THE Facts.
Romney Wordsworth: "I am not obsolete."Judge: "You are a bug, Mr. Wordsworth, a crawling insect; an ugly, misformed little creature who has no purpose here, no meaning."
Romney: "I am a human being!"
Judge: "You're a librarian, Mr. Wordsworth. You're a dealer in books and two-cent fines and pamphlets and closed stacks and the musty insides of a language factory that spews out meaningless words on an assembly line. Words, Mr. Wordsworth, that have no substance and no demension - like the air, like the wind, like a vacuum that you make believe has an existence by scribbling little index numbers on little cards."
Romney: "I don't care, I tell you, I don't care! I am a human being - I exist! And if I speak one thought aloud, that thought lives even after I am shallowed into my grave."
Judge: "Illusions, Mr. Wordsworth. Illusions that you inject into your vanes with printers' ink! The narcotics that you call literature - the bible, poetry, essays of all kinds - all of them amalgamate to make you think you have the strength when you have no strength at all. You have nothing but spindly limbs and a dream, and the state has no use for your kind. You waste out time, Mr. Wordsworth, and you are not worth the waste."
~The Twilight Zone, Episode 103: "The Obsolete Man"
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A Few Facts about Nyx.
-Rod Serling is teh hero. HELLO, creator of The Twilight Zone, only the best person in American history!
-I read books. Actual books. Deal with it.
-I am a closet writer.
-I am a self-proclaimed hermit.
-I watch The Twilight Zone, House, and True Blood religiously.
-I don't know what my natural hair color is anymore.
-October is the best month of the year.
-I write in what I call perfect English, but since I'm from Texas, it's probably too southern for perfection.
-I live for a good quote, a good book, and a good story.
-I love math, Enclish, German, and history.
-And I tend to be pretty obsessed with WWII and the haulecaust. (Not that I like it, I just find it interesting.)
-I don't watch/read a whole bunch of anime.
-I'm obsessed with anything supernatural.
-I'm a computer nerd.
-I'll talk to anyone.
-I wear glasses. I call them my Cheezy Scene Masque. biggrin
-I'm definately not an optimist, but it's a waste of time to be a pessimist.
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"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." - Night by Elie Wiesel.
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We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? - John Keating in Dead Poets Society
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Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out! - John Keating in Dead Poets Society
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John Keating: Close your eyes, close your eyes! Close 'em! Now, describe what you see.
Todd Anderson: Uh, I-I close my eyes.
John Keating: Yes.
Todd Anderson: Uh, and this image floats beside me.
John Keating: A sweaty-toothed madman.
Todd Anderson: A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
John Keating: Oh, that's *excellent*! Now, give him action - make him do something!
Todd Anderson: H-His hands reach out and choke me.
John Keating: That's it! Wonderful, wonderful!
Todd Anderson: And all the time he's mumbling.
John Keating: What's he mumbling?
Todd Anderson: Mumbling truth.
John Keating: Yeah, yes.
Todd Anderson: Truth like-like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.
John Keating: [some of the class start to laugh] Forget them, forget them! Stay with the blanket. Tell me about that blanket!
Todd Anderson: Y-Y-You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying t-to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.
[long pause then class applauds]
John Keating: Don't you forget this.
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