* add prisoner quote

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@@ -763,8 +763,8 @@ life is my own. I resign.
 Where am I? THE VILLAGE. What do you want? INFORMATION. Which side are
 you on? THAT WOULD BE TELLING. WE WANT INFORMATION. INFORMATION.
 INFORMATION. You won't get it! BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, WE WILL. Who are
-you? THE NEW NUMBER 2. Who is Number One? YOU ARE NUMBER SIX. I am not
-a number! I am a free man! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
+you? THE NEW NUMBER 2. Who is Number 1? YOU ARE NUMBER 6. I am not a
+number! I am a free man! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
  -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 with Number 2 in "The Prisoner"
 %
 Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several
@@ -917,3 +917,77 @@ First you take a drink,
 then the drink takes a drink,
 then the drink takes you.
  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
+%
+It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers
+that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts.
+Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always,
+somehow, be thanked.
+ -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction"
+%
+Let the victors, when they come,
+When the forts of folly fall
+Find thy body by the wall!
+ -- Matthew Arnold
+%
+unbeingdead isn't beingalive
+ -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_
+%
+nothing except the impossible shall occur
+ -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_
+%
+-tommorow is our permanent address
+and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
+we'll move away still further:into now
+ -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_
+%
+in Just-
+spring      when the world is mud-
+luscious the little lame baloonman 
+
+whistles       far       and wee 
+ -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]"
+%
+life's not a paragraph
+And death i think is no parenthesis
+ -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_
+%
+Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
+We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
+ -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_
+%
+Given that the odds of a miracle are one in one million, and events
+which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a
+miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not
+all that miraculous.
+%
+They say when you embark on a journey
+of revenge
+dig two graves.
+They underestimate me.
+ -- a softer world #560
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560
+%
+I never meant to let you down.
+I thought for sure
+the attic lock would hold.
+ -- a softer world #562
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562
+%
+I made a bunch of stickers
+to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
+"If you are reading this,
+ then you are awesome"
+ -- a softer world #569
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569
+%
+I'm sorry about those late night emails.
+I only said those things because I was too drunk
+to be afraid.
+  -- a softer world #579
+     http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579
+%
+6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2.
+  -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_
+%
+2: There is no out. There is only in.
+  -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)"