Man Friday

Robinson Crusoe:
How can you worship a banana?

Friday:
Worship any way you like. So long as you mean it, the god won't mind.

Robinson Crusoe:
A jungle is hot and wet. England is... cold and wet.

Robinson Crusoe:
You can swim?

Friday:
Only in the water.

Robinson Crusoe:
Friday. I'm making no promises. If I have any spare time within the next year, I shall build us a seaworthy boat which will take us as far as your home. Perhaps.

Friday:
There is not enough love on this island.

Robinson Crusoe:
Love... What do you suggest? We should pray for a boatload of women to be shipwrecked on the beach?

Friday:
You're not dancing at all. Only your feet are dancing.

Robinson Crusoe:
What am I supposed to bloody dance with?

Friday:
I thought you said white man could not be killed by gun because of science magic.

Robinson Crusoe:
I laid that spell myself, Friday, so I can take it off when I like.

Friday:
The Romans *used* to live in Italty shaped like a boot?

Robinson Crusoe:
Correct.

Friday:
Where do the Romans live now?

Robinson Crusoe:
The Romans are all dead now. but that's not the point about the Romans. The point about the Romans is they had a great deal of *education*.

Friday:
I feel sorry for the Romans.

Robinson Crusoe:
If we live a bad life, when we are dead God punishes us. But a teacher can't wait until a pupil is dead, so a teacher punishes as soon as a pupil is bad.

Friday:
I think you are starting to sing, Master. But I do not think it is a true song.

Robinson Crusoe:
When we first met you were nothing but a savage, but I have educated you.

Friday:
When I first met you, you were a killer possessed by demons and I taught you how to sing and dance. Not very well, but I taught you that much at least. And your head was full of nothing but your own power, your own guilt, and the fear of a cruel god. But perhaps I was a very bad teacher, because your head is still full of thoughts of power and guilt and fear.