Albert Alligator in a thinking contest (after Howland Hoo Owl fires the starting gun)
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Others
As quoted in Dreyfus : His Life and Letters (1937) edited by Pierre Dreyfus, p. 175.
“I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms”
"Space Bound"
2010s, Recovery (2010)
Context: After a year and six months, it's no longer me that you want. But, I love you so much it hurts. Never mistreated you once; I poured my heart out to you. Let down my guard, swear to God. I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms. Drop to my knees and I'm pleading; I'm trying to stop you from leaving. You won't even listen, so...
On his film Blow-Up, as quoted in Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films (2004) edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, p. 113
Context: The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.
“Beyond the brain, there is something that observes the brain itself.”
“All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.”
Source: Butcher Bird
“Susie: The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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23 Apr 92
The Days Are Just Packed
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
