Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.
“A Constant Throb” · Season 3
In this episode: George Hearst (3), Al Swearengen (2), E.B. Farnum (1), Hugo Jarry (1)
Perhaps then, rather, at this moment--having had in fact no connection to the regrettable incident involving Mrs. Ellsworth--you are Socrates to my Alcibiades, taking it upon yourself to edify me?
Are you saying you want to fuck me?
[confused] What?
Well, you keep calling yourself Alcibiades to my Socrates. Are you proposing some sort of a homosexual connection between us?
I'd forgot that part of the story.
Tell E.B. nothing.
RRichardson
I'll just keep quiet.
No. Tell E.B. nothing's going on and then tell him, "If I wanted to tell you anything, I'd have told you. Don't send the imbecile over with no more notes."
RRichardson
I can't remember all that.
Can you remember "Nothing's going on"?
RRichardson
Yes.
Tell him that, then.
Have you smelt human flesh on the spit?
How would I have?
I know the smell.
You have been to and fro in the world.
It pleased me to find out.
How well do you know the other guy?
PPinkerton
Who would that be?
That my man Dority killed. The Captain.
PPinkerton
We served in the 69th in New York.
Was that a mick regiment?
PPinkerton
Yeah. What were you doing?
Cutting throats.
PPinkerton
I was asking whose flag you were under.
The famous cocksuckers brigade.
PPinkerton
Is that so?
Command of the all-whore detachment. Distress you, when my man downed your friend?
PPinkerton
Let me tell you something, Mr. Swearengen. You don't scare me, and you don't fucking know what happened with the 69th New York. I will tell you this: I didn't like what happened to Joe Turner. Mr. Hearst came to him and said, "Make it last, even if you gain the upper hand and can kill him." And I think that was halfway selfish of Mr. Hearst, whereas Joe could have killed your man and didn't, and look how it wound up. But that's as much as I feel like saying, and that's neither here nor fucking there.
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