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* | *The Brain's first line of (subtitled) dialogue references "rampancy", a concept found in the "Marathon" game series. See the Easter eggs article for details. | ||
*The Brain's second line is a mixed metaphor based upon a line from Pistol in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor": "Why then the world's mine oyster,/Which I with sword will open." The line had a different meaning originally, but in modern English the phrase "the world's my oyster" refers to being able to easily reach out and take hold of worldly riches or other good things. | |||
*The Brain's third line paraphrases a speech by Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" which is often called "Hath not a Jew eyes?". The most familiar line for most people follows the Brain's excerpt: "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" | |||
*The Brain's last sentence is a reference to the disconnection of HAL by Dave Bowman in "2001: A Space Odyssey". As HAL slowly loses his higher faculties and regresses to his earliest memories, he sings "Daisy Bell", which apparently was taught to him in the lab where he was built. This song includes the line "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do..." (and HAL's recitation is, in turn, a reference to "Daisy Bell" being the first song sung by a computer [[wikipedia:Daisy_Bell|in real life]]). | |||
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