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Poll Suggestion: Face-Off: The Two Sides of "Inconceivable!"

In 1981's avant-garde indie classic My Dinner with AndreWallace Shawn uses the word "inconceivable" during a passionate defense of ordinary human survival, arguing against the idea that it's impossible to live a truly meaningful, grounded life in a modern, disconnected world.

Six years later, director Rob Reiner and writer William Goldman gave him the exact same word as an iconic catchphrase in The Princess Bride (1987). This time, as the petulant criminal mastermind Vizzini, Shawn uses "Inconceivable!" as a rigid shield for his own absolute intellectual certainty - refusing to believe that reality won't cooperate with his flawless, deterministic plans.

Which version of Wallace Shawn's "Inconceivable" philosophies speaks to you more?

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