I am standing here beside myself.Certainly I've felt that way a lot.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Standing Here Beside Myself
Perhaps you've wondered about the title of this blog. The phrase comes from a light-weight science fiction comedy called Short Circuit, which is about a death-dealing military robot, Number 5, who comes 'alive' when accidentally zapped by high voltage. A lot of the humor in the movie comes from the dialog between the robot's inventor and his Indian computer scientist side-kick, Ben Jabituya, played by American actor Fisher Stevens. The Jabituya character speaks that wonderful kind of twisted English one often hears in highly trained technical people from India, and his speech is full of malaprops, malaphors and other forms of unexpected and difficult English. The other characters also have plenty of funny things to say. Anyway, my favorite of all these is when Jabituya, in a moment of confusion and uncertainty, says to no-one in particular
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An old Who song came to mind, John Entwistle wrote it, titled "905":
Mother was an incubator
Father was the contents
Of a test tube in the icebox
In the factory of birth
My name is 905
And I’ve just become alive
I’m the newest populator
Of the planet we call earth
In suspended animation
My childhood passed me by
If I speak without emotion
Then you know the reason why
Knowledge of the universe
Was fed into my mind
As my adolescent body
Left its puberty behind
And everything I know is what I need to know
Everything I do’s been done before
Ev’ry sentence in my head
Someone else has said
At the end of my life is an open door
Automatically defrosted
My manhood came on time
I became a man
I left the ICE school behind
And now I’m to begin
The life that I’m assigned
A life that’s been lived before
A thousand times
I have a feelin’ deep inside
That something is missin’
There’s a feelin’ in my soul
And I can’t help wishin’
That one day I’ll discover
That we’re livin’ a lie
And I’ll tell the whole world
The reasons why
But until then, all I know is what I need to know
Everything I do’s been done before
Ev’ry idea in my head
Someone else has said
At the end of my life is an open door
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