◎ Episode 1: Extreme Invaders (September 22, 2005)
There is no need to believe in the supernatural source of evil. Only people can do all the bad things. -Joseph Conrad
Joseph? Conrad (Polish-born English writer): It is unnecessary to attribute evil to supernatural factors, and human beings themselves are enough to carry out every evil deed.
Try again. Failed again. Failure is better. -samuel beckett
Samuel beckett (the most famous playwright of the absurd): Try harder, fail again, and fail better. (Lines from Gideon's movies)
● Try not to. To do or not to do. -Yoda
Yoda: Don't try. To do or not to do. (lines from Morgan's movies)
● Everything is a mystery, and the key to solving the mystery ... is another mystery. -Emerson
Emerson (American poet, essayist and philosopher): Everything is a mystery, and the key to one mystery ... is another mystery.
The farther you look back, the farther you look forward. -Winston Churchill
Winston? Churchill: The farther you look back, the farther you will look forward.
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares at you. -Nietzsche
Nietzsche: When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.
◎ Episode 2: Coercion (2005.09.28)
There are some clues at the crime scene, which are not suitable for collection or inspection by their nature. How does one collect love, anger, hatred and fear? -Dr. James T. Reese
James. Dr Reiss (American expert in stress management of traumatic stress): According to their own nature, some clues at the crime scene are not easy to collect and detect. How does one collect love, anger, hatred and fear?
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Limited knowledge. Imagination surrounds the whole world. -Einstein
Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, but imagination surrounds the whole world.
● Don't bother yourself, just want to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -william faulkner
Williams? Faulkner (American writer): Don't bother yourself just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
◎ Episode 3: It won't be fooled again (2005. 10.05)
Almost all absurd behaviors stem from imitating those who are not similar to us. -samuel johnson
Samuel? Johnson (English writer): Almost all absurd behaviors come from imitating people we can't be alike.
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◎ Episode IV: Plain Scenes (2005. 10. 12)
Don't forget that I can't see myself. My role is limited to looking at myself in the mirror. -Jacques Rigat
Jacques Rigat (French poet): Don't forget that I can't see myself. My role is limited to looking at the people in the mirror.
Birds sing after the storm. Why can't people enjoy the sunshine freely? -Ross Kennedy
Ross? Kennedy (President Kennedy's mother): Birds sing after the storm. Why don't people feel happy when the sun is still shining?
◎ Episode 5: Broken Mirror (2005. 10. 19)
When a good man is hurt, all people who are called good men must suffer with him. -euripides
Euripides (Greek Tragedy Poet): When a good man is hurt, all good people will share joys and sorrows with him.
When love is excessive, it will not bring honor and value to a person. -euripides
Euripides: If you love too much, you will lose all your glory and value.
◎ Episode 6: Detective Dragon Emperor (2005. 1 1.02)
The irrationality of a thing is not the reason against its existence, but the condition of its existence. -Nietzsche
Nietzsche: The absurdity of a thing cannot be an argument against its existence. On the contrary, this is precisely the condition for its existence.
● Nothing is more common than the desire for Excellence. -Shakespeare
Shakespeare: Nothing is more common than hope. (Hodge)
◎ Episode 7: Fox (2005. 1 1.09)
● When you are with a fox, you must play the fox. -Dr. Thomas fuller
Dr Thomas fuller: when we meet foxes, we must learn to be cunning.
When you rule out the impossible, the rest, no matter how impossible, must be the truth. -Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock? Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle): When you rule out all the impossibilities, whatever remains, even if it is impossible, must be the truth. (lines from Gideon's play)
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◎ Episode 8: Born Black Boy (2005.11.16)
There is no hunting like human hunting. Those who hunt down armed men long enough and like them never really care about anything else. -Hemingway
Hemingway: There is no hunting like human hunting. Those well-armed hunters always enjoy it, but they never care about anything else.
● Healthy people will not torture others. Usually the tortured person becomes the torturer. -carl jung
Jung: Healthy people don't torture others. It is often those who have been tortured who become torturers.
◎ Episode 9: Cheating (2005. 1 1.23)
● Faith is not just an idea possessed by the mind. This is an idea that occupies the mind. -Robert Oxton Bolton
Robert Oxton Bolton (writer): Faith is not only a concept dominated by the mind, but also a concept that can dominate the mind.
A question that sometimes puzzles me-am I crazy or are others crazy? -Einstein
Einstein: Sometimes I wonder, am I crazy or is someone else crazy? (Reid)
◎ Episode 10: Popular Children (2005. 1 1.30)
Unfortunately, the price of too many dreams is more and more nightmares. -Sir Peter Ustinov
Peter. Sir Ustinov (cultural celebrity, comedian, veteran British actor, playwright, performing artist, novelist, social activist, opera director): Unfortunately, the price of dreaming more is that there will be more nightmares.
● Ideology separates us, and dreams and pain bring us together. -eugene ionesco
Eugene? Lesko (Romanian playwright of the Absurd Theatre): Ideology separates us, but dreams and pain bring us together.
◎ episode 1 1: bloodthirsty (2005. 12. 14)
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● The most bitter tears shed on the grave are for those things that have not been said and things that have not been done well. -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harry Ye Zhi? Beecher? Stowe (New England female novelist, anti-slavery writer, whose masterpiece is Uncle Tom's Cabin): The most painful tears flow from the grave, for things that have not been said and done.
◎ Episode 12: What fresh hell? (2006.0 1. 1 1)
Evil is unnoticed and always human. Sleeping with us ... eating at our table. -Auden
W. H. Orton (English poet): Demons are usually just ordinary people, unremarkable. They share a bed with us and eat at the same table.
Low until the end of the day, labor is completed, began to measure the work. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Elizabeth? Barrett? Browning (/kloc-a famous English poetess in the 0/9th century): Don't comment before you do your best.
◎ Episode 13: Poison (2006.0 1. 18)
What is food for one person is bitter poison for another. -Titus Lucretius Carus
Lucretius (Roman poet and materialist philosopher): My food is your poison.
● Dig two graves before you embark on your revenge journey. -Confucius
Confucius: Before you start your revenge journey, dig two graves. (Free translation, not the original sentence. Seek the original sentence! )
◎ episode 14: riding the wind and waves (2006.0 1.25)
Whoever sheds human blood, his blood will also be shed by others. -Genesis 9:6
Genesis Chapter 9 of the Old Testament: Whoever sheds human blood, his blood will be shed by others.
What we do for ourselves will die with us. What we do for others and the world is eternal. -Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun (English writer): What you do for yourself will disappear with death, but what you do for others and the world will last forever.
◎ episode 15: unfinished business (2006.03.0 1)
● People who live with us, love each other and should know to avoid us (but we can still love them). -Norman McClane
Norman? Mccarron (Professor of English Literature at the University of Chicago, whose autobiography has been adapted into the film A River Flows Through): It is always those who cheat us, who we get along with, love and should know each other. Even so, we still love them. )
● In the end, the years in your life are not important. It was your life in those years. -abraham lincoln
Abraham? Lincoln: In the end, it doesn't matter how old you live. What matters is how you spent these years.
◎ episode 16: tribes (March 8, 2006)
Individuals always have to try to avoid being overwhelmed by tribes. -Nietzsche
Nietzsche: In order not to be disillusioned, individuals must always struggle to survive in society. (Hodge)
You can walk many ways to the same place. -an old Apache proverb
Apache proverb: All roads lead to Rome. (Hodge's closing line)
◎ episode 17: a real rain (March 22, 2006)
Murder is unique in that it destroys the injured party. Therefore, society must stand on the victim's side and ask for atonement or forgiveness on his behalf. -Auden
W.H. Orton: Murder is unique because it completely destroys the victim. Therefore, society must speak for the deceased, and should demand compensation or exercise pardon in the name of the deceased.
● If there is violence in our hearts, we should resort to violence instead of putting on the cloak of non-violence to cover up incompetence. -Gandhi
Gandhi: If there is violence in our hearts, let it out. This is better than putting on a non-violent coat to cover up weakness.
I'm against violence, because when violence seems beneficial, it's only temporary. The evil it does is permanent. -Gandhi
Gandhi: I am against violence, because when violence is used to do good, good is only temporary. (Hodge)
◎ episode 18: someone is watching (March 29, 2006)
● Photos are secrets about secrets. The more it tells you, the less you know. -Diane Arbus
Diane. Albus (Jewish photographer): Photographs are secrets about secrets. The more it reveals, the less you know.
Americans have no sense of privacy. He doesn't know what this means. There is no such thing in China. -Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw: Americans don't know privacy. He doesn't know what that means. There is no such thing as privacy in this country.
◎ Episode 19: Male chauvinism (April 2006.12)
● Other things may change us, but we start with our family and end with our family. -Anthony Brandt
Anthony Brandt: Other things may change us, but we start at home and end at home. (Hodge)
The house is not built on the ground, but on women. -Mexican proverb
Mexican proverb: home is not built on land, but on women. (Hodge)
◎ Episode 20: Charm and Injury (2006.04. 19)
Some people just use language to hide their thoughts. -Voltaire
Voltaire: Some people just use words to hide their thoughts.
We are so used to disguising ourselves to others that eventually we become disguised to ourselves. -Fran? ois Della
Francois de la (writer): We are always used to pretending to be ourselves in front of people, but we also deceive ourselves in the end.
◎ episode 2 1: secrets and lies (2006.05.03)
Whoever establishes himself as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge will be laughed at by the gods and be ruined. -Albert Einstein
Einstein: When a person regards himself as the judge of truth and knowledge, he will be laughed at and destroyed by God.
In an era of widespread deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -George Orwell
George? Orwell (English writer): In this age full of great deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary move.
◎ Episode 22: Fishing King (1)(2006.05. 10)
● No one needs a holiday more than those who have just spent it. -elbert hubbard
Elbert? Harbert (English writer, whose masterpiece is A Letter to Garcia): No one needs a holiday more than someone who has just had a holiday.
(There is no famous saying at the end of this episode)