i'm a doctor,
not a physicist!" - is supposedly a quote from star trek (2009), the movie. while engaged in a conversation that was fast becoming heated, a friend took that quote from that movie and inserted it in, with his own spin to it, of course. reading melville, i came across a line of his in moby dick that vaguely recalls that quote and i wonder if star trek's scriptwriter had not somehow borrowed from him. melville in page 168, while speaking of cetology: I am the architect, not the builder. melville was first! (so he has first dibs, hehe) more melvillisms : "For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity." "This whole book is but a draught - nay, but the draught of a draught." "Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!" -all from page 159, Moby-Dick P.S. ang galing ng pagkasulat ng Chapter 34 The Cabin-Table...funny and interesting depiction...=)