Parse This: Tom Cruise

Once again, it’s time to play America’s fastest-growing reading-comprehension game.

Today, we tackle the prose of an intellectual giant, a man whose knowledge knows no bounds, or boundaries. A man whose quick and toothy grin shrouds the mind of a scholar, the wit of a litterateur, and the instincts of a philosopher. In short, a genius of the super-celebrity kind.

So put on your parsing chapeau, and let’s

‘’You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.'’

– Tom Cruise to Matt Lauer, The Today Show, 6/24/05 (source)