”I don't know how I could've been so ignorant about myself... so... so stupid. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you? You knew before I did.”
”Why're you crying?”
”Don't you know?”
”Yes, I know exactly.”
The Merchant of Venice (1596 - 1599)
William Shakespeare
Act One, Scene Two
PORTIA
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Such a hare is madness the youth—to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word “choose!” I may neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike—so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?”
Zima Blue (2019)
LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS
Episode 14
“I will immerse myself. And as I do, I will slowly shut down my higher brain functions, un-making myself, leaving just enough to appreciate my surroundings to extract some simple pleasure of a job well-done. My search for truth is finished at last. I’m going home.”