I love you

"I love you, of course I love you! Jesus Christ can you let it go? Is that okay?"
"I love you if okay. Of course I love you - is not."

August Strindberg

Miss Julie

MISS JULIE

Perhaps.  But then so are you. - Besides, everything's strange.  Life, people, everything's a scum that ddrifts, drifts on across the water, until it sinks, sinks.  there's a dream I have from time to time; I'm reminded of it now. -I'm sitting on top of a pillar that I've climbed, and can see no way of getting down; when I look down, I get dizzy, but down I must, though I haven't the courage to jump; I cana'at stay where I am and I long to fall; but I don't; and yet I'll get no peace until I come down, no rest until I come down, down to the ground, and were I to reach the ground I'd want to bury myself in the earth... Have you ever felt anything like that?

JEAN

No!  I usually dream I'm lying under a tall tree in a dark wood.  I want to climb up, up to the top, and look around over the bright landscape where the sun is shining, plunder the bird's nest up there where the gold eggs lie.  I climb and climb, but the trunk is so thick, and so slippery, and it's so far to the first branch.  But I know that if I could only reach that first branch I'd get to the top like on a ladder.  I haven't reached it yet, but I will do one day, even if it's just a dream.

The Dance of Death

CAPTAIN

The bride had to wear her wedding ring on her right hand because in a tender moment the bridegroom had cut off her ring finger with a billhook.  Are you crying? - No, I believe you're laughing! - Yes, child, we laugh and we cry!  Which is more proper? Don't ask me! --- The other day I read in the paper that a man had been divorced seven times, consequently he'd married seven times as well... Finally, at the age of ninety, he ran off and remarried his first wife.  There's love for you! --- I've never been able to figure out whether life is serious or just a joke.  When it's a joke it can be most painful, when it's serious it can be quite tranquil and pleasant. --- and then, when you finally take it seriously, along comes someone and makes a fool of you.  Like Kurt. --- Do you want to celebrate our silver wedding?  Say yes now. - They'll laugh at us, but what does that matter?  We'll laugh, too.  Or be serious, whichever seems best!

A Dream Play

Law, which serves everyone, except the servants, justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just.

HUSBAND

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire - it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at its height.

WIFE

Then let us die together, now, at once!

HUSBAND

Die?  Very well!  For I'm afraid of happiness.  It's deceitful!

Sleep With Me - Hanif Kureishi

9
Charles I'm so relaxed these days I'm hardly alive.  Are you in therapy yet?
Julie Everybody talks about themselves enough as it is.
Charles That's because it's the one thing most people know anything about.

22
Julie Ah... You love the children.
Stephen Your anger is unbearable.
Julie You make me like this.  You don't let me in.
Stephen You wouldn't like what you saw.

49
Sophie That's the mistake, though - thinking you can find everything there... Families, if you don't mind me saying so, are mental hospitals.

號碼

他在她手上寫了三個數字。他沒有說﹐她也沒有答﹐兩個人都知道是什麼意思。她把數字握在手裡﹐像一個夢的實體﹐打開來看﹐黑色的筆跡還在。筆尖酥酥刺刺。

她回到房間﹐放了一缸子熱水﹐浸進去看一本書。她把手平放在水裡﹐字還沒化﹐她用一個手指頭去劃它﹐刮它﹐癢癢地從手心爬到身體裡去。她從來沒有一刻想過要走到那數字前面去。甚至沒有想要撥個電話去。握著的美夢﹐自然比現實好。

他看著她。“我等了你。你沒有來。”

她像沒有聽見﹐抬起眼睛﹐笑得像什麼都沒發生過。


他說她永遠可以打這個號碼找他﹐不管她需要的是什麼。她寫在好幾個地方。看著。她知道她不會打﹐但她要知道有這個號碼﹐那比真的發生什麼還重要。

他不應該給她選擇。她從不會選擇。也不會問。她會的只是接受。他應該來到她門前。沒有什麼選擇﹐從來沒有。他應該告訴她是左是右。是這裡或那裡。今日。他應該給 - 所有他能給的﹐一句話也別說。

Stockholm

她給了許多錯誤的線索，每次都讓他們浪費許多時間﹐挖地﹐調查﹐搜索。但她討人喜歡，時不時開心的像孩子﹐時不時滄桑地這樣女人。就在所有警察舍不得讓她走，期待她別說出實話時，她卻已經覺得無聊，寧可換換場景，上法庭善惡不分地說著駭人聽聞的實話。

警察們都哭了。他們不是受害者﹐卻像全得上斯德哥爾摩症候群﹐切切地愛一個加害者。

Brand - Ibsen

BRAND

Is there a word that's more abused
and soiled with lies than "Love"? It's used
as every kind of weak excuse
to let vain, foolish men believe
there's some sense in the way they live.
Is the road too steep? It can
be cut short by Love. A man
walking the primrose path of sin
can still find hope in Love. If, seeing
his goal, he will not fight to win
it, Love will win it for him.
If he goes astray, ignoring
promptings of conscience and of sense,
Love is his refuge and defence.

DEAN

let us rely a little more
on Holy Writ for metaphor.
For instance, at the Tower of Babel,
how were things? Basically - unstable.
A very simple explanation:
Everyone wanting to talk at random,
no one wanting to work in tandem -
severe linguistic complication.
Everyone speaking a different sort
of language - "personalities", in short.
When God desires a man to fall,
He makes him an "individual".

BRAND

How long the war will last? Until
the day you die. What will you lose?
Everything you think you love.
What gain? A purer, stronger will,
a loftier faith, integrity
of soul, with all the power to choose
to go in happiness to the grave.
That is the crown of thorns, that each
of you must fight this war to reach!

Eve Ensler

There's the clit moan (a soft, in-the-mouth sound), the vaginal moan (a deep, in-the-throat sound), the combo clit-vaginal moan. There's the pre-moan (a hint of sound), the almost moan (a circling sound), the right-on-it moan (a deeper, definite sound), the elegant moan 9a sophisticated laughing sound), the Grace Slick moan (a rock-singing sound), the WASP moan (no sound), the semireligious moan (a Muslim chanting sound), the mountaintop moan (a yodeling sound), the baby moan (a googie-googie-googie-goo sound), the doggy moan (a panting sound), the birthday moan (a wild-party sound), the uninhibited militant bisexual moan (a deep, aggressive, pounding sound), the machine-gun moan, the tortured Zen moan ( atwisted, hungry sound), the diva moan (a high, operatic note), the twisted-toe-orgasm moan, and, finally, the surprise triple orgasm moan.