History Quotes / EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory

->'''Chris:''' Lex totally prison shanks Superman with a Kryptonite shiv.
->'''David:''' Oh, yeah. “Shanks.” In the side, natch. This is the most labored combination Caesar/Jesus metaphor of all time.
->'''Chris:''' Aw jeez, I didn’t even think of that. Thanks for ruining one of the three things I liked about this movie, jerk.
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-superman-returns-2006-part-two/ on]] ''Film/SupermanReturns''

->''"In hysterical ''Torchwood'' fashion, Jack finally steps into action by kneeling before the Abaddon like Jesus before the Devil and [[CareBearStare pours a white light into his ass]] and kills him."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2011/10/torchwood.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', "[[{{Recap/TorchwoodS1E12CaptainJackHarkness}} Captain Jack Harkness]]"

->''"Christ figure is a recurring motif in many cultures; death and rebirth; symbolic turning of the seasons, all that crap. [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteandtheRoadRunner Wyle E. Coyote]] was a fucking Christ figure, man, and Acme Company was Rome, baby."''

->'''Chris:''' Lex totally prison shanks Superman with a Kryptonite shiv.\\
'''David:''' Oh, yeah. “Shanks.” In the side, natch. This is the most labored combination Caesar/Jesus metaphor of all time.\\
'''Chris:''' Aw jeez, I didn’t even think of that. Thanks for ruining one of the three things I liked about this movie, jerk.

->''"If you have to ask what something symbolized, it didn't."''
-->-- '''RogerEbert'''

->''"Saw ''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody [[MistakenForProfound broke up into discussion groups]]. Trying to get through that Creator/BurtReynolds subtext. I believe Heloise is supposed to be a Christ figure."''

->''"He ends up being taken to a super-rehab clinic called Virgil House... a reference to Virgil, who guides Dante through hell in ''The Divine Comedy'', a reference so tired it’s practically narcoleptic."''
-->---'''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/rise-of-arsenal-justice-league-worst/ on]] ''Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal #3′'

-->'''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''s [[http://booth.bz/zardoz2i recap]] of ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''

->''"Saw ''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody broke up into discussion groups. Trying to get through that Creator/BurtReynolds subtext. I believe Heloise is supposed to be a Christ figure."''

->''"Saw ''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody broke up into discussion groups. Trying to get through that BurtReynolds subtext. I believe Heloise is supposed to be a Christ figure."''

->''"I understand. The [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory bird represents God and coyote is man]], endlessly chasing the divine, yet never able to catch him. It’s hilarious."''
-->-- '''Castiel''' (On WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner), ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

->And you listen to the music,\\
and you love to sing along,\\
and you want to get the meaning out\\
of each and every song,\\
and you find yourself a message,\\
some words to call your own,\\
and take them home.
-->-- '''Bread''', "Guitar Man"

->"Hey man did you\\
write that for me?\\
It seems like it,\\
it spoke to me."\\
You made it up,\\
you made it up,\\
you made it up,\\
you make it up.
-->-- '''Music/{{Starflyer 59}}''', "M23"

->''"I don't know what it's about. I'm just the drummer. Ask [[Music/PeterGabriel Peter]]."''
-->-- '''Music/PhilCollins''', when asked about the meaning of Music/{{Genesis}}' ConceptAlbum ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway''

->''"Some thought there was some greater symbolic meaning behind [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-03-30 this infamous comic]], and a couple of readers actually analyzed it as a representation of my feelings of women being inferior. Honestly, I just wanted to put Dominic in a He-Man harness because I thought he'd look silly."''
-->-- '''Michael "Mookie" Terracciano'''

->''"Suppose you are studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say Moby-Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in '''your''' paper, '''you''' say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby-Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative."''
-->-- '''DaveBarry''', "College Admissions"

->''"It's possible to read too much into this shit."''
-->-- '''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', "[[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/essays/runaway.htm 'Runaway Train' by Soul Asylum is actually about a man being absorbed into the vagina of an evil shapeshifting alien]]"

->''Oh no! They take it too far.\\
Now all the greatest love songs\\
Are secretly about heroin.''
-->-- ''LemonDemon'', "Being a Rock Star"

->''"Saw ''[[Film/TheCannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody broke up into discussion groups. Trying to get through that BurtReynolds subtext. I believe Heloise is supposed to be a Christ figure."'' (If anyone knows the correct quote, please fix this.)

->''"Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on [[WordSaladLyrics my lyrics]] when 90% of the time they've [[IndecipherableLyrics transcribed the lyrics]] [[{{Mondegreen}} incorrectly]]?"''
-->-- '''Music/KurtCobain'''

->''"This game - discovering feelings that writers didn't know they had on the basis of things they didn't say - is great fun, and anyone can play it. (There's is a bit-part player in "Prince Caspian" called Mrs Prizzle. Well then, the fact that Lewis chose this name proves that he had an unconscious desire to spank women using the penis of a bull. See how easy it is?)"''
-->-- ''[[http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2005/11/lipstick-on-my-scholar.html Lipstick on My Scholar]]'', by '''Andrew Rilstone'''

->You know, I always thought that your short hair was somehow symbolic of your character growth\\
Me too! I guess it was just a crappy haircut.\\
Weird.
-->-- '''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'''

->''"No. That's not how English class works. What we CAN do is pretend the book is a towering riddle of symbology designed to obfuscate a central theme so simplistic that it can be expressed in a single paragraph during a one-hour midterm."''
-->-- ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''

->''"Every fiction should have a moral; and, what is more to the purpose, the critics have discovered that every fiction has. (...) In short, it has been shown that no man can sit down to write without a very profound design. Thus to authors in general much trouble is spared. A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there--that is to say, it is somewhere--and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time arrives, all that the gentleman intended, and all that he did not intend, will be brought to light, in the "Dial," or the "Down-Easter," together with all that he ought to have intended, and the rest that he clearly meant to intend:--so that it will all come very straight in the end."''
-->-- '''EdgarAllanPoe''', ''Never Bet the Devil Your Head''

->''"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."''
-->-- '''SigmundFreud''' ([[BeamMeUpScotty probably]])

->"A discussion about the nature of eternity, set against a blank, featureless void: Behold the beginning of the transformation of the ''Family Circus'' into ''Existential Despair Comics''."
-->-- ''[[http://joshreads.com/?p=1583 The Comics Curmudgeon]]''


->''"[Authors] aren't doing it so that your English teachers have something to torture you with. They're doing it, at least if they're doing it on purpose, so that the story can have a bigger and better life in your mind. But for the record, the question of whether or not they're doing it on purpose is NOT A VERY INTERESTING QUESTION.... Whether an author intended a symbolic resonance in their work is irrelevant.... The book does not exist for the benefit of the author. The book exists for the benefit of you.''"
->--''John Green''

-->''“I understand. The [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory bird represents God and coyote is man]], endlessly chasing the divine, yet never able to catch him. It’s hilarious.”''
---> '''- Castiel describing the WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner''', ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

-->-- '''{{Starflyer 59}}''', "M23"

->''"I don't know what it's about. I'm just the drummer. Ask Peter."''
-->-- '''Phil Collins''', when asked about the meaning of "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"

->''"Saw ''[[CannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody broke up into discussion groups. Trying to get through that BurtReynolds subtext. I believe Heloise is supposed to be a Christ figure."'' (If anyone knows the correct quote, please fix this.)
-->-- '''DennisMiller'''

-->-- '''[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain]]'''

-->'''[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain]]'''

-->'''[[http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2005/11/lipstick-on-my-scholar.html Lipstick on My Scholar]], by Andrew Rilstone

-->'''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'''

->-- '''Phil Collins''', when asked about the meaning of "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"

-->-- Sherwood Anderson

-->-- Michael "Mookie" Terracciano

->''Suppose you are studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say Moby-Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in '''your''' paper, '''you''' say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland. Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby-Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative.''
-->--'''DaveBarry''', "College Admissions"

->''It's possible to read too much into this shit.''
-->--'''[[BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', "[[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/essays/runaway.htm 'Runaway Train' by Soul Asylum is actually about a man being absorbed into the vagina of an evil shapeshifting alien]]"

-->''LemonDemon'', "Being a Rock Star"

->"Saw ''[[CannonballRun Cannonball Run II]]'' in West Virginia. After the movie, everybody broke up into discussion groups. Trying to get through that BurtReynolds subtext. I believe Heloise is supposed to be a Christ figure." (If anyone knows the correct quote, please fix this.)
-->'''DennisMiller'''

->"Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on [[WordSaladLyrics my lyrics]] when 90% of the time they've [[IndecipherableLyrics transcribed the lyrics]] [[{{Mondegreen}} incorrectly]]?"

->This game - discovering feelings that writers didn't know they had on the basis of things they didn't say - is great fun, and anyone can play it. (There's is a bit-part player in "Prince Caspian" called Mrs Prizzle. Well then, the fact that Lewis chose this name proves that he had an unconscious desire to spank women using the penis of a bull. See how easy it is?)

->No. That's not how English class works. What we CAN do is pretend the book is a towering riddle of symbology designed to obfuscate a central theme so simplistic that it can be expressed in a single paragraph during a one-hour midterm.
-->'''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'''

->''Every fiction should have a moral; and, what is more to the purpose, the critics have discovered that every fiction has. (...) In short, it has been shown that no man can sit down to write without a very profound design. Thus to authors in general much trouble is spared. A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there--that is to say, it is somewhere--and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time arrives, all that the gentleman intended, and all that he did not intend, will be brought to light, in the "Dial," or the "Down-Easter," together with all that he ought to have intended, and the rest that he clearly meant to intend:--so that it will all come very straight in the end.''
-->--EdgarAllanPoe, ''Never Bet the Devil Your Head''

->"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
-->--SigmundFreud ([[BeamMeUpScotty probably]])

-->'''[[{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain]]'''

-->'''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'''

-->'''OrderOfTheStick'''

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