Can you quote a nobody?
15 Kewpie points for editing in the correct answer.
(Kewpie points are not exchangable for Ningis)
Hint: "Are you William Blake?"
Hint hint: The question about William Blake is a quote from a movie. The question about quoting a nobody was inspired by something someone wrote here. But after I asked it, I realized that it could be answered in the context of a certain movie.
I guess the moral of the story is: If you want to save Kewpie points, ask a movie question where people go to answer philosophy questions.
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"An' I went to see the doctor of philosophy
with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knees
He never did marry, or see a B-grade movie
He graded my perormance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
got my paper and I was free"
- Indigo Girls
(a thought not intended for anyone here in particular, unless they think they deserve it)
The question "Are you William Blake?" Was asked by "Nobody," a character in the Jim Jarmusch film DEAD MAN. Johnny Depp plays William Blake, an Eastern schooled Accountant in the old west seeking work, who is mistaken by Nobody for William Blake, the Poet.
"Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night."
- William Blake
The movie has a few scenes of very unsettling imagery. So you have been warned.
I wasn't thinking of the movie when I asked the question, I was thinking of another question here, although I can't for the life of me remember what it was now. But I do think the most interesting thoughts are often tangents of others.
I wondered if Spec Tac might have been twisting the meaning of the question by observing that we are all "nobody's" here. Since we all exist "here" without bodys as data streams, this would be true. That would have been a good answer, but wasn't spelled out as such.