Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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But then, it was his life--
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maybe he saw it that way.
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But he was in pain so much at the time,
of course,

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maybe that is the way he would see it.
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I told him when I read the book, I said,
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"You could have killed yourself
with the things you did."

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And all these years
we've tried to keep you alive,

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and you could have killed yourself.
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That's the part that amazes me.
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But I see, underneath it all, I see...
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a young man, who's...
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who hates his body for what it did--
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I agree with you on one thing--
he's fighting back.

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But I see him
fighting back in a different way.

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A trapeze--
a man on the trapeze--

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he does this twisting and turning
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and he does a tumblesault on the trapeze
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and he lands just perfect on his feet.
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And when I see him turning,
I get excited.

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And I really can feel--
I get scared.

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I get that fear that he's gonna fall--
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Saying, with which,
when he sticks the needles in himself,

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I feel the pain.
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Then he lands on his feet and I'm proud
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because
all of a sudden everybody's applauding,

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and, I think, because of what he's done.
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And I think he's doing this
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to say to God,
or whoever there is out there,

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"You son of a bitch,
what you've done to me--

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Iet me show you. I'll do my tumblesault
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and I'm coming back at you.
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This is my way of telling you
to go fuck yourself."

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I have to apologize--
my body is kind of thin

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and there isn't much to work with.
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That's one of Rose's biggest complaints.
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I should work out more,
lift weights or something.

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I'm certainly no Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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But can Arnold do this?
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C'mon, Mr. Terminator Man, I doubt...

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