Dialogue conceived in the middle of the night as an experimental column and written down the following morning in bright light:
CARL: I don`t know where the days go.
SAM: The days don`t go anywhere.
CARL: They go too fast.
SAM: Days don`t go fast. We go too fast.
CARL: If an orange is orange and they call it an orange, why don`t they call a lemon ”a yellow”?
SAM: They just don`t.
CARL: That`s not an answer.
SAM: There is no answer to that question. We keep looking for answers and sometimes there aren`t any.
CARL: How can you tell when there might be an answer and when there won`t ever be one?
SAM: There is no answer to that question.
CARL: We need a better system at the office.
SAM: To do what?
CARL: All the things we don`t get done.
SAM: Give me 10 good people. You can have the system.
CARL: Is there anything you don`t understand?
SAM: Just one thing: How do we get a picture on the television set in our living room by putting a metal pole on top of the house?
CARL: That`s all done by waves that come through the air.
SAM: I`ve looked up in the air. How do they make them come in color?
SAM: Do you think this works for a column?
CARL: Listen, if you don`t try something, you never know.
SAM: That`s true. Now we know.
