What's the story, Morning Glory? What's the word, Hummingbird? Why, yes, I was in a junio high performance of "Bye Bye Birdie". Yes, I did enjoy it. Oh, me? I played Man in Background 2. No, I didn't think it was degrading. What? No, lets just move on to a different subject. What am I? I'm Jacob. I'm an atheist, nihilist, exhibitionist, pacifist, narcissist, heterosexual, poet, writer, anarchist, and a loving, caring individual.

"Silence, silence, contemptible Creature. You call yourself
the All in All, but you are the Nothing: your so-called Universe
is a mere speck in a Line, and a Line is a mere shadow
as compared with --" "Hush, hush, you have said enough,"
interrupted the Sphere, "now listen, and mark the effect
of your harangue on the King of Pointland." "You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done. So far
as the Monarch understands them at all, he accepts them as his own --
for he cannot conceive of any other except himself --
and plumes himself upon the variety of 'Its Thought' as an instance
of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Pointland to the ignorant
fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I
can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction."

-Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

"You are free to do as we tell you."

-Bill Hicks