Someone commented this in Hank's video and I feel it a sin to not be in here as well: And *me* ! I've been here the whole time! Welcome to Game Changer, the only game show where the game changes every show. I'm joined here by these three lovely contestants. Now, you all understand how the game works? (nope.) That's right, our players have no idea of what game they're about to play. The only way to learn is by playing, the only way to win is by learning, and the only way to begin is by beginning so, without further ado, let's begin!
@@AndHaven I know what's going on here. I do. (Do you?) And if you want me to wander backstage to spill the beans, (I mean there's really no need for that, because these other players are in the loop). They're in the loop. I'm the only one out of the loop *it would seem*. And if we check my Point Total here, I don't need to walk to the front, because I know what it is. It's a big ol' Goose Egg, gang. It's a Phat. Zero. Hello? A little late addition, to the numerical system, brought to us by our friends in Arabia. A bit of trivia about the history of numbers. That kind of tidbit would serve me well in most trivia games, unless it had been RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING! (Woah dude) Woah dude? Oooohhh, I've only just begun to pull the thread on this sweater, friends! You would think in a game with only two. possible. correct. choices, that one would *stumble* into the right answer every so often, wouldn't you? In fact, the probability of never guessing right in the full game is a Statistical Wonder, and yet *here we are*. Introduced at the top of the game as a champion, what do you think that means? Icarus, flying too close to the sun, but it seems Daedalus our little Master Craftsman over here had some Wax Wings of his own! Wanted to see his son fall, fall from the sky, oh how CLOSE to the sun he flew, well I'm NOT! HAVING IT! I SOLVED your labyrinth, puzzle master! The Minotaur's escaped, and you're gonna get the horns, buddy!
"Suddenly there was movement, and room to move and time to happen in." A relief science teacher explained the big bang to me 30+ years ago. Maybe he was quoting something, I dunno.
" All that is gold does not glitter Not all who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken A light from the shadow shall spring Renewed shall be blade that was broken The crownless again shall be king"
I had to decode these phrases for a signal processing class in college. I still remember the janky audio artifacts that I was unable to remove, and the weird syllable pattern of the computer generated voice used to create the signals.
Rudyard Kipling. Best description of friendship I've ever read: One man in a thousand, Soloman says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worthwhile seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em go By what the world sees in you. But the Thousandth Man will stand your friend With the whole round world agin you.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary over many a tome of long-forgotten lore. Suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping. Rapping at my chamber door. Tis some late visitor. Only this and nothing more." Pretty sure that isn't 100% correct, but it is still in my head nigh on 12 years later.
Also no sure this Poe prose bit is even close, but at one time I had nearly the first page memorized: True, nervous, very very dreadfully nervous I have been and am. But why do you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all, the sense of hearing is acute. I hear all things on heaven and earth... and many in hell.
Pretty close, If memory serves it's "Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, Nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping", And then the rest you have I think is right? Might be "I muttered" after "Some visitor".
Aw man, I remember this quote from a Vlogbrothers video I watched when I was a kid. It stuck with me, in John's voice, for all these years. Hearing it again, and hearing it was still in his head too, made me so 🥺🥺🥺
"Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness, and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else" a quote my 6th 7th 8th and 9th grade english teacher Mr.Price made me memorize
@@HouseMDaddict according to goodreads, it’s a quote from a book called “Shoot Your Shot: A Sport-Inspired Guide To Living Your Best Life” by Vernon Brundage Jr!
I am almost 26 and the last great novel I read was 1984 in High School, I generally just read comics and light novels now because chapters are short and easy and fight scenes are fun and I can read a chapter or two on my breaks at work so it works out. I heard this narration and then I tabbed back over to my light novel and it was shocking how one well written passage immediately ruined a serial that I have been reading consistently for almost two hundred chapters. It was like my mind suddenly woke up and decided "This is slop, what changed?" but nothing changed. I just had not read or consumed anything better in so long that my mind has acclimated to mediocrity. When I was younger I was so proud of my accelerated reading level, but then at a certain point I just decided that I didn't want to read difficult books anymore. This post is kind of long winded but I think you may have just given me the kick in the rear I needed to start pushing myself again and read more complex content. Thank you.
I know how you feel, I loved reading when I was younger, and read some pretty advanced stuff, but during college I pretty much just stuck to audiobooks and comics, since reading physical books kinda felt like more homework. I started reading more recently, probably because a new library opened up in my hometown, and it’s been great. I realized I missed reading that required some effort and was worth the effort I put in.
Honestly you could reread 1984 again. I was severely lacking historical context as a teen. That book makes way more sense when you realize Orwell was a Socialist writing against Stalinism, which is conveniently often left unmentioned at school. As for me I'm currently reading Joyce's "portrait of the artists as a young man". Good luck with whatever you pick!
"Is your mama a llama? I asked my friend Dave. No she is not. Is the answer Dave gave. She hangs by her feet and she lives in a cave. I do not think that's how Llamas behave. Oh I said you're right about that. I think your momma must be a bat!" I can do the whole book because of 4-h when I was 10. It's been roughly 14 years now and it's still up there. Thanks 4-h
I could recite this in my sleep, for all the passages in all the books I've ever read. These lines always stick put. Farewell, good thief,” Thorin said. “I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.” Bilbo knelt on one knee filled with sorrow. “Farewell, King under the Mountain!” he said. “This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet, I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.” “No!” said Thorin. “There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!”
memorising a passage like that is actually really impressive haha! like not only is it prose, with no rhyme or rhythm to bounce off, but it’s also good writing 😅
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now." My dad grew up with the animated movie, and did not realize until I saw it in my teens that he did all the voices perfectly when he read it to me as a kid. This has been etched into my brain's core memory for 33 years, and I still tear up when I read or hear it.
@@AgtPaper665 that is wonderful. So many parts make me tear up and so many make me laugh. I am listening to andy serkis reading the hobbit and LOTR on Audible. It is very good. Even though I have read it many times it feels fresh
“Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs of the corner of the basement half a block down the street from Jerry’s bait shop. You know the place…” Yours is more poetic than mine, but mine goes on for 11 more minutes 😂 Shall we call it a tie?
First time I heard that song i got both the "'Cause I had my tray table up..." and "If you'd like to make a call..." hooks stuck in my head for weeks lol Iconic.
Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower, but only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day- nothing gold can stay.
Mine's also a classic poem, but a different one. Sorry in advance for not doing the dashes, I can't remember stuff like that, I'm an auditory guy. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all And sweetest in the gale is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm I heard it in the chillest (sic) land And on the strangest sea Yet never, in Extremity, It asked a crumb of me.
That book has stuck with me. When I first realized I might be fictional, my days were spent at a publicly funded institution called the White River High School. I read it in a day instead of studying, and promptly failed a math midterm the next day. All is not for naught, though. I pulled out an A- in the class. I might not remember how to do integration by parts, but I do remember that it's rare to have someone in your life who sees the same world you see. Great book with some great quotes.
Yeah. In the book, it is right after the main character learns something shocking that reshapes how he compartmentalized his life. He just drives from Louisiana to the Pacific Ocean out of desperation and anger and fear.
My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
Romeo’s soliloquy was first, but I remember the jabberwocky as well. They seem almost similar in that Shakespeare might as well be telling us to beware the junking bird and shun the froumious Bandersnatch and the mome wraths out grabe (etc….)
"how'd you like to ride home on a real cowboy, I've got a six pack of cold one's all nice and my roomies out all night so you can scream my name as loud as you need to sugar" Don't ask
Jabberwocky and Macbeth's soliloquy compete for the same geography in my head. When it gets to be too much, a random "Pizza pizza! Pan pan!" will jump out there to keep the peace.
@@tetronaut88 "The principal square root of a is written as √a. The symbol is called a radical, the term under the symbol is called the radicand, and the entire expression is called a radical expression."
I learned it to the theme of Gilligan’s island: Ohhh, The opposite my b, my friend, plus or minus the square roooot of “b” squared minus four “ac” all over two times a
My version (also to the tune of pop goes the weasel) goes: X equals opposite b Plus or minus the square root Of b squares minus 4 ac All over 2 a (My dad is a nerd, he taught me this when i was 4 😂)
I actually have a amazing passage from Looking for Alaska memorised. The monologue Pudge just says out loud to himself: "She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. I lit a cigarette and spit into the creek. You can't just make me different and then leave. I said out loud to her. Because I was fine before, Alaska, I was fine with my last words and school friends and you can't just make me different and then"......all the way upto " After quickly offered and accepted apologies, the Colonel said, "We've made the tactical decision to push back on calling Jake, we're going to pursue some other avenues first"". (I do know the whole monologue, but I don't wanna spoil the story and I need to look at the lines here and there to fully recite it😅) I must've reread those pages a hundred rimes over the years, something about Pudge talking out loud and letting his emotions out was weirdly comforting for me to read, cathartic I guess.
I remember the Langston Hughes poem "Dreams" from 8th grade. We learned about the Harlem Renaissance and read all the classics in both poetry and literature from that time. My english teachers all through school were 🔥.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered week and weary over a many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." - Edgar Allan Poe I remember more, but not the full thing. I was going to use it as a duet stage reading in high school drama.
"Think as I think," said a man "or you are abominablly wicked. You are a toad." And after i had thought of it i said, "I will then be a toad." Stephen Crane Also all of the words to Monty Python's Holy Grail. We used it as our post show cool down when I was doing traveling theater as a teen.
“I can feel it in the rotten air tonight. In the tips of my fingers, in the skin on my face. In the weak last gasp of the evenings dying light. In the way those eyes I’ve always loved illuminate this place, like a trash can fire in a prison cell, like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell. I will walk, down to the end, with you, if you will come, all the way down, with me.” That’s one of the profound, deeply moving answers I could give. It’s a heartrendingly beautiful, haunting piece of verse by the one and only John Darnielle. But I can also recite a surprising amount of the lyrics from the discography of Hank Green. Now, Hank Green has also written some really beautiful stuff. But for some reason it’s his polka song about getting diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, which I haven’t actually listened to in like five years, that I can most thoroughly and completely reel off with no stumbles or gaps. I don’t know why. It’s a long, wordy, gross song. It contains the line ‘I drew his attention to me with a fifteen minute fart’. The entire thing is burned into my memory and at this point the knowledge of it will probably stay with me until I die. So there you go.
To prove just how well I’ve remembered this song, I will type it out without googling it or referencing the lyrics via any other means. You might say ‘couldn’t you just google them and say you didn’t?’ To which I’ll say, _why the hell would I lie about this?_ I assure you, this is not a brag, it’s a cry for help. So with that out of the way… I have a complicated relationship with the distal portion Of my large intestine also known as the colon I started feeling kind of sh*tty when I turned 23 And then the pain got worse and worse every day And the days turned into weeks I finally went to see a doctor and I pooped into a cup And then a few weeks after that he shoved a camera up my butt And the camera was in a tube and the tube it pumped out air So that my colon would inflate and they could look around in there And when I woke up, the doctor was looking at my chart I drew his attention to me with a fifteen minute fart And he said “Son, I hate to tell you, ‘cause you’re probably not gonna like this But they got a name for what you have and it is ‘ulcerative colitis’ And I’m those seven syllables there’s a mess of sh*tty news It’s likely that you had your last healthy feeling poos It’s like _road-rash_ on your _colon,_ it’ll bleed and it’ll hurt And no one knows what causes it and there is no cure and Yeah your chances of cancer have gone up a bit But colon cancer’s curable if you keep your eye on it No what’s _really_ gonna piss you off is how much you’ll have to _pay_ I know you’re not insured and you’ll probably stay that way because Insurance companies _hate_ to deal with sick folks like you, They don’t like taking money from folks they might have to give it back to And your pills are gonna cost you both your arms and at least one leg I suggest you go to Canada, get on your knees and _beg_ Because here the prices are high as the market can bare and They can bare _a lot_ compared with soiled underwear” I sat there on that bed and thought about how I used to _like_ to poo I thought maybe there was a mistake, how could this be true I asked the doctor, pleading, _begging if he was sure_ And if he was how could it be that there was _no cure?_ “The only cure we have,” he said, “is to take the whole thing out And then to get your movements out we install a little spout.” I told him that I’d rather take a thousand _thousand dollar pills_ He agreed and sent me home with similar sounding bills And now really all I’ve learned besides the importance of fibre Is that the healthcare system’s more screwed up Than a fifty year old FRED subscriber There you go. I’m honestly curious if Hank can even remember all of this. If Hank reads this, tell me, could you reel this off from memory at the drop of a hat? Please, I don’t want to be alone in this…
One of my fondest memories is of my father reading us The Cremation of Sam McGee by the fire one night when the power was out and everything was lit by candles- classy or not, it’s a wonderful little story
In West Philadelphia, born and raised. On the playground, is where I spent most of my days. Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool 😎 And all shooting’ some b-ball outside of the school. When a couple of guys, they were up to no good! Started making trouble in my neighborhood! I got in one little 🤏 fight and my mom got scared. She said, “You’re movin’ with your Auntie and Uncle in Bel-Air.” I whistled 💨 for a cab 🚕 and when it came near, the license plate said “FRESH,” and it had dice in the mirror. If anything, I could see that this cab was rare but I thought man (forget it), “Yo Holmes, to Bel-Air!” I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo Holmes, smell ya later!” Looked at my kingdom 🏰 I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air 🫅🏿
Our father who art in heaven Halowed be my name Thy kingdom come, It will be done On Earth as is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our tresspasses As we forgive those who tresspass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us drom evil. Amen
I'm a Southerner with a love of the tradition of authors from it. Those who found themselves just a bit of what O'Conner dubbed 'Christ-haunted.' You lifted my soul tonight with your recitation of this passage.
That speech got me though my educational career, and honestly, it hasn't been wrong yet. I just wish I spent a little more time studying the units of ionizing radiation a bit more, I failed that section with a coworker today... Rem? Sieverts? Idunno.
"Once and ex best friend of mine said he couldnt see how an old and ugly actress could mean so much to me Well, a minute later looking down at him bleeding in the snow I asked him who was best comedy actress four years in a row; It was Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt You make my heart do acrobatic stunts You stand and face the brunt Of the twister of my burning want; Helen Hunt, you know I'm mad about You Helen Hunt, you know I'm mad about You" Thats and I've had the Brotherhood 2.0 opening stuck in my head since I first heard it.
The only passage from literature I can quote every time flawlessly is also from "All the King's Men" ("Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption," etc.). It is a very quotable book, and a wonderful read.
i met a traveller from an antique land who said "two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. near them, on the sand, half-sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things - the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed. and on the pedestal these words appear: 'my name is ozymandias, king of kings. look on my works, ye mighty, and despair -' no thing beside remains. 'round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away." - percy bysshe shelley
Fire and ice by Robert Frost and I wish I could tell you it WASN'T from it being in the front of a twilight book I read at fourteen, but it absolutely is. I'm nearly thirty, and it lives rent-free in my mind.
Yeah that one stuck in my head pretty hard too. I read it to my husband once when I was trying to describe the weird allure the American west holds over me. A part of me always want to go there, because...it's just where you go.
I played the flute for like a 1.5 years in primary school and even after 10 years of not practicing, not only i still remeber how to play, i also remeber the notes of every single song i learned. The muscle memory of actually playing the notes isnt there anymore, but something about notes makes them really easy to stick in my memory
When I was about five or six years old (1980-1981) there was a cable movie channel called Spotlight. I believe it was on channel six on the cable movie box, the kind with the channel slider. I still know the theme song for the channel. 🎵Spotlight! Shining bright! We light up the stars for yoooouu! Spotlight!🎵 Some days I’ll sing that over and over in my head all day long
“Then I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be everywhere you look. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beating up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way men yell when they’re mad and I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. And when our folks eat the stuff they raise and live in houses they build, why, I’ll be there.” - Grapes of Wrath
I still haven’t read All the King’s Men, but I know this passage by heart since you used it in a video several years ago. I’m not quite sure why it stuck with me, either, but it’s very beautiful and I’m grateful to have it in my head. Dftba!
When I was a young boy my father took me into the city to see a marching band he said son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned he said would you defeat the your demons and all of the non-believers the plays that they have made because one day I’ll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join The Black Parade…
"so gently scan your brother man Still gentler, sister woman Though they may gang and kennen wrang To step aside is human" -Robert Burns. I am also really partial to "Do Not" by Stevie Smith. The two have influenced my life for many years as they are both about compassion and love for your fellow man. Both about how you may be at odds with others but everyone is so painfully human with their own families, fears, pain and hopes. Everyone is the hero in their own stories and a little compassion can save so much pain
I learned Irish Gaelic some 20+ years ago. Still remember an entire dialogue on the weather in Gaelic. Super useful, as I've never even been to Ireland.
This video makes me want to memorize something cool. All I’ve got right now is pi to 22 places and, on a good day, the words to You’ll Never Walk Alone.
I learnt an alphabet for absolutely no reason. It hasn’t been used for hundreds of years. Also, not a very long quote but a few Séamas Heaney quotes cause i’m Irish (the alphabet i learnt was Ogham by the way, so now i can write Irish in the Celtic Trees alphabet that no one understands): Between my finger and my thumb, The squat pen rests. I’ll dig with it. And im learning Celtic mythology. Plus another Séamas Heaney quote i’m learning from The Strand at Lough Beg: I turn because the sweeping of your feet Has stopped behind me, to find you on your knees With blood and roadside muck in your hair and eyes, Then kneel in front of you in brimming grass And gather up cold handfuls of the dew To wash you, cousin. I dab you clean with moss Fine as the drizzle out of a low cloud. I lift you under the arms and lay you flat. With rushes that shoot green again, I plait Green scapulars to wear over your shroud.
"Thou thou exalt thyself as the eagle, though thou make thy nest upon the stars, thence I will bring thee down, sayeth the lord" obidjah 1:4, I learned it in S3EP8 of fargo and something about it resonated
i still remember a passage of romeo + juliet that i had to memorise for school when i was about 13 or 14 and i’m 25 now 😁😁 it wasn’t super long, but it was a fair sized chunk!
Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour So leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay
"Carry me always carry me well, I am thy teacher of herb and spell. I am thu link to power arcane, forget me and thy magic shall wane. Ten times ten commandments there be, they all answer every mystery, curses cures, alchemy. But fairy remember this above all, I am not for those in mud that crawl, and forever doomed shall be the one who reveals my secrets one by one. " Its the first passage in the Fairy People's book from Artemis Fowl. In the process of translating it, it got ingrained in my brain
I met a traveler from an antique land who said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert and between them on the sand half sunk a shattered visage lies whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command told that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed and on the pedestal these words appear my name is ozymandias king of kings look upon my works ye mighty and despair nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away
not exactly years ago but “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” has been stuck in my head for a decent while
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Eomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first eored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Theoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young.
“I am the Lorax I speak for the trees I speak for the trees for they have no tongues And I’m asking you sir from the top of my lungs” My older sister convinced me to memorize this a few years ago
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!" Sun Tzu said that. And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than _you do,_ pal, because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. So on and so forth... (And also all the other 8 ones as well)
Wow ... I remember having that kind of memory ... I could recite passages of Shakespeare ... I could recite all my friends' phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays ... Now? I'm tired; my brain is mush, and I have a damn smartphone 🙄
In middle school, we had to memorize and recite at least 14 lines from Shakespeare, and for the life of me, I could not do it. I asked my teacher if I could recite something of equivalent or greater length from my favorite book instead. She said, as long as it was from something in the library (hence on the approved student reading list), then it was fine. I memorized and recited the last letter of Edmund Dantes from the Count of Monte Cristo, and can still recite it from memory today.
This passage from Anna Funder's "Stasiland" really stuck out to me. This was after a woman told a reporter a story of how the Stasti murdered her husband and lied about it, claiming it was suicide, to the point they had their agents monitor the funeral so heavily they outnumbered the genuine mourners. "And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their offices would be a museum... That's one thing I love to do. I love to drive up to the Runde Ecke and park right outside. I just sit there in the car and I feel... Triumph!"
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women are merely players They have their exits, and entrances And one man in his time played many parts The act being seven ages" I kinda love how profound the opening of this poem is so it just lives rent free on my head
In a high school English class, we had to memorize a poem and recite it. 8 years later, I practically know "Ozymandias" better than I know the Pledge of Allegiance.
Meanwhile me be like: Hydrogen, helium, lithium, berilium, boron carbon everywhere nitrogen all through the air, oxygen so you can breath and flourine for your pretty tee... Science class used to be so much fun
all of your guys is profound but i was about to go “THERES 104 DAYS OF SUMMER VACATION…”
And school comes along just to end it!
@Felisquoreda But the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it.
Like maybe...
Building a rocket
Building a rocket, or fighting a mummy, or climbing up the Eiffel Tower
The brothers over here reciting some of the most majestic answers to that question and I’m over here like “I’ve come to make an announcement”
that was my answer too ngl
This sounds familiar, what’s it from?
@@ry6184 Snapcubes sonic fandubs, but if you search up "eggmans announcement" you'll find the clip
snapcube sonic adventure 2 dark side fandub
@@braindavidgilbert3147 oh wow nice
Someone commented this in Hank's video and I feel it a sin to not be in here as well:
And *me* ! I've been here the whole time! Welcome to Game Changer, the only game show where the game changes every show. I'm joined here by these three lovely contestants. Now, you all understand how the game works? (nope.) That's right, our players have no idea of what game they're about to play. The only way to learn is by playing, the only way to win is by learning, and the only way to begin is by beginning so, without further ado, let's begin!
LOL, yes!! I have so many Brennan Monologue (TM)s memorized 😅
I've been binge watching and re-binge watching Make Some Noise and Game Changer for the past month! I read your comment in Sam's voice 🤣
@@yoXneo don't worry, we all did!
@@AndHaven I know what's going on here. I do. (Do you?) And if you want me to wander backstage to spill the beans, (I mean there's really no need for that, because these other players are in the loop). They're in the loop. I'm the only one out of the loop *it would seem*. And if we check my Point Total here, I don't need to walk to the front, because I know what it is. It's a big ol' Goose Egg, gang. It's a Phat. Zero. Hello? A little late addition, to the numerical system, brought to us by our friends in Arabia. A bit of trivia about the history of numbers. That kind of tidbit would serve me well in most trivia games, unless it had been
RIGGED FROM THE BEGINNING!
(Woah dude) Woah dude? Oooohhh, I've only just begun to pull the thread on this sweater, friends! You would think in a game with only two. possible. correct. choices, that one would *stumble* into the right answer every so often, wouldn't you? In fact, the probability of never guessing right in the full game is a Statistical Wonder, and yet *here we are*.
Introduced at the top of the game as a champion, what do you think that means? Icarus, flying too close to the sun, but it seems Daedalus our little Master Craftsman over here had some Wax Wings of his own! Wanted to see his son fall, fall from the sky, oh how CLOSE to the sun he flew, well I'm NOT! HAVING IT! I SOLVED your labyrinth, puzzle master! The Minotaur's escaped, and you're gonna get the horns, buddy!
@@hoodiesticks Okay, are we… did we *think* we were in on it, but actually Brennan was the only one in on it and that was rehearsed?! - Ally
"Suddenly there was movement, and room to move and time to happen in." A relief science teacher explained the big bang to me 30+ years ago. Maybe he was quoting something, I dunno.
" All that is gold does not glitter
Not all who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken
A light from the shadow shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king"
I had to decode these phrases for a signal processing class in college. I still remember the janky audio artifacts that I was unable to remove, and the weird syllable pattern of the computer generated voice used to create the signals.
I love this!
This would be my answer
Man, i wish i had the memory to recite shit like that. All i can do is recite Billy May commercials
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Please do an audible series’s of John Green recites His Favourite Poems
And put it on the audio section of AppleBooks.
Friend, wait until you hear about Ours Poetica.
Rudyard Kipling. Best description of friendship I've ever read:
One man in a thousand, Soloman says,
Will stick more close than a brother.
And it's worthwhile seeking him half your days
If you find him before the other.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em go
By what the world sees in you.
But the Thousandth Man will stand your friend
With the whole round world agin you.
I’m in marching band. I still have previous years’ shows memorized. I can’t get rid of them
A decade on, and I still finger my part to various songs when I hear them, and many of the ones I have lost muscle memory for remain hum-only.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary over many a tome of long-forgotten lore. Suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping. Rapping at my chamber door. Tis some late visitor. Only this and nothing more."
Pretty sure that isn't 100% correct, but it is still in my head nigh on 12 years later.
I'm pretty sure it's pretty close to perfect. The real question is; where did you learn it?
From Poe's book of poetry or the Simpsons? 😂
Also no sure this Poe prose bit is even close, but at one time I had nearly the first page memorized:
True, nervous, very very dreadfully nervous I have been and am. But why do you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.
Above all, the sense of hearing is acute. I hear all things on heaven and earth... and many in hell.
Pretty close, If memory serves it's "Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, Nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping", And then the rest you have I think is right? Might be "I muttered" after "Some visitor".
OMG I learned that for my GCSEs and still use it for mike testing instead of the boring "One, two, one, two, testing" 😂 x
Aw man, I remember this quote from a Vlogbrothers video I watched when I was a kid. It stuck with me, in John's voice, for all these years. Hearing it again, and hearing it was still in his head too, made me so 🥺🥺🥺
same, one of my favourite vlogbrothers video of all time.
"Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness, and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else" a quote my 6th 7th 8th and 9th grade english teacher Mr.Price made me memorize
Honestly great quote
Is it from Mr. Price or was he quoting something else?
@@HouseMDaddict according to goodreads, it’s a quote from a book called “Shoot Your Shot: A Sport-Inspired Guide To Living Your Best Life” by Vernon Brundage Jr!
I am almost 26 and the last great novel I read was 1984 in High School, I generally just read comics and light novels now because chapters are short and easy and fight scenes are fun and I can read a chapter or two on my breaks at work so it works out.
I heard this narration and then I tabbed back over to my light novel and it was shocking how one well written passage immediately ruined a serial that I have been reading consistently for almost two hundred chapters. It was like my mind suddenly woke up and decided "This is slop, what changed?" but nothing changed. I just had not read or consumed anything better in so long that my mind has acclimated to mediocrity.
When I was younger I was so proud of my accelerated reading level, but then at a certain point I just decided that I didn't want to read difficult books anymore.
This post is kind of long winded but I think you may have just given me the kick in the rear I needed to start pushing myself again and read more complex content.
Thank you.
I know how you feel, I loved reading when I was younger, and read some pretty advanced stuff, but during college I pretty much just stuck to audiobooks and comics, since reading physical books kinda felt like more homework.
I started reading more recently, probably because a new library opened up in my hometown, and it’s been great. I realized I missed reading that required some effort and was worth the effort I put in.
Some good light novels out there!
Honestly you could reread 1984 again. I was severely lacking historical context as a teen. That book makes way more sense when you realize Orwell was a Socialist writing against Stalinism, which is conveniently often left unmentioned at school. As for me I'm currently reading Joyce's "portrait of the artists as a young man". Good luck with whatever you pick!
"Is your mama a llama? I asked my friend Dave.
No she is not. Is the answer Dave gave. She hangs by her feet and she lives in a cave. I do not think that's how Llamas behave.
Oh I said you're right about that. I think your momma must be a bat!"
I can do the whole book because of 4-h when I was 10. It's been roughly 14 years now and it's still up there. Thanks 4-h
I could recite this in my sleep, for all the passages in all the books I've ever read. These lines always stick put.
Farewell, good thief,” Thorin said. “I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.”
Bilbo knelt on one knee filled with sorrow. “Farewell, King under the Mountain!” he said. “This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet, I am glad that I have shared in your perils - that has been more than any Baggins deserves.”
“No!” said Thorin. “There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!”
That was wonderful. Thanks
memorising a passage like that is actually really impressive haha! like not only is it prose, with no rhyme or rhythm to bounce off, but it’s also good writing 😅
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now."
My dad grew up with the animated movie, and did not realize until I saw it in my teens that he did all the voices perfectly when he read it to me as a kid. This has been etched into my brain's core memory for 33 years, and I still tear up when I read or hear it.
@@AgtPaper665 that is wonderful. So many parts make me tear up and so many make me laugh. I am listening to andy serkis reading the hobbit and LOTR on Audible. It is very good. Even though I have read it many times it feels fresh
“Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs of the corner of the basement half a block down the street from Jerry’s bait shop. You know the place…”
Yours is more poetic than mine, but mine goes on for 11 more minutes 😂 Shall we call it a tie?
First time I heard that song i got both the "'Cause I had my tray table up..." and "If you'd like to make a call..." hooks stuck in my head for weeks lol
Iconic.
@@officiallyturtlesquared lol now it’s in my head too! 😂 Thankssssss
IN AAAAAAAAAALBUQUERQUE!!
Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower, but only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day- nothing gold can stay.
This is my answer too!
Mine's also a classic poem, but a different one. Sorry in advance for not doing the dashes, I can't remember stuff like that, I'm an auditory guy.
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
And sweetest in the gale is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm
I heard it in the chillest (sic) land
And on the strangest sea
Yet never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
💕
This is mine as well!
At one point when I was a kid, me and my friend had memorized the Vitameatavegamin ad from I Love Lucy. 😂
reading turtles all the way down a few hours after seeing this gave me so much whiplash. Bubble on the tide of empire is a good line indeed.
That book has stuck with me. When I first realized I might be fictional, my days were spent at a publicly funded institution called the White River High School.
I read it in a day instead of studying, and promptly failed a math midterm the next day. All is not for naught, though. I pulled out an A- in the class.
I might not remember how to do integration by parts, but I do remember that it's rare to have someone in your life who sees the same world you see. Great book with some great quotes.
This feels like a fever dream.
Yeah. In the book, it is right after the main character learns something shocking that reshapes how he compartmentalized his life. He just drives from Louisiana to the Pacific Ocean out of desperation and anger and fear.
My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone.
The Jabberwocky and like every joke ever written for The Simpsons.
Romeo’s soliloquy was first, but I remember the jabberwocky as well. They seem almost similar in that Shakespeare might as well be telling us to beware the junking bird and shun the froumious Bandersnatch and the mome wraths out grabe (etc….)
"how'd you like to ride home on a real cowboy, I've got a six pack of cold one's all nice and my roomies out all night so you can scream my name as loud as you need to sugar"
Don't ask
The page in that book describing driving alone in the rain is one of my favorite bits of writing ever.
Jabberwocky and Macbeth's soliloquy compete for the same geography in my head.
When it gets to be too much, a random "Pizza pizza! Pan pan!" will jump out there to keep the peace.
This is the voice of my entire middle school and highschool social studies career
The preamble and the 50 states song
To the tune of row, row, row your boat!
x equals minus b
plus or minus radical
b squared minus four a c
all over two a
Where I live, it’s called Root instead of Radical. How intriguing.
@@tetronaut88 "The principal square root of a is written as √a. The symbol is called a radical, the term under the symbol is called the radicand, and the entire expression is called a radical expression."
I learned it to the theme of Gilligan’s island: Ohhh, The opposite my b, my friend,
plus or minus the square roooot
of “b” squared minus four “ac”
all over two times a
My version (also to the tune of pop goes the weasel) goes:
X equals opposite b
Plus or minus the square root
Of b squares minus 4 ac
All over 2 a
(My dad is a nerd, he taught me this when i was 4 😂)
I actually have a amazing passage from Looking for Alaska memorised. The monologue Pudge just says out loud to himself:
"She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. I lit a cigarette and spit into the creek. You can't just make me different and then leave. I said out loud to her. Because I was fine before, Alaska, I was fine with my last words and school friends and you can't just make me different and then"......all the way upto " After quickly offered and accepted apologies, the Colonel said, "We've made the tactical decision to push back on calling Jake, we're going to pursue some other avenues first"". (I do know the whole monologue, but I don't wanna spoil the story and I need to look at the lines here and there to fully recite it😅)
I must've reread those pages a hundred rimes over the years, something about Pudge talking out loud and letting his emotions out was weirdly comforting for me to read, cathartic I guess.
I remember the Langston Hughes poem "Dreams" from 8th grade. We learned about the Harlem Renaissance and read all the classics in both poetry and literature from that time. My english teachers all through school were 🔥.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered week and weary over a many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." - Edgar Allan Poe
I remember more, but not the full thing. I was going to use it as a duet stage reading in high school drama.
I want that to stick in mine!!! Literally gonna memorize this now thats fucking incredible ❤
Meanwhile all I've got is like, the entire dialogue of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets game (PC edition)
"A 3 minute egg must boil for 3 minutes."
The entire song and animation of Devil Went Down to Georgia
"Think as I think," said a man "or you are abominablly wicked. You are a toad."
And after i had thought of it i said, "I will then be a toad."
Stephen Crane
Also all of the words to Monty Python's Holy Grail. We used it as our post show cool down when I was doing traveling theater as a teen.
And here’s me quoting the opening lines of the movie Ladyhawke.
Hope is the thing with feathers, memorized the whole thing , one of my favorite poems
This is mine too! I love this poem ❤
“I can feel it in the rotten air tonight. In the tips of my fingers, in the skin on my face. In the weak last gasp of the evenings dying light. In the way those eyes I’ve always loved illuminate this place, like a trash can fire in a prison cell, like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell. I will walk, down to the end, with you, if you will come, all the way down, with me.”
That’s one of the profound, deeply moving answers I could give. It’s a heartrendingly beautiful, haunting piece of verse by the one and only John Darnielle. But I can also recite a surprising amount of the lyrics from the discography of Hank Green.
Now, Hank Green has also written some really beautiful stuff. But for some reason it’s his polka song about getting diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, which I haven’t actually listened to in like five years, that I can most thoroughly and completely reel off with no stumbles or gaps. I don’t know why. It’s a long, wordy, gross song. It contains the line ‘I drew his attention to me with a fifteen minute fart’. The entire thing is burned into my memory and at this point the knowledge of it will probably stay with me until I die. So there you go.
To prove just how well I’ve remembered this song, I will type it out without googling it or referencing the lyrics via any other means. You might say ‘couldn’t you just google them and say you didn’t?’ To which I’ll say, _why the hell would I lie about this?_ I assure you, this is not a brag, it’s a cry for help. So with that out of the way…
I have a complicated relationship with the distal portion
Of my large intestine also known as the colon
I started feeling kind of sh*tty when I turned 23
And then the pain got worse and worse every day
And the days turned into weeks
I finally went to see a doctor and I pooped into a cup
And then a few weeks after that he shoved a camera up my butt
And the camera was in a tube and the tube it pumped out air
So that my colon would inflate and they could look around in there
And when I woke up, the doctor was looking at my chart
I drew his attention to me with a fifteen minute fart
And he said “Son, I hate to tell you, ‘cause you’re probably not gonna like this
But they got a name for what you have and it is ‘ulcerative colitis’
And I’m those seven syllables there’s a mess of sh*tty news
It’s likely that you had your last healthy feeling poos
It’s like _road-rash_ on your _colon,_ it’ll bleed and it’ll hurt
And no one knows what causes it and there is no cure and
Yeah your chances of cancer have gone up a bit
But colon cancer’s curable if you keep your eye on it
No what’s _really_ gonna piss you off is how much you’ll have to _pay_
I know you’re not insured and you’ll probably stay that way because
Insurance companies _hate_ to deal with sick folks like you,
They don’t like taking money from folks they might have to give it back to
And your pills are gonna cost you both your arms and at least one leg
I suggest you go to Canada, get on your knees and _beg_
Because here the prices are high as the market can bare and
They can bare _a lot_ compared with soiled underwear”
I sat there on that bed and thought about how I used to _like_ to poo
I thought maybe there was a mistake, how could this be true
I asked the doctor, pleading, _begging if he was sure_
And if he was how could it be that there was _no cure?_
“The only cure we have,” he said, “is to take the whole thing out
And then to get your movements out we install a little spout.”
I told him that I’d rather take a thousand _thousand dollar pills_
He agreed and sent me home with similar sounding bills
And now really all I’ve learned besides the importance of fibre
Is that the healthcare system’s more screwed up
Than a fifty year old FRED subscriber
There you go. I’m honestly curious if Hank can even remember all of this. If Hank reads this, tell me, could you reel this off from memory at the drop of a hat? Please, I don’t want to be alone in this…
Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats Ho!!!!!! Also, Mayor Goldie Wilson. I like the sound of that!
It’s The Cremation of Sam McGee for me…
Sadly my father didn’t pick a classier poem to randomly shout back and forth at me in my youth 😂😂😂
One of my fondest memories is of my father reading us The Cremation of Sam McGee by the fire one night when the power was out and everything was lit by candles- classy or not, it’s a wonderful little story
I just posted that! It's one that everyone in my family knows very well!
Thats a title I havent heard in a while
I read this in school and it is one of my favorite poems to this day. I don't think I ever enjoyed a poem as much as I did that one 😂
In West Philadelphia, born and raised.
On the playground, is where I spent most of my days.
Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool 😎
And all shooting’ some b-ball outside of the school.
When a couple of guys, they were up to no good!
Started making trouble in my neighborhood!
I got in one little 🤏 fight and my mom got scared.
She said, “You’re movin’ with your Auntie and Uncle in Bel-Air.”
I whistled 💨 for a cab 🚕 and when it came near, the license plate said “FRESH,” and it had dice in the mirror.
If anything, I could see that this cab was rare but I thought man (forget it), “Yo Holmes, to Bel-Air!”
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo Holmes, smell ya later!”
Looked at my kingdom 🏰
I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air 🫅🏿
Ok this I can relate to. Lol
"Why do they call it oven when you oven the cold food of out hot eat the food?"
Not exactly profound, but it's lodged in my brain
“GGAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRFFFFEEEEEEIIILLLLDDD!!!!?!?!” Said John calmly.
I believe in one god, the father almighty, creater of heaven and earth, of all things visable and invisable...
I havent been to church in eight years
I remember reciting John 14:1-6 with my brothers at my grandma's funeral. "Do not let your heart's be troubled..."
It sticks with you.
Our father who art in heaven
Halowed be my name
Thy kingdom come,
It will be done
On Earth as is in Heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our tresspasses
As we forgive those who tresspass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us drom evil.
Amen
I'm a Southerner with a love of the tradition of authors from it. Those who found themselves just a bit of what O'Conner dubbed 'Christ-haunted.'
You lifted my soul tonight with your recitation of this passage.
For me it's the speech at the start of crash course: "Is this gonna be on the test?" "Yeah, about the test" etc.
That speech got me though my educational career, and honestly, it hasn't been wrong yet.
I just wish I spent a little more time studying the units of ionizing radiation a bit more, I failed that section with a coworker today... Rem? Sieverts? Idunno.
"Once and ex best friend of mine said he couldnt see how an old and ugly actress could mean so much to me
Well, a minute later looking down at him bleeding in the snow
I asked him who was best comedy actress four years in a row;
It was
Helen Hunt, Helen Hunt
You make my heart do acrobatic stunts
You stand and face the brunt
Of the twister of my burning want;
Helen Hunt, you know I'm mad about You
Helen Hunt, you know I'm mad about You"
Thats and I've had the Brotherhood 2.0 opening stuck in my head since I first heard it.
"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything ch-"
Hahahahhah perfect.
The only passage from literature I can quote every time flawlessly is also from "All the King's Men" ("Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption," etc.). It is a very quotable book, and a wonderful read.
Thank you for reminding me I remember the charge of the light brigade
i met a traveller from an antique land
who said "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
stand in the desert. near them, on the sand,
half-sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
tell that its sculptor well those passions read
which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things -
the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.
and on the pedestal these words appear:
'my name is ozymandias, king of kings.
look on my works, ye mighty, and despair -'
no thing beside remains. 'round the decay
of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
the lone and level sands stretch far away."
- percy bysshe shelley
The opening number to Hamilton which I can do SO STUPID FAST
Fire and ice by Robert Frost and I wish I could tell you it WASN'T from it being in the front of a twilight book I read at fourteen, but it absolutely is. I'm nearly thirty, and it lives rent-free in my mind.
Same!! Love that poem as a stand alone work, but absolutely memorized it by reading it from the beginning of Eclipse over and over lol
Yeah that one stuck in my head pretty hard too. I read it to my husband once when I was trying to describe the weird allure the American west holds over me. A part of me always want to go there, because...it's just where you go.
I played the flute for like a 1.5 years in primary school and even after 10 years of not practicing, not only i still remeber how to play, i also remeber the notes of every single song i learned. The muscle memory of actually playing the notes isnt there anymore, but something about notes makes them really easy to stick in my memory
All The Kings Men is a banger of a book!
When I was about five or six years old (1980-1981) there was a cable movie channel called Spotlight. I believe it was on channel six on the cable movie box, the kind with the channel slider. I still know the theme song for the channel. 🎵Spotlight! Shining bright! We light up the stars for yoooouu! Spotlight!🎵 Some days I’ll sing that over and over in my head all day long
I resonate with this. Going West has been an amazing experience
For me, many the songs I learned for choir in middle and high school.
Quran for me
“Then I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be everywhere you look. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beating up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way men yell when they’re mad and I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready. And when our folks eat the stuff they raise and live in houses they build, why, I’ll be there.” - Grapes of Wrath
my version of this has always been Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol... I've literally remembered nonsense.... for almost 15 years....
Same! But I think it’s closer to 35 years over here 😅
Same. Since 1994, I think.
John: beautiful poetry from memory
My brain: VREI SA PLECI DAR NUMA NUMA IEI
I still haven’t read All the King’s Men, but I know this passage by heart since you used it in a video several years ago. I’m not quite sure why it stuck with me, either, but it’s very beautiful and I’m grateful to have it in my head. Dftba!
When I was a young boy my father took me into the city to see a marching band he said son when you grow up would you be the savior of the broken the beaten and the damned he said would you defeat the your demons and all of the non-believers the plays that they have made because one day I’ll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join The Black Parade…
OCEANS RISE, EMPIRES FALL, WE HAVE SEEN EACHOTHER THROUGH IT AAAALLL
"so gently scan your brother man
Still gentler, sister woman
Though they may gang and kennen wrang
To step aside is human" -Robert Burns.
I am also really partial to "Do Not" by Stevie Smith. The two have influenced my life for many years as they are both about compassion and love for your fellow man. Both about how you may be at odds with others but everyone is so painfully human with their own families, fears, pain and hopes. Everyone is the hero in their own stories and a little compassion can save so much pain
I learned Irish Gaelic some 20+ years ago. Still remember an entire dialogue on the weather in Gaelic. Super useful, as I've never even been to Ireland.
That was beautiful, thank you.
Remember seeing frogs and snails when it rained?
Where are they now?
Maybe they went west.
This video makes me want to memorize something cool. All I’ve got right now is pi to 22 places and, on a good day, the words to You’ll Never Walk Alone.
I learnt an alphabet for absolutely no reason. It hasn’t been used for hundreds of years.
Also, not a very long quote but a few Séamas Heaney quotes cause i’m Irish (the alphabet i learnt was Ogham by the way, so now i can write Irish in the Celtic Trees alphabet that no one understands):
Between my finger and my thumb,
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.
And im learning Celtic mythology.
Plus another Séamas Heaney quote i’m learning from The Strand at Lough Beg:
I turn because the sweeping of your feet
Has stopped behind me, to find you on your knees
With blood and roadside muck in your hair and eyes,
Then kneel in front of you in brimming grass
And gather up cold handfuls of the dew
To wash you, cousin. I dab you clean with moss
Fine as the drizzle out of a low cloud.
I lift you under the arms and lay you flat.
With rushes that shoot green again, I plait
Green scapulars to wear over your shroud.
"Thou thou exalt thyself as the eagle, though thou make thy nest upon the stars, thence I will bring thee down, sayeth the lord" obidjah 1:4, I learned it in S3EP8 of fargo and something about it resonated
I used to be able to sort of recite the opening soliloquy of Richard III. I might want to try that again to impress my English teachers
Wow, that's beautiful. You legitimately swept me away with this.
i still remember a passage of romeo + juliet that i had to memorise for school when i was about 13 or 14 and i’m 25 now 😁😁 it wasn’t super long, but it was a fair sized chunk!
He's got this eloquent prose, and here my answer was the theme song to Catdog, which is now stuck in my head. 🙃
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour
So leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
"Carry me always carry me well, I am thy teacher of herb and spell. I am thu link to power arcane, forget me and thy magic shall wane. Ten times ten commandments there be, they all answer every mystery, curses cures, alchemy. But fairy remember this above all, I am not for those in mud that crawl, and forever doomed shall be the one who reveals my secrets one by one. "
Its the first passage in the Fairy People's book from Artemis Fowl. In the process of translating it, it got ingrained in my brain
I met a traveler from an antique land who said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert and between them on the sand half sunk a shattered visage lies whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command told that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed and on the pedestal these words appear my name is ozymandias king of kings look upon my works ye mighty and despair nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away
not exactly years ago but “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” has been stuck in my head for a decent while
Not years ago, but my dad and I were talking about plant care and he told me, "You measure your success in dozens. I measure mine in acres."
“From the moment I understood my flesh…” etc. Warhammer is awesome
I've still got "God's bread! It makes me mad" from Romeo and Juliet shuffling around in my head from a school assignment like 10 years ago
gee, John... I was thinking more along the lines of
"Little Bobby took a drink,
but he shall drink no more; for
what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4"
For me, it's every line of dialogue from Skyrim's opening to the point when you exit the cave with either Ralof or Hadvar.
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Eomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first eored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Theoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Orome the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young.
“I am the Lorax I speak for the trees
I speak for the trees for they have no tongues
And I’m asking you sir from the top of my lungs”
My older sister convinced me to memorize this a few years ago
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!" Sun Tzu said that. And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than _you do,_ pal, because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. So on and so forth...
(And also all the other 8 ones as well)
Wow ... I remember having that kind of memory ... I could recite passages of Shakespeare ... I could recite all my friends' phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays ...
Now? I'm tired; my brain is mush, and I have a damn smartphone 🙄
After I saw Withnail and I, I've had Hamlet Act II, Scene 2 in my head for donkey's. "I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth..."
In middle school, we had to memorize and recite at least 14 lines from Shakespeare, and for the life of me, I could not do it. I asked my teacher if I could recite something of equivalent or greater length from my favorite book instead. She said, as long as it was from something in the library (hence on the approved student reading list), then it was fine. I memorized and recited the last letter of Edmund Dantes from the Count of Monte Cristo, and can still recite it from memory today.
This passage from Anna Funder's "Stasiland" really stuck out to me. This was after a woman told a reporter a story of how the Stasti murdered her husband and lied about it, claiming it was suicide, to the point they had their agents monitor the funeral so heavily they outnumbered the genuine mourners. "And I think about those Stasi men. They would never in their lives have imagined that they would cease to exist and that their offices would be a museum... That's one thing I love to do. I love to drive up to the Runde Ecke and park right outside. I just sit there in the car and I feel... Triumph!"
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women are merely players
They have their exits, and entrances
And one man in his time played many parts
The act being seven ages"
I kinda love how profound the opening of this poem is so it just lives rent free on my head
In a high school English class, we had to memorize a poem and recite it. 8 years later, I practically know "Ozymandias" better than I know the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Assumption song. It will never leave my brain
“Well Seymour, I made it, despite your direction…”
You: recite something profound.
Me: counting 1-10 in Japanese that I learned from my 1st grade teacher some 40+ years ago.😅
The nations of the world by Yakko Warner ! People still freak out
"if you cannot move the blanket, you cannot use the blanket" - the only english-language instructions given for a weighted blanket I bought off amazon
Meanwhile me be like:
Hydrogen, helium, lithium, berilium, boron carbon everywhere nitrogen all through the air, oxygen so you can breath and flourine for your pretty tee...
Science class used to be so much fun