have no soul
I, uh, I got no soul. You know what I mean?Deconstructing Harry · 1997 — 第 8 / 17 章 · 2'49" · C1
Harry Asks Cookie to Come Along, Explained：on the house
Harry is paying for company, but what he really wants is someone to talk to. He runs through his usual material — no soul, a universe falling apart, Sophocles saying it is best not to be born — and Cookie answers it with "It's on the house, no charge." The transaction is the only honesty in the room.
あらすじ
Harry spends the night with a prostitute, Cookie, talking about his dead-end life and quoting Sophocles on how it is best never to be born. She offers him a free session because his medication clearly isn't working. He asks her to come with him to his old university, where he is being honored, then leaves a message begging Fay not to marry.
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come aparton the houseshare it withhooker money
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このシーンの表現
on the house
free, paid by the house
Cookie gives this round away because she thinks his pills are useless.
Dessert is on the house tonight.
このシーンの他の表現
- come apart
fall to pieces
- share it with
tell or give it to someone too
- hooker money
cash set aside for prostitutes
- get this message
receive this recording
- make it believable
make it seem true
このシーンのメモ一覧
43 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ
in my younger days
When I was younger, it was less scary waiting for lefty than it is waiting for Godot.comparative structure: Less ... than compares two kinds of waiting; the second is scarier.
When I was younger, it was less scary waiting for lefty than it is waiting for Godot.Waiting for runs together as waitin-fer.
When I was younger, it was less scary waiting for lefty than it is waiting for Godot.fall to pieces
Asked about his soul, Harry looks up and talks about the universe falling apart.
You know that the universe is coming apart?a black hole
Do you know about that? You know what a black hole is?earn one's income
Yeah. That's how I make my living.slightly too late
Honey, it's a little too late for that.emerge, be born
I didn't want to come out. They had to come in and get me.negative infinitive: The negative goes before want, not before the infinitive.
I didn't want to come out. They had to come in and get me.free of charge
It's on the house, no charge, 'cause them pills you taking sure as hell ain't working.reduced relative clause: A spoken reduced clause: them pills you taking means the pills you are taking.
It's on the house, no charge, 'cause them pills you taking sure as hell ain't working.Them weakens to thəm and pills you links.
It's on the house, no charge, 'cause them pills you taking sure as hell ain't working.am not — Nonstandard speech; keep it out of writing.
It's on the house, no charge, 'cause them pills you taking sure as hell ain't working.definitely — Forceful and casual; avoid in formal talk.
It's on the house, no charge, 'cause them pills you taking sure as hell ain't working.working the streets — Street slang; not for writing.
Hustlin'.no one to share it with
I got nobody to share it with.go up together here it means go up together, not invent
Sleep here tonight, come up with me tomorrow.why
How come you got all this money?pay with a check
I always keep hooker money around 'cause I once paid by check years ago and the IRS killed me.Paid by check links, and the d often drops.
I always keep hooker money around 'cause I once paid by check years ago and the IRS killed me.ruined me — Hyperbolic; too loose for elders or work.
I always keep hooker money around 'cause I once paid by check years ago and the IRS killed me.if there is still time
Fay, when you get this message, if it's not too late, I don't want you to get married because I love you and I want to marry you.be quick about it
Uh, we'll have to make it fast.make it seem true
Fay agrees to meet but doubts she can keep the act up for long.
I can't make it believable for so long.go for a walk
Think I'll take a walk.「Harry Asks Cookie to Come Along」を読み解く
What's really going on
On the surface this is just a client and a sex worker killing time. Underneath, Harry is auditioning everyone in his life for the one thing he cannot buy: a witness. He tells Cookie the universe is coming apart and that he never wanted to be born, and she refuses to play along — "It's on the house, no charge, 'cause them pills you taking sure as hell ain't working." When he invites her to his honoring, he admits the real wound: "I got nobody to share it with." Even the message he leaves Fay is less a proposal than a plea not to be left alone. Nothing in the scene is really about sex or the ceremony; it is about a man who cannot stand his own company.
Theme
LonelinessHarry can talk about black holes but has no one to share his biggest moment with, so he pays for company.
Dark humorThe universe falling apart and Sophocles on never being born become small talk for a client and a hooker.
このチャプターで学べること
- A free round is Cookie's way of saying the pills failed.
- Harry hides despair inside cosmic small talk.
- Sophocles is quoted to make hopelessness sound old.
- The invitation matters more than the money.
発音のポイント
- waiting for — Waiting for runs together as waitin-fer.
- them pills you — Them weakens to thəm and pills you links.
- paid by check — Paid by check links, and the d often drops.
You know that the universe is coming apart?Harry's way of describing his own collapse — he can't say he is falling apart, so he projects it onto the whole universe.
It's on the house, no charge, 'cause them pills you taking sure as hell ain't working.Cookie refuses payment because she can see his medication isn't helping. It is both a kindness and a blunt diagnosis.
I got nobody to share it with.The real reason he keeps talking: he is being honored and has no one to bring, which is why he begs Cookie and then Fay to come.
When I was younger, it was less scary waiting for lefty than it is waiting for Godot.A literary joke about waiting: as a young man he could wait on the promise of change, but now he is just waiting like Beckett's characters, for nothing.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Cookie refuse Harry's money?
She says the session is on the house because the pills he is taking clearly aren't working. She isn't being sentimental — she can see that what he actually needs is company, not sex.
Who is Fay, and why does Harry call her?
Fay is the woman Harry loves, and she is about to marry someone else. In his message he asks her not to go through with it, but the call is really his last attempt to hold on to someone.
Why does Harry quote Sophocles?
To explain his mood with borrowed authority: Sophocles supposedly said it is best not to be born at all. Harry uses the line to dress up his own despair as philosophy.
Why does Harry keep cash for prostitutes?
He explains that he once paid a sex worker by check and the IRS came after him, so now he always keeps cash on hand. It is a joke that doubles as a portrait of his life.
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