Rectify (TV Series)

Donald the Normal (2014)

Frances Fisher: Peggy

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• Peggy : [joining him in front of a painting]  What do you think?

  Daniel Holden : What do I think? Well, I think I have looked at this painting for so long in a in a book that somehow my brain has trivialized it. And, uh, now as I stand here in front of the real thing, I feel, if anything, disappointment.

  Peggy : Oh, that's too bad.

  Daniel Holden : Well, not at the painting itself. More at my brain, I guess.

  Peggy : I think the brain's afraid of being in a state of constant wonder. It's for safety reasons or something.

  Daniel Holden : I suppose it's inevitable.

  Peggy : Usually by the time we're four.

  Daniel Holden : Then there's the the issue of great expectations.

  Peggy : Something the brain doesn't seem the least bit interested in protecting us from.

  Daniel Holden : [chuckles]  No.

  Peggy : Well, I think we should reinstate wonder, banish expectation.

  Daniel Holden : I concur.

• Florine : Why on earth would you memorize Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the brain"?

  Peggy : It's a short story, Florine.

  Florine : I don't care if it was a haiku. It was sad enough to read. It'd be torture to memorize.

  Daniel Holden : No, it was it was calming, actually.

  Florine : Okay. More please.

  Daniel Holden : I don't know why, exactly. Well, it was it was during a period of my life where I was having some difficulties dealing with the passage of time, in a traditional sense. And since Mr. Wolff's short story deals partly with the bending of time, well, in memorizing it, or in taking the action of memorizing it, I too was able to bend time, in a way. Or at least... experience... it differently.

  Peggy : Nicely defended, Donald.