
WTF Is…? series, Insurgency (standalone) (January 29, 2014)
Source: The Misanthrope
WTF Is…? series, Insurgency (standalone) (January 29, 2014)
“In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning.”
"True Love"
Context: In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed,
Freckled. In a big black Buick,
Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat
In front of the drugstore, sipping something
Through a straw. There is nothing like
Beauty. It stops your heart. It
Thickens your blood. It stops your breath. It
Makes you feel dirty. You need a hot bath.
I leaned against a telephone pole, and watched.
I thought I would die if she saw me.
“I hope i shall never hav so much reputashun that i shan't feel obliged to be alwus civil.”
Source: Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Source: Object-oriented design: a responsibility-driven approach (1989), p. 72
Dr. Malcolm Long, Watchmen #6
Watchmen (1986–1987)
Context: I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to pretend it looked like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn’t. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that is avoiding the real horror. The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else.
"Words".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
Speech in Philadelphia (1776)