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Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:54 pm
by iambiguous
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes
Ann: I think that um...I think that sex is overrated. I think that people place far too much importance on it, and I think that stuff about women wantin' it just as bad as men is crap. I mean I think that women want it, I just don't think that they want it for the same reason that men think they do.
Not much that doesn't cover.
Ann: I want to know why you are the way you are!
Graham: And I'm telling you it's not any one thing that I can point to and say "That's why!" It doesn't work that way with people who have problems, Ann, it's not that neat, it's not that tidy! It's not a series of little boxes that you can line up and count. Things just don't happen that way.
Here, of course, for some, it's a series of carefully defined words.
Ann: My life is shit. It's just shit. Nothing's what I thought it was. John's a bastard. Let's make a videotape.
Graham: No, I...I don't think that's a good idea.
Ann: Why not?
Graham: Because I don't think it's a choice that you'd make in a normal frame of mind.
Ann: And what would you know about a normal frame of mind?
Graham: That's a good question.
A very, very good question, in fact.
Graham: So, I don't... I don't understand, uh, what made you want to come here. I can't imagine Ann painted a very flattering portrait of me.
Cynthia: Yeah, well, see, um, I don't really listen to Ann when it comes to men. I mean, look at John, for Christ's sake.
When he's on top for example.
[first lines]
Ann: Garbage. All I've been thinking about all week is garbage. I mean, I just can't stop thinking about.
John, for example.
Cynthia: If Ann got freaked out by these, there must be something sexual: are these tapes of you having sex with these girls?
Graham: No, not exactly.
Cynthia: Well, either you are or your aren't; which is it?
Graham: Why don't you let me tape you?
Cynthia: Doing what?
Graham: Talking.
Cynthia: About what?
Graham: About sex... your sexual history, sexual preferences.
Cynthia: What makes you think I'd discuss that with you?
Graham: Nothing.
Cynthia: Hmm. And you just want to ask me questions?
Graham: I just want to ask you questions.
Cynthia: That's all.
Graham: That's all.
Cynthia: Is this how you get off or something? Taping women talking about their sexual experiences?
Graham: Yes.
Cynthia's game, of course.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:05 pm
by iambiguous
Damage
Anna Barton: Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
Need me to explain that to you?
Dr. Stephen Fleming: It takes a remarkably short time to withdraw from the world. I traveled... until I arrived at a life of my own. What really makes us is beyond grasping. It's way beyond knowing. We give in to love... because it gives us some sense of what is unknowable. Nothing else matters, not at the end.
Need me to explain that to you?
Anna Barton: What would you win by leaving Ingrid?
Dr. Stephen Fleming: You. I'd win you.
Anna Barton: Then you'd win something you already have.
About once a week as I recall. Still, let me run this by Supannika.
Dr. Stephen Fleming: I saw her once more only. I saw her by accident at an airport, changing planes. She didn't see me. She was with Peter. She was holding a child. She was no different from anyone else.
If you get his drift.
Ingrid Fleming: [the day after Martyn's death - to Stephen] What a pity we ever met.
On the other hand, had they never met, there would be no Martyn.
Anna Barton: Fuck me.
She wouldn't have to ask me twice.
Ingrid Fleming: The owner of the flat called to give Anna instructions on how to work the boiler. And it just happened that Martyn was there. He’d never heard of the flat. Never heard of it. He took the address. It was chance.
Benjamin Button!
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:10 pm
by iambiguous
Slavoj Žižek
What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian 'il n'y a pas de rapport ...': if, for Lacan, there is no sexual relationship, then, for Marxism proper, there is no relationship between economy and politics, no 'meta-language' enabling us to grasp the two levels from the same neutral standpoint, although—or, rather, because—these two levels are inextricably intertwined.
Karl Marx, meet Wilhelm Reich.
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Among other things...huh?
What would be my, how should I call it, spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It's a very dark one. The first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity: there is nothing, basically. I mean it quite literally, like… ultimately there are just some fragments, some vanishing things. If you look at the universe, it's one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics, where, you know, the idea there is that universe is a void, but a kind of a positively charged void. And then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea of spontaneous very much that the fact that it's just not nothing… Things are out there. It means something went terribly wrong… that what we call creation is a kind of a cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe, that things exist by mistake. And I'm even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract it is to assume the mistake and go to the end.
My guess: One man's opinion.
While conpletely leaving out the part about love.
Hegel wrote that the only thing we can learn from history is that we learn nothing from history, so I doubt the epidemic will make us any wiser.
Let's pin our hopes on the next one.
In short, the truly courageous stance is to admit that the light at the end of the tunnel is most probably the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction.
If only until the workers of the world unite.
It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority of individuals experience as a vast anonymous power, which, without any democratic public control, regulates their lives.
No, really, what is the ultimate irony of history?
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:51 pm
by iambiguous
Magnolia
Frank T.J. Mackey: [Frank is speaking to followers at his seminar] Men are shit. What? Men... are... shit. What, isn't that what they say? Because we do bad things, don't we? We do horrible, heineous, heinous, terrible things. Things that no woman would ever do. No, women, they don't lie. No, women don't cheat. Women don't manipulate us. But you see what I'm getting at. You see what society does? Little boys, it's, "Wow, womaaaan!" We are taught to apologize. I am sorry. I am so sorry, baby. I am so sorry. What is it that we need? Is it their pussies? Their love? Mommy wouldn't let me play soccer... and Daddy, he hit me, so that's who I am, that's why I do what I do? Fucking bullshit. I will not apologize for who I am. I will not apologize for what I need. I will not apologize for what I want!
Well, men are from Mars, after all.
Narrator: And there is the account of the hanging of three men, and a scuba diver, and a suicide. There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and who only knows? And we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it." Someone's so-and-so met someone else's so-and-so and so on. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that strange things happen all the time. And so it goes, and so it goes. And the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."
Let alone the future.
Jim Kurring: Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail.
Though not necessarily in that order.
Phil Parma: [looks out window] Why are frogs falling from the sky?
Start here?
https://filmschoolrejects.com/magnolia- ... of%20faith.
Earl Partridge: Don't ever let anyone ever say to you, 'You shouldn't regret anything.' Don't do that, don't! You regret what you fucking want! And use that, use that, use that regret for anything, any way you want. You can use it, okay?
Next up: you regret coming here.
Frank T.J. Mackey: In this big game that we play, life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve, it's what you take. I'm Frank T.J. Mackey, a master of the muffin and author of the Seduce and Destroy system now available to you on video and audio cassette. Seduce and Destroy will teach you the techniques to have any hardbody blonde just dripping to wet your dock. Bottom line? Language. The magical key to unlocking the female analytical mindset. Tap directly into her hopes, her wants, her fears, her desires, and her sweet little panties. Learn how to make that lady "friend" your sex-starved servant. I don't care how you look. I don't care what car you drive. I don't care what your last bank statement says. Seduce and Destroy produces an instant money-back guarantee trance-like state that will get you this - naughty sauce you want fast. Hey - how many more times do you need to hear the all-too-famous line of 'I just don't feel that way about you?'
Rebuttals anyone?
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:29 pm
by iambiguous
Witness
Rachel Lapp: I should tell you this kind of coat doesn't have buttons. See? Hooks and eyes.
John Book: Something wrong with buttons?
Rachel Lapp: Buttons are proud and vain, not plain.
John Book: Got anything against zippers?
Rachel Lapp: Are you making fun of me?
John Book: No.
Rachel Lapp: Like the tourists, staring all the time. Sometimes they come into the yard, it's very rude. They seem to think we're quaint.
John Book: Can't imagine why they'd think that.
They fall in love, of course.
[Book is having trouble milking a cow]
Eli Lapp: You never had your hands on a teat before.
John Book: Not one this big.
[a long pause, then Eli Lapp roars with laughter]
What's the biggest teat you ever milked?
John Book: If we'd made love last night I'd have to stay. Or you'd have to leave.
They do and she stays.
Tourist Lady: [Book is in town with Eli. Eli and the other Amish are trying to avoid the tourists with cameras] Hi! We're just here for the day, would you mind...
John Book: Lady, you take my picture with that thing and I'm gonna rip your brassiere off... and strangle you with it! You got that?
Tourist Lady: [in disbelief, to no one in particular] Did you hear what that Amish just said to me?
He's English.
Rachel Lapp: He's leaving, isn't he?
Eli Lapp: Tomorrow morning. He'll need his city clothes.
Rachel Lapp: But why? What does he have to go back to?
Eli Lapp: He's going back to his world, where he belongs. He knows it, and you know it, too.
No, really, where does he belong?
[Book, having just dropped off Rachel and Samuel back at Lapp's farm, is driving away when he convulses and passes out from loss of blood from an untreated gunshot wound and crashes into a birdhouse. Rachel and Samuel run out to Book]
Rachel Lapp: My God! Why didn't you get to a hospital?
John Book: [struggling] No, no hospital. Gunshot wound, they have to file a report. And if they file a report, they find me. And if they find me, they find the boy.
Maybe if they all pray?
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:41 pm
by iambiguous
Time
“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.” Terry Pratchett
Click?
“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” Mahatma Gandhi
Back then maybe. But now more than ever time is money.
“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” Jennifer Elisabeth
If not what they actually want to be.
“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” Colette
Does the cat know that?
“Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.” Madeline Miller
Of course today fame is everything. People will kill for it even.
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” Alan Watts
In one sense that's true, but in another sense ridiculous.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:20 pm
by iambiguous
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes
John Mullany: Things are getting too complicated.
Cynthia: No...they're gettin' real simple.
Both, actually.
Ann: Anyway, being happy isn't all that great. I mean, the last time I was really happy...I got so fat. I must have put on 25 pounds. I thought John was gonna have a stroke.
Easy enough to imagine that, right?
John Mullany: By definition you're lying to Ann too.
Cynthia: Yeah, right. But, I didn't take a vow in front of God and everyone to be faithful to Ann.
John Mullany: Well, are we gonna do it or not?
Not as I recall.
Ann: You know, my therapist...
Graham: You're in therapy?
Ann: Aren't you?
We all should be I suppose.
Ann: I thought about you. Have you thought about me?
Graham: Yes.
Ann: What did you think?
Graham: I thought about what you would look like having an orgasm.
Ann: I'd like to know what I look like havin' an orgasm. Can you do that?
He can, we suspect. And then they both live happily ever. Later we learn about Cynthia and John. Who didn't.
Ann: Did he touch you?
Cynthia: No.
Ann: Did you touch him?
Cynthia: No.
Ann: Did anybody touch anybody?
Cynthia: Well... yes.
Ann: Don't tell me... don't tell me... don't tell me. You didn't!
Cynthia: I did.
Ann: You didn't!
Cynthia: I did.
Ann: You didn't!
Cynthia: I did!
Ann: God, Cynthia! You're in trouble.
Pornhub!
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:24 pm
by iambiguous
God
“I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?” Ruth Hurmence Green
Rebuttal, anyone?
“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf.” Bart D. Ehrman
Rebuttal, anyone?
“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.” Steven Pinker
Rebuttal, anyone?
“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.” Jeannette Walls
Unless, of course, He brought you into this world blind.
“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.” Thomas Harris
Let's run this by Buffalo Bill.
“How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image?” Neal Shusterman
Don't look at me.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:50 pm
by iambiguous
Witness
Townsman: [Book, dressed in Amish clothes, has just finished severely beating a local youth who was harassing Daniel Hochleitner] Never seen anything like it in all my years!
Daniel Hochleitner: He's from Ohio, my cousin.
Townsman: Well, them Ohio Amish must be... different. Around here, the brethren don't have any of that kinda fight in 'em! Good day to you, Mr. Lapp! This ain't good for the tourist trade, you know! Tell that to your Ohioan friend!
Not only that but this marks the beginning of the end.
Eli Lapp: [John is out of bed and in the barn trying to re-start his car] Book... that you, Book?
John Book: [comes out of car] Yeah.
Eli Lapp: What you doing there?
John Book: Trying to get the car started.
Eli Lapp: You are well enough to do that, you can do work for me.
John Book: Sure... what can I do?
Eli Lapp: Milking, maybe... you know, cows.
John Book: Yeah, I've seen pictures.
Eli Lapp: Good. We start tomorrow.
4:30 in the morning tomorrow.
Eli Lapp: This gun of the hand is for the taking of human life. We believe it is wrong to take a life. That is only for God. Many times wars have come and people have said to us: you must fight, you must kill, it is the only way to preserve the good. But Samuel, there's never only one way. Remember that. Would you kill another man?
Samuel Lapp: I would only kill the bad man.
Eli Lapp: Only the bad man. I see. And you know these bad men by sight? You are able to look into their hearts and see this badness?
Samuel Lapp: I can see what they do. I have seen it.
Eli Lapp: And having seen you become one of them? Don't you understand? What you take into your hands, you take into your heart. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing. Go and finish your chores now.
Samuel Lapp: Yes Grossvater.
Another hopelessly indoctrinated child.
At least until Rumspringa?
Rachel Lapp: You know carpentry. Can you do anything else?
John Book: Whacking. I'm hell at whacking.
Rachel Lapp: Whacking is not much use on a farm.
Little does she know...
Rachel Lapp: We're all very happy that you're going to live, John Book. We didn't know what we would do with you if you'd died.
No, really, what would they have done?
Daniel Hochleitner: Your hole, it is better now?
John Book: Yeah, it's pretty much healed.
Daniel Hochleitner: Good. Then you can go home.
Speaking of holes?
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:31 pm
by iambiguous
The French Connection
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: You dumb guinea.
Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: How the hell did I know he had a knife.
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Never trust a n*****.
Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: He could have been white.
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Never trust anyone!
Of course, cops are so much more enlightened today. 
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna bust your ass for those three bags and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.
[a few scenes later:]
Walt Simonson: Popeye. You still picking your feet in Poughkeepsie?
In other words, to "disorient and confuse" them.
[analyzing drug shipment]
Chemist: Blast off: one-eight-o. Two hundred: Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Two ten: U.S. Government certified. Two twenty: lunar trajectory, junk of the month club, sirloin steak. Two thirty: Grade A poison. Absolute dynamite. Eighty-nine percent pure junk. Best I've ever seen. If the rest is like this, you'll be dealing on this load for two years."
Of course, he'll still only get the little bag.
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: All right, Popeye's here! Get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!
He might just as well have been Mark Fuhrman, right?
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: That car is dirty, Cloudy. We're going to sit here all night if we have to.
Indeed: https://youtu.be/7fk_EB1MiTg?si=k6y-nr6zXq50SrVE
But they almost missed it.
Angie Boca: [Wiretapped phone conversation] Where are you?
Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Taking care of business.
Angie Boca: What do you mean taking care of business? It's after midnight.
Salvatore "Sal" Boca: You know, I had to meet some people.
Angie Boca: Get back here now. And bring a pizza with you.
Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Where am I gonna get a pizza this time of night?
Angie Boca: Well, try, okay!
Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Hey, I don't know where I'm going to find a pizza joint open.
Angie Boca: Sal, don't forget: anchovies.
Popeye's and Cloudy's reaction? Priceless.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:18 pm
by iambiguous
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Cynthia: I'd trust him before I'd trust you.
John Mullany: God, that hurts if you say that to me.
Cynthia: Come on, John! You're fucking your wife's sister. You're a liar; but, at least I know you're a liar.
Said the filly.
Ann: Well, what did he ask exactly?
Cynthia: Well, I don't want to tell you exactly.
Ann: You let a total stranger record your sexual life on videotape, but you won't tell your own sister?
Cynthia: Apparently.
Which explains what exactly?
John Mullany: [after a videotape interview with Graham, Cynthia is extremely horny and calls John]
[on the phone]
John Mullany: I got a client waiting. I've already rescheduled him once. I'll have to do some pretty heavy duty juggling.
Cynthia: Then get those balls in the air and get your butt over here!
[hangs up, John juggles]
John Mullany: [after some wild, passionate sex] You're on fire today.
Cynthia: Yes. You can go now.
She only wants one today.
Therapist: How are things with John?
Ann: Oh, they're fine. I mean, they're fine. Except for I'm kinda going through this thing where I don't want him to touch me.
He is, after all, dipped in shit.
Graham: I'm impotent.
Ann: You're what?
Graham: Impotent.
Ann: You are?
Graham: Yeah, well, I can't - I can't get an erection - in the presence of another person. So, for all practical purposes, I'm impotent.
Ann: Does that bother you?
Graham: No.
Ann: Does it make you feel - self-conscious?
Graham: Um, not usually. No, yeah. Yeah, I'm self-conscious. Um, I'm not in the same way you are.
Ann: Me? Me, you think I'm self-conscious?
Graham: Well, I've been watching you. You know, I've been watching you. I've watched you eat, you know, I've watched you speak, I've watched you move, and I - I see somebody who is extremely aware of people looking at her.
Her new therapist.
Cynthia: Would you like me to take my skirt off?
Graham: If you wish.
[Cynthia removes her skirt]
Graham: You're not wearing any underwear.
Doesn't surprise me.
Ann: I'm sure he probably wishes that I would initiate things once in awhile - and I would except for - it just never occurs to me, And the few times I have felt like, I was by myself.
Therapist: Did you do anything?
Ann: What do you mean?
Therapist: Did you masturbate?
Ann: Oh!
[laughs]
Ann: Oh, oh. God, no! No. Uh-uh.
Therapist: I take it from your response that you never masturbate?
Ann: Well, I tried once. It just seemed so stupid!
[laughs]
Ann: I don't know, it just seemed like a dumb thing to do and, God, you know, and then I started worrying that my dead grandfather was maybe watching me, you know, and oh - oh, it just seemed is stupid.
Besides, there's still all that garbage.
Ann [grabbing the camera]: I just wanna ask a few questions, like why do you tape women talkin’ about sex? Why do you do that? Can you tell me why?
Graham: I don’t find turning the tables very interesting.
Ann: Well, I do. Tell me why, Graham.
Graham: Why? What? What? What do you want me to tell you? Why? Ann, you don’t even know who I am. You don’t have the slightest idea who I am. Am I supposed to recount all the points in my life leading up to this moment and just hope that it’s coherent, that it makes some sort of sense to you? It doesn’t make any sense to me. You know, I was there. I don’t have the slightest idea why I am who who I am, and I’m supposed to be able to explain it to you?
Of course, that's my point too, isn't it?
Graham: My problem? Do I have a problem? I look around me in this town and I see John and Cynthia and you, and I…I feel comparatively healthy.
Ann: You’ve got a problem.
Graham: You’re right. I’ve got a lot of problems. But they belong to me.
Ann: You think they’re yours, but they’re not. Everybody that walks in that door becomes part of your problem. Anybody that comes in contact with you. I didn’t wanna be part of your problem, but I am. I’m leavin’ my husband, and maybe I would have anyway, but the fact is that I’m doin’ it now. And part of it’s because of you. You’ve had an effect on my life.
Graham: This isn’t supposed to happen. I’ve spent nine years structuring my life so that this didn’t happen.
Hey, a script's a script.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:37 pm
by iambiguous
Madness
“Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.” Emilie Autumn
Click?
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” Edgar Allan Poe
In fact, it may never be. Well, other than...philosophically?
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.” Montaigne
Actually, if you go back far enough, by the hundreds.
“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.” Josh Malerman
Right, a plan.
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.” Ronald D. Laing
Uh, whatever that means?
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” Lewis Carroll
And, no, not just in Wonderland.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:15 pm
by iambiguous
Witness
Rachel Lapp: You said we'd be safe in Philadelphia!
John Book: Well I was wrong!
God's will let's call it.
John Book: [John appears in Amish clothes before going to town with Eli, Rachel laughs, John approaches Rachel] My gun, I need my gun.
[Rachel gets the gun out of the cupboard, John turns to leave]
John Book: The bullets? Not much good without 'em.
Rachel Lapp: Of course.
[Rachel takes an almost empty can of flour and pours the bullets and remaining flour into John's hand]
John Book: Thanks.
[John blows the flour off his hand]
John Book: How do I look, I mean, do I look...Amish?
Rachel Lapp: You look plain.
Next up: plain here.
Eli: What is it with you? Is this the Ordnung?
Rachel: I have done nothing against the rule of the Ordnung.
Eli: Nothing? You bring this man to our house with the gun of the hand. You bring fear to this house.
Rachel: I’ve committed no sin.
Eli: Maybe. Maybe not yet. But, Rachel, it does not look good. You know there has been talk. Talk about going to the Bishop and having you shunned.
Rachel: That is idle talk.
Eli: Do not take it lightly. Rachel, they can do it. They can do it just like that. You know what it means, shunning. I cannot sit at table with you. I cannot take anything from your hand. I cannot go to worship with you. Child, do not go so far.
Rachel: I’m not a child.
Eli: But you are acting like one.
Rachel: I’ll be the judge of that.
Eli: No, they will be the judge of that. And so will I. If you shame me…
Rachel: You shame yourself.
Next up: the Ordnung here.
Eli: It’s not our way.
John: But it’s my way.
You decide: https://youtu.be/o07ecRzkLuM?si=hRCzJtPEfubo32c7
Chief Paul Schaeffer: Are you trying to tell me that there's no way we can locate this woman? We're talking about 20th century law enforcement, Sergeant.
Sheriff: There's your problem, Chief. Your Amish man doesn't live... in the 20th century, doesn't think in the 20th century. Chief, if the Amish have taken your man in I wouldn't want to hang from a rope until you find him. The problem is, about every third Amish man around here is named Lapp. And we've got upwards of 14,000 Amish men around here. That's just Lancaster County. Over in...
Chief Paul Schaeffer: Very interesting, Sergeant... but this is a very important matter. It involves the murder of a police officer. Now, there must be a directory of some sort of these people somewhere.
Sheriff: Sure. Tax rolls, voter registration, but tell you right now I don't have the manpower to send a deputy to every Lapp farm in Lancaster County to see if they've got your Rachel.
Chief Paul Schaeffer: Maybe, Sergeant, you could do a little telephoning?
Sheriff: Yeah, maybe I could. But since the Amish don't have any telephones, I wouldn't know who to call.
Chief Paul Schaeffer: Thank you, Sergeant. It's been an education.
An education for Roy Munson too, if you recall.
Rachel: Are you enjoying your reading?
John: Oh yeah. I’m learning a lot about manure.
Of course, that's just volume one.
Rachel: You don’t understand. We want nothing to do with your laws.
John: Doesn’t surprise me. A lot of people I meet are like that.
In and out of the department as it turned out.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:17 pm
by iambiguous
Zadie Smith from On Beauty
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
Actually, that would be the truth, right?
Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful...and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.
See, I told you.
Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
After 40 say.
I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
Of course, it can never be both.
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
Of course, only one of them was a philosopher.
It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy.
You first.
Re: Quote of the day
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:57 pm
by iambiguous
Shattered Glass
Caitlin Avey: [in the lobby of their office building] What the hell did you do to Steve? He called me from his car, hysterical. I asked him what was wrong, he said, "ask Chuck?"
Chuck Lane: [shouting] I fired him, okay? Not suspended, fired. Because this wasn't an isolated incident Caitlin. He cooked a dozen of them, maybe more. And we're going to have to go through them, you and I. We're going to have to go through all of them, now.
Caitlin Avey: No, the only one was Hack Heaven. He told me that himself.
Chuck Lane: If he were a stranger to you, if he was a guy you were doing a piece about, pretend that guy told you he'd only did it once. Would you take his word for it? Of course not! You'd dig and you'd bury him! And you'd feel offended if anyone told you not to.
Caitlin Avey: Every one of those pieces was fact-checked, they were all...
Chuck Lane: So was Hack Heaven!
Kind of.
Chuck Lane: Caitlin, when this thing blows, there isn't going to be a magazine anymore. If you want to make this about Mike, make it about Mike. I don't give a shit. You can resent me, you can hate me, but come Monday morning, we're all going to have to answer for what we let happen here. We're all going to have an apology to make! Jesus Christ! Don't you have any idea how much shit we're about to eat? Every competitor we ever took a shot at, they're going to pounce. And they should. Because we blew it, Caitlin. He handed us fiction after fiction and we printed them all as fact. Just because... we found him "entertaining." It's indefensible. Don't you know that?
Actually, in more ways than one, it's capitalism.
[after debunking Stephen Glass's New Republic article, Hack Heaven]
Adam Penenberg: But there is one thing in this story that checks out.
Kambiz Foroohar: What's that?
Adam Penenberg: [sarcastically] There does appear to be a state in the union named Nevada.
In fact, there still is.
Michael Kelly: [talking privately] Steve, I have to ask you something. Um... did you ever cook a piece when I was your boss? Did you ever lie to me? The Young Conservatives piece... the mini-bottles? Was that true?
Yes, but only in Nevada.
Gloria: [referring to the discovery that Stephen fabricated his stories] You know what could've prevented all this, don't you?
Chuck Lane: No, what?
Gloria: Pictures. How could you make up characters if everyone you wrote about had to be photographed?
No way they could be faked!
Chuck Lane: [during a litigation meeting] We've read through all the pieces now, the entire staff, and we've come up with a list of those whose facts and sources we couldn't verify independently. I know you can't admit guilt of any kind but I want you to confirm a few titles for me.
Glass' Lawyer: We're not prepared to confirm or deny anything at this time.
Chuck Lane: What I'm going to do is this, I'm going to read to you a list of suspicious titles, one by one. If you raise an objection to a particular title, we'll fact check it again in the hope of removing it from the list. If you remain silent we'll assume that piece is fabricated either partially or entirely, and it'll stay on. Is that clear to everyone?
Chuck Lane: Okay.
[Chuck reads from the list]
Chuck Lane: "Hazardous To Your Mental Health."
[Stephen remains silent]
Chuck Lane: That means it stays on the list of suspicious pieces, fabricated pieces.
Glass' Lawyer: We understand, can we move along?
Chuck Lane: [Chuck continues to reads from the list] "Holy Trinity," "Probable Clause," "Don't You D.A.R.E.," "Spring Breakdown," "State of Nature," "Rock The Morons," "After The Fall"...
Next up: https://www.amazon.com/Fabulist-Stephen ... 1476789665