serendiptious
Dean: What’s wrong? You all right?
Jonathan: Her name’s Sara Thomas.
[Jonathan hands Dean the book]
Dean: How?
Jonathan: Halley gave it to me as a wedding present.
Jonathan: So are you gonna meet
your boyfriend now or what?
Sara: No, I think he’s out probably doing what you’re doing.
Jonathan: Getting a crush on somebody else’s girlfriend? No, I’m sorry,
I just meant I had a really nice time. You know, maybe you should give me your
phone number. Just in case.
Sara: In case of what?
Jonathan: In case of life. I just had a really great time and for all we
know I wouldn’t be able to find you again.
Sara: Well, if we’re meant to meet again, we’ll meet again. it’s just
not the right time now.
Jonathan: Maybe we’re supposed to meet on British time and we’re five
hours too early.
Dean: Jonathan Trager,
prominent television producer for ESPN, died last night from complications of
losing his soul mate and his fiancee. He was 35 years old. Soft-spoken and
obsessive, Trager never looked the part of a hopeless romantic. But, in the
final days of his life, he revealed an unknown side of his psyche. This hidden
quasi-Jungian persona surfaced during the Agatha Christie-like pursuit of his
long reputed soul mate, a woman whom he only spent a few precious hours with.
Sadly, the protracted search ended late Saturday night in complete and utter
failure. Yet even in certain defeat, the courageous Trager secretly clung to
the belief that life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or
coincidences. Uh-uh. But rather, its a tapestry of events that culminate in an
exquisite, sublime plan. Asked about the loss of his dear friend, Dean Kansky,
the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and executive editor of the New York Times,
described Jonathan as a changed man in the last days of his life. "Things
were clearer for him," Kansky noted. Ultimately Jonathan concluded that if
we are to live life in harmony with the universe, we must all possess a
powerful faith in what the ancients used to call "fatum", what we
currently refer to as destiny.
Jonathan: …my girlfriend. Do you understand?
Sara: You don’t have to
understand. You just have to have faith.
Jonathan: Faith in what?
Sara: Destiny
Jonathan: Maybe the absence of
signs is a sign.
Jonathan: Let’s go do
something.
Sara: Alright, what d’ya wanna do?
Jonathan: I don’t care.
Sara: Alright, come on.
Dean: [Lying on the grass
with Jonathan, outside Sara's house] Maybe we’re lying here because you
don’t wanna be standing somewhere else.
