January 2010
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There's no escaping the thing that is making its...
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For Fear You Will Be Alone
kissingpillows:
For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren’t you at all.
- Richard Brautigan
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Dakin: I'm beginning to like him more.
Posner: [hopefully] Who? Me?
Dakin: [contemptuously] Irwin. Though he hates me.
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[Scripps is taking the mick out of Dakin for trying to please Irwin too much]
Scripps: Have you looked at your handwriting recently? You're beginning to write like him!
[Turns to look at Posner's essay]
Scripps: You're writin' like 'im an' all!
Posner: I am not! Dakin writes like him, I write like Dakin.
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Posner: I love Dakin.
Irwin: Does Dakin know?
Posner: Yes... he doesn't think it's surprising. Is it a phase, Sir?
Irwin: Do you think it's a phase?
Posner: Some of the literature says it will pass. I'm not sure I want it to pass. But I want to get into Oxford. If I do, Dakin might love me. Or I might stop caring. Do you look at your life, Sir?
Irwin: I thought everybody did.
Posner: I'm a Jew, I'm small, I'm homosexual and I live in Sheffield. I'm fucked.
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The History Boys
Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you see that literature is actually about losers
Scripps: No
Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.
Scripps: No it isn't. What about when it's celebration? Joy?
Dakin: But it's written when the joy is over. Finished. So even when it's joy, it's grief. It's consolation. That's why it gets written down. I tell you, whatever Hector says, I find literature really lowering.
Scripps: Do you really believe this?
Dakin: Yes.
Scripps: You're not just doing a line of stuff for the exam? Original thoughts?
Dakin: No.
Scripps: Because it's the kind of angle Irwin would come up with.
Dakin: Well, it's true he was the one who made me realise you were allowed to think like this. He sanctioned it. I didn't know you were allowed to call art and literature into question.
Scripps: Think the unthinkable. Who's going to stop you? Only don't mention it to Hector.
Dakin: No.
Scripps: But if you reckon literature's consolation, you should try religion.
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“My idea is to present an image to children that it is good to be intellectual,...”
– Gerald Sussman