When the hurly-burly’s done

“Is it possible that seemingly incredible geniuses like Bach and Shakespeare and Einstein were not in fact superhuman, but simply plagiarists, copying great stuff from the future? ”

(from A Man Without a Country, 2005)

I never thought I’d be able to connect Nancy (the comic from which this panel is pulled, completely devoid of context) and Thornton Wilder, but I think this fits:

“All Nature strives to bring every detail to its truest expression of its function. All Nature is working for you. Rise above immediate things and feel that—get a-holt of that. Float in the teleological tide.”

There’s a little Thoreau in there, too, but I’ll stop now.

Some of the comments on the panel are great, too.