Sentimental Education JOEY So what is the best ending in all of literature? Don't say Ulysses. Everyone says Ulysses. PROF WILDER That's easy. Sentimental Education by Flaubert. JOEY And what happens? PROF WILDER Nothing really. Just two friends sitting around, remembering the best thing that never happened to them. JOEY How do you remember something that never happened? PROF WILDER Fondly. You see, Flaubert believed that anticipation was the purest form of pleasure. And the most relaible. And that while the things that actually happen to you would invariably disappoint, the things that never happened to you would never dim ... never fade. They would always be engraved in your heart with a sort of sweet sadness ... [from an episode of Dawson's Creek]
