Memorable Quotes from Erik MacArthur
1 quoteUncertainty and Curiosity Among Friends
David/Bud
What's going on?
Jennifer/Mary Sue
I'm not sure. Um… They wanna ask you a question... I didn't know how to handle it. So....
David/Bud
Sure. How you doin'? You wanted to ask me something?
[to the others]
Tommy
How'd you know about the ]?
[[fire]
David/Bud
What?
Tommy
How'd you know how to put it out and all?
David/Bud
Oh. Well — where I used to live, that's just what firemen did.
Tommy
And where's that?
David/Bud
Um... Outside of Pleasantville.
Tommy
Well, what's outside of Pleasantville?
David/Bud
Look it doesn't matter. It's not important.
Tommy
What's outside of Pleasantville?
David/Bud
It's really not important.
Margaret
What's outside of Pleasantville?
David/Bud
There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a ]. There are some places where the road keeps going.
[[circle]
Margaret
Keeps going?
David/Bud
Yeah, yeah — it just keeps going — it all keeps going. Roads and rivers and …
Will
Like the "Mighty Mississippi.
David
What?
David/Bud
I thought the ] were blank?
[to Jennifer/Mary Sue; [books]
Will
They were.
Jennifer/Mary Sue
Okay, this was NOT my fault. When they asked me what it was about I didn't remember because I read it like back in tenth grade. When I told them what I did remember, thats when the pages filled in.
David/Bud
The pages filled in?
Jennifer/Mary Sue
But like only up to the part with the raft, because that's as far as I read.
Tommy
Do you know how it ends?
David/Bud
Yeah… I do.
Margaret
So how does it end?
David/Bud
Well, um — okay, let's see…. they were running away — Huck and — and the slave.... they … they were going up the river, trying to get ]…. and — in trying to get free … they see that they're sort of free already…. Oh my ].
[[Freedom|free; The pages fill in by themselves, completing the book; [God]
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