#quote #countersignaling

Lord Cutler Beckett: [Jack is about to light a cannon that’s pointed at the mast] You’re mad

Jack Sparrow: Thank goodness for that, ’cause if I wasn’t this would probably never work. [fires the cannon which catapults him onto his ship, landing safely on his feet behind his crew]

– Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

“Do you think I’ve gone round the bend?”
“I’m afraid so. You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland