Showing posts with label Zen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zen. Show all posts

Sunday 5 June 2022

Do.






Politicians like to panic. 
They need Activity
it's their substitute 
for Achievement.


ROMANA
The clipboard marks the spot. 
I'll stand guard.

(The Doctor climbs through 
the hole and up a ladder. 
When he's out of sight, Romana 
enters and heads for a staircase. 
The Doctor reaches the top of the ladder.)

RORVIK
Is this what you're looking for, Doctor?

(Rorvik drops the clipboard.)

Tom : 
Look here, Rorvik. 
You've got to stop this back-blast. 
You'll kill us all.

RORVIK
So you say, Doctor. 
I say it's the only 
way out of here.

(Rorvik stands on the Doctor's fingers.)

Tom : 
You can't blast through those mirrors. 
You must realise by now it just 
throws the energy straight back.

RORVIK
They've got to break. 
Everything breaks eventually.

(He kicks the Doctor back down the ladder, 
comes after him and starts 
to strangle him with his own scarf. 
Romana arrives and tries 
hitting Rorvik with the clipboard.)

Tom : 
Never mind the clipboard, 
short the cables.

(The Doctor gives Romana the manacles.)

Tom : 
Drain the main power line. 
Earth it to The Ladder.

ROMANA
I know. I've done it.

(Rorvik lets The Doctor go and heads 
for the ladder to undo the damage.)

Tom : 
Biroc? What are 
you doing here?

BIROC
Nothing.

Tom : 
It's all right for you.

BIROC
And for You, Too : 
Do Nothing.

Tom : 
Do Nothing?

ROMANA
Of course, Doctor. 
Don't you see?

Tom
Yes, that's right
Do Nothing.

....if it's the right 
sort of Nothing.

(They join hands with Biroc and fade away. 
Rorvik has removed the manacles 
from the cable.)

RORVIK: 
Run, Doctor. Scurry off 
back to your blue box. 
You're like all the rest. 
Lizards when there's 
a man's work to be done. 
I'm sick of your kind. 
Faint-hearted, do-nothing
lily-livered deadweights
This is The End for all of you! 

I'm finally getting 
something done

Bwahahahaha!






MacDonald :
No. Watch.

Do.

No, no, no. 
Clean. Clean.

The Governor :
It seems the little fella's
not so bright after all.

MacDonald :
No. But brightness has never
been encouraged amongst slaves.

The Governor :
Oh, don't be so touchy, Mr MacDonald.
All of us were slaves once,
in one sense of the word or another.

Kolp :
If you feel the ape's unsatisfactory,
we can have him reconditioned.

MacDonald :
That isn't necessary.

The Governor :
You're quite right, Mr MacDonald.
But not for any of your 
bleeding-heart reasons.

Reconditioning. That's all
any of you ever think of, isn't it?

Don't you realise, if we were to take
every ape who disobeyed an order
and sent him back for reconditioning, 
Ape Management would become overcrowded.

Kolp :
It's the only thing that has any effect.

MacDonald :
Just makes them worse.

The Governor :
Some of them couldn't be worse.
I've been having a comprehensive list compiled.

Saturday 24 October 2020

Who is The Master That Makes The Grass Green?














Enkidu ate grass in the hills with the gazelle and lurked with wild beasts at the water-holes; he had joy of the water with the herds of wild game. But there was a trapper who met him one day face to face at the drinking-hole, for the wild game had entered his territory. On three days he met him face to face, and the trapper was frozen with fear. He went back to his house with the game that he had caught, and he was dumb, benumbed with terror. His face was altered like that of one who has made a long journey. 

-With awe in his heart he spoke to his father: 'Father, there is a man, unlike any other, who comes down from the hills. He is the strongest in the world, he is like an immortal from heaven. He ranges over the hills with wild beasts and eats grass; the ranges through your land and comes down to the wells. I am afraid and dare not go near him. He fills in the pits which I dig and tears up-my traps set for the game; he helps the beasts to escape and now they slip through my fingers.'

His father opened his mouth and said to the trapper, 'My son, in Uruk lives Gilgamesh; no one has ever prevailed against him, he is strong as a star from heaven. Go to Uruk, find Gilgamesh, extol the strength of this wild man. Ask him to give you a harlot, a wanton from the temple of love; return with her, and let her woman's power overpower this man. When next he comes down to drink at the wells she will be there, stripped naked; and when he sees her beckoning he will embrace her, and then the wild beasts will reject him.'

So the trapper set out on his journey to Uruk and addressed himself to Gilgamesh saying, 'A man unlike any other is roaming now in the pastures; he is as strong as a star from heaven and I am afraid to approach him. He helps the wild game to escape; he fills in my pits and pulls up my traps.' 

Gilgamesh said, 'Trapper, go back, take with you a harlot, a child of pleasure. At the drinking hole she will strip, and when, he sees her beckoning he will embrace her and the game of the wilderness will. surely reject him.'

Now the trapper returned, taking the harlot with him. After a three days' journey they came to the drinking hole, and there they sat down; the harlot and the trapper sat . facing one another and waited for the game to come. For the first day and for the second day the two sat waiting, but on the third day the herds came; they came down to drink and Enkidu was with them. 

The small wild creatures of the plains were glad of the water, and Enkidu with them, who ate grass with the gazelle and was born in the hills; and she saw him, the savage man, come from far-off in the hills. 

The trapper spoke to her: 'There he is. Now, woman, make your breasts bare, have no shame, do not delay but welcome his love. Let him see you naked, let him possess your body. When he comes near uncover yourself and lie with him; teach him, the savage man, your woman's art, for when he murmurs love to you the wild' beasts that shared his life in the hills will reject him.'

Thursday 28 June 2018

Do Nothing (So Long as It's The Right Sort of Nothing)


Tom : 
Never mind the clipboard, 
short the cables.

(The Doctor gives Romana the manacles.)

Tom : 
Drain the main power line. 
Earth it to The Ladder.

ROMANA
I know. I've done it.

(Rorvik lets The Doctor go and heads 
for the ladder to undo the damage.)

Tom : 
Biroc? What are 
you doing here?

BIROC
Nothing.

Tom : 
It's all right for you.

BIROC
And for You, Too
Do Nothing.

Tom : 
Do Nothing?

ROMANA
Of course, Doctor. 
Don't you see?

Tom
Yes, that's right
Do Nothing.

....if it's the right 
sort of Nothing.

(They join hands with Biroc and fade away. 
Rorvik has removed the manacles 
from the cable.)

RORVIK: 
Run, Doctor. Scurry off 
back to your blue box. 
You're like all the rest. 
Lizards when there's 
a man's work to be done. 
I'm sick of your kind. 
Faint-hearted, do-nothing
lily-livered deadweights
This is The End for all of you! 

I'm finally getting 
something done

Bwahahahaha!
You know, I'm thinking, Spencer. 

I'm thinking how Rick threatened to kill me, 
how he clearly hates my guts. 

But he is out there, right now
gathering shit for me to make sure 
I don't hurt any of the fine people 
that live here. 

He is swallowing His Hate and 
getting shit done

That takes guts.

-- Negan.