I wonder if Don doesn't think that he has anything to lose. He's not happy at work (and did we all notice that Duck's only non negotiable in the deal was that Creative reports to him), Betty won't even let him in the house. Why shouldn't he leave?
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion. Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty? Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.
'Heart Of Gold'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
Vortex - Oct 14, 2008 7:45:45 am PDT #1582 of 11998
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Glamcookie - Oct 14, 2008 7:50:45 am PDT #1583 of 11998
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I thought Don was missing his kids when he saw the other two show up (and gave them his and Joy's room) and was calling his house to talk to them. I should have known that wouldn't be a Don move.
Roger has lost his damned mind.
More Joan, please!
DavidS - Oct 14, 2008 7:53:01 am PDT #1584 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
More Joan, please!
Always!
Joan Holloway Will Have Her Revenge On Sterling Cooper! t /Nirvana
Jessica - Oct 14, 2008 7:53:53 am PDT #1585 of 11998
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I think it was deliberate. He wants to disappear again, hence waiting until no one was around to make that call.
I meant deliberately defacing the book - I get why he wouldn't want the phone number or address or whatever lying around, but I don't think he even noticed he was tearing out The Last Page Of A Book vs The Nearest Piece Of Paper.
Barb - Oct 14, 2008 8:21:34 am PDT #1586 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
I don't think he even noticed he was tearing out The Last Page Of A Book vs The Nearest Piece Of Paper.
I'll have to go back and watch that scene again-- I think when I first saw it, I was fixating on how easily he'd said his real name and how whoever was on the other end of the line didn't seem to be surprised to hear that name.
lisah - Oct 14, 2008 8:27:36 am PDT #1587 of 11998
Punishingly Intricate
I get why he wouldn't want the phone number or address or whatever lying around, but I don't think he even noticed he was tearing out The Last Page Of A Book vs The Nearest Piece Of Paper.
What I thought was kind of contrived was that he obviously opened an address book to look up the number he called. Why not just write the info in there?
Barb - Oct 14, 2008 8:31:58 am PDT #1588 of 11998
“Not dead yet!”
Apropos of not much of anything, I think he's going to D.C.
I just went back and rewatched that scene and when it flashed on the page in his hand, I think I caught "Washington DC" scrawled across the page.
DavidS - Oct 14, 2008 2:06:54 pm PDT #1589 of 11998
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On alternate take on tearing out the page, ganked from Jezebel:
Don ripping out last page of book = Don trying to alter the course of his life so that it reaches a different conclusion.
TEH SYMBOLISM BLOWS MAH MIND, Y'ALL!!!
amych - Oct 14, 2008 2:07:43 pm PDT #1590 of 11998
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Pshaw. It's Faulkner. Nobody knows what the hell's going on by the time you get to the end anyway.
erikaj - Oct 14, 2008 2:14:38 pm PDT #1591 of 11998
Always Anti-fascist!
And Don strikes me as a guy who messes up books. Although I'm not very symbolic generally and haven't thought of it that way before.