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Hey, man, uh, you want a card?

They're, uh, oblique strategies.

No two cards are alike. Think about whatever you want and take a card.

Sure.

Oblique strategies.

- What one did you get? - It says...

"Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy. "

- Yeah. - What is this?

Well, that's her menstrual cycle, you know, 28 cups.

It's got your P.M.S. Section over here.

And that's taking up a lot of space this month.

Red ones - Well, you know about the red ones.

- Pink ones are for water weight days. - Right. The pink ones, water weight.

Yep, cycles.

Could I have another one? Is that allowed?

Oh, sure, yeah. You can have as many as you want.

You can buffer your last thought or think about something new.

I'm thinking about something new.

What did you get?

"It's not building a wall, but making a brick. "

That's right, man. That's been my day entirely today.

I can't believe it, man. I told you I was having a breakthrough day today.

Shooee, howdy, shucks. Okay, well. Yeah, I heard that.

- No, tell me all about it. - Okay. Well, I mean...

it's like I've had a total recalibration of my mind, you know.

I mean, it's like I've been banging my head against this

19th-Century-type, uh -

What, thought-mode, construct, human construct?

Well, the wall doesn't exist. It's not there, you know.

I mean, they tell you to look for the light at the end of the tunnel.

Well, there is no tunnel. There is no structure.

The underlying order is chaos, man.

I mean, everything's in one big ball of fluctuating matter...

a constant state of change, you know.

I mean, it's like across that gray quantum divide is this new consciousness.

I don't know what that's gonna be like, but I know that we're all part of it.

I mean, it's new physics. You can't look at something without changing

it.

You know, anything.

I mean, man, that's, like, almost beyond my imagination.

Geez, it's like that butterfly flapping it's wings in Galveston...

and somewhere down the road apace it's gonna -

oh, hey- create a monsoon in China.

- Hey, can you give me a hand? - Sorry I'm late, you know.

Oh, that's all right. Time doesn't exist.

- She's one a day. - Really? One a day for you.

All right. What did you get?

"Look closely at the most embarrassing detail and amplify it. "

- You wanna amplify that? - Whoa! Man, what happened to you?

Oh, well. I don't really want to go into it at the moment.

- Uh, you wanna go? Okay. - Yeah.

Hey, we're gonna ramble on, you guys.

All right, see you.

- So shooee, howdy, shucks, man. - Who's that guy?

- What a day, what a day. That guy? - Yeah.

Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know who he is.

Just a guy? Yeah.

- So how's your painting going? - Oh, that one?

- That same one? - Really, that same one.

Psst.

- Psst. - Hey, could we get another round?

Yeah.

Let me have two, please.

- Yeah, so what do you guys need? - More coffee, please.

- Another beer, chips. - Coffee, beer.

- Great, thanks. - Chips. Hey, may I have another card?

Yeah, sure. Go ahead.

What did you get?

"Repetition is a form of change. "

It's all a whole bunch of, like, horrible values.

- More beer? - Yeah, of course.

Remember, like Saturday morning cartoons?

It's all a whole bunch of values and junk they're throwing at you.

Like take Scooby Doo, you know.

Scooby Doo, he, like, looks at you. It's like -

Like there's Shaggy and there's Scooby Doo, and they say...

"Hey, why don't you beat the sh*t out of this bad guy?

And, like, we'll give you a Scooby Snack. "

And he'll go, "Oh, duh. " And they'll say, "Well, two Scooby Snacks. "

- Yeah, bribery. - Yeah, exactly.

That's what they're teaching kids. It's like it's all bribery, you know.

And they're teaching kids f***in' bribery.

And then you got the whole other end of the realm where there's like the

Smurfs...

and then they've got their little colony group together...

where everybody hangs, you know, in their one little group...

and everybody's right together, everything flows real well.

Any time any one of them tries to take off and do their own little

individual trip...

that's when Mr. Evil comes down off the hill and stomps on them.

Well, like, Smurfs, you know. It's like a family system, like it's all -

- Answering to Papa Smurf. - Yeah, it's safety in numbers.

It's like, like the Smurfs are like Mom and Dad.

And it's like they don't want your kids running off, you know.

And that's the same thing as Smurfs. They don't want, like, some Smurf...

leaving the hive colony at all, you know.

Well, listen, like...

a friend of mine has this real weird theory about Smurfs.

But I've been thinking about it, and I think it's kind of cool.

Actually, I kind of agree with it.

It's like about Krishna. You know, like Smurfs are blue.

And he's saying that Smurfs are, like, getting kids used to seeing blue

people.

And it's like, you know, with Smurfs being blue...

kids see blue people, they, like, relate to Smurfs.

And they relate to blue people when Krishna comes about, you know.

And, I don't know, I kind of agree with that.

Hey, listen, I'll tell you what.

I'll buy this round if you, uh, score me a pack of smokes, man.

All right. But I don't know. Sounds like you're plugging for Scooby Snacks

to me.

Yeah, right.

I heard you had a really great time in Europe.

- Are you glad to be back? - Yeah, it was incredible.

I'm real glad to be back though. But at the time I was leaving...

I really felt the need to get out of this town.

I'd just ended this two-year relationship with this guy.

And now that I look back on it, it was really terrible.

And, like, a boyfriend is the furthest thing from my mind.

But now that I'm back, things are rolling for me.

I'm getting a lot of things done.

I think I can honestly say I'm the happiest I've been in a long time.

- I just feel great. - That's great, yeah.

A lot of times I leave a relationship and I feel like a whole person again.

And I feel really elated.

It seems then this ebb and flow thing sets in.

And I start questioning everything, you know.

And as long as I'm in a relationship, I swear I cannot be objective.

It seems like after we've decided that we need one another to be happy...

then I start getting insecure.

I'm wondering, worrying all the time.

It seems like rejection looms, ever-present.

Rejection. That's one thing I'm not scared of anymore.

I've conquered the fear of rejection.

I guess I kind of look at it as a trade-off.

It's like you reject, you're being rejected constantly.

So how could you let it bother you?

No. I don't know if I buy that.

I don't know that anyone can escape the fear of rejection.

It's a real primal thing, you know. Can it be escap -

Perhaps human beings weren't made to be happy and free all the time.

We're always trying to enslave ourselves one way or another.

If it's not through career, it's through a relationship or it's

through kids.

It just doesn't seem to be the natural human state.

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