Maurice Gee Quotes

And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing naked in his tiny kitchen in Hell as former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sings a Bee Gees disco song backed by a full studio orchestra and Robin and Maurice.

When I am a little drunk, and that is as drunk as I ever get, I lose my resentment and my fear and all knowledge of a social existence and know my being as molecular, like this wine in the glass, French wine, Swedish glass, or like the good cloth of my trousers that once was wool on the back of a Southland sheep, and grass before that, minerals in the soil, rain sucked from an ocean on the other side of the world... You see where I am heading? It is enormously comforting to make the journey into the universe and into time and understand that I come from there and will go there and that consciousness will be put aside....

ROSALIND. I don't intend to spend any more time in that hospital. If I'm going to be in a dank, disgusting little room, I may as well be here, where I might even gee some work done before I die. MAURICE. Please don't say that. ROSALIND. Why not? It's not pleasant? It makes you think about your own life? The inevitability of your own death? MAURICE. Yes. All of those things. ROSALIND. Well, no one can protect you from those. MAURICE. No. No I suppose not. ROSALIND. We lose. In the end, we lose. The work is never finished and in the meantime our bodies wind down, tick slower, sputter out. MAURICE. Like grandfather clocks. ROSALIND. Well this has been a pleasant conversation. MAURICE. Rosalind, I ... ROSALIND. So they really got it, did they? MAURICE. Yes. ROSALIND. Is the model ... is it just beautiful? MAURICE. Yes. ROSALIND. Well. We were close, weren't we? By god, we were close. MAURICE. But we Lost. ROSALIND. Lost? No ... We all won. The world won, didn't it? MAURICE. But aren't you at all ... ROSALIND. Yes, but .. . It's not that they got it first ... It really isn't ... It's that I didn't see it. I wish I'd been able to see it. MAURICE. I think you would have. A few more days, even. ROSALIND. So why didn't I get those days? Who decided I shouldn't get those days? Didn't I deserve them? (Beat.) I mean, if I'd only ... RAY. Been more careful around the beam. JAMES. Collaborated. FRANCIS. Been more open, less wary. Less self-protective. DON. Or more wary, more self-protective. JAMES. Been a better scientist. DON. Been willing to take more risks, make models, go forward without the certainty of proof. FRANCIS. Been friendlier. RAY. Or born at another time. FRANCIS. Or born a man.