Feb 7
Quotes.
Quotes from “Party Girl” which I watched again after class tonight and while researching for my paper.
Mary: Do you know the story of Sisyphus?
Leo: Who?
Mary: Sisyphus. It’s a myth about this guy who had to roll or push this incredibly huge rock up this steep mountain. Every time he would get to the top of this mountain the rock would roll down again. He would watch this and walk back down the mountain and do it all over again. Forever.
Leo: Drag.
Mary: It’s a metaphor for life, Leo. It’s famous. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Leo: Bullshit. He’s miserable.
Mary: He doesn’t have to be. He accepts his fate.
Leo: You’re telling me if your name is Syphilis and you spend your life lugging a f**king rock up a hill you wouldn’t be miserable?
And her imaginary retort to her godmother when Mary mis-shelves a book and her godmother tells her that even a monkey was able to learn the Dewey Decimal System:
Mary: I may have made a mistake, but that is no reason to patronize me. It is dismaying that your expectations are based on the performance of a lesser primate, and also revelatory of a managerial style that is sadly lacking. Is it any wonder then, that I have chosen not to learn the intricacies of an antiquated and idiotic system? I think not!
Now I am tired. Also, I really want it to rain, but it’s not looking like that’s going to happen anytime this week. Sigh.
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