Transfer Function Fall

Famous quotes containing the words transfer, function and/or fall:

“I have proceeded ... to prevent the lapse from ... the point of blending between wakefulness and sleep.... Not ... that I can render the point more than a point—but that I can startle myself ... into wakefulness—and thus transfer the point ... into the realm of Memory—convey its impressions,... to a situation where ... I can survey them with the eye of analysis.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“The function of comedy is to dispel ... unconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysis right on to it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)