Another character overhears a conversation on a bus about the weird successes of a psychic "restorer of lost loves" who operates a dingy clinic in south Tel Aviv.
Dutifully, she details her activities after quitting TV in the early 1990s - "I went to film school, I had my daughter, I wrote" - before making the short films that would eventually lead to one of cinema's slower, weirder overnight success stories.
There's something weird about these success stories, because these are tough times for the Chinese economy.
In part, that's how all science tales go -- they are full of failure, weird findings, unexpected success and egos.
All this wobbly flesh is a weird sign of success; why else would KFC be spreading its wings so rapidly across Africa?
They have these weird bursts of success every decade or so, and then they die: Joe Willie Namath's predicted Super Bowl title for Weeb Ewbank.
I got a job selling perfume door to door, which I did for a year with a weird kind of success – I'm sure the inner pain made my eyes blaze, so I was hard to ignore, even for strangers.
"I sort of failed systematically at least in terms of my own goals," Parker told Fallon of his history in the industry, "but somehow failure has transformed into a weird kind of success".
And the $31,000 benchmark sort of acts as a weird marker of success for those operating below the line: they're not even climbing the debt mountain, they're just idling in the car park desperately putting their boots on.
And the £21,000 benchmark sort of acts as a weird marker of success for those operating below the line: they're not even climbing the debt mountain, they're just idling in the car park desperately putting their boots on.
