@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Look like it is written by an unwelcoming author whose description would be ignored by you guys.
Did the speaker say something obscene?
The problem, I think, may be that you gave only the trivial context (the surrounding text) not the deeper context (the name of the author, the title of the work, where you saw it).
You keep doing this. [WHY?}
The prose looks like what you see see in a lot of modern writing that purports to be "edgy", so ably parodied by the late Gilbert Sorrentino.
Having said that, I suspect that "going metric" may be a (possibly freshly invented) North American metaphor for "going to extraordinary lengths" - the US is well known for clinging to the mediaeval "imperial system" of measurement (feet, inches, pounds, gallons, etc) while the rest of the world has "gone metric" (adopted the metric system - metres, centimetres, kilogrammes, litres, etc).
[UPDATE]It's from a short story called "Miss Wyoming" by Douglas Coupland, the author of
Generation X
Quote:Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture.
Quote: Miss Wyoming
by Douglas Coupland
The absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves.
Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him.
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