the domestic zoo

“That’s my line.”

“No, it’s my line.”

“No way, pal. I gave that line to you, but it was mine to begin with. A creation of my genius. The quote of my loins.”

“Tell me, Spirit. Will he live?”

“I see a vacant place at this table. I see a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future the child will die.”

“No. No, say he will be spared.”

“If these shadows remain unaltered by the future none other of my species will find him here. But if he is to die, then let him die, and decrease the surplus population.”

“You use my own words against me.”

“Yes. So perhaps in the future you will hold your tongue until you have discovered what the surplus population is and where it is. It may well be, that in the sight of Heaven you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.”


Stephen: Dude, you just got bitchslapped by Christmas.

Hannah: “Ugh, I don’t want to move.”

Emily: “Are you feeling okay?”

Hannah: “I feel like a fish.”

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After one movie character offers another a drink…

“When in doubt, shot glasses out.”

“Em, what does ‘non-mainstream’ mean?”

“It means something that’s outside the norm, you know, outside of mainstream. Dreads are non-mainstream, for instance…”

“The internet blocker won’t let me look at a Zodiac calendar because it’s ‘non-mainstream’.”

“Oh.”

“It also won’t let me look at your blog because it’s ‘p*rn’ and I can’t look at picture of kittens because they’re ‘drug and alcohol related content’.”

“I’ll have to look into that.”

“Yeah, it’s pretty stupid.”

“And in the meantime, I promise to stop putting p*rn on my blog.”