a peripatetic life...

Most of us go forward presuming that the future will resemble the present. We have an address. We follow a profession or a trade. On nearly all the nights of our lives, we go to bed knowing what we will do the following day, absent the intercession of good or bad luck. None of these observations typifies Neutrino. He is profoundly responsive to impulse. He does not always appear to have a reason for what he does, and sometimes he goes about things so awkwardly, even ineptly, that he brings on himself and the people around him difficulties that might not otherwise have arisen, but he has ardently imagined who he might be, and he has fearlessly embodied what he imagined. His past is one long poem to the random life. I wouldn’t have wished to enact it myself, nor would I care to have taken part, but I respect the achievement.


Page 9, The happiest man in the world
Alec Wilkinson



SHE: They are so right, your friends.
You have such a good heart,but you're still so messed up.
And you're trapped in the past.
I can't go there with you.
I can't rescue you.
I've tried that kind of thing before.

It doesn't work.

Good night.

HIM: Okay, that's it?
You're just gonna bail?

SHE: Captain Fantastic.
You would love that, wouldn't you?
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm just...
Just home,'cause the night's over.
You know exactly where to find me and that's what scares the shit out of you.
The fact that I am real.
Not some ghost.
So call me.
Don't call me.
The choice is yours.


Californication

Season 4, episode 12