The other week I brought a library book back two days late and they <i>made me pay a fine</i>. Librarians: Why do they hate us?

Indeed - how can you be expected to pay a fine when you are in stuck to the blue glowing tube, basking in its soma-like security?

Maybe they can copy the video stores and stop charging late fees.

Hey, Alan, remember when we used to hang out at the library? Good times, good times. Yeah, it it wasn't for the library we never would have met.

But we have never met.

What's that I hear? Yes... yes, I think that was the distant sound of a penny dropping somewhere along Lake Ontario...

You have lost me. Either you are saying I ought to be satisfied with an partial and faulty illusionary world or are suggesting that the illusionary world is actually superior.

Why take the red pill <i>or</i> the red pill? Take them <i>both</i> and see what happens!

Red, eh? I think I get it now.

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

No it's about something else, something unstatable except in relation to redness.

The question readers want to know is did U-Tube's sales go up? If not then why do pop-ups exist?

Ok, I admit there is the <i>blue</i> pill option. But who would take the blue pill?

Harper advocates feeding the homeless soylent green and blue pills daily.

When you eat your pills, do you eat the red ones last?

I can't take the blue pill. I took the red pill. Are you saying I can take the blue pill?

I took the blue pill in the hopes that it would make me forget the ludicrous second and third movies in that trilogy. How many of these things do you have to take before they are effective?

Sorry Chris, your only option now is to dance with smelly hippies in the caves of Zion. Best to think of Monica Bellucci by way of compensation for the second movie at least.

What is truly odd is that I had never seen Revolutions for various odd reasons and rented it this week. I am watching it now.

Mmm. Bellucci... she's my favorite flavour of everything.

For Mr. Taylor:

I have visited this site often, it helps..
http://www.onwardoverland.com/matrix/philosophy.html#wakeup

I miss all pop references.

Speaking of smelly hippies in the caves of Zion, did anybody else notice that Zion's docking control centre was this high-tech all-white <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i>-esque command centre, while the rest of the city was a dilapidated subterranean dump? There's some Tom Jakobek/Wanda Liczyk-style local governance accountability and transparency issues in that city. Clearly some Zion bureaucrats blew the whole city budget on docking control and had nothing left over for any other services.

Thanks for the link, Gorthos. The Buddhist and Christian references are pretty obvious but the Gnosticism is an interesting angle, too. My big problem with the last two movies is that they destroy my suspension of disbelief every five minutes, so the allegorical bits are getting drowned out by the nonstop "oh, puh-lease" factor.

Well, I finally finished ep 3 lastnight and I agree to a degree that it was sort of like Jedi versus the previous two, but still not all that bad. Being an atheist who sort of holds to Zen philosophy I see a lot of buddhism in the movie, a LOT and not so much overt Gnostisicm but thats probably my just "not recognizin' stuff" for what was intended.

"..destroy my suspension of disbelief..". I have to get out a literary calculator to add and subtract that statement to find where you fallout ha ha ha!

I personally didn't want to watch it last night because it was the end of an era for me. Ever since I was in grade 8 there has been another big movie in a big series that I was loooking forward to.. star wars, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Matrix etc.. This was thelast that I hadn't seen. The only thing left to wait for is Casino Royale and I have diddly to live for movie-wise. Sigh.