Paper Man Page #2

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of believing

l can do things perfectly fine

on my own?

- Because you never have.

- Excuse me?

- Oh, Richard, Richard, Richard.

How many times, huh?

Huh?

How many times?

"l'm gonna go through these

baIIet Iessons aIone."

- Do not mock me.

- "I'm gonna, Iike, go through

the college years, like, alone."

- Okay, that

- "You know, l don't need you,

Captain.

l'm gonna resuscitate

my half-dead marriage alone."

- Zip it

You kindly zip it

- Please, for once in your life,

go it alone.

- GIadIy!

Good day, sir.

- A good day.

- You just don't like it

because l'm on an upswing.

- Oh, my God.

[splashing]

[gulls cawing]

- Merton regarded his solitude

as something sacred.

Merton?

Burton.

Milton?

MiIton.

Milton regarded his solitude

as something sacred.

[knocking at door]

[sighs]

- Hey.

Sorry, l'm a little early.

- No, no problem.

l'm sorry, l forgot your name.

- Oh, that's okay.

l forgot yours too,

but l was thinking

that it was Paul

or Steve or Dave, maybe?

- Richard.

- Oh, okay.

That works.

- [chuckles]

- Oh, here.

lt's a Love-A-Lot for the kid.

- Oh, well...

[clears throat]

Actually

- Um, so you just moved here?

Where from?

- Just the city.

- Oh.

- Yeah, it's only temporary.

My wife Claire is at New York

Presbyterian.

She's a vascular surgeon.

- Oh, wow.

ls that her?

She's cute.

- Oh, yeah, that's the doctor.

- My parents went through

a trial separation once too.

- What?

Oh, no, no. No, no, no.

That's not what's happening

here.

No, that's

no.

That's

l don'tis it?

- Well, you should probably

find out

- Huh.

- ls it sleeping, the baby?

- The thing about that baby is

are you thirsty?

- Um, no.

- Oh, look.

The baby is not here.

- What do you mean?

- Basically, l guess,

there is no baby...

as such.

- There's no kid?

- Nope.

- Well, sh*t

Then this will be easy.

So when do you think

you'II be home?

- Oh, 9:
00, 9:30.

- Okay, l got a lot of homework.

So have fun.

[toy squeaks]

- Okay.

- Only when the good

is unattainabIe

Do l start to feel like

I'm Iosing myseIf

And this deep secret

that hasn't come out yet

- Chickenshit

- ls buried down deep

With the rest

l can't coerce you

into this one

Jealousy lay all

your spells to bed

l'll choose unloved instead

- "'Self-loathing

is an underrated form

"'of psychological checks

and baIances:

"'never too high,

never too Iow,'

"thought Merton to himself

as he gazed into the rapidly

reddening bathwater."

Jesus.

- Lay all your spells

to bed

l'll choose unloved instead

[waves crashing]

- Don't say it

- Say what?

- l know what you're thinking.

- No, you don't

l was thinking about pantaloons.

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