made of memories. Her father lived in an f-hole, she's taking steps to avoid that. I took it as a reminder to not get stuck in a rut just because it's comfortable or familiar.
- tyingq 10y ago
  Ahhh. I would call that a s-hole. The slang version of f-hole is something else entirely to me :)