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Edison 2022-04-19 09:01:44

Sleeping and breaking the brain 2008-03-16 02:26:33

Conspire with me to rebel against the world

If you don’t live by convention, you have to find another way. If you don’t believe in God, you have to make your own decisions. Unfortunately, most mortals have the courage and lack of wisdom. If they are not careful, they will go astray and become lunatics. It's easy to be a lunatic, as long as you can deceive yourself, and there are many lunatic people in the lunatic asylum, like you, who believe that the problem is the world and not themselves. They refuse to wake up, thinking that what they believe is the truth, The world is bad and they prefer what they imagine to be real, so they will rebel against the world with you.

That's why in "The Broken Girl", Susanna, who is not crazy, is like a duck to water in a lunatic asylum. It was 1967, and she had lost her purpose in life after graduating from high school. She was not as busy going to college as others, and she had only one vague ideal for the future: writing. She had an affair with her classmate's father, was passive and world-weary, never quit smoking, and always fantasized about her own death. After being rescued by drinking 50 aspirin with vodka, he was asked to go to a mental hospital to "take a break". Here she made many friends: Polly, who was disfigured by self-immolation when she was a child, Daisy, who was sexually abused by her biological father, Georgina, a liar who was obsessed with the fairy tale "The Wizard of Oz", and so on. Of course, the most important thing was the leader of this group of crazy girls. Sociopath Lisa. She's charismatic, wild, and the queen of lunatics. She became Susanna's best friend.

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  • Daisy: You're just jealous, Lisa... because I got better... because I was released... because I have a chance... at a life.

    Lisa: They didn't release you 'cause you're better, Daisy, they just gave up. You call this a life, hmm? Taking Daddy's money, buying your dollies and your knick-knacks. And eating his fucking chicken, fattening up like a prize fucking heifer? You changed the scenery, but not the fucking situation - and the warden makes house calls. And everybody knows. Everybody knows. That he fucks you. What they don't know... is that you like it. Hmm? You like it.

    Susanna: [to Lisa] Shut the fuck up!

    Lisa: [to Susanna] Hey man, it's cool, it's okay. It's fine, it's fucking fine! A man is a dick is a man is a dick is a chicken... is a dad... a Valium, a speculum, whatever, whatever.

    [then turns to Daisy]

    Lisa: You like being Mrs. Randone. Probably all you've ever known.

    Daisy: Have fun in Florida.

    [she goes upstairs to her room]

  • Janet: I want my fucking clothes!

    Valerie: Then you'll have to eat something, won't you?

    Janet: [singing] Oh Lordy, pick a bale o' cotton / Oh Lordy, pick a bale o' hay / Gotta jump down spin around pick a bale o' cotton / Jump down spin around, pick a bale o' hay...

    Valerie: [to Susanna] She thinks that bothers me.