{"id":3115,"date":"2015-01-05T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T08:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2023-02-09T00:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:51:28","slug":"blue-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=3115","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smoke&#8217; + &#8216;Blue in the Face&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u25ca &nbsp;\u00abSmoke\u00bb &nbsp;\u2193 &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Wayne Wang + Paul Auster&nbsp; 1995<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uem9TbvQpFk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sfy.ru\/?script=smoke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read <strong>SCRIPT<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>..\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwf.cz\/archivy\/texts\/articles\/paul-auster-smoke_699.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.pwf.cz\/archivy\/texts\/articles\/paul-auster-smoke_699.html<\/a>\u2190<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022\u2192 &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/institucional.us.es\/revistas\/estudios\/12\/09%20Gonzalez%20definitivo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SMOKE &amp; ILLUSIONS: AN <strong>INTERVIEW<\/strong> WITH <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/institucional.us.es\/revistas\/estudios\/12\/09%20Gonzalez%20definitivo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PAUL AUSTER<\/a>&nbsp;\u2190 <\/strong>[read]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2666 \u25ca&nbsp; &#8216;<strong>Blue in the Face<\/strong>&#8216;, a sequel to &#8216;<strong>Smoke<\/strong>&#8216;&nbsp;\u2193 highlights<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Auggie (Harvey Keitel) runs a tobacconist&#8217;s in Brooklyn, while Jim Jarmusch comes into the premises: he&#8217;s decided to quit smoking and he wants to have his last cigarette with his life-long provider. They both remember how they got into smoking, and the change of attitude towards smoking over the last few years. . .<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L43--K51AlU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>-Pack of Luckys?<\/p>\n<p>-You know what? No.<\/p>\n<p>-I&#8217;ll tell you what. I&#8217;ve got one&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/cigarette\">cigarette<\/a> left&#8230; and I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/decided\">decided<\/a> I was gonna come here, I&#8217;m&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/gonna\">gonna<\/a> quit. But I wanted to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/smoke\">smoke<\/a>&nbsp;this with you.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought, you know, \u00abLast cigarette,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/smoke\">smoke<\/a>&nbsp;it with Auggie.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>In fact&#8230; Hey, Jimmy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You&#8217;re&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/kidding\">kidding<\/a>&nbsp;me? I&#8217;m touched.<\/p>\n<p>-Would you take a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/picture\">picture<\/a> of me and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/Auggie\">Auggie<\/a>&nbsp;with my last cigarette?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You just push this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This is it, man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; All right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/Where\">Where<\/a>&nbsp;do you want me to stand?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I don&#8217;t know. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/Think\">Think<\/a>&nbsp;you&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/could\">could<\/a>&nbsp;come over here?<\/p>\n<p>All right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yeah. You just push this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This one?<\/p>\n<p>-No, this one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; All right?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bob, you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The last cigarette&#8230; with Auggie.<\/p>\n<p>-I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/touched\">touched<\/a>&nbsp;you&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/would\">would<\/a> want to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/smoke\">smoke<\/a>&nbsp;your last&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/cigarette\">cigarette<\/a>&nbsp;with me.<\/p>\n<p>-Twelve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/years\">years<\/a>&nbsp;I come in here. Luckys.<\/p>\n<p>-Wait, Jimmy. Your finger&#8217;s in front.<\/p>\n<p>-All right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; All right. Thanks, man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Good. You got it, Jimmy.<\/p>\n<p>-Good. Okay. You got it.<\/p>\n<p>-Thanks. So this is it. One more cigarette. I remember my&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/first\">first<\/a>&nbsp;cigarette, man.<\/p>\n<p>These&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/friends\">friends<\/a>&nbsp;of mine, they&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/stole\">stole<\/a> cigarettes from this store, Beeler&#8217;s Pharmacy. I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/still\">still<\/a> remember. It was like a suburb of Akron, Ohio&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/where\">where<\/a>&nbsp;I grew up.<\/p>\n<p>So we&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/walked\">walked<\/a> home along the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/railroad\">railroad<\/a>&nbsp;tracks.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/Opened\">Opened<\/a> the pack. I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/still\">still<\/a> remember. It was like a pack of Newports.<\/p>\n<p>We&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/smelled\">smelled<\/a>&nbsp;&#8216;em first. You know,that menthol. It&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/smelled\">smelled<\/a> like candy. Then we lit &#8216;em up. We&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/started\">started<\/a>&nbsp;inhaling, coughing.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/couple\">couple<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/minutes\">minutes<\/a> later, we&#8217;re sick, nauseous, dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>But we felt so cool. You know?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lS_hNUhGnk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/think\">think<\/a>&nbsp;one of the reasons I live in New York is &#8216;cause&#8230; I know my way around New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know my way&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/around\">around<\/a>&nbsp;Paris. 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I&#8217;m&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/scared\">scared<\/a>&nbsp;in my own apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m, I&#8217;m&#8230; You know. I&#8217;m&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/scared\">scared<\/a>&nbsp;24&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/hours\">hours<\/a>&nbsp;a day, but not&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/necessarily\">necessarily<\/a>&nbsp;in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/actually\">actually<\/a>&nbsp;feel pretty&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/comfortable\">comfortable<\/a>&nbsp;in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get scared like in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, it&#8217;s kind of empty. 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