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Shrug: Butcher Boy
23:04 / 15.05.07
Er, while those two suggestions are very apt, I think I might've jumped the gun a little. (Thanks again and I know I'm being picky but such is the nature of finding exactly the right word)

Some context might be in order:

I'm writing on Tetsuo: The Iron Man, about how the industrialisation and, indeed, the 'sprawling' 'bloated' Tokyo finds a aggressive allegory in Tetsuo's mechanized, distorted form. Is there a further word for excessive, unstable growth that would emphasize both a human cancerous growth and industrial sprawl while also emphazing a certain 'rapidity'?

Is 'metastasized' a step to far?
 
 
Happy Dave
23:10 / 15.05.07
Malignant?
 
 
Quantum
23:15 / 15.05.07
Rampant?

I'm here to ask on behalf of this thread about the word tine. I reckon it's a misprint of trine but your web-fu may be superior.
 
 
Papers
23:17 / 15.05.07
Quants - I thought the tine=spike reading, impaling the moon, made the most sense from the little context we were given.

Industrial growth...well, see, all the metaphors seem to run into organic territory. Infected?
 
 
Red Concrete
23:35 / 15.05.07
I think 'metastasized' has a different meaning than the one you want. Probably you need two words, I don't know if there is one that covers all that. 'Splayed' came to mind, and 'distended'?


On fix and tine the moon - a tine is a fork prong, so in keeping with the fix (in the meaning of "bind"), I would suggest that tine means "to skewer", or run through, maybe?
 
 
Red Concrete
23:36 / 15.05.07
Yes, sorry, what Thinking palindrome said. I don't cope well with forking discussions.
 
  

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