"you need anything, wolf scout?"
i breathe in, and i shake my head. i already have you. "i'm good."
Sayfa 271
Reklam
YOUTH: so people are not controlled either by emotion or the past?
PHILOSOPHER: okay, for example, suppose there is someone whose parents had divorced in his past. isn’t this something objective, the same as the well water that is always sixty degrees? but then, does that divorce feel cold or does it feel warm? so this is a “now” thing, a subjective thing. regardless of what may have happened in the past, it is the meaning that is attributed to it that determines the way someone’s present will be.
Sayfa 34
YOUTH: well, how do you explain my anger, then?
PHILOSOPHER: that’s easy. you did not fly into a rage and then start shouting. it is solely that you got angry so that you could shout. in other words, in order to fulfill the goal of shouting, you created the emotion of anger.
YOUTH: what do you mean?
PHILOSOPHER: the goal of shouting came before anything else. that is to say, by shouting, you wanted to make the waiter submit to you and listen to what you had to say. as a means to do that, you fabricated the emotion of anger.
Sayfa 32
PHILOSOPHER: i am not going to run away or hide anything. let’s take our time debating this. so, your position is ‘people cannot change?’
YOUTH: that’s right, they can’t change. actually, i am suffering myself because of not being able to change.
PHILOSOPHER: and at the same time, you wish you could.
YOUTH: of course. if i could change, if i could start life all over again, i would gladly fall to my knees before you. but it could turn out that you’ll be down on your knees before me.
Sayfa 14
farrow stands off the desk. he closes the distance, and we're suddenly wrapped up in each other. muscle against muscle. his arms around me, my arms around him. body sinking into body. i cup the back of his neck.
our pulses pound.
when we drift back, he clutches my jaw and kisses my lips lightly before whispering, "i love you, wolf scout."
i nod strongly. "i love you more, man."
Sayfa 80