Jim Jarmusch, from the script of Dead Manġ When the Native American character of Nobody in Jim Jarmusch’s 1996 film Dead Man tells accountant turned vision-questing frontiersman William Blake that the gun “will replace tongue” and that his “poetry will now be written with blood,” his sentiment speaks to the ways that nations narrate themselves into being, both through acts of war and subsequent acts of poetry, writings that attempt to remember the violence that sparked their genesis. WB: Nobody? Um, shouldn’t you be with your own tribe or somethin’? WB: He Who Talks – I thought you said your name was Nobody. NB: My name is Exaybachay: He Who Talks Loud, Saying Nothing. You will learn to speak through it, and your poetry will now be written with blood. NB: That weapon will replace your tongue. Nobody: William Blake, do you know how to use this weapon?
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