Scene 36
HL gets up and walks over to the fella's table. He's standing right behind Slag.
HL: You better keep your comments to yourself bub. Otherwise things could get ugly.
Slag: You and what army?
HL: Don't temp me bub, don't temp me.
WE: Whatever, you chicken. You talk big but that's all it is, talk.
HL looks over at WE. His muscles tense but he resists temptation.
HL: Bah, I've got better thing to do than deal with a bunch imbeciles like you, guys.
HL returns to his table and resumes his conversation.
AK: Logan, what you just said before we were interupted is quite interesting. You seem to be drawing on Platonic philosophy.
HL: You mean that Plato believed that humans act out of interest for everybody, because the good of every other person, is good for the individual as well?
AR: Exactly. In a sense, Peter does seem to reflect that view. By helping others, he saves lives and averts disaster. However, he is also satisfied because helping others abaits the guilt he feels for his failures in life or at least what he perceives to be failures.
Slag and WE start laughing quite loudly. AR and HL stop their discussion and walk over to their table.
HL: As I said before, do you morons have a problem?
WE: Nope, just what you guys are saying is simply goofy. A couple of snobby college boys trying to sound smart.
AK: I have no reason to humble myself to your verbal comfort. If you find disdain for the way I verbally conduct myself, then let that be how you feel, rather than your assumption of my character.
WE: I think you just proved my point.
AK: Simpleton.
HL clenches his fists and a determined look comes over his face.
HL: Let's show them how "college boys" kick ass.
LL steps between WE/Slag and HL and AK.
LL(to HL and AK): That's enough out of you two!
HL/AK: What?
LL: You two have been rambling on and on trying to link the works of the great thinkers of western civilization to Spider-Man. Face it, as great as it is, its just a comic book. When Stan Lee created Spider-Man, he wasn't trying to teach people philosophy, he was merely attempting to entertain them.
AK: You obviously fail to comprehend our discourse. Therefore you chose to mock us. That's the reason for your diatribe against Logan and myself.
LL: Nope, its becaue you two are being goofy.
AK: Its incomprehension.
LL: Look, before you two were talking about pyschological egoism. That's essentially what Thomas Hobbes expoused in Leviathian. Hobbes clearly believed that there was no such thing as an altruistic act. So what. Do you think Stan Lee was influenced by that as well?
Before HL or AK can answer WE speaks up.
WE: Where did that come from Larry?
LL: What do you guys think I did at college?
Slag: Drink beer.
WE: Sleep with Co-eds.
Slag: Hang out at the Frat House.
LL: Well, of course I did that. But I went to class too. How do you think I got an A in philosophy?
WE: Didn't you sleep with the teaching assistant?
LL: No that was Calculus. Remember, she was the really hot blonde?
Slag: I remember her. She was smoking hot.
WE: Oh yeah.
LL: Anyhow the point is, I did more than party at college, I got an education.
HL: How nice. Who cares. We're still going to teach you losers a lesson.
AK: That's right, losers.
WE, LL and Slag look at each other.
LL: In the immortal words of Nike, let's do it.
A fight quickly breaks out and just as quickly is over. HL and AK lay knocked out on the floor.
WE: Time to go.
Slag: Looks like it.