Comments on: Walk away in silence

Question: Walk away in silence

dersins — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:27:28 -0800

Vaguely remembered literary (or something else) filter. The only way to get (somewhere? I forget... wherever it is you want to go...) is to walk away from it... What is that from?

Seriously. This is driving me crazy. What's it from? A book? A movie? A poem? A song? I can't remember. Hope me!

By: sleeplessunderwater

sleeplessunderwater — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:07:28 -0800

Would it be The Farthest-Away Mountain? The only way to get to the Farthest-Away Mountain was to turn around and go back.

By: stovenator

stovenator — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:40:41 -0800

There's the (attributed to) Yogi Berra line:

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

But I don't think that's what you're going for.

By: kimota

kimota — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:26:50 -0800

I'm not sure if this is what you were thinking of, and I can't believe that I'm having trouble finding the exact quotation, but doesn't Joyce's A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man have the line, "the best way to love Ireland is to leave it"?

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:22:48 -0800

That sort of thing happens in Through the Looking Glass.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:42:31 -0800

kimota: "I'm not sure if this is what you were thinking of, and I can't believe that I'm having trouble finding the exact quotation, but doesn't Joyce's A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man have the line, "the best way to love Ireland is to leave it"?

No. Ctrl-F here.

By: pollystark

pollystark — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:04:38 -0800

Are you getting mixed up with, "If you love [her/it] let [her/it] go"?

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:55:15 -0800

It's from the movie (and maybe the book?) Big Fish. The only way the father character could leave the enchanted small town was by not leaving -- so he left by walking out of it backwards.

By: sleeplessunderwater

sleeplessunderwater — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:27:56 -0800

Or was it possibly a fairy tale? I know I read one once (don't remember the name or what it was about, but it was a questy thing) where to get somewhere you had to give up, and someone tells the hero to give up along the way. Of course the hero doesn't do it at first, but when they do, they get there.