Texts from Jane Eyre

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just leave them by the door

Don Quixote
     Dulcinea
DULCINEA
BESTIR YOURSELF
dragons -
 dragons everywhere -
     where are there dragons?
  where are you?
     I am beset by dragons, my love!
there has been perfidy
in this strange land of iron islands
 and wraiths that drape themselves in steam
     are you in the kitchen? 
     no kitchen could produce a bellow so terrifying
nor a stench so foul
 as that of these steel dragons
     i think you are in the kitchen 
     they perch upon nests of flame!! 
     yes
you are absolutely in the kitchen
  that is the tea kettle
     I WILL SLAY THEM ALL 
     please do not stab my tea kettle 
     ah, dear one
your concern for my safety does you credit
but a man must be brave
where is my steed
where is Rocinante
 I REQUIRE SWIFTNESS

Hamlet
    Part II
     Did you just take a tray up to him 
     up to who? 
     
 Don’t do that
     don’t do what 
     Pretend you don’t know who I’m talking about 
     well he needs to eat
I don’t know what to tell you
  he’s a growing boy and he needs to eat
     How old is he? 
     I don’t understand what that’s supposed to mean 

     I mean
 how old does he have to get before he stops growing
     People are always growing 
     He’s 37 
     He’s still in school! 
     He can eat dinner with us like a normal human being or he can
 wait until breakfast like everyone else
     I can’t believe you 
     Maybe if you didn’t let him sleep in until noon
 he’d be hungry at dinner
     Maybe if you talked to him he wouldn’t want to stay
  in his room all the time

René Descartes

     are you up
i can’t sleep
what if there’s an evil demon as clever and deceitful as he is powerful
 who has directed his entire effort to misleading me
     i don’t know
i guess that would be awful
  go back to sleep
     what if that’s just what the evil demon wants me to do 
     i don’t know 
     oh my god
what if i’m asleep already
what if i’m dreaming right now
 and all of my perceptions are false
     i don’t know
then I guess it doesn’t matter
  so you might as well just go back to sleep
     how can you think of sleep at a time like this 
     well i usually am asleep at three in the morning
  it’s a habit of mine
     maybe you just think it’s a habit of yours
 maybe the evil demon is deceiving you too
     maybe 
     what is a dream but a series of lies designed to keep us
 immobilized in a dark room for hours at a time
     that’s a good point
i’m going to go back to sleep and i’ll think about that while i’m
  dreaming
     that sounds like something an evil demon would say 
     guess I’ll just have to take that chance 
     are you really going back to sleep
are you sleeping
don’t go to sleep
 i want to talk about math

William Wordsworth
     hi 
     hey 
     how are you 
     pretty good thanks! 
     good
good
thats good
im glad someones doing good today
thats good
 for you
     how are you doing, William? 
     oh dont worry about me 
     I’m not worried 
     no need to worry about how im doing 
     I’m just asking
  how you’re doing
     ahhhhhhhhh
i just feel like
a cloud
you know?
 like a cloud looking at flowers
     oh
  I’m sorry?
     just a lonely old cloud
made of vapor and sadness
and whatever else clouds are made of
looking at flowers
wandering
 alone
     William
  do you want me to come over?
     no
i dont care
 i dont want to bother you
     it’s no trouble 
     how can you even visit a cloud
too busy wandering
lonely
 over hills and things
     do you want me to come over? 
     that would be nice
yes
 please

Hamlet
    Part III
     they had the little crunchy things in them 
     oh honey I’m sorry
  I thought I picked all of them out
     well
 you didnt
     do you want something else? 
     no 
     are you sure? 
     i ate them anyway
they were okay i guess
i guess i dont mind the little crunchy things that much
  :)
     that girl keeps calling for you by the way 
     tell her im not here 
     are you

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