An excellent T-shirt from "The Big Lebowski" stared down from one wall, a star-spangled drawing of John Goodman above one of the film's indelible lines: "I don't roll on Shabbos".
I don't know if the closing ceremony will quote those other indelible lines from Shakespeare's great valedictory play, The Tempest, to bookend the opening epigram, but you can't help feeling it should: "Our revels now are ended.
Among the more indelible lines in "Mere Anarchy" is this exchange, about a proposed musical on geniuses rattling around 19th-century Vienna: "Freud unblocks Mahler so he can write again, and as a result Mahler triumphs over his lifelong fear of death".
It was organic proof of Mr. Finley's second most indelible line from TED, that "growing your own food is like printing your own money".
However, "no one has yet attempted to draw an indelible line connecting the drugs and madness of the era to the music that emerged".
This is famously well-covered territory, of course, in Janet Malcolm's New Yorker article and later book, "The Journalist and the Murderer" (1990), which both begin with this indelible line: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible".
Beyond that, the calculation likely to absorb party strategists revolved around the degree to which Mr. Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, had been damaged by weeks of disclosures and accusations that, even days ago, seemed to have drawn an abrupt and indelible line across his ambitions and his career.
He was the young preacher Eli Sunday, and the confrontation in which Daniel Day-Lewis's Daniel Plainview rages at him with the indelible line "I drink your milkshake" is sufficiently iconic that strangers now buy Dano milkshakes when they see him in cafes.
(The Lopezes wrote a dozen or so new songs for the stage, which are interleaved with those from the movie, including "For the First Time in Forever," Anna's "I Want" song, with its unfortunately indelible line "Don't know if I'm elated or gassy, but I'm somewhere in that zone").
I am saddened to consider the now indelible line between what came before and what comes after that horrific evening of Friday the 13th.
The obscurity of such a simple fact to the military brass again brings the Vietnam era to mind and, from a great Pete Seeger antiwar song, another indelible line: "Oh, when will they ever learn?" .
