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voted #1 "that one person who's into the lilac time"

Richard Farnsworth in Havana (1990) saying "Atom bombs and sandy pussy. What's your hurry?"
If we stand today before the large canvas of Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson in the Mauritshuis we are standing precisely where those who were present at the dissection in the Waaggebouw stood, and we believe that we see what they saw then: in the foreground, the greenish, prone body of Aris Kindt, his neck broken and his chest risen terribly in rigor mortis. And yet it is debatable whether anyone ever really saw that body, since the art of anatomy, then in its infancy, was not least a way of making the reprobate body invisible. It is somehow odd that Dr Tulp’s colleagues are not looking at Kindt’s body, that their gaze is directed just past it to focus on the open anatomical atlas in which the appalling physical facts are reduced to a diagram, a schematic plan of the human being, such as envisaged by the enthusiastic amateur anatomist René Descartes, who was also, so it is said, present that January morning in the Waaggebouw. In his philosophical investigations, which form one of the principal chapters of the history of subjection, Descartes teaches that one should disregard the flesh, which is beyond our comprehension, and attend to the machine within, to what can fully be understood, be made wholly useful for work, and, in the event of any fault, either repaired or discarded. Though the body is open to contemplation, it is, in a sense, excluded, and in the same way the much admired verisimilitude of Rembrandt’s picture proves on closer examination to be more apparent than real.
A panel from Chainsaw Man showing Quanxi raising her arms and letting her sword fall with two of her girlfriends cowering behind her. She has a deadpan expression and a bubble text that says 精彩 below her chest.
Two girls taking a selfie in a car with different text over each. One has rainbow hair and is smiling, text reads "tone of a song about childhood alcoholism and escapism from a deeply abusive home life". The other has dark hair, glasses and a deadpan face, text reads "tone of a song from the point of view of fictional shrieking mushroom, Toad, of Super Mario fame".