‘It strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!
O soul, be chang’d into small water-drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!’ (1)

‘O, that this too too solid flesh would melt
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!’ (2)

‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.’ (3)

‘I’m singin’ in the rain
Just singin’ in the rain
What a glorious feelin’
I’m happy again.’ (4)

(1) Christopher Marlowe, ‘Dr Faustus’
(2) William Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’
(3) Rutger Hauer, ‘Blade Runner’
(4) Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown, ‘Singing in the Rain’