Anything Else

I didn’t sleep last night. I watched Woody Allen’s Anything Else twice. At 3AM, I was pausing and rewinding the DVD player to document what according to Falk is David Dobel’s astounding vocabulary.

I was not able to find the translation for “in eros veritas” and dictionary.com does not have the word vantz

You thought it would be exciting. It turned out to be hebetudinous
: lethargy, dullness 

You know, maybe next week, if you’d like, we could drive out to watch that intellectual comedian parade his amphigories for us.
: a meaningless or nonsensical piece of writing, esp. one intended as a parody.

There is truly a paucity of veridical talent in the world.
: fewness, insufficiency of number: genuine; real

I don’t need a rifle. I’ll probably wind up blowing my foot off.
                  
What is wrong with you? Are you such a maladroit you can’t keep a firearm without discharging it adventitiously?
: unskillful, awkward

What kind of charlatan would want you unarmed in this world?
: a person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.

I have it under control. Nothing that can’t be done with stevedores and some oxen.
: One who is employed in the loading or unloading of ships.

Falk, I’m telling you, she’s cheating on you, and you’re too typhlotic to see it.
Typhlosis, Falk. Blindness.

Have I…?
Read ‘House of the Dead.’
Oh, yes.
Yes, I have.
I found it surprisingly neoteric.
: modern

You know, it’s not in vino verltas.
: Latin expression meaning that when you drink alcohol you tend to get loose and sometimes say things you normally wouldn’t say had you not imbibed. Literal translation= “Truth in wine”

It’s in eros verltas.

You said it. You’re afraid to sleep alone. That’s the whole story.
You surround yourself with this farrago of baby-sitters, this loving-disabled sex kitten
who’s driving you crazy, the Jew manager, you know?
: medley, hodgepodge

Are you insane? Why did you tear this up?!
                    
Because you’re not spending five more minutes with this guy, much less seven years with this fumbling vantz who robs you blind with a sliding scale.

I can’t tell him it’s over, Dobel. I cannot…
                 
I’ll go with you. I’ll sit in the place while you tell him. I’ll give you moral support.
And don’t beat around the bush. Once you tergiversate, you’re lost.

And don’t tergiversate.
                 
Did I tergiversate with Harvey? Huh? No.
                 
I don’t even know what the hell ‘tergiversate‘ means, so how can I tergiversate?

: show reluctance