HAPPY: I get that anytime I want, Biff. Whenever I feel disgusted. The only trouble is, it gets like bowling or something. I just keep knockin' em over and it doesn't mean anything. You still run around a lot?
BIFF: Naa, I'd like to find a girl - steady, somebody with substance.
HAPPY: That's what I long for.
This scene was interesting to me. They've just finished talking about how they would love to go out to a ranch and make that their lives, rather than being salesmen. As the topic shifted back toward more immediate things, Happy's current lifestyle is shown as being empty. For all their talk about sex being the focus of their lives at one point, it seems that they no longer see it that way- but Happy at least goes through the motions. He even shortly after mentions that he hates doing it- but loves it at the same time. Why does Happy do this? Is it to cling to the memories of what made him, well, happy? Or has it gone long past that to the point where his past controls him, whether he enjoys it or not?
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