Mediator:  Could you describe his physique?
Grandfather:  Ordinary.
Grandfather:  I believe that he's fairly well-built,
Grandfather:  as all young men should be.
Grandfather:  Yes, in terms of legendary heroes, I would compare him to Hercules.
Grandfather:  In terms of gods, he's like Ares.
Grandfather:  Basically, he's built like your average person.
Mediator:  On what planet would that be considered average?
Grandfather:  Young men are meant to be buff.
Mediator:  (Grandpa must live in a world of bodybuilders.)

- Humanity Has Declined, Ep. 08

Mediator:  Oh, my watch is broken.
Grandfather:  You need a watch?
Grandfather:  (offers item) That should work.
Mediator:  Thank you very. . .
Mediator:  not much.
Mediator:  What is this?
Grandfather:  A wrist sundial.
Grandfather:  With a compass, you can accurately calculate the time.
Grandfather:  But it only works on sunny days.

- Humanity Has Declined, Ep. 07

Darkness: A Comic

Link.

St. Kilda

St. Kilda is an odd and isolated little island in the Outer Hebrides.  Thought I'd read somewhere that this might have been partial inspiration for Qwghlm.

Inhabited for a couple thousand years with very limited contact with the outside world, St. Kilda was evacuated in the 1930s.

Notable ancient stone structure referred to as the Amazon's House.

The Sign of the Broken Sword

"Sir Arthur St. Clare, as I have already said, was a man who read his Bible. That was what was the matter with him. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?" . . . "Of course, he read the Old Testament rather than the New. Of course, he found in the Old Testament anything that he wanted—lust, tyranny, treason. Oh, I dare say he was honest, as you call it. But what is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?" 

"In each of the hot and secret countries to which the man went he kept a harem, he tortured witnesses, he amassed shameful gold; but certainly he would have said with steady eyes that he did it to the glory of the Lord. My own theology is sufficiently expressed by asking which Lord?"

- G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe: I can't afford to hate people. I don't have that kind of time.

Always true.

 

The Triumph of Primal Terror

I always knew this was going to happen. I always knew that skepticism and science were mere psychological decorations and vanities. Deep in our alligator brains we all know that the world is just chock full of evil and monsters and sinister forces aligned against us, and it is only a matter of time until they show up. Evolution knows this too. It knows what to do when the silent terror comes at you from out of the dark.

     - Alfonzo Smith