Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 154 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT When You're Weak
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.01.2013
Every Will up the tree, all the way back, squeezes his eyes shut, willing her out. Subtract love and add hate, and she never made a fool of you at all.
When you're weak there's a favor you can do yourself. It's monstrous, it's a form of suicide, and of magic. At midnight with a candle lit, you reach into your chest and find a delicate apparatus there, a bell that rings only for her, a clockwork bird that crows for her, lights up when she is there and goes dark and cold when she is not. And this is how you will survive, when you're weak.
There will always be a space ripped where that tiny little engine was, when it was working; you will have to find new ways to love, because that machine is gone, and cold. Stephen Crane, again:
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
“It is bitter -- bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
"Because it is bitter,
"And because it is my heart."
GOV OFC, PM
Peter's getting his coat on when Eli shows up, grinning almost literally from ear to ear, in his carnivorous way. The Eli Gold effect, in which everything produces the same kind of childlike, beautiful glee, no matter how ugly or compromised.
Eli: "Donna Brazile wants to meet!"
Peter: "I refuse to believe that's about..."
Eli: "The DNC doesn't just need a President, they need a VP too. Biden and Hillary would never bend for each other. They need new talent..."
Peter: "They need a stalking horse."
Eli: "I have a mangled understanding of that concept, because it is the way I live my entire life."
But oh, guess what: There's a problem. She's only in town Friday, the night Peter's already double-booked. Eli attempts to frown, but his mouth is both at once.
Peter: "Eli, I will be almost impressed to learn that you're pulling a..."
Eli: "Peter! I'm so sure I'd arrange a meeting with Donna Brazile, just to keep you from going to your wife's holiday party. Think it through."
Peter: "Okay. At most you're loving it, I guess. Donna doesn't play your dumb games. So fine. I will call my wife myself, though. I can spin it in a way that sounds like a human being, since I am one and you're just a brownie from under the hill who doesn't give a shit about anything."
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