The Riddler (Johnny Depp): ..."... it's being able to leave a doctor's appointment five minutes early.. before it ends... and you're safe.. that's what the very last word, "Safe!".. of a very central chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses is.. it's that Leopold Bloom is avoiding a doctor on the streets of Dublin.. he's frantically making sure the doctor doesn't see him.. doesn't find him.. it's not Blazes Boylan that Leopold Bloom is avoiding.. it's a doctor.. it means he's safe at the end of the chapter from the doctor having found him.. having.. intercepted him.. it means being able to leave five minutes before the doctor.. is finished.. sorry.. is finished.. sorry .. with you.. and you're safe.. from him.. an old man.. a from an old man who's a doctor..
".. it means .. my eleventh-grade English teacher Roger wasn't such a bad guy after all... I always liked him.. very much.. very much.. when he.. when Roger.. told us he didn't want us to be five minutes late for the class.. he didn't want us to be two minutes late for the class.. he didn't want us to be one minute late for the class.. he meant that .. we could leave the class early.. it meant.. that he was giving lessons in safety.... it means.. that punctuality.. is a myth.. an urban myth.. punctuality is a cultural myth.. to be safe from predatory doctors.. we have to have the freedom and right.. to leave an appointment.. early.. perhaps exactly five minutes early.. that number.. five.. the number five.. the number five.. five minutes.. five minutes... it means... "Last".. it means the tirade and Inquisition against First Posters on Ain't it cool news was in it's original inception installed in the software by Harry Knowles himself.. it means the real messages he reads.. the messages BEHIND the insults against first posters.. teh real messages behind them are so horrific, so congealingly horrific.. and it has to do with the word.. "Last".. with being.. "Last".. with being earlier than "Last"..."...
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