non-exhaustive list of Quotes
"I don't need to see it to know it's there."
"But blessed are they who have not yet seen, but still believe."
"I wanted to be here when we found it."
"But I bet you never saw in Shoreditch, the breath of a god in the air."
"I saw it from yards away. I'm not mistaken."
here’s some more
“god sees you” VS “the captain doesn’t see you at all” VS “Even if God is seeing every last thing we do here, you have nothing to fear”
this isn’t a quote but on my last rewatch i made a list of Every Single Time A Telescope Appears and my conclusion is that telescopes let you see into the future
this isn’t a quote EITHER but the theme of sight is huge actually because there are a) things that Only Some People See (an hallucination! THAT’S the monstrous double), b) foresight and hindsight (telescopes and analepses! iirc the character with the Most flashbacks is franklin, Hindsighting Things), c) the invisible? there are a surprisingly large number of invisible things? whatever the invisible world is? collins’ soul? tozer tells little he is invisible (the captain doesn’t see you at all!); fitzjames’ grave is supposed to be invisible (and that line is Also directed at little); the mimetic crisis is invisible; the fictionalised events are invisible bcs they’re unknown to history, d) seeing vs Being Seen. anne carson voice but to be seen feeling anything strips you naked! clothes and vulnerability! im thinking about episode 8 and also how in homer epic heroism requires the heroic act but also recognition of that act, And Yet homeric heroism is a ritual which is maybe a Bad ritual