American Splendor
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:07:02
Just listen to what I have to say, okay?
:07:13
Don't go.
:07:16
I need you, baby.
:07:19
Please don't go, okay?
:07:41
Here's our man.
:07:43
Yeah, all right, here's me.
:07:45
Or the guy playing me anyway,
though he don't look nothing like me.

:07:49
But whatever.
:07:51
So it's a few months later, and I'm working
my flunky file clerk gig at the VA hospital.

:07:57
My voice still ain't back yet.
:07:59
Thank you, Harvey, dear.
:08:01
Things seem like they can't get any worse.
:08:04
"Plebeian"?
:08:07
Where the hell did she get that shit, man?
:08:20
"Avoid the reeking herd
:08:23
"Shun the polluted flock
:08:25
"Live like that stoic bird
:08:28
"The eagle of the rock"
:08:29
- Hey, Mr. Boats.
- You know what that means, son?

:08:34
Yeah, it's from an Elinor Hoyt Wylie poem.
:08:38
It means... Excuse me.
:08:41
It means stay away from the crowds
of common, ordinary people...

:08:45
- and do your own thing.
- No.

:08:49
It means don't compromise yourself
for women. It ain't gonna do you no good.

:08:53
Get away from them as soon as you can.
:08:56
I ain't got no woman now.
:08:59
- I'm living like the stoic bird, man.
- It's the only way to live, son.


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