two half quotes make a whole quote
Jun. 2nd, 2009 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reverancepavane"I once dated a man who taught quantum physics. I learned two things that night. "The first being, if you ask a quantum physicist to explain how gravity works – not what it is, not how it behaves, but how it works – he will first talk himself in circles, then wind up crying, and finally, sometime between entrée and dessert, call you a bitch and leave. "The second revelation came as I sat at the bar in morose solitude pondering the cantilevered relationship between bartender's gut and lower extremities. And this is important, so pay attention. Before the Big Bang – before time itself; before matter, energy, velocity – there existed a single immeasurable state called yearning. This is the special force that on a day before there were days obliterated nothing into everything. It is the unseen strings tying planets to stars. It's the maddening want, we feel from first breath to last life." – Marshall Mary Shannon |
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Date: 2009-06-02 12:09 pm (UTC)Oh well.
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Date: 2009-06-02 04:01 pm (UTC)Interesting.
<back's away from da Interwebs slowly, making sure to maintain eye contact.>
I quite like both parts of the quote (which was a voiceover at the conclusion of the episode One Night Stan (s2 e6), although the second half of the quote probably gains much of it's power from the context in which it was uttered, although both fit well in my philosophy.
[The first half is simply why you should never invite physicists to dinner, especially at Italian restaurants. One of them is bound to make the dreaded antipasto joke. They can't help themselves. It's genetic, or something. I swear.]
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Date: 2009-06-02 08:01 pm (UTC)(I like the idea of yearning though)