Peter Shaffer 1926-2016 R.I.P.

영화 <에쿠우스>에서 이 대사 멋있었어요. 

HESTHER (Eileen Atkins): I mean he’s in pain, Martin. He’s been in pain for most of his life.

DYSART (Richard Burton): Yes.

HESTHER: And you can take it away.

DYSART: Yes.

HESTHER: Then that’s all you need to know, in the end.

DYSART:  No.

HESTHER: Why not?

DYSART:  Because it is his.

HESTHER: His?

DYSART: His pain. His own. He made it.

HESTHER: I don’t understand.

DYSART:  [silent]

HESTHER: Well, I don’t. There’s nothing meritorious about being in pain. That’s just pure old masochism.

DYSART:  I’m talking about passion, Hesther. You know what that word meant originally? Suffering. The way you get your own spirit through your own suffering. Self-chosen. Self-made. This boy has done that. He’s created his own desperate ceremony just to ignite one flame of original ecstasy in the spiritless waste around him. All right, he’s destroyed for it. Horribly. He’s virtually been destroyed by it. But one thing I know for sure. That boy has known a passion more ferocious than I have known in any second of my life. Now let me tell you something: I envy it.

HESTHER: You can’t.

DYSART:  Don’t you see? That’s what his stare has been saying to me all this time: “At least I galloped. When did you?”