Halfway Nowhere
July 16
 
Navin Johnson (Steve Martin in “The Jerk”):

I know we’ve only known each other for four weeks and three days … but to me, it seems like nine weeks and five days.

The first day seemed like a week.

And the second day seemed like five days.

And the third day seemed like a week again.

And the fourth day seemed like eight days.

But the fifth day you went to see your mother … and that seemed just like a day.

But then you came back, and later … on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other … that started seeming like two days.

So in the evening, it seemed like two days spilling into the next day … and that started seeming like four days.

So, at the end of the sixth day … on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days.

And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half.

I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.

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