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“Don’t Just Sit There, Prophesy!” (Quotes)

Post author By Eric Attica
Post date December 29, 2023
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Me and Brandon. Photo credit: Myself. Contents credit: Our respective parents, particularly our mothers.

I like to say that my greatest talent is having the coolest friends. And what better way to judge the quality of your friends than the ludicrousness of the quotes you share together?

Please enjoy this selection of quotes, exquisitely curated from the Fall 2023 semester and before.

Music People

People who don’t date me are preliterate societies. –Brandon

Yo check me out with my Gucci greaves bro, and my Prada shoulder pauldrons. –Sam Craven on the future of fashion

Use a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer, babe. –Melissa on George Orwell

I just need to like get really good at the piano in one day. Or drop out of school and play the accordion on a farm in Sweden. Those are my two options. –Em

I’ll go months without listening to a metronome in my sleep. –Michael

Hatsune Miku is like the Spongebob Squarepants of the anime community. –Camryn

It’s like wearing a tie with nothing else, except not as hot. –Camryn

[watching Princess Mononoke]
Matt Heslop: Did that impala become more feminine looking?
Brandon: Are you saying you find it more attractive?

Em: Cereal tastes good out of a tupperware.
Dana: Does it taste different?
Em: It does! In a metaphysical sort of way.

Emma: Yeah Emily, what’s your interpretation?
Brandon: Yeah, don’t just sit there. Prophesy.

Anonymous BYU Professors

Yes I taught you that! And now I’m trying to disabuse you of that because it’s wrong!

I’m seriously going to pass out, this marker is so strong. Let’s pass this around! Let’s talk about how we’re gonna build community!

If I say I’ve been crying all day, she will feel bad for me, because she’s socially obligated to.

We have ‘discuss,’ we have ‘discussion.’ ‘Discussive’ feels…disgusting.

It’s a ham sandwich with a brioche bun! Let’s not be ridiculous.

You’re like a ditransitive verb because you need a lot of compliments.

Other

I found a Van Gogh calendar in the dumpster and I was like, ‘This is a waste.’ –George

I feel like a lawyer is a very basic thing to have…. Aren’t your parents old, aren’t they about to die? –Girl in my apartment complex

Resident: Those kids were always at the back of the bus!
Asher: That’s why I dealt drugs at the front of the bus.

Erica would murder you in your sleep and then write a love novel about it. –Emily M. (from the Japanese house) on my laptop Erica

Have your ever read the Book of Mormon? First book they cut someone’s head off! –Overheard in the Wilkinson Center

Not only did I enjoy that kiss last night, I was awed by the efficiency of it. –To Catch a Thief (an old Cary Grant movie) ∎

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RE:

RE: The Law

Here’s something I’ve been thinking about.

I missed the bus yesterday, but it got stuck in traffic and I passed it on foot. Some sleep-deprived, Coca-Cola-animated part of my brain said, “Climb on top of the bus and ride it to the next stop!” And the rest of my brain said: “That’s illegal!”

I’m certain that it is illegal. But it’s weird that I’ve never actually read that law anywhere. This got me wondering. I’ve lived my whole life following the law. (I assume so. I’ve never gotten arrested.) But what does it actually look like? Is it even available to the public?

One day I decided to go find it. That was a fun Google search. “What is the law?” And I found it! It’s actually called The Code, which sounds extremely cult-y. (Specifically, the U. S. Code, Utah Code, etc.) Soon I was knee-deep in the mire of building regulations. I like to think I’m a fairly intelligent guy but I could hardly understand a word. The Latin didn’t help.

As people of letters, we’re prone to giving a hard time to nonliterate cultures who transmit information through oral tradition. Yet even in this highly literate society, the reason I didn’t climb on top of that bus was the oral tradition of “what’s probably illegal” (et amplius my self-preservation instinct). This tradition is both more accessible and more comprehensible than the actual law, which chances are, you probably haven’t read, and probably couldn’t understand if you wanted to. So for those of us who aren’t lawyers—the “literate upper class,” if you will—the entire legal foundation of society is a matter of trust, tradition, and a general assumption that bus-riding is off the table. Strange, right?

What do you think? Have you ever read the law? ∎

“RE:” is a series of essays of 300 words or less about pretty much anything. This is the third installment. Previously:
RE: 1. Parasocial Relationships
RE: 2. Not Knowing

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枕草子: Delightful Things

(Image credit: Myself. Origami credit: Some really cool unknown person.)

The poet Ross Gay came to BYU this month and read some of his work at the English Reading Series. Ross’s skill with the English language is astounding, but what left the biggest impression was his attitude and character. “If you give yourself the task of noticing what you love,” he said, “your life is gonna be more full of what you love.”

I’ve been reading a book by another expert noticer of things. 清少納言 (Sei Shōnagon) recorded her observations and musings in 枕草子, The Pillow Book, a private journal that was leaked and circulated among her contemporaries. The book is full of anecdotes of court life mixed with all kinds of lists. Her observations are often as relatable as they are humorous. Do you relate to any of these?

Things About Which One Is Liable to Be Negligent: Preparations for something that is still well in the future.
Things That Make One’s Heart Beat Faster: To pass a place where babies are playing.
Things That Arouse a Fond Memory of the Past: To pass the time, one starts looking through some old papers and comes across the letters of a man one used to love.
Annoying Things: One has sent someone a poem (or a reply to a poem) and, after the messenger has left, thinks of a couple words that ought to be changed.
Things That Give a Pleasant Feeling: To throw equal numbers repeatedly in a game of dice.
Elegant Things: A pretty child eating strawberries.
Embarrassing Things: Parents, convinced that their ugly child is adorable, pet him and repeat the things he has said, imitating their voice.
Hateful Things: A man with whom one is having an affair keeps singing the praises of some woman he used to know… Even more hateful if he is still seeing the woman!