This time, it was the Neo-Futurists on This American Life that sent me into the depths of your memories. Its a scene between a man and a women in which instead of words, they simply exchange meaning.
Him: Statement.
Statement.
Statment. {cough}
Question?
Her: Agreement.
Him: Reassuring statement.
Confident statement.
Confident statement.
Overconfident statement.
Her: Question?
Him: Elaborate defensive excuse.
{audience laughter}
Her: Half-hearted agreement.
Him: Insecure statement.
Distracted statement.
Absurd statment.
Her: Clarification question?
Him: Panicked bullshit explanation.
{audience laughter}
Quick meaningless comic nonsequitur.
Fake laughter.
Fake laughter.LESSON EIGHT: Lord T was right, 'tis better to have loved and lost than not loved at all. (Even if sometimes it makes you feel stupid for ever doing so at all).
1 comment:
totally heard this the other day during my drive from AVL with Abbey to Penland. it made me think of someone too.
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