But after Lee shows up – pretty much back from the dead – baring his soul about their past deeds together, complementing Arby's new line of work (plumbing: appeals to a meticulous mind), and then slyly blackmailing him into coming back, it looks like Arby is surrendering to his old self, giving up on "Peter/Petrie".
In his reading, the Distracted Couple buys a house, bears a child, breaks up, argues over a deed, gets back together, commits adultery, and smashes photos.
"Why are all these good-deed-doers coming together around us?
We should use our words and deeds to bring Americans together".
"They did not need words to bind them together; their deeds were the requisite bond".
Our identities as father and son had already been written out in the deeds of our life together; Sonny changing my nappy, not losing his temper in my teenage contrariness, encouraging me in my education and the summers we shared on building sites when I worked alongside him while still a student.
Moral coherence insists that "deeds and consequences" come together.
"All of us, no matter what party we belong to or what views we hold, should not only say loudly and clearly that violence has no place in our politics, we should use our words and deeds to bring Americans together," she added.
Reagan: It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.
