![]() I could do something in sports.We know from the start of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Broadway masterpiece Death of a Salesman that something is flawed, an element is wrong, and “an air of the dream clings to the place, a dream rising out of reality.” Whether that something is our hero Willy Loman’s stubborn hubris, the bitter resentment of his son’s Biff and Happy eventually exploding in the final act, or faithful wife Linda Loman’s insistence that attention must be paid, there’s something happening. Jerry: Well, it doesn't sound like you completely thought this through. George: This could have been a huge mistake. George: You can't just walk into a building and say "I wanna be a talk show host". Jerry: Well, that's where it gets tricky. Someone even told me once they thought I'd be a good talk show host. Sports, movies what about a talk show host? Jerry: But you gotta know how to work the projector. George: Do they pay people to watch movies? Jerry: Well, they tend to give those jobs to ex-ballplayers and people that are, you know, in broadcasting. You know how I always make those interesting comments during the game. George: Well, it doesn't even have to be the general manager. George: You know, like the general manager of a baseball team or something. : Just when I think you're the shallowest man I've ever met, you s.(to Jerry) Just when I think you're the shallowest man I've ever met, you somehow manage to drain a little more out of the pool. : Better food, better view, better TV, cleaner, oh, much cleaner.George: Stop it Kramer, you're freakin' me out. Kramer: Oh, I can barely see you, George. I was living in the twilight, living in the shadows, living in the darkness like you. I ignored the squalor in my own life because I'm looking at life, you see, through Jerry's eyes. Every time I went over to his house it was like a vacation: better food, better view, better TV, cleaner, oh, much cleaner. Kramer: Having the keys to Jerry's apartment - that kept me in a fantasy world. : I was clinging to those keys, man, like a branch on the banks of.I was clinging to those keys, man, like a branch on the banks of a raging river, and now I have let go and I'm free to go with the current, to float, and I thank you. : Now, you better tell me where Kramer is, or are we gonna have to.So he packed it up and split for the coast. Newman: You wanna know what happened to Kramer? I'll tell you what happened to Kramer. Jerry: We're trying to find out what happened to Kramer. Jerry: (to Newman) Now, you better tell me where Kramer is, or are we gonna have to do this the hard way? (Newman refuses to tell Jerry and George where Kramer is) ![]() Kramer: Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning? Kramer: Okay, like what? No, tell me! Do you have a job? George: I am not! What you call wasting, I call living! I'm living my life. George: I went to the hardware store interview.Ĭarrie: You think I'm going to spend my life with somebody because he can get me a deal on a box of nails? ![]() Sayonara.Ĭarrie: I've been thinkin' about it.
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