Daily Dialogue — December 18, 2015

Phil: Excuse me. Where’s everybody going?
Woman: To Gobbler’s Nob. It’s Groundhog Day.
Phil: It’s still just once a year, isn’t it?

— Groundhog Day (1993), screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, story by Danny Rubin

The Daily Dialogue theme next week: Denial, suggested by Liz Correal.

Trivia: The idea comes from ‘The Gay Science’, a famous book by Friedrich Nietzsche. In his book, Nietzsche gives a description of a man who is living the same day over and over again.

Dialogue On Dialogue: In the Five Stages of Grief, the first one is Denial. That’s where Phil is in this scene and subsequent ones until he relives the Groundhog’s Day celebration… again.