A: By the way, what’s your answer to my riddle?

B: your....dream?...your...conscience? maybe hope or belief

A: I have heard religion, love, but I have also heard ‘Archaeology’. It is interesting to see how some answers try to be as universal as possible, for fear perhaps of excluding something, while other answers are very personal

B: and whats the answer then?

A: ... for me?

B: no. the real one

A: haha. well it would have to be my answer because I wrote the riddle with that answer in mind... but if one looks at it your way - there is indeed no ‘real’ answer...

B: What would be yours then? or is it too personal?

A: the English language

Oh I think I have to delete that comment - it makes me blush... Yes it is mine. Anything else would be plagiarism... and that's definitely not my style. Moi? Je suis anglais-hongrois-suisse. Something like that. English is my father's tongue, as it were.

Well who knows I might end up teaching it one day, so I'll read it then, but thanks for your explanations . No, "Fools rush in..." is part of Pope's very first poem called "An Essay on Criticism" which talks about his own literary styles and dishes out warnings to the intending writer. The line has since then been used as, yes, mostly the 'love fool', and it is how I use it too:

For all the worldly wisdom in my head
I am a fool at heart. What should be one
In me lives as two, and too far apart.
Happiest I thought myself suspended
In a tideless sea. Cradled from danger
In Arcadian fields of childhood memory.
Such happiness is but a form of pain
Refined, a halcyon gaze out of skew,
Such joy but human nature thrown in chains,
Designed to take everything out of true.
With you on stage I will no longer act
But listen as you stop me in my track.
You, who has the voice of home, no more tears,
For your true wisdom my heart is all ears.

I like your comparison, though my pentameter and a half "For all the worldy wisdom in my head, I am a fool at heart" was inspired by Alexander Pope: "Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread". Eliot's use of the capital 'F' suggets hers is a Shakespearean Fool. I have not read 'The Catcher in the Rye', so I cannot comment on your sweeping statement. Mind elucidating what you mean exactly?

To write is to be. (See my other blogs). According to Paul de Man, the autobiographical project produces and determines life. Masks are an inherent part of the trope of autobiography; they manifest themselves “in the etymology of the trope’s name, prosopon poien, to confer a mask or a face.” To write an autobiography, in other words, is to give and take away faces, to face and to deface. (“Autobiography as Defacement” 1979, 924, 926).

I've read your Shakespeare blog. Very interesting, though nothing new under the sun, at least for me (then again I do study English). Why can you not breathe? Are my sentences too long and endangering your health, because you read everything aloud and in one looooong breath? I certainly hope not!!

Besides, if you were to read my other blogs you'd have a lot more lines to read between...

I am not a Dr (yet), neither am I a psychiatrist (and never want to become one), so I can't judge your mental state. But I do like your mentality.

Oh well, if you want the answer just read between the lines Yeah, sure, Caesar may have only said it by implication, but I'm not quoting Caesar anyway. PS: Is not to withdraw the dice to play God?

I hit a nerve, it would seem... As to whether I am an intellectual voyeur or just playing a game: There is many a word spoken in jest, and alea iacta est!