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2005-12-11 23:10:33
From: JJ
(San Francisco)
From "Out of Africa":
1.
DFH: I've been thinking.
DFH: With all the safari work, I have little use for the room...at the club.
DFH:I don't know that I'd be any good at this...but how would it be if I kept a few things with you?
KB:You would come and go from my house?
DFH: If that's all right.
KB: When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers.
2.
DFH: You do like to change things.
KB: For the better, I hope.
KB: I want my Kikuyu to learn to read.
DFH:"My Kikuyu." "My Lemoges." "My farm."
DFH: It's a lot to own.
KBH:I have paid a price for everything I own.
DFH:What is it, exactly, that's yours?
DFH:We're not owners here. We're just passing through.
KB: Is life really so damn simple for you?
DFH: Perhaps I ask less of it than you do.
KB: I don't believe that.
3.
DFH: I want things that don't matter not to matter.
KB: Then tell her no. Do it for me.
DFH: And then? What else would it be?
KB: Why is your freedom more important than mine?
DFH:It isn't. And I've never interfered with your freedom.
KB: No. I'm not allowed to need you. Or rely on you, or expect anything from you. I'm free to leave.
KB: But I do need you.
DFH: You don't need me. If I die, will you die? You don't need me.
DFH: You're confused. You've mixed up need with want. You always have.
KB: My God. In the world that you would make, there would be no love at all.
DFH: Or the best kind. The kind we wouldn't have to prove.
KB: You'll be living on the moon then.
DFH: Why? Because I won't do it your way? Are we assuming there's one proper way to do all this?
DFH: Do you think I care about Felicity?
DFH: Do you think I'll be involved with her?
DFH: Then there's no reason for this.
KB: If she's not important...
KB: why won't you give it up?
KB: I have learned a thing that you haven't.
KB: There are some things worth having...
KB: but they come at a price, and I want to be one of them.
KB: I won't allow it.
DFH: You have no idea the effect that language has on me.
KB: I used to think that there was nothing that you really wanted...
KB: but that's not it, is it?
KB: You want to have it all.
DFH: I'm going to Samburu. She can come or not.
KB: Then you will be living elsewhere.
DFH: All right.
4.
"The time you won your town the race...
we cheered you through the marketplace.
Man and boy stood cheering by...
as home we brought you, shoulder high.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away...
from fields where glory does not stay.
Early though the laurel grows...
it withers quicker than a rose.
Now you will not swell the rout...
of lads that wore their honors out.
Runners whom renown outran... and the name died...
before the man.
And round that early laureled head...
will flock to gaze the strengthless dead...
and find unwithered on its curls...
a garland...
briefer than a girl's."
Now take back the soul
of Denys George Finch Hatton...
whom You have shared with us.
He brought us joy...
and we loved him well.
He was not ours.
He was not mine.
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