At that age she is not equipped to make those kinda choices. Marty Hart: Well, she don't look like a woman to me. It's a woman's body, ain't it? A woman's choice. Sheriff know you got underage workin' here? Jan: What do you know about where that girl's been? Where she come from? You wanna know Beth's situation 'fore she ran out on her uncle? Marty Hart: There are other places she could go. And after all these years, there's a victory in that. Now I live in a little room, out in the country behind a bar, work four nights a week, and in between I drink. I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age you know who you are. More like me being this way made me right for the job. Rust Cohle: I can't say the job made me this way. yeah, I think the job does that to a lot of guys. Sometimes I think I'm just not good for people, that it's not good for them to be around me. It was for the best, you know, I gave her cause. I don't see the connection between two dead cats and a murdered woman. As to my daughter, she spared me the sin of being a father. You got kids? I think of the hubris it must take, to yank a soul out of nonexistence into this meat and force a life into this thresher. Isn't that a beautiful way to go out, painlessly as a happy child? Trouble with dying later is you've already grown up. Then, somewhere in that blackness, she slipped off into another, deeper kind. The doctor said she didn't feel a thing, went straight into a coma. Rust Cohle: I think about my daughter now, and what she was spared. You got kids? I think of the hubris it must take, to yank a soul out of nonexistence into this meat a force of life into this thresher. Seeing Things I think about my daughter now, and what she was spared. Marty Hart: And I don’t hold grudges, I believe that’s the shit that leads to cancer. It's like there was never anything here but jungle. Rust Cohle: This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. Marty Hart: So what's the point of getting out of bed in the morning? Rust Cohle: I tell myself I bear witness, but the real answer is that it's obviously my programming. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. Rust Cohle: I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. Marty Hart: Let me tell you, you ain't great outside of parties either. Marty Hart: Okay, what's that mean? Rust Cohle: It means I'm bad at parties. Rust Cohle: I'd consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms I'm what's called a pessimist. Rust Cohle: It's all one ghetto man, giant gutter in outer space. Marty Hart: There's all kinds of ghettos in the world. Might as well be living on the fucking Moon. Rust Cohle: People out here, they don't even know the outside world exists. Rust - now his Texas files were classified or redacted, and he wasn't big on talking except when you wanted him to shut up, but he was smart. I was all right, better than some, but, you know, I knew how to talk to people, and I was steady. A smart guy who's steady is hard to find. Marty Hart: There can be a burden in authority, in vigilance, like a father's burden. Maynard Gilbough: Which type were you? Marty Hart: Oh, just a regular type dude. We all fit a certain category - the bully, the charmer, the, uh, surrogate dad, the man possessed by ungovernable rage, the brain - and any of those types could be a good detective, and any of those types could be an incompetent shitheel. Marty Hart: You know, I've seen all the different types. Season 1 The Long Bright Dark There can be a burden in authority, in vigilance, like a father's burden.
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