Daily Dialogue — September 29, 2016

Oracle: I’d ask you to sit down, but, you’re not going to anyway. And don’t worry about the vase.
Neo: What vase?

Neo turns to look for a vase, and as he does, he knocks over a vase of flowers, which shatters on the floor.

Oracle: That vase.
Neo: I’m sorry…
Oracle: I said don’t worry about it. I’ll get one of my kids to fix it.
Neo: How did you know?
Oracle: Ohh, what’s really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn’t said anything?

— The Matrix (1999), written by Lilly Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers), Lana Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers)

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Clairvoyance.

Trivia: “Know thyself”, the phrase in the kitchen of the “oracle”, was the inscription above the entrance of the Delphic Oracle.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This Oracle uses some reverse psychology on Neo, at first telling him he’s not the one.