[b]Alan Moore
…But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another’s vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.[/b]
But only the parts between birth and death.
You asked for Knowledge, Evey, and that is what I shall pass on to you. Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
Oh, V, come on. You’ve always kept thinks mysterious: yourself, this place, your plans…If knowledge is like air, you’ve been suffocating me.
Not at all. I’ve been teaching you to breathe.
In other words, to breathe [think] like he does. Another fucking objectivist as it were.
Let me show you the firmness of my belief.
Lots of way to take that, right?
He plans to use every low-down technique he knows to loosen up the suspect, everything from good cop/bad cop to a four-pound bag of oranges that damage the internal organs but don’t leave a mark upon the skin. Or, failing that, he’ll Google him.
Or log on to Facebook.
Plus all that other stuff of course.
The Shakers also have one golden rule – back to William Morris: Do not make that which is not useful. And so it was their interpretation that all useful things should also be beautiful.
Not counting philosophy of course. Or, rather, serious philosophy.
Labor at your work until people cannot imagine what you have designed existing any other way.
So, how am I doing so far?