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You can't make any decisions because you don't know what you want. And you don't know what you want because you don't know who you are. And you don't know who you are because you're allowed to be anyone you want.

car i saw on the upper east side today.

us and jeremy shockey.

again.

us and coco.

us and ice-t.

Lapowinsa: Look, we not want to seem patronizing - after all, it's your duffel cloth - but we been in Mannahatta long time. And, sure, it seem dazzling and sophisticated at first. But living here? (He makes a skeptical face.) It not everything it cracked up to be.

Peter Minuit: (worried) Why? Is there a scourge? Warlike neighbors?

Lapowinsa: Not "scourge" per se. (Pinches fingers philosophically.) More like cultural pathology.

Peter Minuit: I don't follow.

Lapowinsa: You know, little things: like how people only interested in "what you hunt," not "who you are"; the relentless sarcasm; Fashion Week - oh, and how everyone always talking about Greenmarket! Seriously, it's just produce! It make you feel like social pariah because you don't like rainbow chard.

Calkanicha interjects.

Lapowinsa: Chief say chard thing even worse in Brooklyn.

-"Mannahatta" by Yoni Brenner, The New Yorker

'cause you know me, jon stewart...i'm old school, i don't be pullin' out.

man in black: morning.

jacob: mornin'.

man in black: mind if i join you?

jacob: [shaking his head] please. want some fish?

man in black: thank you. i just ate.

[the man in black sits down not far away.]

jacob: i take it you're here 'cause of the ship.

man in black: i am. how did they find the island?

jacob: you'll have to ask 'em when they get here.

man in black: i don't have to ask. you brought them here. still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?

jacob: you are wrong.

man in black: am i? they come. they fight. they destroy. they corrupt. it always ends the same.

jacob: it only ends once. anything that happens before that is just progress.

[the man in black stares at his compatriot.]

man in black: do you have any idea how badly i wanna kill you?

jacob: yes.

man in black: one of these days, sooner or later...i'm going to find a loophole, my friend.

jacob: well, when you do, i'll be right here.

man in black: always nice talking to you, jacob.

jacob: nice talking to you, too.

[the man in black stands up and walks away. planted just near and towering above the beach spot where jacob has made his breakfast is the four-toed statue of taweret.]

- lost, season 5 episode 16