From Purple Parrot, 1928.

From The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare by Lilian Jackson Braun.

"I will deal with my ghost[s], and you will deal with your ghosts."  From Dark Shadows episode 1236.

Ugh -- a tip for turning an old broomstick into a work of art, as if deep down inside everyone is a talented artist who merely hasn't tried converting garbage into beauty.  From Together, 1957.

Thanks to viewer R.H., who wrote: "I'm repeating myself, and apologies for the redundancy, but this is another fabulous video - full of charm, wit and classic ol' g-e-n-i-u-s."

"What are you scared of?"  "Everything. Everybody. Even afraid of myself."  From Dark Shadows, episode 40

Walking on water is ...

"Hope the government doesn't freeze the sun."  Via UpNorthMemories.

It's an answer that works for most all questions -- "I would still remain in a dense fog."  From Biltmore Oswald by J. Thorne Smith and illustrated by Richard Dorgan, 1918.

From The Duluth Herald, 1914.

"I'd be all right if the bed would just stop goin' roun'!"  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.

From Dark Shadows episode 1237.

From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.

The hyena is traditionally famed for being able to change its sex, and the stone in its eye gives humans the gift of prophecy.  The offspring of a dog and a cat, it never rode on Noah's ark but rather came into being after the Deluge.  From Symbolism Of Animals and Birds Represented in English Architecture by Arthur Collins, 1931.

It's an enduring question.  From If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.

What sustains us:

• telling stories
• an irrational hope
• apples, the season’s last tomatoes, a sprinkle of snow
• outrageous aspirations
• our faith in the final rightness of things
• that we're not traveling alone
• ideological firmness
• the act of kindness
• the empty landscape
• when we find a way to be compassionate
• greater than we are and beyond our control
• prayer
• is not something ordinary
• our culture
• the dark energy to which we go periodically to be renewed
• what precedes us
• a form of realization of what it is we already are
• a sense that there is a promised land
• the primal temple
• the consciousness that, after all, we are right, and that though things may move slowly, yet the end is sure
• everywhere and in everything—or it’s nowhere at all

From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.

In parts one, two, and three, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing.  Imagine entire scenes about nobody being anywhere, with questions about "Who wasn't there?"