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...=)

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  1. mimimayhemAugust 16, 2009 at 9:57 PM

    Ooooh, I love that - "Oh, Time, Strength, Cash and Patience!" Ahahahaha! A quote to remember .. and use! :P

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