Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
Jaeden Martell: Craig
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Craig : [narrating] When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde wrote that. We didn't read that book. Maybe we should have.
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[last lines]
Craig : [narrating] In the 21st century, I think our phones are how we are wedded to the world. If so, it's probably a bad marriage. There are a great many things I'm not sure of anymore. Reality itself, for a start. I do know one thing, however, and it's as solid as New England rock. When I die, when it's my time to go, I wanna be buried with empty pockets.
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Mr. Harrigan : No. There's something troubling me. Maybe you can explain it. I've been reading articles on this phone for a month now. And they've all been free.
Craig : Yeah?
Craig : No. I'm reading something for free that people pay good money for.
Craig : It's great, right?
Mr. Harrigan : No, it's not! Giving information away runs counter to everything I understand about successful business practices. The World Wide Web is like a broken water main, but instead of water, it's spewing information every which way. I don't understand. Is it a come-on or what? I'm asking, Craig.
Craig : Kind of like the Fryeburg Fair, where the first game is usually free.
Mr. Harrigan : And we're still on the first game. Fryeburg Fair. And there are no advertisements on these sites. Ads are the lifeblood of newspapers. How will they survive? I don't think this is a come-on. I think it's a gateway drug. I've already noticed that my Google search responses are on the side of financial information. It knows what I want. What's gonna happen when they close the water main? No more freebies. Oh, and false information becomes common and accepted as true. And what happens when they start using this to spread more nonsense than is already out there? Newspapers, journalists, politicians... All of us need to be very frightened by this gizmo.
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Craig : [after Kenny's death] I know it seems pretty obvious, but that was the first time it struck me that everybody, even assholes, have parents, families who miss them, cry for them. I stupidly thought that grief was somehow special to me.
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Craig : [reads at Mr. Harrigan's funeral service at the church, Ephesians 4:31 KJV] "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you."
