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Achilles: Is this what remains of you when you are done ploughing through the reality of men’s dreams?
Tortoise: For the first time in our life, I would rather punch the living daylights out of you than to reason with you! What gives you the right to make of me your dream that I never was?
Achilles: [...]
Achilles: Is it tears that I see in your eyes?
Tortoise: I would have killed you long ago, if only I could live without you.
Achilles: Is it tears that I see in your eyes?
Tortoise: Tears? Remember that I danced the night away just to escape your insanity…
Achilles: You have changed. I can’t [...]
Achilles: Now you have pushed the envelope far, you have opened the window so wide, you have unhinged the doors, you have thrown away the keys, and you have mashed up the whole of it! What on earth do you think that you are doing?Tortoise: We are not here in Lebanon, Lisbon is [...]
Achilles: You have been in the Matrix again, haven’t you?
Tortoise: You know me, I can’t live with it, and I can’t live without it. The Matrix is my generative, it makes me feel more human than my arthritic joints are capable of reminding me.
Achilles: But what I really want to know is if you have [...]
Achilles: You have been in one strange loop after another for the past few days…
Tortoise: Oh crap! Yes! I have been mulling over a few old outpours of emotional pus and putting the old wounds out to dry in the sun. I feel distant from the past and with nary a care. Reckless I may [...]
Achilles: Are you happy?
Tortoise: I used to measure happiness by the absence of a wish to own a Mercedes-Benz, today I am actually thinking of another equally German automotive brand although I am feeling that I am betraying my love for objects Italian…
Achilles: Is happiness about objects?
Tortoise: Yes, happiness is about objects.
Achilles: Not feelings?
Tortoise: Not [...]
Achilles: You can not think that!
Tortoise: I can. Oh, and how I can. See, today I made spaghetti sauce with white miso and rice vinegar.
Achilles: But you told me that some joker found your blog while looking for a famous relative of yours and another was looking for a friend’s face. All you managed this [...]
Achilles: Tell me, what is that I am allowed to do?
Tortoise: Do? Allowed? Nothing.
Achilles: Nothing?
Tortoise: I want a mobile phone that plugs into my mac!
Achilles: Ah… shut up Stowe Boyd is talking, listen!
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I watched Yojimbo last night three times: once in Japanese with German subtitles, then in German with German subtitles and the last time in Japanese without subtitles. I figure that if ever I am going to learn Japanese I might as well give it a go beyond counting to ten. Here I combined the very [...]
