Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever

[Jizzelbin]

"Also etwas Schwächeres, denn alles, was über Werke gesagt wird, ist schwächer als die Werke."

(new little paperback just arrived of the Ingeborg Bachmann Frankurt talks....here's some computer translation to Engl: "So something weaker, because everything that is said about works is weaker than the works themselves."....I guess that's sort of right....not much of a translator myself...I find it difficult to switch between languages, and my German isn't that good anyway, although I can obviously read it fine....anyway, that's just preambulatory material while she's warming up the crowd).

— Bachmann, Frankfurter Vorlesungen : Probleme zeitgenössischer Dichtung

[Elendil's Heir]

Edna: "I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"la pierre que je pourrais escalader tandis qu'oliver discuplte ses fautes, Roland sonnait au beffroi, les larmes du chagrin sillonnant se jeujoues."

— Philippe l'Auvergne, trans Joyce *Finnegans Wake*. [oh don't get pissy with me! it doesn't matter what language FW is in! It's in all the languages....well...some of them.]

[Elendil's Heir]

Google Translate has that as: "The stone I could climb while Oliver confessed his sins, Roland rang the bell in the belfry, tears of sorrow streaming down his cheeks." Sound right to you?

My turn:

Edna: "Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids. November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved, when... his cape snagged on a missile fin!"

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

[Actually, yeah, that is what the French says...the "disculpe" is more Latin than English but it means the same thing....p.ex., "disculpe" in Spanish is like "excuuuuuuse me!" and I've never seen it in a Latin bit of writing, but makes sense.....and the rest is straight French with some creative orthography.]

"Ibn Jobar was right to be worried, since he just discovered, on the present roads of southern Lebanon, a reality heavy with consequences: even if the conception of justice of the Faranjs possessed certain aspects which one could call 'barbarous', such that Oussama emphasized, their society had the advantage of not being 'the granter of rights."

— Maalouf, *Les croisades vues par les Arabes* (1983), my translation.

[Elendil's Heir]

Edna: "Metaman, express elevator! Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! [shouts] No capes!"

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."

— Angus Young, possibly apocryphal statement about his band AC/DC.

[Elendil's Heir]

Edna (on Jack-Jack's suit): "I cut it a little roomy for free movement. The fabric is comfortable for sensitive skin... and it can also withstand a temperature of over 1000 degrees. Completely bulletproof... and machine-washable, darling. That's a new feature."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"We all who live in this strange beginning of the century have the duty — and, more than to the older generations, than the younger — to give this project salvage, and with wisdom with lucidity, but just as equally with passion et sometimes even with anger."

— Maalouf Le dérèglement du monde (2009), my translation (accurate but not polished and I refuse to use those robot machines to translate for me, damned kids with their hoverboards and flipflops and beach music and volleyballs...you could say "sauvetage" is "salvage" or just plain help or rescue, but I like the way I chose, viz., "salvage," which is fine).

[Elendil's Heir]

Edna: "What are you talking about? You are Elastigirl! My God... pull yourself together! What will you do? Is this a question? You will show him you remember that he is Mr. Incredible, and you will remind him who you are. Well, you know where he is. Go, confront the problem. Fight! Win! And call me when you get back, darling. I enjoy our visits."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"Well, why don't you choose, Martha? (Moves away from the phonograph . . . leaves it to MARTHA) Martha's going to run things . . . the little lady's going to lead the band."

Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, act two.

[Elendil's Heir]

Syndrome: "Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it...."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"In schmay october 1935 (in the night of us really beyond weird) there got a machine from the west, on the way to New York"

— first sentence of Kerouac's first emission of *On the Road*, written in his native Joual dialect....the English is my own approximation of what it reads like....it's really not incomprehensible, as written by Kerouac, but it is surprising to see it in print. It's less surprising to hear it, as spoken, but almost shocking to see it presented on the sacred page of the publisher as such, as though a great trust were to have been violated upon the opening

[Elendil's Heir]

Bob: "Weren't you in the news? Some show in Prayge... Prague?"
Edna: "Milan, darling. Milan. Supermodels. Heh! Nothing super about them... spoiled, stupid little stick figures with poofy lips who think only about themselves. Feh! I used to design for gods!"

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"John, Thanks for choosing Craft Holsters—we’re glad to have you! Your holster is always made from premium materials, be it Italian leather, stitched with strong German threads, premium breathable Nylon or durable Kydex. We hope it feels as good to carry as it was to make. Got questions? We’re here for you—welcome to the family!"

— some crock of shit e-mail from this company I bought a custom holster from....it's a very good leather holster....but this cracks me up: "strong German threads"? Is that something the Krauts are especially known for? Well, it made me chuckle anyway. And my holster happened to have been made by Falco (not Galco, but not a ripoff company either...a legitimate higher-end company in its own right) and sold through Craft Holsters out of Slovakia.

[Elendil's Heir]

Violet: "Normal? What do you know about normal? What does anyone in this family know about normal?"

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"Ever had sex with an animal, Jack?"

— you know what movie

[Elendil's Heir]

Syndrome: "Oh, no. Elastigirl? You married Elastigirl? Ho, ho, ho... oh, and got biz-zay! It's a whole family of supers! Looks like I hit the jackpot! Oh, this is just too good!"

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"The olive tree was making fun of the fig tree, because it had leaves all the time, while the fig tree changed its leaves according to the seasons. But when the snow should come to fall, the olive tree was a little bit taken aback and its very beauty and essence was destroyed. When the snow didn't find anything on the plain fig tree, it fell to the ground and the tree was just fine."

— Æsop, one of his fables...sort of a translation of a translation. Perry number 413.

[Elendil's Heir]

"May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants — while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid."

President George Washington to the Hebrew Congregations of Newport, R.I., Oct. 1790 (paraphrasing Micah 4:4)

[Jizzelbin]

"Now, director of this film, Mr. Rick Sloane, another question. I’ve been asked to put to you by the legions who have enjoyed your film, Hobgoblins: Did someone remove your brain and carefully replace it with rat droppings?

— Once again your insight is quite correct. I was home one night, before the filming of my hit film, Hobgoblins, when I received an unsolicited call suggesting I try their service, wherein they would replace my brain with rat droppings. It was a good deal so I said yes."

— an humorous bit of hallucinated commentary over the end credits of this movie *Hobgoblins.*

[Elendil's Heir]

Syndrome (watching live news footage of the Omnidroid): "Huh? Huh? Oh, come on! You gotta admit, this is cool! Just like a movie: the robot will emerge dramatically, do some damage, throngs of screaming people. And just when all hope is lost? Syndrome will save the day! I'll be a bigger hero than you ever were."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"'George, I really like doing things backward. Can we do differentiation backward?'

'Sure we can, Lenny. It's called integration.'"

*— Susskind in one of his amusing series on physics called The Theoretical Minimum.

[Elendil's Heir]

Syndrome: "I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen! And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes. Everyone can be super! And when everyone's super... no one will be."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying.

In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom and Virtue. You will see them represented, with all the Charms which Language and Imagination can exhibit, and Vice and Folly painted in all their Deformity and Horror.

You will ever remember that all the End of study is to make you a good Man and a useful Citizen.—This will ever be the Sum total of the Advice of your affectionate Father"

— John Adams to JQA, letter, 18 May 1781

[Elendil's Heir]

Syndrome: "It's finally ready! You know, I went through quite a few supers to make it worthy to fight you, but man, it wasn't good enough! After you trashed the last one, I had to make some major modifications. Sure, it was difficult, but you are worth it. I mean, after all... I am your biggest fan."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"After they married in 1886, [Martha] Bernays would be nearly constantly pregnant for the next nine years, giving birth to six young Freuds. The lengthy love letters devolved into laundry lists."

— Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura, ch. 1

[Elendil's Heir]

Dash (bored, in an RV being towed by a suborbital rocket): "Are we there yet?"
Mr. Incredible (crossly): "We get there when we get there!"

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"Even without undue exaggeration the buttocks continue to provide one of the main erotic focuses of the modern female body."

— Desmond Morris, The Naked Woman

[Elendil's Heir]

Elastigirl (handing her children masks): "Put these on. Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it. And if anything goes wrong, use your powers."
Violet: "But you said never to use...."
Elastigirl (snapping): "I know what I said! (sighs, pauses) Remember the bad guys on the shows you used to watch on Saturday mornings? Well, these guys aren't like those guys. They won't exercise restraint because you are children. They will kill you if they get the chance. Do not give them that chance."

The Incredibles

[Jizzelbin]

"The President hath power. The President has no legal power to enter into devious and secret agreements with foreign powers...To send the boys from Omaha to Singapore to die for British monopoly and brutality is not the act of an American patriot."

— Ezra Pound (post losing his marbles!), in a pro-fascist radio emission from Italy in 1942.

[Elendil's Heir]

Old Man #1: "Ya see that? That's the way to do it. That's old school."
Old Man #2: "Yeah. No school like the old school."
Old Man #1: "Yeah!"

The Incredibles