Uh, what still moves?

Cindy, so what powerful emotional moments affected you and yet left you feeling unused?

Surely someone gets my only sort of obscure historical reference?

Uh, what still moves?

Galileo reference.

she always acts rationally, she expects others to do the same

Hm, that's not my impression of Anya at all. Which might be part of my problem with the whole thing, I guess.

In The Body, I think that she was more affected by the way that people were acting than Joyce's death itself.

I think that would be a very understandable reaction for her to have. But what she's saying doesn't convey that reaction to me. "Why can't she get back in her body" and "no one will explain" sound like "I don't comprehend death." So I'm left with the feeling that either the emotion she's expressing doesn't make sense for the character, or it does make sense but it's communicated poorly. It doesn't particularly matter which, because either way, ungood.

There's a famous quote I'm missing, isn't there?

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Eventually Galileo did sign a decree saying that the Earth sat at the center of the universe, while muttering, "Eppur si moeve" ("But it still moves") under his breath.

Galileo was tried for heresy by the Church for daring to suggest that the Earth goes around the sun. He recanted, said, "OK, you're right, the Earth is the center of the universe, my bad." But as he leaves he mutters, "But still it moves."

Aha.

Yes, it'll be a while before anyone here reaches the level of actually heresy (unless it's about The Princess Bride). Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone who disagrees with me isn't wrong and going to the special hell for it. Not at all.

historical cross-post!

I've always heard that "But it still moves" was an urban legend.