tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478365705550169157.post7402807977488853967..comments2022-10-03T02:51:30.808-07:00Comments on Moraline Free: Overheard at a BankHuman Side Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07625276629942278844noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478365705550169157.post-67580851619902623752010-03-24T07:48:03.092-07:002010-03-24T07:48:03.092-07:00Becoming an animal. Meaning: living by instinct. M...Becoming an animal. Meaning: living by instinct. Meaning: not talking. Meaning: only acting in accordance with basic physical needs. <br /><br />Recovery of the animal in man, that should be the objective. All discussions of happiness, all this talk ends then.Human Side Presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07625276629942278844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478365705550169157.post-17630002918043107052010-03-24T07:44:49.700-07:002010-03-24T07:44:49.700-07:00Achieving as a means of gaining happiness (earning...Achieving as a means of gaining happiness (earning, succeeding, winning, controlling, having) is perhaps part of it, though this idea is a bit troublesome to reconcile. <br /><br />But certainly no incremental amount of achieving, particularly some incremental amount that eludes you (i.e. you have yet to achieve), will not push you through some invisible wall surrounding happiness. <br /><br />The common man, unfortunately, does not realize that. He is dumfounded, and does not recognize happiness's natural causes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4478365705550169157.post-85899880905632435432010-03-23T18:58:19.583-07:002010-03-23T18:58:19.583-07:00This, overheard in a coffeeshop, was probably even...This, overheard in a coffeeshop, was probably even better:<br />NEIL<br /> A man told me once: you want to<br /> make moves? Don't keep anything<br /> in your life you're not willing<br /> to walk out on in 30 seconds<br /> flat if you feel the heat around<br /> the corner.<br /> (pause)<br /> So if you're chasing me and you<br /> gotta move when I move, how do<br /> you expect to keep a family?<br /><br /> HANNA<br /> What are you, a monk?<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> No.<br /> (pause)<br /> I got a woman.<br />HANNA<br /> What do you tell her?<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> She thinks I sell swimming pools.<br /><br /> HANNA<br /> And if you spot me around the<br /> corner. You gonna walk out on<br /> her? Leave her flat? Like that?<br /> Not even say goodbye?<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> That's the discipline.<br /><br /> HANNA<br /> What you're left with is pretty<br /> empty.<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> Yeah?<br /> (beat)<br /> Then maybe you and me, we should<br /> both go do somethin' else, pal.<br /><br /> HANNA<br /> I don't know how to do anything<br /> else.<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> (the shared<br /> confession)<br /> ...neither do I.<br />HANNA<br /> And I don't much want to.<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> Neither do I.<br /><br />Both of these guys look at each other and recognize the<br />mutuality of their condition. Hanna's light laughter:<br /><br /> HANNA<br /> We're sitting here like a coupla<br /> regular fellas. You do what you<br /> do. I do what I gotta do. What<br /> happens if I am there and I got<br /> to put you away?<br /> (pause)<br /> I won't like it. But, if it's<br /> between you and some poor bastard<br /> whose wife you're going to make<br /> into a widow, brother, you are<br /> gonna go down. 'Cause you don't<br /> (MORE)<br /><br /> Converted to PDF by www.screentalk.org 88.<br /><br /><br /> HANNA (CONT'D)<br /> have to be there. You coulda<br /> gone and been a... a mailman.<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> There's a flip side to that coin.<br /> What if you got me boxed in and<br /> I gotta put you down?<br /> (beat)<br />'Cause no matter what, you will<br /> not get in my way.<br /> (beat)<br /> But now that we been face to<br /> face, I would not feel good about<br /> that. But I won't hesitate.<br /> Not for one second.<br /><br /> HANNA<br /> (smiles)<br /> Maybe it'll happen that way. Or<br /> who knows ...<br /><br /> NEIL<br /> ...maybe we'll never see each<br /> other again.<br /><br />They look at each other for a moment. Neil's wry smile.<br /><br /> HANNA<br /> (to waitress)<br /> Can we have the bill.Human Side Presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07625276629942278844noreply@blogger.com