You Know You know I've been thinking With all these cars in the road And with all these crazy heedless drivers Nowadays you have to be more careful than ever when you drive.
I mean you're right.
You're very right You know I think that's the reason why I don't want to learn how to drive it gives me a very tense feeling Not all the time just when I'm riding in a car actually there's no reason to feel tense I mean if you just watch things closely.
There's nothing to worry about The drive for a few years you become very skillful at recognizing the trouble spots I guess so But what bothers me is those people that just turn in front of you without any warning I Mean doesn't happen very often, but when it does I can't even enjoy the trip.
I get so scared me, too Well actually I don't get scared It's a different but related kind of emotion It feels like all my senses and all my involuntary Reactions come together and they help to save me from an accident.
Oh, I understand At least I think I do but with me.
I don't think it would work that way I just get scared and freeze at the wheel That's how I am about all those kinds of situations.
I mean it's not just cars It's that everything mechanical is just completely beyond my understanding I know it upsets me to watch you trying to open a can I think you're the only person I've known who could murder himself with a can opener Everything mechanical You know little tubes that maybe comes in you turn them and the makeup comes up Yes for me half the time I turn them and nothing happens Then the other half of the time when they do go up I can't get them to go back down again Oh lately I don't turn them at all.
I just leave it in there take it out with a brush How do you do? I'm Bruno Kaufman and I'm not related to anyone else named Kaufman If that's what you're going to ask me and this is Sylvie Myers I feel I should tell you see you don't think we're just bursting in or anything like that We're friends of Sheldon's and he asked us What an interesting group of friends you have and your apartment too What I mean is it looks very different or very typical depending on your point of view What I mean is you would think it was set up for an expose and readers digest or do it yourself and playboy Theology nowadays is scientific now think about Moses and the burning bush We know it was exactly 4 p .m.
Now 4 p .m.
In Palestine the Sun would be And the bush right about here and Moses would be standing Here We know from Simon's and that Moses was nearsighted Don't ask me how we know but it's an accepted back Now to Moses it would seem as if the bush were much closer to the Sun than it would seem to a person with normal vision, huh? Well, obviously this doesn't entirely explain what Moses saw to understand that we must know something about the quality of the heat waves on the Sinai Peninsula and the 1964 study by car plus Makes that perfectly clear to us Sometimes I surprise myself with very strange thoughts They come to me when I'm walking down the street looking at people and things.
I Get the feeling that I'm all alone Like I'm invisible.
I Think no one can see me and yet I can see everything they do.
I can even read their minds know their intimate thoughts I know where they're going what they're doing.
I Guess you'd say I identify I do it so much.
It scares me It's an identity crisis.
I'm unsure of myself.
I don't know who I am.
I Keep pictures of myself My wallet's full of them and I keep checking them to make sure I'm still myself.
I Have to look at myself in the mirror.
I Look at myself for I don't know how long Sometimes I think I'm beautiful today And this is such a wonderful day and I've on such a lovely dress Unlike the style short for tight in the hips Or is it too tight? It didn't fit like this last week.
Why is it so tight? Gaining weight I know it I'm getting lots of weight That's why they're looking at me because I'm fat Last year was a very lovely party.
I can't remember what I've enjoyed myself as much It's funny.
I don't remember I think I'd remember a party like that.
Well, actually you do you really do But it's buried in your subconscious mind But I would guess that a psychiatrist could get you to remember Do you know a psychiatrist? Yeah, I guess I do well, then maybe you should go to see him be too upsetting for me Well, you shouldn't get upset about seeing a psychiatrist He's my father.
Oh That could be a problem you'd be embarrassed to tell him anything no I'd be embarrassed because I don't have anything to tell Hello Hello I Know what you're doing Well, it's very observant of you in fact, I would say you have excellent powers of observation Of course, that's just a spot judgment.
Actually, I have no real long -lasting knowledge of your powers of observation at all Do you know what I'm doing? No matter of fact, I don't I'm trying to attain some shara At a particular point my op -mon will unite with the Brahman.
I'll be at one with the universe Like Donald here.
He's at one with the universe He looks sick to an unbeliever perhaps Well, I certainly wish you the best of luck and I hope everything unites just like you wanted to I know what you're doing As a matter of fact, I hope you've forgotten that it might block you at becoming one with the universe.
No, I haven't forgotten In fact, I was wondering whether I should scream or not Of course that would only make a lot of fuss and trouble besides it was probably only your first time It looks so very amateurish Amateurish, I mean you look so incompetent I Didn't know that But now that you've said so I guess I'm glad you feel that way about it glad yes You see I started out a few years ago by acting cool and sharp Not just about this kind of thing but it marked my entire character I Would find myself becoming terse and brief Well truth of the matter is I saw it was happening and I decided to change To become more open if you see what I mean.
I became more receptive to the people and their personalities Everything in life even this kind of thing became more friendly and spontaneous I Suppose if you'd seen me then you would have thought that I was amateurish and incompetent But it wasn't true.
And so I began all over again acting sharp and silent and everything.
So again I changed now, maybe that makes me look incompetent and amateurish and I don't know what else but god I'm already four steps away from that and I'm not even 30 yet.
Do you understand? Hey mister, will you pick me up? It gets stuck sometimes and I'm not strong enough to pull it up Thank you, mister And where did you come from when did we start to But if you Know exactly how I feel There's danger in your lips there's danger in your touch your ice But it's still my heart There's danger in your hair There's danger in your skin There's danger when I walk Places you have Tell me that you'll swear to love me And I love you You know don't you how I've been making a very conscious effort lately to achieve a warm appreciation of all humanity.
Yes Well now I think that very gradually I'm beginning to feel the whole thing swing back the other way I Don't mean to imply that you're doing anything wrong But did you ever think that by being indecisive like that? You might tend to diminish the confidence people might otherwise have in you people Well me I'm people and I want very badly to have confidence in you.
Oh But you make it very difficult.
Oh By implying that you're gonna change sometime soon There's this statement that I've often admired what I mean is basically Is that one's friends and loved ones would appreciate having a person be very much the same in the long run from day to day There's this statement.
Oh, it could be very disconcerting.
I Mean all the time I've known you you've been yourself and I've liked you now You say you want to be some other way And I don't know if I like it or not Be true first unto thine own self what that's a statement I've often admired I mean I used to think you were very sincere about everything you did and said Well almost everything But now when you act funny like this, I just don't know anymore Well, the only sensible way to look at it is that I was still sincere even about my insincerity Well, I'll sleep on that You tired Oh dad aren't you was a matter of fact, no In fact, I'm very much awake in a mental way.
Of course.
Well with me, it's very different I'm tired mentally as well as otherwise Well in spite of that and realizing it's been a very tiring night.
I wonder whether you wouldn't mind moving a little bit closer I wouldn't mind.
I really wouldn't But as a matter of fact, the sheet happens to be all bunched and wrinkled up And I'm just too tired to try to get it untangled now It's like I was saying before about can openers and things it's like it's mechanical and it's too much for me Well, you know, I don't have any such feeling about mechanical things.
I could get up I could walk around to your side of the bed and I could get in And then we could leave the tangled part all alone and maybe we work itself out by morning You're putting me on You
