#predestination tag

[mimbing]

gawain and the green knight: it was always going to turn out like this and you never really could have refused. i'm sorry that this has fallen to you, but what a wonderful story. what a wonderful character you are.

[mimbing]

sartre: Faulkner's heroes never look ahead, they face backwards, able to distinguish the murky present only once it forms into the solidified past; their futures are not human possibility, not for a second does Quentin envisage the possibility of not killing himself. His suicide is an immobile wall... not an undertaking but a fatality. It ceases to exist in the future. It is already present, and the monologues and walk of Quentin's last day are viewed in his past, as if he is remembering.

me: sir yes sir *fires six revolver shots at my own noggin*

[mimbing]

achilles is a dead man walking dead from the moment he was born but he could have lived even until he killed troilus even until he killed hector he could have been alive but he is dead but he never had a choice but he’s never existed but he has always existed but he’s immortal and glorious and he’s fictional and he’s the only real person in the world because he’s the only one to have looked story in the mouth and killed it instead of letting it kill him