X-Files humor... and introspection :: quotes::
{*re-posted from my singingmollusk account*}
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{from the beginning of "X-Files" 4x02 - "Home" ... yes, that rather graphic episode about incest & mutants, that was banned from network television for 3 years :P But the "country farm home" setting is pretty, at least....}
Dana Scully (reading field notes, but realizing Mulder isn't paying attention to her...) :: "I've collected soil specimens and, although numerous shoe impressions remain from the sandlot game, I think a couple of dental-stone casts would prove invaluable to the investigation. ....... *pause... cow mooing in near distance* ..... Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI, and become a spokesperson for the 'Ab Roller'."
Fox Mulder (playing with a baseball) :: "Smell that. *grinning, proffers worn baseball for Scully to sniff * That's perfume. Quarter ball. God, this brings back a lot of memories... My sister. All-day pick-up games out on the Vineyard. Ride your bikes down to the beach. Eat bologna sandwiches... Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell phones...."
Scully (smirking at him, but still glancing to her notes) :: "Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for 2 minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia."
Mulder :: "Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do, you know. I'm a working man; I live in a big city. But if I have to settle down? Build a home? It'd be a place like this*."
Scully :: "It'd be like living in 'Mayberry'."
*Aside from the visual locations cues in the scene, I know what he means.... ::
grassy fields of country landscape, hills and Nature and back roads and homesteads of wrap-around porches, beautiful old barns, and not enough cars to cause much traffic worth speaking of.
A lot like Western New York state... a lot like a great deal of North America.
A friend once told me that in the case of Love for another person, location wouldn't matter. I've come to learn that that wisdom is far more a reflection of personal values than truthful proverb. For me, location is of a far greater importance than who I might be able to share it with. Even if I had really loved Jonathon enough to stay with him, I know for a fact that the desert of New Mexico would not have been able to hold me there very long... It wasn't my kind of environment. 2 years later, after returning to "living" lands, after being hit with orangey-yellow lands of foreign and stark beauties, and I still am in awe of the East Coast's ability to produce 120 foot tall trees... endless rolling hills of green Life... winds through foliage in such a way as to make seas of trees, waves of leaves, and an oceanic surround sound of rustling canopies.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~ George Gordon Byron, from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
"Location" is a very significant aspect to my personal state of soul ... and those who I choose to love and share my Life with are and will be inevitably those who respect and embrace that.
I'll take "country Life" any day.
I'm loving living in New York again. There is a "look" and feel to the topography, geography, and general environment that does actually differ from that in PA... You cross that imaginary state boundary, cross over the river and into NY... and there is actually a noticeable change in the Living World that, having grown up in NYState, says, "You're home again." :)
I love it. :)
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{from the beginning of "X-Files" 4x02 - "Home" ... yes, that rather graphic episode about incest & mutants, that was banned from network television for 3 years :P But the "country farm home" setting is pretty, at least....}
Dana Scully (reading field notes, but realizing Mulder isn't paying attention to her...) :: "I've collected soil specimens and, although numerous shoe impressions remain from the sandlot game, I think a couple of dental-stone casts would prove invaluable to the investigation. ....... *pause... cow mooing in near distance* ..... Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI, and become a spokesperson for the 'Ab Roller'."
Fox Mulder (playing with a baseball) :: "Smell that. *grinning, proffers worn baseball for Scully to sniff * That's perfume. Quarter ball. God, this brings back a lot of memories... My sister. All-day pick-up games out on the Vineyard. Ride your bikes down to the beach. Eat bologna sandwiches... Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell phones...."
Scully (smirking at him, but still glancing to her notes) :: "Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for 2 minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia."
Mulder :: "Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do, you know. I'm a working man; I live in a big city. But if I have to settle down? Build a home? It'd be a place like this*."
Scully :: "It'd be like living in 'Mayberry'."
*Aside from the visual locations cues in the scene, I know what he means.... ::
grassy fields of country landscape, hills and Nature and back roads and homesteads of wrap-around porches, beautiful old barns, and not enough cars to cause much traffic worth speaking of.
A lot like Western New York state... a lot like a great deal of North America.
A friend once told me that in the case of Love for another person, location wouldn't matter. I've come to learn that that wisdom is far more a reflection of personal values than truthful proverb. For me, location is of a far greater importance than who I might be able to share it with. Even if I had really loved Jonathon enough to stay with him, I know for a fact that the desert of New Mexico would not have been able to hold me there very long... It wasn't my kind of environment. 2 years later, after returning to "living" lands, after being hit with orangey-yellow lands of foreign and stark beauties, and I still am in awe of the East Coast's ability to produce 120 foot tall trees... endless rolling hills of green Life... winds through foliage in such a way as to make seas of trees, waves of leaves, and an oceanic surround sound of rustling canopies.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~ George Gordon Byron, from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
"Location" is a very significant aspect to my personal state of soul ... and those who I choose to love and share my Life with are and will be inevitably those who respect and embrace that.
I'll take "country Life" any day.
I'm loving living in New York again. There is a "look" and feel to the topography, geography, and general environment that does actually differ from that in PA... You cross that imaginary state boundary, cross over the river and into NY... and there is actually a noticeable change in the Living World that, having grown up in NYState, says, "You're home again." :)
I love it. :)
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