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There is a kind of person who doesn't engage much with culture/art, be it high or low brow, and so does not realise that much of our crafted words are quotes, appropriations and remixes of past-art words and phrases. Like aphantasia or lack of inner monologue, it blows my mind.
Gonna use this thread to quote-tweet otherwise normal tweets that have art-inspired phrases in them.
Conan The Barbarian, 1981 https://twitter.com/againstutopia/status/1195964087810822145 …
Just watched Judy and Punch (2019), and in one scene the main character lifts 3 lines completely intact from Gladiator(2000) ("father to a murdered daughter, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengence, in this life or the next") https://lotswife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/judy-punch.jpg …
After The Ecstasy, The Laundry book by Jack Kornfield https://twitter.com/coyotespike/status/1202048062618787841 …
Sorry that last one was probably more related to the Zen quote: ""Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." (Which probably inspired the book title too)
Watching Luther Season 2, a character says "so it's all quiet on the job front" this is a reference to All Quite On The Western Front, a novel by Erich Maria Remarque about World War I
I'm quoting Bladerunner here (a new life awaits you... offworld in the colonies):https://twitter.com/ssica3003/status/1219564115993059328 …
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