I was going to say, that’s from Wrath of Khan. Although WoK might have taken it from Moby Dick. I know Khan directly quotes the book at the end, but this part might be a paraphrase of another quote.
When I watched Wall-E, I thought the people on the ship had it pretty good. I know I was supposed to be repulsed by how they lived, with their every need and whim taken care of by machines, but I’d be as perfectly content as Maria in the comic is imagining.
Hey, the cartoonist got the cases right on all the pronouns for the King James English. That’s rare to see these days. I don’t think “wouldst” needs an apostrophe, though, because that’s the second person conjugation of the verb, not a contraction. Still, kudos for making an effort for good grammar.
There’s a very consistent syntax to Yoda-speak that a lot of people get wrong when they try to write it. The comic has him speaking “correctly” – no errors here, but I see people getting it wrong all the time. The direct object before both the subject and verb, you must put. Predicate nominatives also in front of both verb and antecedent, they are. Correct, this is. Sometimes Yoda inverts it to normal word order for very strong emphasis – “The dark side clouds everything!” If he does this, he’s upset about something. While training Luke, he sometimes has full paragraphs of dialog that show how he constructs more complicated sentence structures. It’s actually hard to do it right as sentences become more complicated, but Yoda makes it seem natural because of the consistency of his own syntax.
Thank you! I was hoping a literary expert would come around and confirm the quote.