Door | Sep 01 2002
Told John that I’ve been feeling like that character, the guard, from Hogan’s Heroes: “I understand nothing. Nothing.”
John corrected me. The line wasn’t about understanding but knowing. “I know nothing. Nothing.”
John said that he often thinks of the guard, whose name he remembered was Sergeant Schultz, in conjunction with Socrates, who also claimed ignorance disingenuously.
Of course the two men (can I speak of Schultz, a character in a television show, as a man?) feigned ignorance for different reasons. Avoidance for Schultz; entrapment for Socrates.
This reminds me, for no apparent reason, of a poem, I believe by Robert Bly, that ends, for no apparent reason, with a line about a door under the water where all the pigs go in.
Your guess is as good as mine.
A man signs a shovel and so he digs.
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