Friday, 26 September 2014

Dysart Objective. What he says about himself

    • I'm lost 
    • I'm wearing that horse's head myself
    • I can't see it because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle 
    • I'm desperate 
    • I can't jump because the bit forbids me 
    • I handle children's heads 
    • I must presume to be more complicated at least in the area of my chief concern
    • I'm sorry. I'm not making much sense 
    • I can take no more patients at the moment. I can't even cope with the ones I have
    • I share this room with two highly competent psychiatrists
    • My names Martin Dysart. I'm please to meet you (meeting Alan's parents) 
    • I like it better than the other two (talking about Alan's advert jingles)
    • I was wrong I really do think that one's better (again talking about Alan's advert jingles)
    • I had this very explicit dream. In it I'm a chief priest in Homeric Greece I'm wrestling wide gold mask 
    • I've started to feel distinctly nauseous
    • I redoubled my efforts to look professional
    • I'd like to spend the next ten years wandering very slowly around the real Greece
    • I gave him the right answer 
    • I tried to discover none too successfully 
    • I shall find out on Sunday 
    • I want to have a look at his house so invited myself over 
    • I understood Mr. Strang doesn't approve( with Alan's mothers teaching of the Christian belief)  
    • I'm fascinated by the fact that Alan wouldn't ride 
    • I said the truth 
    • I've never been on a horse in my life 
    • I felt real alarm
    • I'm delighted to see you 
    • I don't quite understand 
    • I'd have thought he'd have wanted you to work with him 
    • I told you I'm married 
    • Antiseptic proficiency. I was like that in those dogs 
    • I see us in our wedding photo 
    • I sit opposite, turning the pages of art books on Ancient Greece. I still trial a faint scent of my enthusiasm across her path 
    • I wish there was one person I could take to Greece, and stand in front of certain Shrines... and say "Look!" life is only comprehensible through a thousand local Gods 
    • If I had a son, I bet you he'd come out exactly like his mother
    • I'm sorry about our row yesterday
    • God then leave me behind
    • I can hear the creature's voice. It's calling me out of the black cave
    • I can trace them. I can even, with time, pull them apart again.
    • What am I doing here? I don't mean clinically doing or socially doing. I mean fundamentally
    • I haven't seen him, I cancelled his appointment this morning. 
    • I am almost tempted to play the real trick on him 
    • I shrank my own life 
    • I settled for being pallid and provincial, out of my own eternal timidity. 
    • I need her sympathy mixed with resentment... I tell everyone Margaret's the puritan, I'm the pagan. 
    • I say "What instinctual truths were lost with it"
    • I sit looking at pages of centaurs trampling the soil of Argos. 
    • I watch that woman knitting, night after night - a woman I haven't kissed in six years- and he stands in the dark for an hour, sucking the sweat off his God's hairy cheek.
    • Can I make it up to you now? 
    • There's a sea - a great sea - I love... It's where the Gods used to go to bathe 
    • There's a village I spent one night in, where I'd like to live. It's all white
    • I don't actually enjoy being a Nosey Parker you know
    • I'll take it away 
    • I need more 
    • I cannot call it ordained of God I can't get that far

1 comment:

  1. Fantastic work- really thorough and I can see it will have taken you ages! Hopefully you've found it useful to mine the text and discover more about the character. It will certainly help as you delve further into off text improvisations.
    An interesting thing to do with this work now is read it out loud, now that it's not hidden in the rest of the text. I think it reveals the character's thoughts and objectives more clearly, helping you to identify objectives that perhaps weren't so obvious before.

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