It was just this one moment where dude kinda broke out of the clench and didn't run, he just stood there. Catchin his breath. Eye swollen. No help in sight.
3. ""There aren't two boxers in the ring" @ The Sopranos" In response to Reply # 0
remember that episode of the sopranos in which Tony was talking to this old guy watching a boxing match and the old guy says that two boxers fighting on TV weren't really opponents, and weren't truly separate, that they were all part of the same continuum. The perception of individuality, of distinctness and apart-ness, was an illusion, he said: "The shape is only in our own consciousness.
That's what I thought about when I saw this.
I also thought about the old cartoon with the sheepdog and the wiley coyote would be decent to each other up until they punched the clock and then they would assume their roles as mortal enemies.
Oh shoot I just found the clip on youtube and it's even more on point than I thought.
I didn't remember that the sheepdog and the Coyote actually lived together!
I half way expected at the end of the video the cop and the black guy would get in the bed and go to bed together and resume the same struggle the next day.
powerful ish.
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