House of Games

Excuse me.

Excuse me!

Are you Doctor Margaret Ford?

Yes.

Could I ask you, would you sign my book?

Yes, of course.

I recognised you from your picture.

- I hope I'm not inconveniencing you.

- Not at all.

It's for a friend.

It's the second one I bought.

Then I'm doubly pleased.

Thank you for buying it.

You've helped me very much.

I'm very glad I have.

Thank you.

Goodbye.

And I saw the face of an animal.

And I said that we all try

to run from experience -

from experience, do you understand me? -

but that it will seek us out.

You think that you're exempt?

I'm talking to you.

Do you think that you're exempt?

Do I think that I'm exempt?

That I'm exempt from what?

- Experience.

- No, I don't think that I'm exempt.

Well, you'd better be assured you're not.

- What is the animal?

- The animal?

You said in your dream,

you saw the face of an animal.

- I don't know how to say it. It was...

- Yes?

It was a... I...

I want to say...

I don't know how to say it.

- I'm so sorry I'm late.

- That's OK.

You've eaten. Good.

- How are you today, Maggie?

- I'm fine.

Listen to this.

In her dream, she saw a foreign animal.

"What is the animal?"

She cannot think of the name.

The animal is saying

"I am only trying to do good. "

I say "What name comes up

when you think of this animal?"

- She says...

- Yes?

"It is a lurg. It is called a lurg. "

If we invert "lurg", a "lurg" is a "girl".

So she is the animal and she is saying

"I'm just trying to do good. "

And now someone has hurt her.

Good, Maggie.

Good for you. Good work.

- And now, what are you going to eat?

- I don't have time.

It's so beautiful.

It's old and it's heavy.

It looks like someone gave it to you.

- I think the only pressures in my life...

- The only what?

- I'm sorry?

- You said "the only pressures".

- Pleasures. I said "pleasures".

- No. What you said was "pressures".

This is what I'm telling you.

Many things that should

be pleasures are not.

Your book is a best seller,

your income jumps up.

People think of you differently perhaps.

This is confusing.

Listen to me. Slow down.

Try to enjoy your success.

Give yourself all the rewards

you would like to have.

You see a beautiful gold lighter.

Buy one for yourself.

Your friend asks you to lunch.

Go and eat lunch with her.

- Do you forgive me?

- No.

Bye.

Go work.

- A sort of a...

- A what?

I don't know.

A feeling of nothingness.

- What does that make you think of?

- Leave me alone, for Christ's sake.

What does it matter? It's in my head

or not, it doesn't make a difference.

- Billy...

- What? I'm entitled to my feelings?

What the hell does it matter?

It matters if you're going to cure yourself.

If I'm going to cure myself?

- And what do I do now?

- What do you do now?

No, what do I do today?

What do I do tomorrow?

Today and tomorrow, you say this:

"I am a compulsive gambler.

The reasons for this are in the past. "

Oh, man. I don't know.

What am I doing here?

You're here to take control of your life.

You wanna know something?

What the hell do you care?

You're rich. You're comfortable.

You got your goddamn book you wrote.

All the time you wanna help me,

you don't do dick, man.

You and your goddamn book, it's talk.

It's just talk.

The whole thing is a con game.

You do nothing.

This doesn't help me.

You want to help me?

You want to help me?

Help me with this.

Help me with this if you can.

Because if not, I gotta use it.

- To use it for what?

- Aren't you gonna ask me, is it loaded?

- To use it for what?

- To use it to kill myself, or...

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