Professor: I designed a test. It consists of 23 questions that I think will help us uncover the truth about this narrator. Now, Harold, you have to answer these questions honestly, as silly as they may sound.
Harold Crick: Ok.
Harold: Okay.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: So. We know it's a woman's voice. The story involves your death. It's modern. It's in English and I'm assuming the author has a cursory knowledge of the city.
Professor: First, we know it was a woman the sound of. She mentions your death in the story. This is a modern English story, and I judge the author has only a cursory knowledge of the city.
Harold Crick: Sure.
Harold: Of course.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Ok good. Question one. Has anyone recently left any gifts outside your home? Anything. Gum, money, a large wooden horse.
Professor: Ok, first question. Has anyone left a gift in front of your door recently? Anything counts. Like guns, money, a big Trojan horse?
Harold Crick: I'm sorry?
Harold: What?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Just answer the question.
Professor: Just answer the question.
Harold Crick: No.
Harold : No.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Do you find yourself to solve murder mysteries in inclined large luxurious homes to which you, let me finish, to which you may or may not have been invited?
Professor: Did you find yourself inclined to solve murder mysteries in large luxurious homes Murder hobby? These families...let me think, they invited you, or they didn't.
Harold Crick: No. No, no, no.
Harold: No, no.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Alright. On a scale of one to ten, what would you consider the likelihood you might be assassinated?
Professor: Well, on a scale of one to ten, what would you consider the likelihood you might be assassinated?
Harold Crick: Assassinated?
Harold: Assassinated?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: One being very unlikely ten being expecting it around every corner.
Professor: 1 is extremely unlikely, 10 is it is everywhere.
Harold Crick: I have no idea.
Harold: I have no idea.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Ok let me rephrase.
Professor: Ok let me rephrase.
[takes a deep breath]
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Are you the king of anything?
Professor: Are you the king of anything?
Harold Crick: Like what?
Harold: Like what?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Anything. King of the lanes at the local bowling alley
.
Harold Crick: King of the lanes?
The king of bowling?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: King of the lanes, king of the trolls,
Professor: king of bowling, or king of fishing.
Harold Crick: King of the Trolls?
Harold: King of the Trolls?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Yes, uh uh uh a clandestine land found underneath your floor boards.
Professor: Yes, there will be your clandestine land under your floor boards.
Harold Crick: No.
Harold : No.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Huh? Huh
?
Harold Crick: No. That's ridiculous.
Harold: No, it's ridiculous.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Agreed. Let's start with ridiculous and move backwards. Now, was any part of you at one time part of something else?
Professor: Correct. We just want to start from the absurd and gradually move forward. So, is there any part of your body that is also something else?
Harold Crick: Like do I have someone else's arms?
Harold: Say I have someone else's arm?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Well is it possible at one time that you were made of stone, wood, lye, varied corpse parts? Or, earth made holy by rabbinical elders?
Professor: Was there a time when you were made of other things, stone , wood, lye, fragments of corpses of various colors, or the land sacredly cultivated by the old Hebrews?
Harold Crick: No. Look, look. I'm sorry, but what do these questions have to do with anything?
Harold: No. But wait, sorry, what's the point of having to ask these questions?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Nothing. The only way to find out what story you're in is to determine what stories you're not in. Odd as it may seem, I've just ruled out half of Greek literature, seven fairy tales , ten Chinese fables, and determined conclusively that you are not King Hamlet, Scout Finch, Miss Marple, Frankenstein's Monster, or a golem. Hmm? Aren't you relieved to know you're not a golem?
Professor: It's useless. The only function of finding out which stories you are in is to determine which stories you are not in. It may be strange to look at them individually, but I've ruled out half of the Greek literature, seven
myths, ten Chinese fables, and the final verdict: you're not Hamlet, you're not Scout Finch, you're not Miss Marple, you're not Frankenstein's monster, Not the legendary dummy either.
Harold Crick: Yes. I am relieved to know that I am not a golem.
Harold: Well, I am relieved to know that I am not a golem.
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Good. Do you have magical powers?
Professor: Good. Do you have magic powers?
After watching this movie, I am very impressed with this passage. The twenty-three questions seem very nonsensical, but after listening to it, I will feel that the professor said it makes sense. Literary structuralism believes that myths and folk tales have "archetypes", and the professor's test is designed for the different characteristics of various story structures ~
Harold is a person who works with numbers, and the communication between literature professors is very Stumbling and stumbling, but because the two are very cute, the overall cooperation is still tacit.
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