Scene 3 Flashcards
Action
Do you think you are alone?
What?
Do you have a soul-mate?
Define that.
Someone who challenges you in every way. Who takes you places, opens things up for you. A soul-mate.
Yeah. Shakespeare, Neitzche, Frost, O’Connor, Chaucer, Pope, Kant–
They’re all dead.
Not to me, they’re not.
But you can’t give back to them.
Not without a heater and some serious smelling salts, no…
That’s what I’m saying, Will. You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you are afraid to take the first step because all you’re seeing are the negative things that might happen ten miles down the road.
Oh, what? You’re going to take the professor’s side on this?
Don’t give me your line of shit.
I didn’t want the job.
It’s not about that job…You could do anything you want. And there are people who work their whole lives layin’ brick so their kids have a chance at the kind of opportunity you have. What do you want to do?
I didn’t ask for this.
That’s a cop-out.
Why is it a cop-out? I don’t see anythin’ wrong with layin’ brick, that’s somebody’s home I’m buildin’. Of fixin’ somebody’s car…There’s honor in that.
You’re right, Will. Any man who takes a forty minute train ride so those college kids can come in in the morning and their floors will be clean and their trash cans will be empty is an honorable man. (beat) I just want to know why you decided to sneak around at night, writing on chalkboards and lying about it. (beat) Cause there’s no honor in that. (beat) Something you want to say? (open door) Why don’t you come back when you have an answer for me.
What? (2nd)
If you won’t answer my questions, you’re wasting my time.
What? Fuck you! Who the fuck are you to lecture me about life? You fuckin’ burnout! Where’s your “soul-mate?!” Dead! She dies and you just cash in your chips. That’s a fuckin’ cop-out!
I been there. I played my hand.
That’s right. And you fuckin’ lost! And some people would have the sack to lose a big hand like that and still come back and ante up again!
Look at me. What do you want to do? (beat) You and your bullshit. You got an answer for everybody. But I asked you a straight question and you can’t give me a straight answer. Because you don’t know.
Monologue
You came to me, Will. You came to me asking for help. I know you don’t think that’s what you did but, well, here we are. And the minute you asked, you signed up for what I would do, and how I would do it. That’s just how this works.
