"You didn't see that ending coming?" Bernie asked.
"No, because I wasn't looking for it," Billy replied. "When I see a movie, I don't like trying to figure out what's going to happen, like you always do. Me, I prefer to take it all in -- the characters, dialogue, the scenery. You know, I heard Mr. Shepard say once that back in Shakespeare's time, at the front of the playhouse they would print the plot of the play, so when you were going to see Hamlet, you already knew what was going to happen. Called it the 'argument,' was what Mr. Shepard said. People did that back then because they were there to hear what the playwright wrote, and how the actors played their parts. They didn't care about surprise endings."
"Didn't know thou likest Shakespeare."
"Shakespeare? Hate Shakespeare. But people back in those days, they had it right about the argument."
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