The Trespassers. Morris Panych
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play what’s in your hand.
ROXY
Let him do what he wants.
HARDY
If I teach him nothing else before I die, I’m going to teach him how to bluff. Bluffing is humankind at his finest. It involves two completely contradictory aspects of thought:
knowing and not knowing. Between the two, Lowell, lies the sublime.
ROXY
He’ll say anything to win a hand of poker.
HARDY
Did anybody ask you?
LOWELL
What if my cards aren’t very good?
HARDY
Don’t tell me that. He tells me his hand isn’t very good. Don’t tell me that.
LOWELL
Okay.
HARDY
Like I said, Lowell, it’s got absolutely nothing to do with what’s in your hand. It’s what’s in your mind that counts. That you can control. What’s in your hand is what’s in your hand. Make me think you’re holding three aces.
LOWELL
How?
HARDY
When you look at your cards, let your head go back just slightly and widen your eyes a little; keep scanning the cards, as if you can’t quite believe your good luck. Bet tentatively at first, then lean back. Try to act unexcited. That’s good. I see you and raise you.
LOWELL
Can you beat three aces?
HARDY
No, but I know you’re trying to bluff me, now.
LOWELL
Then I fold.
HARDY
Don’t fold. Make me doubt my own wisdom. Great men make little men doubt. That’s how Lenin came to power, and Stalin after him. Bet, and bet high. Churchill, now there was a bluffer.
LOWELL
I’ll lose all my money.
HARDY
Losing or winning isn’t the point.
ROXY
No?
HARDY
You want to be a victim of your own fate?
LOWELL
No.
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