Daily Dialogue — January 13, 2015

Alfred Borden: You went halfway around the world. You spent a FORTUNE. You did terrible things. Really terrible things, Robert. And all for nothing.
Robert Angier: For nothing?
Alfred Borden: Yeah.
Robert Angier: You never understood… why we did this. The audience KNOWS the truth. The world is simple. It’s miserable. Solid… solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second… then you can make them wonder. And then you… then you got to see something very special. You really don’t know. It was… it was the look on their faces… [succumbs to gunshot wound]

— The Prestige (2006), screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, novel by Christopher Priest

Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Revelation. Today’s suggestion by Tayo Amos.

Trivia: The main characters’ initials spell ABRA (Alfred Borden Robert Angier), as in Abracadabra, a common word used by magicians.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Tayo: “Truly a jaw dropping moment.”

If you have any suggestions for this week’s theme, please post in comments.