tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110278262009-02-20T20:49:53.005-08:00Z..flow..Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1154392455495004862006-07-31T17:33:00.000-07:002006-07-31T17:34:15.496-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/1600/Etapas%20del%20grupo.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/400/Etapas%20del%20grupo.jpg" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-115439245549500486?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1154392314593824652006-07-31T17:30:00.000-07:002006-07-31T17:31:54.613-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/1600/Ejecutividad.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/400/Ejecutividad.jpg" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-115439231459382465?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1151900401414632702006-07-02T21:19:00.000-07:002006-07-02T21:20:01.453-07:00Que recuerdos =)<h3 class="post-title"> Camino Paradiso </h3> <span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">El camino me llevaba..era tierra y piedras... el color se devenía hacia el pasado, mi frente arriba, mirando luz, guiaba hacia el cielo de lo azul.<br /><br />Ritmo de pasos enérgicos, rellenos de alegría me dirijen, nadie más que yo lo sabe. Algunos árboles me acompañan de a rato, arbustos que por momentos me sonrien, rozales que de a tanto me lastiman, pero nunca solo, nunca mal acompañado. En las mañanas dulces, en las que la luz y el fresco viven, el placer del humor se entierra en la piel. Ojos bien abiertos, oídos profundizados, absorviendo aromas y palpando texturas, encierro todo displacer interior, y me confundo con el éxtasis natural del olvido. Piedras y tierra, luces y colores, arbustos y flores, belleza y alegría, ¡todo me acoge y me refracta!<br /><br />Cristales prismáticos que como ojos observan, son las estrellas de lo alto, que más tarde me vinieron a saludar. Yo seguía mi camino, sintiendo. Escuchaba sus voces que cánticos me cantaban, que cosas lindas me decían. Y yo caminaba.<br /><br />Un haz de negrura voló al raz del haz de luz, y su belleza deslumbró y derrumbó toda decepción existida. ¿Era una mariposa? Sí..así parecía.. ¡pero tan bella! Pero seguí caminando. Algo me inquietó...no recordaba querer seguir caminando, pero no frené. No me preocupó mucho, es más, solo ocupó una partecita de mi mente, ¡quien podría más con esa belleza a unos pasos!<br />Perdido en el externo furor de la vida, la pasión muerta y olvidada, la ansiedad a fuego y entrenada, seguí caminando por el placer, pisando recuerdo, y mirando natural armonía.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-115190040141463270?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1151899081041799262006-07-02T20:56:00.000-07:002006-07-02T20:58:01.066-07:00<span style="font-family: lucida grande; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:180%;" >"Before speaking, consider whether it is an improvement upon silence."</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-115189908104179926?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1151031092798196532006-06-22T19:50:00.000-07:002006-06-22T19:51:32.820-07:00Z de ZukohFree personality analysis from <b>ColorQuiz.com</b>.<br />Generated on Thu Jun 22 19:45:02 2006. <h3>Your Existing Situation</h3> <ul> Works well in cooperation with others. Needs a personal life of mutual understanding and freedom from discord. </ul><br /><h3>Your Stress Sources</h3> <ul> Feels that life has far more to offer and that it is imperative that he should find the responsive and understanding relationship he is seeking; he therefore follows up any opportunity which presents itself. However, he maintains his attitude of critical appraisal and refuses to be swept off his feet unless genuineness and integrity can be absolutely vouched for. Therefore keeps a strict and watchful control on his emotional relationships as he must know exactly where he stands. Demands complete sincerity as a protection against his own tendency to be too trusting. </ul><br /><h3>Your Restrained Characteristics</h3> <ul> Egocentric and therefore quick to take offense. Able to obtain physical satisfaction from sexual activity but tends to hold aloof emotionally.<p>Circumstances are forcing him to compromise, to restrain his demands and hopes, and to forgo for the time being some of the things he wants.</p> </ul><br /><h3>Your Desired Objective</h3> <ul> Needs a change in his circumstances or in his relationships which will permit relief from stress. Seeking a solution which will open up new and better possibilities and allow hopes to be fulfilled. </ul><br /><h3>Your Actual Problem</h3> <ul> The fear that he may be prevented from achieving the things he wants leads him into a relentless search for satisfaction in the pursuit of illusory or meaningless activities. </ul><br /><h3>Your Actual Problem #2</h3> Intensely critical of the existing conditions which he feels are disorganized or insufficiently clear-cut. Is therefore seeking some solution which will clarify the situation and introduce a more acceptable degree of order and method.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-115103109279819653?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1145154009514950942006-04-15T19:17:00.000-07:002006-04-15T19:20:09.536-07:00Ídem anterior<h3>Your Existing Situation</h3> <ul> Orderly, methodical, and self-contained. Needs the respect, recognition, and understanding of those close to him. </ul><br /><h3>Your Stress Sources</h3> <ul> Feels that life has far more to offer and that it is imperative that he should find the responsive and understanding relationship he is seeking; he therefore follows up any opportunity which presents itself. However, he maintains his attitude of critical appraisal and refuses to be swept off his feet unless genuineness and integrity can be absolutely vouched for. Therefore keeps a strict and watchful control on his emotional relationships as he must know exactly where he stands. Demands complete sincerity as a protection against his own tendency to be too trusting. </ul><br /><h3>Your Restrained Characteristics</h3> <ul> Egocentric and therefore quick to take offense. Able to obtain physical satisfaction from sexual activity but tends to hold aloof emotionally.<p>Feels that things stand in his way, that circumstances are forcing him to compromise and forgo some pleasures for the time being.</p> </ul><br /><h3>Your Desired Objective</h3> <ul> Seeks success, stimulation, and a life full of experience. Wants to develop freely and to shake off the shackles of self-doubt, to win, and to live intensely. Likes contacts with others and is enthusiastic by nature. Receptive to anything new, modern, or intriguing; has many interests and wants to expand his fields of activity. Optimistic about the future. </ul><br /><h3>Your Actual Problem</h3> <ul> The fear that he might be prevented from achieving the things he wants leads him to play his part with an urgent and hectic intensity. </ul><br /><h3>Your Actual Problem #2</h3> Wants to act freely and uninhibitedly, but is restrained by his need to have things on a rational, consistent, and clearly-defined basis.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-114515400951495094?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1144291054030390492006-04-05T19:36:00.000-07:002006-04-05T19:37:34.066-07:00http://www.colorquiz.com/<h3>Your Existing Situation</h3> <ul> Easily affected by his environment and readily moved by the emotions of others. Seeks congenial relationships and an occupation which will promote them. </ul><br /><h3>Your Stress Sources</h3> <ul> The existing situation is disagreeable. Has an unsatisfied need to ally himself with others whose standards are as high as his own, and to stand out from the rank and file. His control of his sensual instincts restricts his ability to give himself, but the resulting isolation leads to the urge to surrender and allow himself to merge with another. This disturbs him, as such instincts are regarded as weaknesses to be overcome; he feels that only by continued self-restraint can he hope to maintain his attitude of individual superiority. Wants to be loved or admired for himself alone; needs attention, recognition, and the esteem of others. </ul><br /><h3>Your Restrained Characteristics</h3> <ul> Circumstances are forcing him to compromise, to restrain his demands and hopes, and to forgo for the time being some of the things he wants.<p>Egocentric and therefore quick to take offense. Sensitive and sentimental, but conceals this from all except those very close to him.</p> </ul><br /><h3>Your Desired Objective</h3> <ul> Intense, vital, and animated, taking a delight in action. Activity is directed towards success or conquest and there is a desire to live life to the fullest. </ul><br /><h3>Your Actual Problem</h3> <ul> Takes a delight in action and wants to be respected and esteemed for his personal accomplishments. </ul><br /><h3>Your Actual Problem #2</h3> The fear that he might be prevented from achieving the things he wants leads him to play his part with an urgent and hectic intensity.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-114429105403039049?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1142304806205690152006-03-13T18:52:00.000-08:002006-03-13T18:53:26.240-08:00Sobre la Verdad.<span style="font-size:180%;color:#800080;"><p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Cuentan que un buscador de la verdad salió en cierta ocasión a los caminos de Iurancha -el mundo-</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Y allí, en el gran cruce del mundo interrogó a sus hermanos.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Decidme, ¿cuál es la verdad?</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Busca la filosofía -respondieron los filósofos-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">No, -argumentaron los políticos- la verdad está en el servicio.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Entra a las catedrales -le aseguraron los clérigos-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Sin duda, la verdad es la sabiduría -terciaron los sabios-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Renuncia a todo -esgrimieron los ascetas-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Contempla y ensalza las maravillas del señor -le anunciaron los místicos-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Acata y cumple las leyes -señalaron los gobernantes-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Conócete a ti mismo -cantaron los guardianes del esoterismo-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">La verdad está en los números sagrados -dedujeron los cabalistas-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Vive los placeres -aconsejaron los epicúreos-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Únete a nosotros -le gritaron los revolucionarios-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">La verdad es un mito -respondieron los escépticos-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Vive y deja vivir -clamaron los existencialistas-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">El pasado: esa es la única verdad -clamaron los existencialistas-.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Confundido, aquel humano se dejó caer sobre el polvo del camino, mientras aquella multitud se alejaba cantando y reivindicando “su” verdad.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">En eso, acertó a pasar junto al hombre un venerable anciano que portaba un refulgente diamante.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">¿Quién eres? Preguntó el derrotado buscador de la verdad.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Y el anciano, mostrándole el diamante respondió:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">Soy el guardián de la verdad.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">¿La Verdad? ¿Es qué existe?</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">El anciano sonrió y aproximando la gema al rostro del humano, replicó:</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;">La verdad. Como este tesoro, tiene mil caras. A cada uno le corresponde averiguar cual es la que le toca.<br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:180%;color:#800080;"><br /></span></p> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-114230480620569015?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1138212797258302512006-01-25T10:09:00.000-08:002006-01-25T10:13:17.336-08:00<div align="center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/1600/collage14.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/320/collage14.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center"><strong></strong> </div><div align="center"><strong>[ C L o S E R N o W ]</strong></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> Am i wrong to want you near?</div><div align="center">A bit of heaven with you beside me.I</div><div align="center"> see your face in the eyes of the sky,</div><div align="center">but you are farther then, far tonight.</div><div align="center">Am i wrong to feel this way,</div><div align="center">and do my tears fall down in the darkness,</div><div align="center">and do you see them all from a distance,</div><div align="center">and will you come to me and make them go away,</div><div align="center">a little closer now is where you need to be.</div><div align="center">a little closer now is where you need to be.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-113821279725830251?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1134740667950457262005-12-16T05:40:00.000-08:002005-12-25T14:26:51.440-08:00<div align="center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/1600/concept_duskwood.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/320/concept_duskwood.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;"><strong>There's nothing to be afraid of<br /><br />virtual reality will rehabilitate your mind and eventually your body.<br /><br />You'll be alright I promise, just concentrate...</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc66cc;"><strong><br />Go try some music<br /></strong></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-113474066795045726?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1132776483748785952005-11-23T12:02:00.000-08:002005-11-23T12:08:03.786-08:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/1600/P1010020.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/320/P1010020.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#33ccff;"><strong>CORRESPONDENCIAS</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><em>[Del libro "Las flores del mal - Charles Baudelaire]</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/27/878/1600/P1010020.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">La Naturaleza es un templo cuyos vivientes pilares, </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">dejan a veces escapar confusas palabras. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">El hombre posa allí a través de bosques de símbolos, </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">que lo observan con miradas familiares.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Como largos ecos que de lejos se confunden </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">en una tenebrosa y profunda unidad </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">—vasta como la noche y como la luz— </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">los perfumes, los colores y los sonidos se responden.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hay perfumes frescos como carne de niño, </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">dulces como los oboes, verdes como las praderas. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Y hay otros corrompidos, ricos y triunfantes, </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> que tienen la expansión de las cosas infinitas, </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> como el ámbar, el almizcle, el benjuí y el incienso, </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> que cantan los transportes del espíritu y los sentidos.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-113277648374878595?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1130809944085934522005-10-31T17:48:00.000-08:002005-10-31T17:52:24.130-08:00Cambio de EnergiaUn cambio, de oscuro a mas claro, de centro a mas ancho.<br />Cambiando el drama de control, menos robar, mas dar, y mirar, la conexion entre dos, o mas.<br />hablar, retornar. comunicando y ayudando.. con mucho esfuerzo y sonrisa!<br /><br />si, en clave. un ernest cualquiera :D<br /><br />gu bai! proyecion de cambio y/o campo!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-113080994408593452?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1130016497657469852005-10-22T14:25:00.000-07:002005-10-22T14:29:26.256-07:00Recuerdos.. mios solos<strong>Turn wind to dust </strong><br />¿Can you feel it?<br />¿can´t you see it?<br />we are doomed, destined to death.<br />it´s nature, it´s earth<br />she is hurt and seeks revenge.<br />We can, doesn´t mean we must<br />Like this we turn wind to dust<br />Middle gods, destruct is joy<br />burn and kill, control the whip<br />cry or scream, bite and rip<br />¿¡Are we gods, humanity?!<br />¿Harmony and Peace? ¡We are beasts and machines!<br />¿Can´t we learn a bit? ¡We are just god´s shit!<br />Turned Paradise to Hell, Kill is our only way<br />¡We can´t make more mistakes! Destiny is in our way<br /><br /><br />----------------------------------<br /><br /><strong>Descolorida<br /></strong>Tiembla, grita<br />calla, llora<br />esa niña<br />que decolora<br />Tan solo el recuerdo<br />la ata al olvido<br />las uñas desgarran<br />su cuerpo carcomido<br />Corriendo al viento<br />el color se desvanece<br />el frío ahoga<br />la muerte aparece<br />Vive, muere<br />sola, indiferente<br />¿Quién es esta niña<br />si no es la muerte?<br />Tan bella y fría<br />sola, descolorida..<br /><br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><em>Lo logré. Lo encontré.Lo único que veía eran esos ojos gigantes, color zafiro, que albergaban un conocimiento y una sabiduria tan antigua como la vida misma, sin poder ser revelada, y peor aún... usada.Esos ojos representaban el Poder, la vida, la inocencia, la Muerte.Tenía que hacerlo, sí, era necesario, nada existe sin un propósito, y el propósito de su existir era ser liberado. Un Poder tan inmenso no puede ser encarcelado, no debe ser encarcelado. Es lo que nos define, lo que nos dice quienes somos, como ser, y que somos. Hice lo correcto.Todo era borroso menos esos ojos. Todo era silencio alrededor, la naturaleza enmudeció de sorpresa. Incluso los muertos lo sintieron, la misma Muerte le tuvo miedo. El tiempo estaba confundido. Todo pasó en un santiamén que duró siglos. Nada pasó, todo terminó.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>El Poder fue liberado. </em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-113001649765746985?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1129602974437864882005-10-17T19:34:00.000-07:002005-10-17T19:36:14.436-07:00Pesadilla<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">universidad, jovenes, secretaria, toy con amigos, si, vas a poder dar las clases, voy a clase, puedo, vuelvo, hablo con adscripta (soledad), me da una hoja doblada con algo que ya me hbaian dado horarios, etc.."para comer", etc..campamento..va conmigo..negrito plancha 13 años con nenito 8 negrito afuera y una tipa negrita plancha de 12, el negrito hacia seña de que alguien baje, con señas de matar. esra un tipo..joven que llegó y se sento cerca mio, yo mira y me aleje, dsespues volví..un tipo de seguridad bajó, yo sentia todo com si alguien lo contara...subo las escaleras..tyo en la asotea..lugar conocido..el viejo de seguridad sale tranquilo, no pasa naa, parece experto (viejo oeste) y apunta y le cae una piedra en la cabeza, despues muchas, en el ojo.. queda hecho mierda...lluvia de piedras de todas partes, de en frente 8vieja negra) de atras, de cerca mio de arrriba (yo toy en la azotea con niños) una tira una para joder. el viejo hecho mierda...bajo la esclaera, piedras cerca..me meto en un balcon parecido al de emiliano, pero diferente, busco el de emiliano, pero la vieja me vio..me tira piedras..., salgo del balcon raro y buscar el de emiliano (raro tambien) para esconderme..</span><br /><br />paso hace tiempo.. la encontre escrita mientras borraba cosas para hacer espacio en la pc.. me la re acorde y me cague abundante. fue una sal. sangre por todas partes, gente gritando, el pobre viejo llorando de dolor y sanrge mientras le caian mas piedras en la cabeza etc.. una sal.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112960297443786488?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1129602474072693322005-10-17T19:25:00.000-07:002005-10-17T19:27:54.143-07:00A mi hermano Miguel - Vallejo<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Hermano, hoy estoy en el poyo de la casa, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Donde nos haces una falta sin fondo!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Me acuerdo que jugábamos esta hora y que mamá</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Nos acariciaba “Pero, hijos..”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Ahora yo me escondo, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Como antes, todas estas oraciones</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Vespertinas, y espero que tú no des conmigo.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Por la sala, el zaguán, los corredores,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Después, te ocultas tú, y yo no doy contigo.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Me acuerdo que nos hacíamos llorar,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Hermano, en aquel juego.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Miguel tu te escondiste</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Una noche de agosto, al alborear;</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Pero, en vez de ocultarte riendo, estabas triste.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Y tu gemelo corazón de esas tardes</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Extintas se ha aburrido de no encontrarte. Y ya</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Cae sombra en el alma.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Oye, hermano, no tardes</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">En salir. Bueno .... puede inquietarse mamá.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112960247407269332?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1129420673005931242005-10-15T16:35:00.000-07:002005-10-15T16:57:53.023-07:00Himno a la Belleza - Baudelaire¿Vienes del cielo profundo o del abismo surges,<br />oh, Belleza? Tu mirada, infernal y divina,<br />confusamente vierte la buena accion y el crimen, <br />por lo que te podemos comparar con el vino.<br /><br />Contienes en tus ojos el poniente y la aurora;<br />derramas perfumes como una noche de tormenta, <br />tus besos son un filtro y un anfora tu boca<br />que hace cobarde al heroe y valiente al niño.<br /><br />¿Sales del negro abismo o bajas de los astros?<br />El Destino hechizado sigue tus enaguas como un perro; <br />siembras al azar la dicha y los desastres, <br />y todo lo gobiernas sin responder a nada.<br /><br />Marchas sobre los muertos, Belleza, y de ellos te burlas;<br />de tus joyas el Horror no es la menos preciada, <br />y el Crimen, entre tus mas queridos amuletos, <br />sobre tu vientre altivo danza amorosamente.<br /><br />El deslumbrado insecto vuela hacia ti candela, <br />crepita, arde y dice: ¡Bendigamos esta llama!<br />El amante jadeando inclinado sobre su bella<br />es como un moribundo acariciando su tumba.<br /><br />¿Que importa que tu vengas del cielo o del infierno,<br />¡oh Belleza! ¡Monstruo enorme, espantoso e ingenuo!<br />Si tus ojos, tu sonrisa, tus pies, me abren la puerta<br />de un Infinito amado que nunca he conocido?<br /><br />De Satan o de Dios, ¿que importa? Angel o Sirena, <br />¿que importa, si tu haces -hada de ojos de terciopelo, <br />ritmo, perfume y luz, ¡oh mi unica reina!-<br />menos horrible el mundo y mas cortos los instantes?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Las Flores del Mal</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112942067300593124?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1129410593749654782005-10-15T13:14:00.000-07:002005-10-15T16:31:35.946-07:00Dead Poets Society<pre><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> time is still a flying, and this same</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> flower that smiles today, tomorrow will</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> be dying."</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">..................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Thank you Mr. Dalton. Armies of academics</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> going forward, measuring poetry. No, we</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> will not have that here. No more of Mr.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> J. Evans Pritchard. Now in my class you</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> will learn to think for yourselves again.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You will learn to savor words and language.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No matter what anybody tells you, words and</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> ideas can change the world. I see that look</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> in Mr. Pitt's eye, like nineteenth century</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> literature has nothing to do with going to</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> business school or medical school. Right?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Maybe. Mr. Hopkins, you may agree with him, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> thinking "Yes, we should simply study our</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Pritchard and learn our rhyme and meter</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> and go quietly about the business of</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> achieving other ambitions." I have a little</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> secret for ya. Huddle up. Huddle up! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The boys get up from their seats and gather around Keating in the center</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">of the class.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> We don't read and write poetry because</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> it's cute. We read and write poetry</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> because we are members of the human race.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> And the human race is filled with passion.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Medicine, law, business, engineering,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> these are all noble pursuits, and necessary</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> to sustain life. But poetry, beauty,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> romance, love, these are what we stay alive</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> for. To quote from Whitman: "O me, o life</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> of the questions of these recurring, of the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> endless trains of the faithless, of cities</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> filled with the foolish. What good amid</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> these, o me, o life? Answer: that you are</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> here. That life exists, and identity.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> That the powerful play goes on, and you</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> may contribute a verse. That the powerful</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> play goes on and you may contribute a verse.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating looks up at Todd.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Keating</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What will your verse be?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">...................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">MCALLISTER</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Quite an interesting class you gave today,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Keating.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I'm sorry if I shocked you, Mr. McAllister.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MCALLISTER</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, there's no need to apologize. It was</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> very fascinating, misguided though it was.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You think so?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MCALLISTER</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You take a big risk by encouraging them to</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> be artists John. When they realize they're</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> not Rembrandts, Shakespeares or Mozarts,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> they'll hate you for it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> We're not talking artists George, we're</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> talking free thinkers.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MCALLISTER</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Free thinkers at seventeen?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Funny, I never pegged you as a cynic.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MCALLISTER</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (taken aback by the comment)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Not a cynic, a realist. Show me the heart</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> show you a happy man.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> But only in their dreams can man be truly</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> will be.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MCALLISTER</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Tennyson?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, Keating.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">........................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> The Dead Poets were dedicated to sucking</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the marrow out of life. That's a phrase</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> from Thoreau that we'd invoke at the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> beginning of each meeting. You see we'd</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> gather at the old Indian cave and take</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> turns reading from Thoreau, Whitman,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Shelley; the biggies. Even some of our</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> own verse. And in the enchantment of the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> moment we'd let poetry work its magic.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KNOX</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You mean it was a bunch of guys sitting</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> around reading poetry?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No Mr. Overstreet, it wasn't just "guys",</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> we weren't a Greek organization, we were</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> romantics. We didn't just read poetry,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> we let it drip from our tongues like honey.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Spirits soared, women swooned, and gods</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> were created, gentlemen, not a bad way to</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> spend an evening eh? Thank you Mr. Perry</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> for this trip down amnesia lane. Burn that,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> especially my picture.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating hands the annual back and walks away, whistling once again. Neil </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">remains crouched.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">.......................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I hereby reconvene the Dead Poets</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Society.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The boys cheer.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Welton chapter. The meetings will be</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> conducted by myself and the other new</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> initiates now present. Todd Anderson,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> because he prefers not to read, will</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> keep minutes of the meetings. I'll now</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> read the traditional opening message by</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> society member Henry David Thoreau. "I</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> went to the woods because I wanted to</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> live deliberately. I wanted to live deep</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> and suck out all the marrow of life."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I'll second that.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "To put to rout all that was not life,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> and not, when I had come to die,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> discover that I had not lived.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Several boys whistle softly in reaction to the poem.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">..................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">PITTS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "In a mean abode in the shanking road,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> lived a man named William Bloat. Now,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> he had a wife, the plague of his life,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> who continually got his goat. And one</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> day at dawn, with her nightshift on,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> he slit her bloody throat."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Alfred Lord Tennyson. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Come my friends, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> for my purpose holds to sail beyond the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> sunset. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> And though we are not now that strength </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> which in old days </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Moved earth and heaven; that which we </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> are, we are;-- </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> One equal temper of heroic hearts, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Made weak by time and fate, but strong </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> in will. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> To strive, to seek, to find, and not to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> yield. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">.........................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The students are all back in their normal seats and Keating leaps</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">up onto his desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Why do I stand up here? Anybody? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> To feel taller. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating rings the bell on his desk with his foot</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Thank you for playing, Mr. Dalton. I </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> stand upon my desk to remind yourself </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> that we must constantly look at things </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> in a different way. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating glances around the classroom from atop the desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You see, the world looks very different </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> from up here. You don't believe me? Come </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> see for yourself. Come on. Come on! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Charlie and Neil quickly rise from their seats to go to the front</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">of the classroom. The rest of the class follows them. While Keating</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">continues speaking, Neil and Charlie join him on the desk and then</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating jumps down.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Just when you think you know something, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you have to look at it in another way. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Even though it may seem silly or wrong, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you must try! Now, when you read, don't </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> just consider what the author thinks. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Consider what you think. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Boys, you must strive to find your own </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> voice. Because the longer you wait to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> begin, the less likely you are to find </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> lives of quiet desperation." Don't be </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> resigned to that. Break out!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating notices Spaz and another boy leaving the desk immediately.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Don't just walk off the edge like lemmings.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Look around you. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The school bell rings as the boys continue to climb onto the desk.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating begins to gather up his stuff. The clock begins to toll as</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating walks to the back of the class.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> There! There you go, Mr. Priske. Thank </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you! Yes! Dare to strike out and find </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> new ground. Now, in addition to your </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> essays, I would like you to compose a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> poem of your own, an original work.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The students begin to groan. Keating begins flickering the lights</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">off and on while chanting ominously.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> That's right! You have to deliver it </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> aloud in front of the class on Monday. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Bonne chance, gentlemen. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating steps out into the hall before quickly peeking back in once again.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd is the last one to stand on the desk and is about to jump off.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Anderson? Don't think that I don't </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> know that this assignment scares the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> hell out of you, you mole.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating flicks the light off, leaving Todd to jump down in the darkness</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">as the students laugh.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">............................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">EIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> So, I'm gonna act. Yes, yes! I'm gonna </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> be an actor! Ever since I can remember, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I've wanted to try this. I even tried to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> go to summer stock auditions last year, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> but, of course, my father wouldn't let </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> me. For the first time in my whole life </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I know what I wanna do.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil grabs a handful of papers off Todd's bed and tosses them into</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">the air.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> and for the first time I'm gonna do it </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> whether my father wants me to or not!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Carpe diem! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Neil, Neil, hold on a minute. How are </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you gonna be in a play if your father </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> won't let you? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> First I gotta get the part, then I can </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> worry about that. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yeah, but won't he kill you if he finds </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> out you went to an audition and didn't </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> even tell him? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, no, no, no. As far as I'm concerned, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> he won't have to know about any of this. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Well, that's impossible. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Bullshit! Nothing's impossible. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Well, why don't you just call him and </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> ask him? And m-maybe he'll say yes. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> That's a laugh!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil tosses the blanket back onto his bed.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> If I don't ask him, at least I won't</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> be disobeying him. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yeah, but if he said-- </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (shouting angrily)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Jesus, Todd! Whose side are you on?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd says nothing. Neil looks at him for a moment and then takes</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">the flyer back from Todd. He walks over to the window, his </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">excitement gone.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I mean, I haven't even gotten the part </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> yet. Can't I even enjoy the idea for a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> little while? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Once again, Todd says nothing. After a moment, Neil sits on the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">heater and Todd returns to his poem.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You're coming to the meeting this </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> afternoon? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I don't know. Maybe.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Nothing Mr. Keating has to say means </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> shit to you, does it, Todd? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> W-What is that supposed to mean? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You're in the club! Being in the club </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> means being stirred up by things. You </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> look about as stirred up as a cesspool. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil gets up from the window and stands over Todd.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> So- You want me out? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No! I want you in, but being in means </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you gotta do something. Not just say </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you're in. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Well, listen, Neil. I-I appreciate this </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> concern, but I-I'm not like you. All </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> right? You, you, you say thing and </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> people listen. I'm, I'm not like that. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Don't you think you could be? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No! I--I, I don't know, but that's not </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the point. The, the, the point is that </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> there's nothing you can do about it, so </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you can just butt out. I can take care </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> of myself just fine. All right? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What do you mean, "no"? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">A smile comes to Neil's face.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">..................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Now, devotees may argue that one sport </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> or game is inherently better than </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> another. For me, sport is actually a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> chance for us to have other human beings </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> push us to excel. I want you all to come </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> over here and take a slip of paper and </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> line up single file.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">.....................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "Oh to struggle against great odds. To </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> meet enemies undaunted." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "To be a sailor of the world, bound for </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> all ports."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "Oh, I live to be the ruler of life, not </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> a slave." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "To mount the scaffolds. To advance to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the muzzle of guns with perfect </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> nonchalance."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "To dance, clap hands, exalt, shout, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> skip, roll on, float on."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "Oh, to have life henceforth the poem of </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> new joys."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "To indeed be a god!"</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">.......................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">KNOX</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (quietly)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "To Chris."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Charlie looks up from his desk with a grin.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> BOY 1</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Who's Chris? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> BOY 2</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mmm, Chris. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KNOX</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I see a sweetness in her smile. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Blight light shines from her eyes. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> But life is complete; contentment is </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> mine, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Just knowing that...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Several students begin to snicker.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KNOX</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> just knowing that she's alive.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Knox crumples his poem and walks back to his desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KNOX</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Sorry, Captain. It's stupid. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, no. It's not stupid. It's a good </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> effort. It touched on one of the major </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> themes, love. A major theme not only in </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> poetry, but life. Mr. Hopkins, you were </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> laughing. You're up.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Hopkins slowly walks to the front of the class and unfolds</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">his piece of paper.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> HOPKINS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "The cat sat on the mat." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Congratulations, Mr. Hopkins. Yours is </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the first poem to ever have a negative </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> score on the Pritchard scale. We're not </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> laughing at you, we're laughing near </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you. I don't mind that your poem had a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> simple theme. Sometimes the most </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> beautiful poetry can be about simple </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> things, like a cat, or a flower or rain. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You see, poetry can come from anything </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> with the stuff of revelation in it. Just </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> don't let your poems be ordinary. Now, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> who's next? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating approaches Todd's desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Anderson, I see you sitting there in </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> agony. Come on, Todd, step up. Let's put </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you out of your misery. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I, I didn't do it. I didn't write a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> poem. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Anderson thinks that everything </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> inside of him is worthless and </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Isn't that your worst fear? Well, I </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> think you're wrong. I think you have </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> something inside of you that is worth a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> great deal.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating walks up to the blackboard and begins to write.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> "I sound my barbaric yawp over the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> rooftops of the world." W. W. Uncle Walt </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> again. Now, for those of you who don't </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> know, a yawp is a loud cry or yell. Now, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Todd, I would like you to give us a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> demonstration of a barbaric "yawp." Come </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> on. You can't yawp sitting down. Let's </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> go. Come on. Up.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd reluctantly stands and follows Keating to the front.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You gotta get in "yawping" stance. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> A yawp?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, not just a yawp. A barbaric yawp. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (quietly)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yawp. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Come on, louder. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (quietly)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yawp. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, that's a mouse. Come on. Louder. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yawp. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, good God, boy. Yell like a man! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (shouting)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yawp! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> There it is. You see, you have a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> barbarian in you, after all.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd goes to return to his seat but Keating stops him.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Now, you don't get away that easy.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating turns Todd around and points out a picture on the wall.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> The picture of Uncle Walt up there. What </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> does he remind you of? Don't think. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Answer. Go on.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating begins to circle around Todd.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> A m-m-madman. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What kind of madman? Don't think about </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> it. Just answer again. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> A c-crazy madman. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, you can do better than that. Free up </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> your mind. Use your imagination. Say the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> first thing that pops into your head, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> even if it's total gibberish. Go on, go </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> on. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Uh, uh, a sweaty-toothed madman. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Good God, boy, there's a poet in you, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> after all. There, close your eyes. Close </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> your eyes. Close 'em. Now, describe what </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you see. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating puts his hands over Todd's eyes and they begin to slowly</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">spin around.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Uh, I-I close my eyes. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yes? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Uh, and this image floats beside me. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> A sweaty-toothed madman? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> that pounds my brain. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, that's excellent. Now, give him </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> action. Make him do something. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> H-His hands reach out and choke me. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> That's it. Wonderful. Wonderful.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating removes his hands from Todd but Todd keeps his eyes</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">closed.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> And, and all the time he's mumbling. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What's he mumbling? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> M-Mumbling, "Truth. Truth is like, like </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> a blanket that always leaves your feet </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> cold." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The students begin to laugh and Todd opens his eyes. Keating</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">quickly gestures for him to close them again.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Forget them, forget them. Stay with the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> blanket. Tell me about that blanket. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Y-Y-Y-You push it, stretch it, it'll </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> never be enough. You kick at it, beat </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> it, it'll never cover any of us. From </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the moment we enter crying to the moment </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> we leave dying, it will just cover your </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> face as you wail and cry and scream. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd opens his eyes. The class is silent. Then they begin to clap</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">and cheer.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (whispering to Todd)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Don't you forget this.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">.........................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The students are standing in a line while Cameron, Pitts, and Knox</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">are walking in a circle. Keating watches as they go around.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No grades at stake, gentlemen. Just take </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> a stroll.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">After a few moments, the three boys begin to march to the same beat.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> There it is. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The other boys start clapping to the rhythm of their steps.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I don't know, but I've been told-- </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> BOYS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I don't know, but I've been told-- </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Doing poetry is old-- </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> BOYS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Doing poetry is old-- </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Nolan looks out at them from his office as Keating joins the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">boys and begins marching with them.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Left, left, left-right-left. Left, left, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> left-right-left. Left, halt! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The boys come to a halt.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Thank you, gentlemen. If you noticed, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> everyone started off with their own </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> stride, their own pace.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating begins walking very slowly.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Pitts, taking his time. He knew he'll</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> get there one day. Mr. Cameron, you could</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> see him thinking, "Is this right? It might</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> be right. It might be right. I know that. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Maybe not. I don't know."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating begins walking with his groin pushed forward.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Overstreet, driven by deeper force.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yes. We know that. All right. Now, I</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> didn't bring them up here to ridicule</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> them. I brought them up here to illustrate</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the point of conformity: the difficulty in </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> maintaining your own beliefs in the face </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> of others. Now, those of you -- I see </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the look in your eyes like, "I would've </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> walked differently." Well, ask </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> yourselves why you were clapping. Now, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> we all have a great need for acceptance. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> But you must trust that your beliefs are </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> unique, your own, even though others may </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> think them odd or unpopular, even though </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the herd may go, "That's baaaaad." Robert </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> wood and I, I took the one less traveled </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> by, and that has made all the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> difference." Now, I want you to find </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> your own walk right now. Your own way of </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> striding, pacing. Any direction. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Anything you want. Whether it's proud, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> whether it's silly, anything. Gentlemen, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the courtyard is yours.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The students begin walking about, some walking casually, others</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">making up silly walks. Keating notices that Charlie is still</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">leaning up against one of the pillars.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You don't have to perform. Just make it </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> for yourself. Mr. Dalton? You be joining </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> us? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Exercising the right not to walk. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Thank you, Mr. Dalton. You just </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> illustrated the point. Swim against the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> stream.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">...........................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Guys, I have an announcement to make. In </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> keeping with the spirit of passionate </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> experimentation of the Dead Poets, I'm </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> giving up the name Charlie Dalton. From </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> now on, call me Nuwanda. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">......................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You kicked out? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> So what happened? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I'm to turn everybody in, apologize to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the school and all will be forgiven. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> So, what are you gonna do? Charlie! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Damn it, Neil. The name is Nuwanda.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Charlie smiles and then shuts his door.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">..................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> This was my first classroom, John. Did </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you know that? My first desk. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Didn't know you taught, Mr. Nolan. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> English. Oh, long before your time. It </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> was hard giving it up, I can tell you. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I'm hearing rumors, John, about some </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> unorthodox teaching methods in your </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> classroom. I'm not saying they've </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> anything to do with the Dalton boy's </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> outburst. But I don't think I have to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> warn you boys his age are very </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> impressionable. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Well, your reprimand made quite an </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> impression, I'm sure. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What was going on in the courtyard the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> other day? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Courtyard? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yeah. Boys marching, clapping in unison. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, that. That was an exercise to prove </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> a point. Dangers of conformity. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Well, John, the curriculum here is set. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> It's proven it works. If you question, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> what's to prevent them from doing the </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> same? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I always thought the idea of educating </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> was to learn to think for yourself. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> At these boys' ages? Not on your life! </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Tradition, John. Discipline. Prepare </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> them for college, and the rest will take </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> care of itself.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">...........................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Keating. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Dalton. That was a pretty lame stunt </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you pulled today. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You're siding with Mr. Nolan? What about </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Carpe diem and sucking all the marrow </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> out of life and all that? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> mean choking on the bone. Sure there's a </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> time for daring and there's a time for </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> caution, and a wise man understands </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> which is called for. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> But I thought you'd like that. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No. You being expelled from school is </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> not daring to me. It's stupid, 'cause </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you'll miss some golden opportunities. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yeah. Like what? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Like, if nothing else, the opportunity </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> to attend my classes. Got it, Ace? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Aye, aye, Captain. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Keep your head about you. That goes for </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> the lot of you. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> BOYS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yes, Captain. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Phone call from God. If it had been </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> collect, it wouldn't been daring.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">......................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil opens the door to his room and sees his father sitting at his desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Father. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Neil. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Wait a minute. Before you say anything, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> please let me ex-</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry rises from the desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Don't you dare talk back to me! It's bad </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> enough that you've wasted your time with </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> this, this absurd acting business. But </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you deliberately deceived me! How, how, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> how did you expect to get away with </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> this? Answer me. Who put you up to it? </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Was it this new man? This, uh, Mr. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Keating? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No. Nobody-- I thought I'd surprise you. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I've gotten all A's in every class. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Did you think I wasn't going to find </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> out? "Oh, my niece is in a play with </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> your son," says Mrs. Marks. "No, no, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> no," I say, "you must be mistaken. My </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> son's not in a play." You made me a liar </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> of me, Neil! Now, tomorrow you go to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> them and you tell them that you're </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> quitting. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, I can't. I have the main part. The </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> performance is tomorrow night. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I don't care if the world comes to an </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> end tomorrow night. You are through with </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> that play. Is that clear? Is that clear? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Yes, sir. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry goes to leave and then turns around.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I made a great many sacrifices to get </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you here, Neil, and you will not let me </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> down. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, sir. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">...............................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating is seated at his desk. He is writing a letter and occasionally</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">looks up at the framed photo on his desk of a woman playing the cello.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">There is a knock at the door.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> It's open.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil enters and closes the door behind him. He appears to be nervous.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Neil, what's up? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Can I speak to you a minute? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Certainly. Sit down.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil goes to take a seat but notices the chair is piled up with books.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil picks them up and Keating gets up from his seat to help him.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I'm sorry. Here. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Excuse me. Get you some tea? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Tea. Sure.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating goes to a table in the corner and begins pouring several cups.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Like some milk or sugar in that? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, thanks. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Gosh, they don't give you much room </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> around here. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, it's part of the monastic oath. They </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> don't want worldly things distracting me </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> from my teaching.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating gives Neil a cup of tea and they return to their seats. Neil</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">looks at the photo on the desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> She's pretty. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> She's also in London. Makes it a little </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> difficult. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> How can you stand it? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Stand what? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You can go anywhere. You can do </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> anything. How can you stand being here? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> 'Cause I love teaching. I don't wanna be </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> anywhere else. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What's up? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I just talked to my father. He's making </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> me quit the play at Henley Hall. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Acting's everything to me. I-- But he </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> doesn't know. He-- I can see his point. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> We're not a rich family like Charlie's, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> and we-- But he's planning the rest of </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> my life for me, and I-- H-He's never </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> asked me what I want. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Have you ever told your father what you </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> just told me? About your passion for </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> acting. You ever show him that? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I can't. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Why not? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I can't talk to him this way. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Then you're acting for him, too. You're </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> playing the part of the dutiful son. I </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> know this sounds impossible, but you </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> have to talk to him. You have to show </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> him who you are, what your heart is. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I know what he'll say. He'll tell me </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> that acting's a whim, and I should </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> forget it. That how they're counting on </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> me. He'll just tell me to put it out of </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> my mind, "for my own good." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You are not an indentured servant. If </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> it's not a whim for you, you prove it to </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> him by your conviction and your passion. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You show him that And if he still </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> doesn't believe you, well, by then </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you'll be out of school and you can do </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> anything you want. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">A tear falls down Neil's cheek and he wipes it away.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No. What about the play? The show's </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> tomorrow night. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Well, you have to talk to him before </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> tomorrow night. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Isn't there an easier way? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I'm trapped. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No, you're not.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">......................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> We're trying very hard to understand why </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> it is that you insist on defying us. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Whatever the reason, we're not gonna let </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you ruin your life. Tomorrow I'm </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> withdrawing you from Welton and </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> enrolling you in Braden Military School. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You're going to Harvard and you're gonna </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> be a doctor. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> But that's ten more years. Father, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> that's a lifetime! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, stop it. Don't be so dramatic. You </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> make it sound like a prison term. You </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> don't understand, Neil. You have </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> opportunities that I never even dreamt </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> of and I am not going to let you waste </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> them.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil rises to his feet.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I've got to tell you what I feel.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mrs. Perry stands up.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> We've been so worried about-- </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What? What? Tell me what you feel. What </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> is it?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil looks to his mother and then back to his father but says</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">nothing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Is it more of this, this acting </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> business? Because you can forget that. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Nothing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil sits back down dejectedly.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Nothing? Well, then, let's go to bed.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry leaves. Mrs. Perry pauses on her way out and kneels</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">behind Neil.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> NEIL</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I was good. I was really good.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mrs. Perry nods slightly.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Go on, get some sleep.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">................................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">INT. NEIL'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil's pyjamas, bathrobe, towel, and shaving kit are all neatly</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">laid out on his bed. Neil touches his pyjamas lightly and then</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">removes his coat and shirt. He walks over to the windows and</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">opens them, taking several deep breaths. He places the crown of</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">twigs on his head and then closes his eyes, slowly letting his head</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">fall to his chest.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">INT. HALLWAY - NIGHT</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">A door opens and Neil emerges, slowly walking down the stairs as if</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">in a trance.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">INT. MR. PERRY'S STUDY - NIGHT</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Neil holds a key in his hands. He unlocks a drawer in his father's</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">desk and pulls out a pistol, wrapped in cloth.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">INT. MR. PERRY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry jerks up out of bed, startled and breathing fast.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What was that? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> That sound. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What sound? Tom?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry turns on the light and gets up out of bed, putting on his</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">robe and slippers.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What is it? What's wrong? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry turns on the hallway light and knocks on Neil's door. He opens</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">the door and goes inside.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Neil.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry notices the open window.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Tom, what is it? What's wrong? Neil?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry continues to look through the house, continuing downstairs.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Neil?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry notices the door to his study is ajar.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I'll look outside. Neil?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry flicks the light on but sees nothing. Then he smells</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">something. Looking closer, he sees a thin cloud of smoke rising from</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">behind his desk. As he moves around the desk he sees his gun on the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">floor and Neil's outstretched hand.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry crouches down by his son.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, Neil! Oh, my God!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mrs. Perry enters the room and sees her son.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh! No! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, my son! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> He's all right. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> My son! My poor son! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MRS. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> (crying hysterically)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> He's all right! He's all right! He's all </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> right! He's all right! He's all right! </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> He's all right! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. PERRY</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Stop it! Stop it! Stop it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Perry holds his wife and tries to comfort her.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">..............................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd is sleeping. Charlie reaches across to wake him. Tears are</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">running down his face.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Todd? Todd.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd, still half asleep, tries to shrug him off.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Oh, Charlie.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd opens his eyes and sees Charlie's face</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> What is it?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd looks over to see Pitts, Meeks, and Knox by the door.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Neil's dead.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">..............................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">EXT. CAMPUS - DAY</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">It is a snowy, overcast morning. Todd walks through the snow. He</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">has his coat on over his pyjamas. The other boys follow closely</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">behind him as he walks down towards the water. He stops and stares</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">out at the snow-covered surroundings.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> It's so beautiful.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd begins to gag and then goes down on his knees, vomiting into</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">the snow. The other boys huddle around him, hugging him.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Todd. It's okay, Todd. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> PITTS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Calm down. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> It's all right, Todd. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> PITTS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Todd, it's okay. It's okay, Todd. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> It's all right. It's alright.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Charlie grabs a handful of snow and wipes Todd's mouth with it. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> He wouldn't-- He wouldn't have done it. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MEEKS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You can't explain it, Todd. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> It was his father! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> No! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> He wouldn't have left us. It's because he-</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> He wouldn't have. His dad was-- his, his </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> father did it. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Todd. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> His father killed him. He made him do it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MEEKS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You can't explain it, Todd.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd pushes himself away from the boys and stumbles down the hill,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">slipping and falling in the snow.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MEEKS</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Todd! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> CHARLIE</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Leave him be.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">The boys watch as Todd runs down towards the dock by the river,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">yelling and crying. He finally seems to regain control of himself</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">and walks in silence out onto the dock.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">.............................................</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating passes by Todd and the others and gets to the back of the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">classroom before Todd leaps up from his seat and turns to face him.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Keating! They made everybody sign </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> it. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Mr. Nolan gets up from his desk and approaches Todd.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Quiet, Mr. Anderson. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> You gotta believe me. It's true. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I do believe you, Todd. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Leave, Mr. Keating. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> But it wasn't his fault! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Sit down, Mr. Anderson!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Todd reluctantly returns to his seat.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> One more outburst from you or anyone</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> else, and you're out of this school!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Leave, Mr. Keating.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating hesitates at the back of the classroom.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> I said leave, Mr. Keating.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating slowly turns and heads to the door. As he opens</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">it, Todd, stands upon his desk and turns to Keating.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> TODD</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> O Captain! My Captain! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Sit down, Mr. Anderson!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating pauses at the door and looks back at Todd on his desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Do you hear me? Sit down! Sit down! This </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> is your final warning, Anderson. How </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> dare you? Do you hear me?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">After a moment of indecision, Knox climbs up onto his desk.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KNOX</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> O Captain! My Captain! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Mr. Overstreet, I warn you! Sit down!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Pitts climbs up onto his desk, followed by several others,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">including Meeks.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Sit down! Sit down. All of you. I want </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you seated. Sit down. Leave, Mr. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Keating.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">More students stand on their desks until half the class is standing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> All of you, down. I want you seated. Do </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> you hear me? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> MR. NOLAN</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Sit down! </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Keating stands in the doorway, staring up at the boys in wonder. A</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">smile comes to his face.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> KEATING</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"> Thank you, boys. Thank you. </span><br /></pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112941059374965478?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1128821205201946702005-10-08T18:25:00.000-07:002005-10-08T18:26:45.203-07:00WEWEwEwEwEwEWEweweweweweweEuphoria!! descargue del momentsrhdtjfydkgrklruolryiphukryuoiryolrulhtklipo.. ongoasbnghoajsbnhoasnhoanrdshoaidrsnh<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112882120520194670?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1128821155831002242005-10-08T18:21:00.000-07:002005-10-10T20:06:58.300-07:00Tadpolemirenla .. depsue expando<br /><br />Bueno, tampoco tenog muchas gans ahora, pero ta, es una pelicula que pasan este jueves 13 en el 13a las 12.45 que serian por el cambio de horario a las 13.45. creo, sino, verifiquen.<br /><br />Esta d+, es sobre un quinceañero incomprendido, filosofo que se enamora de su madrastra. muchas frases de voltaire. la actuacion impecable.<br /><br />esta d+<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112882115583100224?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1128820843119956452005-10-08T18:19:00.000-07:002005-10-13T07:34:22.610-07:00El Albatros - BaudelaireA menudo, por divertirse, los marineros<br />cogen albatros, grandes pájaros de los mares,<br />que siguen, como indolentes compañeros de ruta,<br />al navío que se desliza por los amargos abismos.<br /><br />Apenas lo han colocado en cubierta,<br />estos reyes del cielo, torpes y avergonzados,<br />dejan trsitemente sus grandes alas blancas<br />colgando como remos en sus costados.<br /><br />¡Este alado viajero qué torpe y débil es!<br />¡Hace poco tan bello, qué cómico y qué feo!<br />Uno lo provoca golpeándole con una pipa en el pico,<br />otro imita, cojeando, al desgraciado que volaba.<br /><br />El Poeta es igual al príncipe de las nubes<br />que vence la tempestad y se ríe del arquero;<br />desterrado en la tierra en medio de abucheos,<br />sus alas de gigante le impiden caminar.<br /><strong></strong><br />-<strong>Las Flores del Mal</strong>-<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112882084311995645?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1128482225746995842005-10-04T20:14:00.000-07:002005-10-04T20:17:05.763-07:00Como nace un paradigma<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Un grupo de científicos colocó cinco monos en una jaula, en </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">cuyo centro colocaron una escalera y, sobre ella, un montón de </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">bananas. Cuando un mono subía la escalera para agarrar las bananas, </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">los científicos lanzaban un chorro de agua fría sobre los que quedaban </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">en el suelo. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Después de algún tiempo, cuando un mono iba a subir la escalera, los </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">otros lo agarraban. Después de algún tiempo, cuando un mono iba a subir la escalera, los </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">otros lo agarraban a palos. Pasado algún tiempo más, ningún mono </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">subía la escalera, a pesar de la tentación de las bananas. Entonces, los </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">científicos sustituyeron uno de los monos. La primera cosa que hizo </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">fue subir la escalera, siendo rápidamente bajado por los otros, </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">quienes le pegaron. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Después de algunas palizas, el nuevo integrante del grupo ya no subió </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">más la escalera. Un segundo mono fue sustituido, y ocurrió lo mismo. </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">El primer sustituto participó con entusiasmo de la paliza al novato. </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Un tercero fue cambiado, y se repitió el hecho. El cuarto y, </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">finalmente, el último de los veteranos fue sustituido. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Los científicos quedaron, entonces, con un grupo de cinco monos que, aún </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">cuando nunca recibieron un baño de agua fría, continuaban golpeando </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">a aquel que intentase llegar a las bananas. Si fuese posible preguntar </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">a algunos de ellos por qué le pegaban a quien intentase subir la </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">escalera, con certeza la respuesta sería: "No sé, las cosas siempre </span><br /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">se han hecho así, aquí..."</span><br /><br />Me lo paso Libero Trillon {este teclado no me deja poner ni tildes ni parentesis.. no se que le pasa}<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112848222574699584?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1127511942062827232005-09-23T13:55:00.000-07:002005-09-23T14:45:45.486-07:00Ni idea quien es, parece que el tampoco lo sabe.<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;" lang="ES-UY">La gente me produce asco</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;" lang="ES-UY">, tengo asco hasta de mi mismo. Deseo una destrucción completa de todo lo humano, incluidos ellos e incluido yo, ya que no soy especial ni mejor que ellos. Soy una mierda más puesta en este mundo sin mi aprobación. <br />27 años son más que suficientes para poder soportar todo este absurdo que me rodea y que me invade, es suficiente para ver que todo lo que hacemos no servirá de nada, que ningún sentido tiene seguir sufriendo y siguiendo una rutina estúpida que no nos conduce a nada. Mierda de vida, mierda de sociedad, mierda de gente, mierda de sistema,... MIERDA, mi palabra favorita, sólo ella es capaz de describir sin esfuerzo mis pensamientos. <br />Madrugo por las mañanas y pienso con ironía: "¡Bien, otro día más sobre este planeta!. Levantémonos, vamos a producir la ración de basura de hoy.". Me levanto, no sin un gran esfuerzo de voluntad (la cual hay que reconocer es considerable, me pregunto de dónde sale), toso (el tabaco dicen que mata, poco a poco). Salgo de casa, con ojos dormidos, mi mente todavía atontada, los cascos de mi discman en mis oídos (la música es lo único que soporto a esas horas, y casi es lo único que soportaría a cualquier hora). Me dirijo con paso raudo a la estación de tren, que me llevará a mi y al resto de las abejas obreras a esos campos de concentración mal llamados empresas. Cuando llego, mi cara (ya con un rictus de amarga tristeza) empeora hacia un enfado que no puedo dirigir contra nadie, porque nadie es culpable y al mismo tiempo, lo somos todos y hacia todos lo dirijo. No hablo, apenas saludo (¿Buenos días?, no para mi, desde luego), me siento en mi cubiculo, en mi celda. Aun encima, es verano, hace calor, y el aire acondicionado crea una malsana atmósfera artificial que perjudica más mis pulmones, ya jodidos por el tabaco. <br />Al cabo de un rato, llega el jefe, ese temible bastardo, que se cree algo, que se cree que nos posee, cuando realmente no tiene nada, realmente no es nada, nada más que otra mierda con patas que camina con una falsa seguridad en si mismo. Me río de su seguridad, me río de su ficticio poder, porque cuando la muerte llega (y afortunadamente siempre llega) nada de lo que tiene o cree tener, le va a impedir pudrirse bajo tierra entre los gusanos. <br />Tomo un café, el estimulante que necesito para mantenerme despierto y no caer en el sopor del aburrimiento, y en un sueño que trata de apoderarse de mi ser. Un sueño que realmente seria bienvenido, y mejor aprovechado que estas horas muertas de mi vida que paso aquí encerrado entre estas cuatro paredes mugrientas. <br />¿Por qué no dejarlo?, ¿por qué no escapar?... sí, suena bien... ser libre, romper las cadenas... pero es irreal. Si sigo vivo (cosa que continuamente me planteo) y tal como están las cosas, necesito dinero para comer, pagar una vivienda, ... Y no me pienso convertir en un vagabundo, porque ya es bastante dura y asquerosa la vida como para aún encima tener que depender de la caridad humana. No, para ser libre realmente, sólo hay una solución: la muerte. Aunque no haya nada después de ella, cosa que no sé, es la única salida para ser libre, realmente libre. Se terminan entonces las ataduras, trabajar, pagar, llorar, sufrir, reír, soñar, enfermar, el miedo, el amor, el odio, ... Sólo necesito el método adecuado y podré hacerlo, porque hasta ahora, he fallado. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;" lang="ES-UY">Pensándolo bien, no me hubiese importado nacer si en lugar de ser humano, con su supuesta inteligencia, hubiese nacido animal. Cualquiera, me es indiferente: desde una mosca hasta un elefante... Pero al fin y al cabo, animal, ser que sólo existe y vive, no se preocupa de mañana, no se preocupa de lo que hizo ayer. Para él solo existe el ahora, un ahora que cambia según sus necesidades: comer, procrear, descansar, ... Así debiera ser nuestra vida: vivir el ahora, sin preocuparnos de nada más, sin tantas normas, sin tantas complicaciones, sin tantas fronteras, ... Ser, existir, vivir, nada más... No deberíamos pensar tanto, los que lo hacemos y los que no, felices ellos porque de ellos es el reino de la felicidad y la ignorancia (eternas compañeras). </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;" lang="ES-UY">Soy egoísta, dicen, y lo reconozco. Sólo pienso en mi, no hago más que quejarme, sin pensar en que los demás también sufren... Pues si también sufren y quieren acabar con esa agonía, ¿qué coño estamos haciendo?, ¿por qué no nos ponemos de acuerdo y lo cambiamos todo? o mejor, ¿por qué no nos ponemos de acuerdo y nos autoexterminamos todos?. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;" lang="ES-UY">¿Por qué me siento tan asfixiado? ¿por qué tan aislado? ¿por qué tan agobiado?... ¿Quién me ha enseñado a ser así?, ¿por qué he elegido este camino de penuria y sufrimiento?... ¿Alguien me podría ayudar?, sólo me gustaría ser idiota para no preocuparme tanto, o ser tan inteligente que desde mi superioridad no me afecte tampoco la mediocridad y la rutina. ¿Alguien tiene la sabiduría? ¿alguien la llave de la tranquilidad?... No quiero morir, pero tampoco vivir así, y no existe punto intermedio, o mejor dicho, sí que existe y en él estoy: malviviendo, una especie de zombi, un muerto en vida que no se decide por ninguno de los dos caminos porque no es capaz de llegar a ninguno de ellos. Soy así desde muy joven, casi podría decir que desde que tengo uso de razón. Es demasiado tiempo para sufrir. Siempre pensaba que cuando creciese, la madurez y la experiencia me ayudarían y vería la luz al final del túnel, incluso (era demasiado romántico todavía) que el amor podría sacarme de la oscuridad, pero el tiempo pasó, los amores también,... y nada me ha ayudado, nada ni nadie, porque he llegado a la conclusión de que si hay salida (cosa que ya dudo) debería estar dentro de mi y que si no la he encontrado es porque esa salida no existe. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-UY">Emile Cifran</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112751194206282723?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1127508903780013512005-09-23T13:47:00.000-07:002005-09-23T13:55:03.780-07:00D-Devils - Judgement dayThe day has come<br /> Judgement day<br /><br /> It's judgement day<br /> In the north, computers are takin' over the world<br /> In the east, humans are becoming slave to their own creations<br /> In the south, people are running for their lives<br /> In the west, you have to choose<br /><br /> You can run or you can hide<br /> You can talk or you can fight<br /> But remember<br /><br /> Everything you say can and will be used against you<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);font-size:130%;" > So shut up and dance!</span><br /><br /> When they are in the north, east, south or west<br /> Everything you say can and will be used against you<br /><br /> Judgement day<br /><br /> North, East, South, West<br /><br /> Judgement day.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112750890378001351?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1127508423306662792005-09-23T13:41:00.000-07:002005-09-23T13:47:03.326-07:00Un..<strong>Un color:</strong> Negro<br /><strong>Un amigo:</strong> Fla<br /><strong>Un amor:</strong> C.......<br /><strong>Un lugar:</strong> Bosque<br /><strong>Una canción:</strong> Colors of the wind?<br /><strong>Un libro:</strong> el libro de mi vida :P mmm Demian<br /><strong>Un personaje: Albus</strong><br /><strong>Una película: sociedad de poetas muertos</strong><br /><strong>Un miedo físico: arañas</strong><br /><strong>Un miedo psicológico: impotencia (gral)</strong><br /><strong>Un odio: hastio</strong><br /><strong>Un sueño:</strong> murder<br /><strong>Una meta:</strong> that when i come to die, i discover i had lived.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112750842330666279?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027826.post-1127100725461319702005-09-18T20:30:00.000-07:002005-09-18T20:32:05.476-07:00obsesionDIVINE! me obsesiono.. hoy te toco a vos. ayer y antes de ayer no, mañana no se.<br /><br />DIVINE!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11027826-112710072546131970?l=noxumos.blogspot.com'/></div>Noxumoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757904579713718995noreply@blogger.com0