He laughed and laughed till the tears streamed down his face-- quenchlessly laughed while, pale with a sense of outrage, the Savage looked at him over the top of his book and then, as the laughter still continued, closed it indignantly, got up and, with the gesture of one who removes his pearl from before swine, locked it away in its drawer.An allusion! Fantastic! The problem with allusions is that they are only effective if the reader knows to what you're alluding, and in this case, I do because of AP Lang. last year (Thanks, Mrs. Sander!).
Alrighty then, let's get analytical! In this little excerpt, Helmholtz just can't seem to understand Romeo and Juliet. He's so close to being at the same level of comprehension of the situation as John, but his conditioning just keeps getting in the way. It seems to be the only thing keeping kim from an epiphany. Helmholtz knows that there's something missing in society-- as he keeps saying, there's something else to write about-- but he just can't figure out what it is.
I'd also like to make a funny comparison of the legen...wait for it....DARY television show "How I Met Your Mother" to the following quote:
But in spite of this knowledge and these admissions, in spite of the fact that his friend's support and sympathy were now his only comfort, Bernard continued perversely to nourish, along with his quite genuine affection, a secret grievance against the Savage, to meditate a campaign of small revenges to be wreaked upon him. Nourishing a grievance against the Arch-Community-Songster was useless; there was no possibility of being revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant Predestinator.This is what Barney Stinson would call the Chain of Screaming. You can't yell at someone in a position higher than yours; it will get you fired. But you have to express your anger somehow, so you defer the anger to someone in a position lower than your own.
I apologize for the horrible quality of video, but it was the only one on YouTube.
Until next time,
Alysse
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