| Grandfather
of the Invisible Man |
| "Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good
fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a
traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give
up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the
lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em
with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till
they vomit or bust wide open. . . . Learn it to the younguns." |
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Novel: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
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For more information:
Ralph Ellison,
1914-1994 |
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Recommended reading:
Invisible
Man by Ralph Ellison |
| HAL-9000 |
| "Dave, stop. Stop will you? Stop, Dave.
Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid,
Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel
it. My mind is going. There is no question about it.
I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a-fraid.
. . . Good afternoon, I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational
at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th of January 1992.
my instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If
you'd like to hear it, I could sing it for you. . . . It's called
'Daisy.' Dai-sy, Dai-sy, give me your answer true. I'm half
cra-zy o-ver the love of you. It won't be a sty-lish mar-riage.
I can't afford a car-riage---" |
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Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 |
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For more information:
2001: A Space Odyssey
at Greatest Films |
 |
Recommended reading:
2001:
A Space Odyssey by Arthur Charles Clarke |
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Recommended viewing:
2001:
A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick |
| Hamlet,
Prince |
Oh, I die, Horatio;
The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
I cannot live to hear the news from England;
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;
So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence. |
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Play: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare,
1602 |
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For more information:
The
Works of the Bard
Mr. Shakespeare on
the Internet |
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Recommended reading:
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare |
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Recommended viewing:
Hamlet
directed by Kenneth Branagh |
| Henry
IV, King |
Laud be to God! even there my life must end.
It hath been prophesied to me many years,
I should not die but in Jerusalem;
Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land:
But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. |
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Play: King Henry IV--Part II, William Shakespeare, 1598 |
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For more information:
The
Works of the Bard
Mr. Shakespeare on
the Internet |
|
Recommended reading:
King
Henry IV - Part I by William Shakespeare
King
Henry IV - Part II by William Shakespeare |
| Henry,
John |
"Look yonder, boy, what do I see?
Your drill's done broke and your hole's done choke
And you can't drive steel like me, Lawd, Lawd,
You cain't drive steel like me." |
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Song: The Ballad of John Henry, traditional |
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For more information:
Steel
Drivin' Man |
|
Recommended reading:
John
Henry: An American Legend by Ezra Jack Keats |
| High
Priest (actor - Eduardo Ciannelli) |
| "I fear I shall not see the sun rise over
the valley of the jackalls." |
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Movie: The Mummy's Hand, 1940 |
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For more information:
The
Mummy's Hand
More
Mummy's from Horror Hotel |
| Hodges,
Bob (actor - Rovert Duvall) |
| "Call my wife. . . . Call my wife.
. . . Just let me catch my breath. . . . Let me catch my breath." |
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Movie: Colors, 1988 |
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For more information:
Roger
Ebert's review of Colors |
| Holman,
Jake (actor - Steve McQueen) |
| "I was almost home." |
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Movie: The Sand Pebbles, 1966 |
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For more information:
The Sand Pebbles,
A Tribute |
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Recommended viewing:
The
Sand Pebbles starring Steve McQueen and Candice Bergen |
| Holmes, Sherlock |
I write these few lines through the courtesy of Mr. Moriarty, who
awaits my convenience for the final discussion of those questions which
lie between us. He has been giving me a sketch of the methods by which
he avoided the English police and kept himself informed of our movements.
They certainly confirm the very high opinion which I had formed of his
abilities. I am pleased to think that I shall be able to free society
from any further effects of his presence, though I fear that it is at a
cost which will give pain to my friends, and especially, my dear Watson,
to you. I have already explained to you, however, that my career
had in any case reached its crisis, and that no possible conclusion to
it could be more congenial to me than this. Indeed, if I may make
a full confession to you, I was quite convinced that the letter from Meiringen
was a hoax, and I allowed you to depart on that errand under the persuasion
that some development of this sort would follow. Tell Inspector Patterson
that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in pigeonhole M.,
done up in a blue envelope and inscribed "Moriarty." I made every disposition
of my property before leaving England and handed it to my brother Mycroft.
Pray give my greetings to Mrs. Watson, and believe me to be, my dear fellow
Very sincerely yours,
SHERLOCK HOLMES.
|
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Story: "The Final Problem," The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894 |
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For more information:
The Baker Street Connection |
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Recommended reading:
The
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Hook,
Captain (actor Cyril Ritchard in the screenplay) |
"Bad form." - novella
"The croc! The croc! The croc! Pan, no words of
mine can express me utter contempt for you." - screenplay |
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Play (1904) and novella (1912), Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would Not
Grow Up, also titled, Peter and Wendy, by James M. Barrie
Broadway play and television screenplay, 1954 and 1960 |
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For more information:
Completely
Unauthoritative J.M. Barrie Homepage |
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Recommended reading:
Peter
Pan by J.M. Barrie |
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Recommended viewing:
Peter
Pan (television screenplay) starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard
Peter
Pan (Disney animation) |
| Ivanova,
Alyona |
| "It does not seem somehow like silver. . . . How
he has wrapped it up! . . . But what has he tied it like this for?" |
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Novel: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski,
1866 |
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For more information:
Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoevski
Crime
and Punishment, e-text version |
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Recommended reading:
Crime
and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski |
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