Now Get Out

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:-- Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them in the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

~ "Ozymandias", Percy Bysshe Shelley

"You have delighted us long enough."

~Mr. Bennet to Mary, "Pride & Prejudice", Jane Austen

Or, as my old grandfather used to say, "Now get out".

Seeing as I don't suppose that I've met anyone more rude, in all my life.

....

'My political enemies can't add! They don't do math!'

Right, because that's all that he does-- is the quadratic equation, and exponential formulas, and all that good shit. You can't shut him up about it.... Or anything else.

Yeah, he should seriously consider listening to some (Frederic) Chopin, and chilling the fuck out. "No blood, no foul", right?

....

"You could say that I lost my faith in the people on TV
You could say that I lost my faith in our politicians
They all seem like, game show hosts to me...."

' "It is difficult indeed-- it is distressing.-- One does not know what to think."

"I beg your pardon;-- one knows exactly what to think."

But Jane could think with certainty on only one point....'

("No, you're not a New Yorker until you've cried on the subway and not given a damn what anyone thinks.")

"Laugh as much as your chuse, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."

"But Jane was firm when she thought that she was right."

"I could be lost inside their lies
Without a trace
But every time I close my eyes
I see (her) face."

"If I ever lose my faith, if I ever lose my faith, if I ever lose my faith...."

In Bazarov. And Arkady.

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