Departure and Return of the Spirit
William Blake:
Hello.
Nobody:
I prepared your canoe with cedar boughs. It's time for you to leave now, William Blake. Time for you to go back where you came from.
William Blake:
You mean Cleveland?
Nobody:
Back to the place where all the spirits came from, and where all the spirits return. This world will no longer concern you.
William Blake: [shows Nobody a reel of tobacco]
Found some tobacco.
Nobody:
That tobacco is for your voyage... William Blake.
William Blake:
Nobody... I don't smoke.
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Confrontation of Faith and Damnation
Trading Post missionary:
God damn your soul to the fires of Hell!
William Blake:
He already has.
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Questioning Life and Death
Nobody:
Did you kill the white man who killed you?
William Blake:
I'm not dead. Am I?
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Themes of Life and Mortality in Dialogue
Nobody: [seeing William touching his chest wound]
Leave that alone stupid white man.
William Blake: [as Nobody attends to his wound]
Am I going to die?
Nobody:
The circle of life has no ending.
William Blake:
Why are you helping me?
Nobody:
A bird told me.
William Blake:
A bird told you?
Nobody: [pauses]
A small magical bird with bright blue feathers. I was following him in your forest, hoping to acquire one of his indigo feathers... and then I lost him... and then I found him again. He was perched on your chest tasting your blood. He looked at me. Then he flew directly west in a straight line - his small beak red with your blood.
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Traded Goods and Lost Items
William Blake:
Do you still have my eyeglasses?
Nobody:
No, I traded them. Do you have any tobacco?
William Blake:
No, I traded it.
Nobody:
For what?
William Blake:
I'm not telling.
Nobody:
Liar.
William Blake:
Thief.
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Identity and the Nature of Names
William Blake:
What is your name?
Nobody:
My name is Nobody.
William Blake:
Excuse me?
Nobody:
My name is Exaybachay. He Who Talks Loud, Saying Nothing.
William Blake:
He who talks... I thought you said your name was Nobody.
Nobody:
I preferred to be called Nobody.
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The Significance of Firearms in America
Thel Russell:
Watch it. It's loaded.
William Blake:
Why do you have this?
Thel Russell:
Because this is America.
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Conflict Over Tobacco and Vision
Nobody:
The vision of Christ that thou dost see... is my vision's greatest enemy. Do you have tobacco?
Trading Post Missionary:
We sure don't.
Nobody:
Aren't those tins of tobacco right there behind you?
Trading Post Missionary:
Sure are, but those cans are empty. There's no tobacco in them. Perhaps I could interest you in some beads...
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Reflections on Movement and Perspective
Train fireman:
Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later than night, you were lying, looking up at the ceiling, and the water in your head was not dissimilar from the landscape, and you think to yourself, "Why is it that the landscape is moving, but the boat is still?
Conway Twill:
I'll tell you one thing: if that there Blake fella keeps on shootin marshals, I might end up liking the bastard!
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Similarity in Nature and Appearance
Nobody:
Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike.
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A Call to Action Amidst Despair
Nobody:
Don't let the sun burn a hole in your ass, William Blake. Rise now, and drive your cart and plough over the bones of the dead!
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The Language of Violence and Expression
Nobody:
That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.
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Lessons from the Eagle and the Crow
Nobody:
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.
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The Duality of Existence
Nobody:
Every night and every morn, some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight; some are born to endless night.
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Perception and Reality in Infinite Contexts
William Blake:
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.
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