This picture of Walt Whitman hangs in the classroom above the chalkboard in the movie Dead Poets Society. I just re-watched the film today and made a startling discovery. In the scene where Ethan Hawk's character is forced to describe "Uncle Walt" in front of the class, he calls him a "sweaty-toothed madman". I thought it was spiny, thus the reference in the masthead of my blog. I guess they both don't really make any sense.
I thought it was "spiny" as well, and came across this when I did a Google search for it. How about that, huh? You were #1.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about it actually being "sweaty", but as far as making sense? Why, if you were to face a madman that was either spiny-toothed or sweaty-toothed, would you really expect him to look much different than the man pictured above?