reminds me of a scene from the great play (and
movie) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Quote:
ROS (cutting his fingernails): Another curious scientific phenomenon is the fact that the fingernails grow
after death, as does the beard.
GUIL: What?
ROS (loud): Beard!
GUIL: But you're not dead.
ROS (irritated): I didn't say they started to grow after death! (Pause, calmer.) The fingernails also grow
before birth, though not the beard.
GUIL: What?
ROS (shouts): Beard! What's the matter with you? (Reflectively.) The toenails, on the other hand, never grow
at all.
GUIL (bemused): The toenails never grow at all?
ROS: Do they? It's a funny thing − I cut my fingernails all the time, and every time I think to cut them, they
need cutting. Now, for instance. And yet, I never, to the best of my knowledge, cut my toenails. They ought to
be curled under my feet by now, but it doesn't happen. I never think about them. Perhaps I cut them
absent−mindedly, when I'm thinking of something else.
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this is a great play, and if you ever have a chance to see it live, do so. otherwise, its a very entertaining movie with the likes of tim roth, gary oldman and richard dreyfuss. complete script is
here.
~james