The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63691   Message #1036323
Posted By: Little Hawk
15-Oct-03 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: How do you flirt with an Existentialist?
Subject: RE: BS: How do you flirt with an Existentialist?
Har! Har! I am reminded of the scene where Woody Allen attempts to flirt with the suicidal young woman in the art gallery, who is explaining to him how a certain painting evokes the totally bleak, hopeless, meaningless and transitory nature of our wretched human existence on this ball of earth here...

"What are you doing tomorrow?" he asks.

"Committing suicide." she replies coldly.

"How about next week then?" he says, tentatively, at which point she gives him a glacial and utterly disinterested glance and stalks off without a word.

Woody could have taught her a lot about existential despair, I think...

He also said, "Sex without love is an empty experience. But...as empty experiences go, it's one of the best..."

Funniest remark old Woody ever made, I think.

- LH