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"I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark"

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There’s a sly shrug baked into this line, the kind you hear from a musician who’s spent enough time around mythmaking to know how badly people want a miracle with receipts. “I hope to soon be in contact” sounds polite, even businesslike, as if chasing Noah’s ark is just another networking opportunity. That deadpan administrative tone is the joke: it drags an epic, faith-soaked legend into the realm of phone calls, schedules, and maybe a demo tape slipped across the table.

The subtext is less about the ark itself than about the modern hunger for confirmation. A “man who is searching” becomes a stand-in for the whole industry of seekers: true-believers, entrepreneurs, fringe researchers, and content-hungry audiences who treat ancient stories like scavenger hunts. Sullivan frames the search as a person, not a movement, which makes it intimate and slightly absurd. He’s not debating theology; he’s pointing at the peculiar charisma of certainty and the way it attracts followers.

Coming from a musician, the line also reads like a quiet self-portrait. Artists live in a parallel economy of quests: hunting authenticity, origin stories, lost tapes, the one truth that will make everything click. Reaching out to an ark-hunter is half satire, half recognition - a nod to how easily wonder and delusion share the same stage light. In a culture that rewards discovery narratives, Sullivan’s wit lands because it refuses to choose sides; it simply exposes the bargain beneath the myth: belief, if it can be “found,” can be sold.

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Sullivan, Jim. (n.d.). I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hope-to-soon-be-in-contact-with-the-man-who-is-115395/

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Sullivan, Jim. "I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hope-to-soon-be-in-contact-with-the-man-who-is-115395/.

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"I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hope-to-soon-be-in-contact-with-the-man-who-is-115395/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Jim Sullivan (born February 14, 1941) is a Musician from England.

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