Act i. Sc. 1.
Chrononhotonthologos (1734)
“The past is never where you think you left it.”
“And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?”
Source: Through the Looking Glass
“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
Variant: Remember it always. Remember that you and I made this journey and went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
Source: The Namesake
"Does God Exist?" debate http://hitchensdebates.blogspot.com/2010/11/hitchens-vs-turek-vcu.html vs.
2010s, 2010
Context: I'll grant you that it would possible to track the pregnancy of the woman Mary who's mentioned about three times in the Bible and to show there was no male intervention in her life at all but yet she delivered herself of a healthy baby boy. I can say— I don't say that's impossible. Parthenogenesis is not completely unthinkable. It does not prove that his paternity is divine and it wouldn't prove that any of his moral teachings were thereby correct. Nor, if I was to see him executed one day and see him walking the streets the next, would that show that his father was God or his mother was a virgin or that his teachings were true, especially given the commonplace nature of resurrection at that time and place. After all, Lazarus was raised, never said a word about it. The was raised, didn't say a thing about what she'd been through. And the Gospels tell us that at the time of the crucifixion all the graves in Jerusalem opened and their occupants wandered around the streets to greet people. So it seems resurrection was something of a banality at the time. Not all of those people clearly were divinely conceived. So I'll give you all the miracles and you'll still be left exactly where you are now, holding an empty sack.
“I mucked about with his hair. His shoes
were where he left them. His shoes are where he
left them.”
Carrying the Elephant
Source: Howl and Other Poems
