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it?
    DEL : I think so. (
Pause
.) Days May Come and Go.
    DONNY : And May we Always be as …
    DEL : Yes.
    DONNY : As …
    DEL : Unified …
    DONNY : Well, let’s pick something more moving than that.
    DEL : Alright … be . be . be . be-
nighted
? No, that’s not the word I want to use … be-
trothed
…? No.
    DONNY : Close …
    DEL : Yes.
    DONNY : Close to each other.
    DEL : As we happen to be right now. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : Fine.
    DEL : (
Pause
.) And … May the Spirit of Friendship … (
Pause
.) oh, the hell with it. I mean, can’t people just have a drink … for the love of God? (
They drink
.) Bec, because I swear, because I think there’s just too much.
    In
trial
 … in
adversity
 … (
Pause
) and you can’t, you can’t go always look …
    DONNY : Go Looking for
answers
 …
    DEL : No.
    DONNY : … you’re absolutely right …
    DEL : In intro
spec
tion. (
Pause
.)
You know, at times of
trial
 …
    DONNY : hmm …
    DEL : Do you hear what I’m telling you?
    DONNY : Yes.
    DEL : … and they come for us all.
    DONNY : … Oh, Lord.
    DEL : Yes. They do. Then many times the answer comes. In reaching out. Or, do you know what? In getting drunk.
    DONNY : … in drinking.
    DEL : Be. Because, you know? Then you forget. (
Pause
.) And I don’t
give
a damn. (
Pause
.) In this
shithole
. (
Pause
.) Well. I’m not going to
dwell
upon it. (
Pause
.) You drink, and then, when you
remember
again—this is the good part—when you
remember
again … (
Pause
.) It’s later on. And time has dulled your, your … you know, for whatever portion of time that, that you for
got
. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : “You should get married.”
    DEL : “It would have to be someone nice.”
    DONNY : “We’ll find them for you.”
    DEL : “Would you?” (
Pause
.) Although we joke about it. (
Sighs
.) Do you want me to go and look at John?
    DONNY : He’s going to be alright.
    DEL : Are
you
alright, though?
    DONNY : Yes.
    DEL : I’m sorry that I didn’t find Robert.
    DONNY (
simultaneous with
“find”): … That’s
    DEL : I
looked
for him, but …
    DONNY : That’s al …
    DEL : I Didn’t find him. I suppose I thought that—in, you know, in addition to the things I said—that it wasn’t a good
idea
to have him come here. But what business is that of
mine
? (
Pause
.) None. None, really.
    DONNY : That’s alright.
    DEL : None at all. But I
looked
for him. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : (
Long pause
.)
Well
 …
    DEL : Worse things have happened, I suppose. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : … mmm.
    DEL : It’s such a shock.
    DONNY : However much we …
    DEL : What?
    DONNY : I’m sorry?
    DEL : However much …?
    DONNY : We could have anticipated it.
    DEL : How could we?
    DONNY : He tried to tell you.
    DEL : What do you mean?
    DONNY : He gave you the knife.
    DEL : I don’t understand.
    DONNY : The Odd Gesture. (
Pause
.) Isn’t it.
    DEL : I don’t understand.
    DONNY : You don’t understand the Gesture?
    DEL : No.
    DONNY : It was his going-away present. (
Pause
.) Going away. (
Pause
.) Big German knife. His war memento. Do you know the Meaning of it?
    DEL : … meaning …
    DONNY : You know what it’s for.
    DEL : The knife.
    DONNY : Yes.
    DEL : (
Pause
.) To cut things.
    DONNY : I mean the specific …
    DEL : The specific
purpose
? No. No. I mean,
no
.
    DONNY : It’s a
pilot’s
knife …
    DEL : … yes. I know that …
    DONNY : If he was forced to
parachute
 …
    DEL : Yes.
    DONNY : The pilot would use it to cut the
cords
. If his parachute snagged.
    DEL : Huh. If it snagged. On, on what?
    DONNY : On a tree.
    DEL : Oh, you mean when he landed.
    DONNY : Yes.
    DEL : Huh. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : And that’s the meaning. (
Pause
.)
    DEL : … yes …
    DONNY : When he was forced to abandon …
    DEL : Yes. (
Pause
.) When he was forced to
abandon
his … (
Pause
.) He looked for
safety
, and the knife, it cut … It “released” him.
    DONNY : Yes. That’s right.
    DEL : … as
any
tool …
    DONNY :