MAGDALENE:
"‘I couldn’t care less. I do it
for the fitness.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘And a good job you do at that,
I must say. But still, a shame
you’d deny yourself the pleasure
of the sight.’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘Are you hitting on me?’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘I am merely proclaiming that I
enjoy the view from up here.’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘Proclaim in silence then. I
care none for your words.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘Do you treat all strangers
with the same disrespect?’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘Do you?’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘Excuse me?’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘You suppose I sweat buckets
running up this hill to listen
to some intellectual’s
revelations about the beauty of
nature?’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘No, I reckon you do it for the
superficiality.’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘And you? You do this for the
inner authenticity?’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘Perhaps there is no sense
talking to you.’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘I’ve been hinting at that from
the moment you opened your
mouth.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘Yet I cannot let this slide.
Do you wish to be admired but
not approached?’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘Neither by the likes of you.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘Ah, but what is it then? What
of my approach is
unsatisfactory?’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘I’m here to sweat buckets, not
to be lectured about the
purposelessness of vanity.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘I wouldn’t agree that vanity
is without purpose.’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘Stop trying to rope me deeper
into your advances.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘But it is you who keep
responding to me, hinting that
perhaps you do wish for your
admirers to sweat buckets in
order to get through to you.’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘Playing hard to get, as you’d
say, were you not pretentious
with your words.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘Indeed.’"
MAGDALENE:
"‘I can assure you that’s not
happening. I ran up this hill,
I’ll rest here and run back
down. I have no desire to be
approached by potential
contenders for my womb.’"
LEVITICUS:
"‘Is that what you think this
is? Attempts of physical
satisfaction?’"
