All language subtitles for Liberal Arts[2012]BRRip XviD-ETRG

[birds chirping]

[light guitar music]

[rooster crows]

[lively hoedown music]

J'J'

- You know,
high school to college,

it can be a big transition,

especially if you're not
from the city,

so-so we try to help out
with that transition

in a number of ways.

Wow, that's a real
accomplishment.

Congratulations.

I mean, you're not in yet,
but...

no, things are looking
pretty good.

We do an all-campus picnic,
which is a nice way

for the incoming students
to acclimate themselves

to the college.

For me, the mos! exciting thing
about this place is the classes'

So you don'! want to go
lo college?

You know, I'm not up to date
on the course catalog.

[sighs]

One of the great things
about this school is, you know,

you have a campus
called New York City.

Greatest city in the world,
they say.

I thought your nay was-
was interesting.

A spell-check might be nice
on than essays.

Planning on taking
your boards again?

Love those extracurriculars.

Have you heard
about the meal plan?

Fantastic'

Where do you see things going,
you know,

after-after college?

[horn honking in the distance]

[jackhammer chattering]

Hey!

- J' Mm, mm, mm-hmm J'

J' Hmm, mm J'

J' Look at how life
has gone today J'

J' My sweet love is gone away J'

J' My sweet love is gone today J'

J' My sweet love
is gone away now J'

J' Mm, mm!

J' Look at how life
has gone away J'

J' My sweet love is gone away J'

J' My sweet love is gone today J'

J' My sweet love
is gone away now J'

J' Mm-hmm, mm-hmm J'

J'J'

J' Mm-hmm, mm-hmm J'

J'J'

- Yours or mine?

- Mine.

You can have it if you want,
though.

- Is that a new shirt?

- Uh, yeah, it is.

Do you like ii'!

- Don'! ask me that.

- WM?

- Because ifs not my job

to make you feel good
about yourself anymore.

- J' Mm-hmm J'

J' Look at how life
has drived away J'

J' My sweet love is gone away J'

J' My sweet love is gone today J'

J' My sweet love
is gone away now J'

J' Mm-hmm J'

- That'll be all for you?

- Hmm?
- Anything else?

- Oh, no, that': it

- That's a nice shirt.

- Thanks'

- J' Oh, my baby J'

J' Oh, my love J'

J' Oh, my baby, now J'

J' Mm-hmm, mm-hmm J'

J' Mm-hmm,
mm-hmm J'

J' Mm-hmm, mm-hmm J'

J' Mm-hmm J'

[phone ringing]

J' Mm-hmm J'

J'J'

J' Mm-hmm, mm-hmm J'

J' Mm-hmm,
mm-hmm J'

- Hello?

- Jesse Fisher'?

- Yeah?

- It's your favorite Communist.

- Professor Peter Hoberg?

- Screw you.
I'm not a Communist

How you doing?

- Oh, you know.

- Listen, I don't want in
lake up too much of your time,

but here's why I'm calling.

Ever since I announced
that I was packing it in,

it': funny, but this whole place
has finally decided

that they don'! really hate me
after all.

Now, I know Ohio is not
as glamorous as New York,

but they're throwing me
a retirement dinner thing

at the end of the month,

and they asked me to invite
any former students

that might want to lie and say
some nice things about me.

And since you're one of
the great liars that I know...

- When is it?

- Weekend of the 25th.

You know, check your schedule.

- OK!!...

Checking now.

Uh, looks like I'd have to shift
some things around, but yeah.

I'll be there.

[light instrumental music]

J'J'

- Hi.

[laughs] Look at this.

Haw are you?

Ah.

- Jesse.
- Yeah, hi.

- Hi, I'm David.
This is Susan.

- Hi.
- Hey.

- Peter warned you
that we'd be here?

- He did.
He did, yeah.

- [chuckles]

We're making him take care
of us while we're here.

How was your drive?

- It was good, yeah.
Pleasant, actually,

- Peter, Jesse's here!

- So it's good to be back?

- Yeah.
Yeah, ifs weird.

I drove up the hill.

I suddenly felt like
I was seeing

an ex-girlfriend
or something.

- The one that got away.
- Exactly.

- Zibby loves it here so much,

she get sad to come home
on breaks.

- Zibby?

- Sorry.
Elizabeth, our daughter.

She': a sophomore.
- Ah.

- She's in the improv group.

We came up
to see one of her shows.

- How was it?
- Hilarious.

- Uh, filthy but hilarious.

- Sc how do you guys know Peter?

- He was my camp counselor.

- No WY...

- He made us sing pro-union
songs around the campfire.

- J' You mus! stand up
for your brother J'

J' So you won't die for the man J'

J' Stand up for your brother
so you won't die for-J'

He never writes.
He never calls,

- Oh, hey.

- Let me look at you.

Not bad.

Who's hungry?

- I'm hungry-
- Okay, let's go.

We've got reservations.

Oh, man, 37 years.

Can you believe it?

Native New Yorker spends
37 years in a county

where the tallest building's
nine stories.

Oh, my.
[chuckles]

- How are you feeling
about it all'!

- The retirement?
- Yeah.

- Oh, I don't know.

Another year
of faculty meetings,

I'd throw myself
off that nine-story building.

So how': the admissions game,
buddy?

- [mockingly] "How's
the admissions game, buddy?"

Whoa, is that
Professor Fairfield?

- Yeah.

- Wow, she looks fantastic!

Professor!

What is she like?
Is she cool?

- She's definitely not warm.

- I loved
her British Romantic lii clan

She was, like, the belt teacher
I had here.

She was, like, the second best
teacher I had here.

[clears throat and whistles]

- Unbelievable.

[chuckles]
You are unbelievable.

- What?

- Tell her how you feel,

- Jesse, this is my daughter,
Zibby.

. HO)'...

- Hi.
Hello.

- Peter, should we follow you?

- If you think that's wise.

- And he's like, "I had it
up to here with America

and its repressive, regressive,
fascist, “ whatever.

- I sound like that'?
That's how I sound?

- You do.
You sound like that

And he gets up in front
of the class.

He says, 'I just-l couldn't
take it anymore,

so I picked up my life,
and I moved to France."

- This is being ludicrously
misreported, by the way.

- So I raised my hand.

I said, 'Wait, wail, wait,
wait, wail, Peter.

"You're telling us you got
so angry at this country

that you moved to France?"

And Peter says, "Yeah.

Well, I had a Fulbright."

[laughter]

- Yeah, well, yeah,
if I told you

what this putz was like
when he was here,

he'd run out of the room crying.

- That's probably true.

- Well, what were you like
when you were here?

- I wan very handsome,
wasn't I?

Am I remembering that correctly?

- No, I don't remember that.

But what I do remember
is you being a real jerk

in your parents
on graduation weekend.

He didn't want to leave.

- Ifs true.

And I blamed my parents,
weirdly, all four of them.

Like it was their fault
college was ending.

- Don'! do that to us.

- No, I won't.
- She says that now.

- So your parents told me
you're in the improv group?

- Yeah.

- How's that?

- We the best I love it

- What do you love about it'?

- Um, I think I love
how terrifying it is

and haw you have in say "yes"
to everything.

- Uh, sorry,
what does that moan?

- Ifs, like, the only rule
of improv.

You can never say "no."

You have to say "yes"
and then add something.

Like, uh-like, look.

Um, okay, Mom, you and I

have been wandering
in the desert for days,

and we're about to die, okay'?

- OK!!...

- Okay, and I say,
"Hand me that lemonade, “

So hand me that lemonade.

- Jesus, Susan, hand her
the goddamn lemonade.

- Never mind.

Jesse, hand me that lemonade.

Thank you.

M mm...

Sweet, just the way I like it.

- I nailed this.

[laughter]

- It doesn't make sense.

We're in the desert

I mean, where would we get
lemonade?

[indistinct conversations]

- It's great seeing you guys.

- So what was your major'?

- I was English
with a minor in history,

just to make sure
I was fully unemployable.

- Right.
- What about you?

- Drama.

I mean, not officially yet,

'cause my dad's not totally
thrilled with the idea,

so maybe also art history?

- I'm just happy you go to clan
occasionally.

I thought maybe you just
improvised all day long.

- Nope.

I mean, I do, I guess.

Have you ever thought
about that'!

- About what?

- How everything in life
is basically improvised?

There's no script.

We're just making this up
as we go.

- That's true.

- So yeah.

Well, improv is deep, man.

- Well, we're about in head out
- Oh.

- Pleasure to meet you, Jesse.
- Yeah. yeah. you too.

- Take care.
Bye.

- So I'll-
I'll see you around, I guess.

- Yeah, yeah, see you around.
- Okay.

- It was nice to meet you.

- Yeah, you too.

- See you later.
- Okay, bye.

. Enjoy college.

- You wearing a tie tonight'?

' Huh?

- What can you say, really?

People get up and say
all this great stuff about you.

You know, I'm thinking,

'Who in the hell
are they talking about?"

[laughter]

[sighs]

We just,
where does the lime go?

This seems impossible.

37 years.

37.

There comes a time
in a man's life

when it hurts to do the math.

[laughter]

[chuckles]

You know, I worry
that I've been hero so long

that I'll be lousy
being anyplace else.

Oh, well, I guess I'll find out
very shortly.

[laughs]

[sighs]

Um, hey, thanks for the chicken.

It was a little cold,
but still I...

Think nice thoughts about me
when I'm gone,

if you can.

[applause]

- No, they did it at Macalester.

I really think
it could work here.

- Well, it sounds great.

I tell you,
let': talk about it on Monday.

- Oh, sure.

Night, Jesse'

- Yeah, good night.

- It's a good idea, though.

[softly]
ll': a terrible idea.

[sighs]

Oh, what a disaster.

- What-no, it was nice

- You're not half the liar
you used to be.

[sighs]

You know, it really means
a lot to me

that you came out for this.

- How could I miss it'?

You're the second best teacher
I had here.

- I'm serious.

I'm gonna take off.

- Well, I'll come with you.

- Oh, no, no, no, you slay.

I want to be alone for a bit.

[light guitar music]

[insects chirping]

J'J'

- I feel you, man.

A lot of information in trees.

- Uh...

- How's your night going?

- Fine.

- Is your name.

Ethan?

- No.
WW!

- You look like an Ethan to me.

- My name's not Ethan.

- How cool would that have been
if that was your name

and I just, like...
[snaps fingers]

Knew it?

Are you a student here?

- Uh, no,
but thank you tor thinking that.

You?

- Nah, man.

I'm just here
visiting a buddy of mine

But it's not a bad place
to kill a little time, huh?

I'm Nat.

- I'm Jesse.

- Do you hear that music, Ethan?

It sounds like a celebration.

I say we do
a little sherlocking,

find out where ifs coming from
and what': going on.

- No-
- Don't say no.

Fortune never smiles
on those who say no.

[clicks tongue]

[lively music]

- J' Everybody get on the floor J'

J' Everybody wanna uh-uh-uh J'

J' Everybody get on the floor J'

J' Everybody wanna uh-uh-uh J'

J' Everybody 901-" J'

- I would get you a beer,
but alcohol's for suckers, man.

- Uh, yeah.

Listen, Nat, this isn't really
my scene anymore.

I'm gonna...

- Give yourself five minutes
to adapt, my brother.

Change is never easy.

J'J'

[woman laughs]

Tell me this.

What are your thoughts
on crop circles?

- Uh, I don't have any.

- There': some seriously weird
shit going on, bro.

You think it's just a bunch
of drunk English guys

with planks and rope?

You're a fool.
- Mm-hmm.

- Spend some time
with those patterns.

You can feel it.

Somethings trying
to communicate with us.

It should be on the front page
of every paper every day.

- Okay.
Thanks.

- Ha?

I thought that was you,

- Hi.
- How'd you and up here?

- He made a friend.

- Yeah, yeah, I-yeah

- Look at you.

You're, like, back in college.

- Whee!

- How does it feel?

- [chuckles]

- Oh, this is Vanessa.

- Hey.
- Hi.

- Tm Nat
- Hey.

- Jesse's an alum.

We had brunch this morning.

I think my mom has
a little crush on him.

- You went here?

- I did, yeah

- When'd you graduate?

- Oh, man, it was, uh,
the '90:.

- [laughs]

That was when we were born.

- Yeah, yeah

I'm old.

- But you look good.

And you're overdressed.

- J' Hotter, sweeter, taller... J'

- That's better.

- J' Hotter, sweeter J'

- Why do I like this guy
so much?

- Because he's likable.

Hey, lei': gel you guys
some drinks.

- Yeah, no, I think I'm gonna-
I'm gonna take off.

- No, you should slay.

- No, really, I should go.

- Do you drink coffee?
- Yeah.

- What?
That': crazy.

So does my friend here.

You two, tomorrow.

Shoop!
Coffee.

- Yeah, I could do that
You want to?

- Um, I-yeah, uh, yeah.

That'd be-that's great.

9:00 okay?

- [laughs]

Oh,

Oh, you're serious.

Ia 11:30 okay?

- Yeah, that works.

. HO)'...

- Hi.

- Can we talk'?

- Yeah.
Yeah, sure, okay.

See you tomorrow'?

- Yeah, yeah.
See you then.

- OK!!...

- Hey, Vanessa.

- Don'! sweat that guy.

She only had eyes for you.

- OK!!...

Good night, Nat

- Good night, Ethan.

[claps hands]

[birds chirping]

- Can I help you?

. Surf!...

I just...

just the best book of all time.

I just like holding it, I gum

- Best book of all time?

- Well, one of them, sure.

- Have you ever noticed
how everyone around here

speaks in wild hyperbole?

Everything's the best.

Like,
'He's the best professor ever, '

or, "This is the best patty" melt
on the planet, “

as if they've sampled
every possible variety

of professor and patty melt,

which is, as we know,
logistically impossible.

- ORGY...

- All right, do we have
enough time for that'?

[indistinct conversations]

- Hey
- Hey

- Am I super lab?

- Uh, no.
You wan! a coffee?

- No, I'll just drink yours.

- You okay?

- I don't know yet

I smell like beer.
Do you smell that'?

- Yeah, actually, you do.

- L-l need to excuse myself
just...

just for a...

- Sorry about that.

Back there.

You walked away,
and I was just wondering

why I was being rude to someone
who loves the same writer I do.

And I don'! have an answer
for that

- OK!!...

- Okay, so yeah, um,

I'll just...

- My grades tanked senior year.

That book was the only thing
I wanted to read.

You liking it?

- Uh, yeah.

It's': my second time reading it,
actually.

- WWI.

That's impressive.

Ifs not short.

- Yeah, I know.

- You know, he said
the purpose of fiction

was to combat loneliness.

- That': good.

I never heard that.

- Yeah.

Well, on the other hand,

spending most of your time
with an 1,100-page book

tends to put a dent
in your social life.

- Yeah.

Loneliness simultaneously
increased and decreased.

. HO)'...

- What,
you guys know each other?

- Yeah, we had Symbolic Logic
first semester.

Zibby.

- Right.
Dean, hi.

- Hey.
- I'm Joan, by the way.

- OK!!...

- Hmm.

Interesting guy.

- Yeah.

I can'! believe
he's even back here.

- Why?
What do you moan?

- He had a manic episode
last year.

Eventually, they look him
lo a hospital

and, I don't know,
calmed him down, I guess.

He's supposed to be, like,
the smartest guy ever.

- Everything okay?

- Yeah, everything's great.

[whispers] I puked.

- On.

- That's gross.

Sorry, you did not need
to hear that

Come on, let's-let's walk.

My parents really liked you.

- Oh.
That': nice.

I like them.

You're really lucky
to have parents like that.

- Like what?

- Like, I don't know.

Around, first of all.

Still together so they
can fret over you as a team.

- Yeah, I guess.

I like them best when they're
not being so parental,

which is, like, 1% of the time.

Oh, I thought
of this great trick

for having them annoy me less.

Want to hear if?
- Okay.

- Okay, I decided
to treat my parents

like they're always drunk.

- [laughs]
- No, really, it works.

Any time they say something
irritating or offensive,

I'm just like,
"Oh, I can't get mad at them.

They're drunk.
It's not their fault."

And why should I take advice
from drunk people seriously?

- That's great.

- Do you like classical music?

- Yeah, sure.

- Okay, I took this
music survey claw last year.

Oh, my God!

It totally changed my life.

I'm really happy
I ran into you last night

- Yeah, yeah, mo too.

Ifs random.

Who was that guy?

- What guy?

- The-last night, that guy.

- Oh, his name is Eric.

- Erie

ls Eric your fella?

- [laughs] No.

No.

You know, I think I like almost
everything about this place

but the dude situation.

- Not great?

- No one, like, dates.

Everyone': so casual
about it all.

- Same as when I was here.

- Yeah.

I guess there's part of me
that's a little old-fashioned.

- Well, on behalf

of all current and former
18- to 22-year-olds,

I'd like to apologize.

Forgive us.

Seriously.

We know not what we do.

- [laughs]

- I think one of the things

I loved the most
about being here

was the feeling
that anything was possible.

It's just infinite choices
ahead of you.

You'd get out of school,
and anything could happen.

And then you do get out, and...

life happens, you know'?

Decisions gel made.

And then all those many choices
you had in from of you

are no longer really there.

At a certain point,
you just got to go,

"Oh, I guess
this is new its going down.

And there's just something
a little depressing about that.

- Well, don'! you think you're
romanticizing youth a bit much?

You know, 'cause it's
just as hard and annoying

lo be young an it is to be old,
I'm assuming.

Nut that you're old,
'cause, you know, you're not

- Look, I get the whole
“we're all equal" argument,

and it's kind of true,
but it's also kind of not true.

Like, okay, I feel different now
than I felt when I was here,

and I hate to break this lo you,
but so will you.

- So you're saying things suck?

I should prepare myself
for suckiness?

- No, a liberal arts education
solves all your problems.

- Thank God!

- Worth every penny.

- We should hug.

- What?

- I mean, we could keep talking,

but I think it would be better
if we hugged.

Come on.

- Qkay.
[laughs]

Who slam'!
- I do.

- Okay.
- Here we go.

God, so you were here
a long time ago.

- Whoa, okay.

- I mean-
- Enough, enough.

- [laughs]

That's-l mean, I just mean
because I thought,

with the greenhouses”.

- Hey, before you go, I thought
you might like these,

'cause I don't really need 'em
anymore and, uh, here.

Ooh.
Look at this one.

[chuckles]

Huh?
No?

- Nah.

- Oh, please,
that's a great shirt

You know the trouble I unused
in this shirt'!

- I can only imagine,

- You gut no taste
on top of everything else.

Oh, my God,
what a beautiful shirt

Not giving it to you anyway.
- All right

- Oh, it feels great!

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Oh, hi.

No, no, he's-he's still here,

Yeah, hold on.

[clears throat]

Zibby.

- Hello?

- You haven'! left yet.

- Uh, no.
- Good.

I need to see you before you go.

Will you meet me
at the bookstore?

Say yes'

- Yea.

ORGY

She': asking
about a book I recommended.

- Hmm.

- All right, I'm off.
- Okay.

- Be a gentleman.
Walk me to my car.

- All right, all right.

- Thanks for the shirts.
I'll gel them next time, okay?

- Yeah, you'll be an the road,
and you'll be saying,

"Oh, maybe I'll call him up.“

[door opens]

- Hey'
- Hey

- Sorry, I don't want
to hold you up or anything,

but I, um...

I made this for you.

Burned it, whatever,

Um, ifs music
from the survey class

I was telling you about.

- Oh.
- Classical, baroque, opera.

- WWI.

This is great.

I know none of this.

Who says we always
have to be listening

to obscure indie bands, right'?

- Right.

So, um, yeah, I don't know.

This is all music I never
thought I'd like or care about,

and this class just...

well, you know how you can be
told something so many limes

and it's like, 'Whatever,"

and then you have
a great teacher

take you through it,

and suddenly it's like,
"Beethoven, whoa."

- Yeah.

Thin is really great Thank you.

I wish I had come
with something for you.

- Well, you know
what you could do?

You could write me a letter.

- I could do that.

- Handwritten, I mean,

like with a pen or something.

- Ooh.
- Yeah, paper.

Maybe seal it
with some red wax.

- I could listen to this
while I'm writing.

- Right, it'll be like
full-on 17th century.

- Right, right.

So, um,
I don't have your address.

- Oh, 108 it my P.O. box.

And you can figure out the rest,
right?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I also-l put my number
on the inside of the case.

- Yes, you did.

- You know, in can you ever...

whatever.

- Yeah, right.

Okay...

- Well...
- Well...

- Yeah.
[laughs]

Bye.
- Bye.

- Professor Fairfield.

Uh, Jesse Fisher.

I, um...

I took your British
Romantic literature class

when I was here as a student.

. And?

- And I loved it.

Great.

Hey, Dean.

- I know ifs bad for you.

- Just quit when you graduate,
like everyone else.

- Sweet ride.

- You jerk

It's a rental.

I'm not the best at flying.

- I can understand that

- Where you headed?

- Back to my dorm.

- Get in.
I'll give you a lift.

- So you went here, right'?

- I did.

- You liked it'?

- Am.

I mean, you block out
the bad memories...

writing a senior thesis,
February.

- Yeah, February here sucks.

- Yeah, it's horrible.

So other than February,
things are good for you here?

- I wouldn't say that.

- You want to-you can tell me
about it if you want.

. [sighs]

Well, um, ifs nut exactly
a secret.

Last year, I kind of, um
lost my mind a bit.

I don'! really remember
much of it,

but apparently I got up to
some pretty amusing antics.

So now they've got me
on this pretty heavy stuff,

which I guess
allows me to function

but it also makes
everything seem underwater,

which is not an pleasant
as it sounds.

- Why'd you come back?

- My mom': a nurse.

She raised me on her own.

I got a full ride.

She's...

so proud I'm here.

Thanks for the lift.

[Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
playing]

- 'Dear Zibby,
I can't thank you enough

"for introducing me
to this music.

"Beyond just genuinely
loving it,

“I feel it's quietly altering
my feeling about New York City,

"with which I've always had

"a slightly conflicted
relationship.

“I've found that if you replace
the horns and the shouting

"with, say, Schubert
or Telemann,

"the city becomes
unbearably beautiful.

"After years of thinly disguised
rage on both our parts,

"it's like the music has
mediated a truce between us

"Some early favorites.

“Massenet's Meditation.

"If a more beautiful piece
oi music has ever been composed,

"I don't know it.

'That Brandenburg concerto
is no joke,

"and I echo your sentiment
regarding Beethoven.

'Whoa.

"I have no idea

"what the Vivaldi piece
from Giustino is actually about,

'but to me,
it suggests deception,

"some kind of elegant
double-crossing.

"It makes me feel like
I'm a double agent

"knee deep in some kind of
sexy espionage.

[woman singing opera aria]

"I've decided the Wagner
overture you included

“should come
with a warning label.

"According to
some quick online research,

"the opera deals
with the struggle

"between sacred
and profane love,

“which is arguably
the only struggle there is.

"The other day,
I was crossing the street

"lost in my head
about something,

"a not uncommon state
of affairs.

"I was listening
to the overture,

'and as the music began
to swell,

"I suddenly realized that I had
hands and legs and a torso

"and that I was surrounded
by people and cars.

[dramatic classical music]

J'J'

"It's hard to explain
exactly what happened.

"But I felt in that moment
that the divine,

“however we may choose
to define such a thing,

"surely dwells as much
in the concrete and taxicabs

"as it does in the rivers,
lakes, and mountains.

"Grace, I realized, is neither
time-nor place-dependent.

'All we need
is the right soundtrack

"I suppose this new infusion
of music in my life is,

"at the very least,
making me reconsider

my hastily
to dead, white males."

- [laughs]

- 'And I've you to thank
for that

"How's things, by the way?

Your friend, Jesse Fisher.“

- "Jesse, things is good,

'So happy
you're loving the music.

"I felt
my whole life got an upgrade

"when I took that class.

"The thing that floors me must

"is that human beings wrote
that music.

"Are people writing music
like that nowadays?

"If they are,
I don't know about it

"I hope you've fallen in love
with the piece

"from Cosi fan tutte.

“I find that when I listen
to it, for some reason,

"everyone I see becomes
instantly more attractive.

Please experiment with it
and get back to me."

- J' Soave J'

J' Sia il vento J'

J' Tranquilla J'

J' Sis I'onda J'

J' Ed ogni J'

J' Elemento J'

J' Benigno J'

- “Elizabeth, you were right
about the Mozart piece.

“It somehow made everyone
in New York lock like

"a viable romantic partner.

"I can't escape it any longer.

"I think I like opera.

"You are never to tell anyone
this, ever.

Seriously."

- [laughs]

"Your opera secret
is safe with me.

“I've been relistening
to the music

"after each of your letters.

"I like hearing your take
and then revisiting them.

"And even though Pennsylvania
stands between us,

"knowing we're hearing
the same sounds

'makes me feel
you are not all that far away.

"If I haven't been clear
about this, I miss you.

"Hmm, don'! really know why.

"I barely know you.

"By the way,
handwritten letters?

"Greatest thing in the world.

Keep them coming.“

- "You asked why music like this
isn't being written today.

“I wonder if these composers
were expressing things musically

that are too large for
our current psychic state...'

- "Anyway, all is fine here.

College continues
colleging along..."

- "Massenet's Meditation,
for instance,

'and I worry
that my nervous system

is ill-equipped to contain
such immensity of feeling.“

- 'I bet if we went here
at the same time,

we'd have been great friends."

- 'Will this music be
the death of me?

"If so, you'll have blood
on your hands, Elizabeth.

Can you deal with that?“

- "Jesse, as much as I love
these letters,

“I'd like to see you again.

"The sooner, the better.

“So come back here and see me.

'The dudes here continue to be
18 to 22 years old,

"and they continue
to act their age,

"I'd like a gentleman caller,
and I'd like him to be you.

Ever yours, Zibby."

[head thuds]

[lively Baroque music]

- "Dear Elizabeth, I've decided
to take you up on your offer.

"I'll be getting in on the 14th
and slaying at the inn,

but I will be available
for walks, strolls, saunters

"ambles, and promenades.

'Looking forward to it.

Jesse Fisher."

J'J'

. HO)'...

J'J'

[both speaking indistinctly]

- So, Bob, um,

I've been asking myself
a lot of tough questions lately.

Everybody knows I made
a whole stink

about leaving this place,
you know, how it's time...

- How if you'd look back,

you'd tum into a pillar of salt

- Yeah, all that
That':...

- [chuckles]

- I think I may have spoken
too soon.

I think-l think I still got
a little gas in the tank is all.

I just...

- Well, Peter, you have no
bigger fan around here than me.

- Thank you.

- When you announced your plans,
we were all sad to see you go,

but you insisted
that it was time.

- Right,
which I thought it was.

- We hired someone,

young guy out of UVA.

Very impressive candidate.

He was our first choice,
actually.

We didn't think
we would get him, but we did.

You said you wanted
nothing to do with the search.

- Right, right
No, I...

I just...

I just didn't think
it would move so fast.

- Well, there was unanimous
enthusiasm for the candidate,

so things just moved along
faster than normal.

- Bob.

Give me this one,

- Polar, we can't.

The department has spent
thousands of dollars

on this search.

He's turned down other offers.

You know what goes into
this sort of thing.

- I hired you, Bob.

You don't have to tell me
how this w...

And let me tell you,

there was not unanimous
enthusiasm for you back then.

It took a lat of arm-Misting
on my part

to gel people to come around.

And now, 20 years later,
the only reason

that you're the chairman
of this goddamn department

is 'cause I loathe politics!

And you, for reasons
which I cannot fathom, do not

[clears throat]

In fact, you seem to have
a real taste for it.

Wow'

[sighs]

I'm asking...

I'm asking a favor.

Listen'

Just give me this one, Bob,
okay?

I need three more years.

[sighs]

- I'm luff!...

There's nothing I can do.

- Hey...

- Hi.

- Oh, hey.

- Jesse, you remember Vanessa,
right?

- Uh, yeah, hi.
- You're back'

- Yeah.

- So I should...

uh, yeah, I got some stuff
to do.

- So this is your room.

- Yeah.
Fancy, huh?

- Yeah.

Forgot how small these are.

Good training
for living in New York

- So are you gonna see
Professor Hoberg

while you're here?

- You know, probably not

Um...

and, you know, if you-
if you run into him,

maybe don't mention
that I'm here.

. ORGY-
- OK!!...

- Do you want to sit?

- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I should tell you,

I feel a little weird
about being here.

- Why?
Don't.

- Well, I don't know
if you know this,

but, uh, I'm a few years older
than you.

- You are?

- Just a few, yeah,

and I'm not necessarily
saying...

I don't want to get
ahead of myself here.

Ifs just...

- Oh, Wail. 30"'!...

You-did you think this was,
like, a romantic thing?

Just kidding.

Oh, my

- Come here.

Try not to over think things,
okay?

- You're talking
to the wrong guy.

- Well, look

We connect really well,
don! you think?

- We do, yeah.

I just can't figure out
if ifs because you're advanced

or because I'm stunted,

- It's because I'm advanced.

. Maybe.

[whispers]
But I'm also a little stunted.

- Look, I want lo like things
slowly, okay?

- Yeah, okay.

Me too.
Me too.

- But I would like to kiss you

on your forehead.

Can I kiss you on your forehead?

Say yes'

- Yea.

- And your chin'!

May I kiss your chin?

[door opens]

- Sorry.
Hi, sorry.

Just need to grab something.

[Grunts]

[door closes]

- Roommates.
- [laughs]

- Can we-are you hungry'!

- I could eat.

- Yeah?

Maybe we could go into town
and grab something?

- That'll take too long.

I have class at 2:00.

- On.

- But I know a place that': good
and even closer.

- Hey, Dean.

- You get a job here?

- I With.

Hey, I seem to have lost
my friend.

You mind if I...

What are you working on?

- Yeah, ifs this...

novel.

- Good for you.

- I fill!!!

- You happy with if?

- Not really.

- Haw you been?
Any batter?

- No.

I kind of just wish
this would all be over

as soon as possible.

Why did you lave it here
so much'!

- It's the only time you get
to do this, you know?

You get to sit around
and read books all day,

have really great conversations
about idea;

People out in the world,
they're not really doing that.

Think about it.

You could go up to everyone here
and say, 'I'm a poet,"

and no one will punch you
in the face.

I mean, that's something.

- Yeah.

I get that.

I just can't get around the fact

that I'm, like,
aggressively unhappy here.

- Jesse.

Jesse!

- That's my number,
if you ever want to talk,

[bell tolling]

[door opens]

. HEY-
. HO)'...

- Please tell me
this is Vanessa's.

- Nope, that's mine.

- Wait, you actually read this'?

- Yeah.

- All of it?

- YUP...

- Unironically?

- Very sincerely'

- What is it
with you girls and vampires?

What's it about'?

- Vampires.

- No, what's it about?

- [whispering] Vampires.

- I don't understand.
Is it good?

- No.

I mean, yeah.
But no.

- Well, then why read it'?

- 'Cause I like it.

- That's no reason
to read something.

- Why else
would you read something?

- Seriously.

Many amazing books in the world.

Why would you read this?

- Okay,
I hate this conversation.

Can we stop?

- Wail, this is a trilogy,
right?

- I'm afraid to answer that.

- You've read three of these?

- Have you ever read
one of them?

- [chuckles] What do you think?

- How can you hate something
if you've never read it?

I mean, isn't that like
what repressive regimes do?

You want to bum books
you don't like?

- You're right.
You know what rm gonna do?

Rm gonna read thin book,
all of it

And then we can discuss it.

- Right now?
- Yeah, why not')

I mean, how long can it take,
really?

This is great,
a little book club.

- Seriously?

- YUP...

See ya soon.

[cheerful classical music]

J'J'

Oh, no, this isn't what it...

I'm reading it as a dare.

It's a bet, actually.

I loved your class!

J'J'

- Should I start'?

- Please.

- OK!!...

I liked it.

It was fun and stupid.
- Mm-hmm

- And it passed the time.

And it's not Tolstoy,
but it's also not television.

And it made me happy.

Now you.

- Thank you.
- Mm.

- This...

is the worst book

ever written

in English.

- So there are worse books
written in other languages?

- Probably not

unless this book is translated
into other languages.

- [laughs]
Okay, we really...

we don't need to do this.

- No, please, let's.

I need to know
haw you read these...

whew, l guess
you cal them sentences...

close the book,
and feel anything

other than offended and sad?

- Well, millions of people
like it.

- So when millions of people
like something,

that means it's good?

- No, it means
millions of people like it

These books make people happy.

We don't always have to be
thinking about poli-sci

or reading Chaucer,
which, by the way, I hated.

- You're not supposed to
like it.

- But then why read if?

You love college so much, right?

Isn't it all about understanding
different points of view'?

- It's also about
developing taste.

- That was snobby.
You're a snob.

- No, I'm not

- Yea, you are.

You think it's cool
to hale things.

And it's not.
It's boring.

Talk about what you love,

and keep quiet
about what you don't

- Look, I know how this sounds,
but trust me.

This is a big deal, okay'?

This country is in bad shape,

and it has to do,
in large part, I think,

with people liking things
that are very, very bad.

- But according to you,

Why are you the one who gets
to decide what's good and bad?

And do you only want
to surround yourself

with people who've read
the same books as you?

- I guess we're gonna have to
move on to a specific example...

- Where are you?

- What do you mean?

- I mean, you are somewhere,

but it's not here.

- No, I'm-l'm here.

- So why are we spending
all our time

having a stupid argument
about a book?

- Hey, Peter.

- Zibby

[sighs]

- Peter.

Peter.

- What the hell
are you doing here?

. [sighs]

I don't know'

- You know how old I am?

- No, how old are you?

- It': none
of your goddamn business.

Do you know how old
I feel like I am?

19.

Since I was 19,
I have never felt not 19.

But I shave my face,
and I look in the mirror,

and I'm forced to say,

"This is not a 19-year-old
staring back at me, “

[sighs]

Teaching here all these years,

I've had to be very clear
with myself

that even though I'm surrounded
by 19-year-old:

And I may have felt 19,

I'm not 19 anymore.

You follow me?

- Yeah.

- Nobody feels like an adult.

It's the world's dirty secret.

- How perfect is the universe?

- You're still here?

- Lucky for you,

'cause you look like
you could use a friend.

Did you know there's so many
preservatives in the food we eat

that they're finding
it's taking longer

for our bodies to decompose
once we die?

- No way.
Really?

- Preservatives, man.
Ll': messed up.

Want some good news?

- Please.

- Caterpillars-
give me my hat.

They're just scouting along,
right,

being caterpillars.

At some point, these cells
show up called imaginal cells.

Scientists don't know
where they come from

or why they appear,

but these imaginal cells show up
inside the caterpillar

and say, 'Get psyched,
caterpillar!

It's butterfly-turning-into
time."

- Mm-hmm.

- And whit do all
the other caterpillar calla do

when these imaginal cells
show up?

- I have no idea.

- They attack 'em!

Try to kill 'em!

They're like, 'Screw you,
imaginal cells.

'We're happy
being a caterpillar.

Gel lost!“

Bu! eventually,
the imaginal cells keep growling

and overtake the destiny
of the caterpillar

and will it into this cocoon.

And then guess
what happens next.

- The caterpillar tum:
Into a butterfly.

- The caterpillar
turns into a butterfly.

- That's awesome.

- I know it is!

- Yeah, that's good.

- And that is why there is
no reason to be afraid,

because everything is okay.

- Yeah, I don't know
if I believe that.

- It has to be true.

There can be no other way.

- You know, I'm not even sure
if you're real.

[laughs] I mean, seriously.

- Ifs all true, brother.

Whatever you believe.

- What is that?

What are you drinking?

- H to the 2 to the O.

You should have some.

Got to stay hydrated.

- All right.

Oh, thanks.

. [grunting]

[imitates machinery whirring]

[screams]

Ooh!

You with me, bro?

- [exhales] Yeah.

I like you, Nat'

Thanks for being my friend.

- Easiest thing in the world.

- I enjoyed this.

I'm off.

- You go get her, man.

- Huh

Okay

- Be love, man.

Be love!

[whispering indistinctly]

- [laughing]

You seem happy.

- I am.

- What happened?

- I don't know.
[both laugh]

Something.

- Can I tell you some things?

- Yeah, yeah, sure.

- Okay, well, except for
the book thing,

which was genuinely
super annoying,

I-I feel really good about you.

It's been a while since I fell
that way about someone.

And I like it.

- Yeah, me too.

- I want you lo slay here
with me tonight

- You have a roommate,

- She's sleeping elsewhere.

- Ah.

- So will you stay here?

- Yea.

- Good.

But I have in tell you
something.

Um...

this-it would be my, um...

first time.

But I want to.

With you.

- Okay, um...

I have to...

hold on.

I'll-l'll be back
in a second, okay'?

- OK!!...

[door opens and closes]

- I should never have
told you that

- No, no, it': good.

I'm-I’m glad you did.

- So is that a problem?

- Well, yeah, it is.

- WM?

- [chuckles]

Okay, well, first of all,
I'm 35.

- You don'! look it
- Thank you.

- Plus, it doesn't bother me.

- Well, it bothers me.

- Well, it shouldn't.

Age is a stupid thing
to obsess over.

What if reincarnation
is real, huh?

Think about that.

What if I'm, like, thousands
of years older than you?

- Okay, that's not really
a sound argument.

- Why not')

- Because ifs like saying,

'What if reality is all
an illusion?"

Then there are no consequences
lo anything.

We're completely off the hook,

And I believe in consequences.

- No, you believe in guilt.

- Maybe.

But guilt before we act
is called morality.

. [scoffs]

Why did you come back here?

- To see you,
but I didn't know that you...

- Why should that matter'!

I mean, inn'! it,
I don't know, flattering?

- Listen.

Elizabeth.

Sex is really complicated, okay?

I didn't quite understand that
when I was younger,

but I do now.

- Okay, look, I didn't sign
one of those contracts

when I was in high school, okay?

I'm not a prude or whatever.

If: just, I never met anyone
that I trusted

or even liked enough

until now.

- I can't.

- Are you not attracted to me?

- Na.
I mean, yea, I am.

It's just.

I also care about you a lat
already, somehow.

- So, um, essentially,

you don't want to sleep with me

because you like
and respect me too much.

- Basically.

Yeah.

- That's, like,
the saddest thing over.

- Look, I want to be
in your life.

I do.

- Yeah, I already have
an older brother, okay'?

And I don't need some mentor.

- I can'! just say yes
to everything.

Elizabeth.

- Slop calling me that.

- What?

- No one calls me that

You need to leave right now.

I'm really upset,
and you need to go.

- OK!!...

- Get out!

[door closes]

[blues music]

- J' I've got a right
to lose my mind J'

J' Since... J'

- Well, well, well.

- J' Since you left me here J'

- Now I remember you.

- You do?

- Not really.

- J' I stumbled I

J' On a new world J'

- Rough day?

- Yeah.

- "Mock on.
Mock on.

"'Tis all in vain.

"You throw the sand
against the wind,

and the wind
blows it back again."

- Blake.

. A-plus.

- J'And the life J'

J' And the life I'm living J'

- French fries.

I wan jun about in order
a basket.

- J' To lose my mind J'

- J' I've got a right
to lose my mind J'

[hip-hop music blaring]

J'J'

. HO)'...

Can you get me a beer'?

- Yeah, have mine.

- [laughs]

- Of course, I'm thrilled.

Newly minted PhD.

I'm feeling very fancy

and officially teaching
Ode on a Grecian Um

for the first time.

It's like heaven, right?

- - Right.
Right. right. right.

- And I decide to be
a little dramatic.

I'm really gonna go for it

and just recite
the whole thing out loud.

What the hell, right'?

- Sure.

- And it's going very well,
if I do say so myself.

And as I reach
the immortal final lines

of one of the great poems
ever written in English,

I hear myself say the following:

"Beauth is trudy, trudy beauth."

- [laughs]

- "That is all ye know on Earth
and all ye need know."

- That is great

Great story.

When did you fall
for the Romantics?

Was it, like-
I'm just curious,

but was it in college
or grad school?

'Cause I knew almost nothing
about those guys

before your class.

Your class.

Och, I can gush, right'?

I mean, I still think about it.

Ifs just...

What?

- You're very enthusiastic.

- I guess.

- I have a car.

- ORGY...

- I would like for you
to get in it with me,

and I would like
to drive us somewhere.

- Where?

- Don't worry about the fries,

They know me here.

[hip-hop music]

- Yo, Eric, what': up?

- Oh, hey, man.

J'J'

. [moaning]

Okay, you got to go.

- What?

- Out.
Go, now.

- Owl Are you serious?

- YUP...

- Yeah, I don't have to, uh,
stay the night or anything,

but could I-could I it least
catch my breath?

- Sure.

How long
do you think that'll bu?

- [laughs]

- What?
- No, no.

It's just funny to me
all of a sudden.

- What about it
is amusing to you'?

- Your post-coital cigarette,
for one, is amusing to me.

- What, you never smoked?

- No, I did.
- But you quit

- Yeah.
- Pussy.

- Okay, you are the same
Judith Fairfield

I took British
Romantic literature from?

- "From whom I took
British Romantic literature,"

and yes, that's me.

But just because we screwed,
don't assume we're suddenly...

what is it you kids say
nowadays?

BFFs?

- Yeah, that's not really...

- I mean, what do we really know
about each other?

You're a nonsmoker.
Congratulations.

You're going to live
to be a hundred.

But what does it matter
if your life is joyless?

And it will be.
Trust me.

- What's happening here?

- You're gelling your clothes
and you're leaving,

and I'm going to take an Ambien.

- No, I meant, what is hap...

- I mean, seriously.

You weren't thinking
we were gonna cuddle

the rest of the night
as I read you Wordsworth?

- Not anymore.

- Good.

I've taught at this school
for over 20 years.

I've seen the emergence of
your kind like an infection...

all these effete,
over articulate man-boys

who never learned to toughen up.

Don't be one of them,

Go work with your hands.

Build something.

Punch someone in the face.

- WWI.

Too bad Norman Mailer's dead.

You guy: would have been perfect
for each other.

- Shall I count to ten?

- Wail, just, can...

hold on just one second, okay?

You don't seem very happy.

- [chuckles]

Your powers of deduction
are stunning.

You must have gone
to a very good college.

- I'm just confused how...

I mean,
you're a tenured professor

in one of the most prestigious
English departments

in the country.

That's not fulfilling?

- Sit through a faculty meeting
at a liberal arts college,

Mr. Young Person.

I assure you, you will lose
all faith in humanity.

- Okay, but what about
the classroom?

There had lo have been
some joy there

I mean, you were
such a good teacher.

- Thank you.

I like to teach.

I used to love it.

- What happened?

- Life happened.

- Okay, I'm gonna need
a little bit more'

- Well, that's all
you're gonna get.

Unlike you, I'm not
from the 'let me tell you

every sick, sordid detail
of my life" generation.

I value discretion.

I loathe self-pity.

So let's just leave it at this:

People are disappointing.

- Yeah, it's just,
I would think...

- Don't get comfortable.
- Sorry.

I would just think

that spending so much time
with those poems

would make you more, you know,
optimistic and hopeful.

- Nonsense.

They were miserable men

who were granted a few moments
of transcendence,

and they had the talent
and foresight

to grab pen and paper
and write it down.

Byron was probably
the happiest of the lot,

only because he put his dick
in everything.

- This is the saddest evening
of my life

- Get used to it.

My advice to you is this:

Put some armor around that gooey
little heart of yours.

- Well, at least
I appreciate the irony.

I just had the least romantic
night of my life

with a Romantics professor.

For what it's worth,

I meant everything I said
about your class.

It opened something in me,

and I'm grateful for it.

And if my heart is gooey,

you're at least partially
responsible for that.

- So you're still uninspired
by admissions.

- Yeah, pretty much.

- No little Jesse Fishers
out there?

- Well, if there are,
I'm not meeting them,

- Well, maybe you're just not
recognizing them.

Anyway,

I do appreciate you coming by.

I really do.

It's great to see you
one last time

before I get the hell
out of here.

- You feeling any better
about things?

- Well,

I tried to turn the clock back.

Here's a tip:
It doesn't work.

- No, it doesn't.

- Now I just...

I keep waiting to feel
more resolve somehow.

What if I'm like
one of those prisoners

that gets paroled

and finds he can't handle
life on the outside

so he commits a petty crime

so he can go back
to what he knows?

- You think this place
is a prison?

- Well, any place
you don't leave is a prison.

Well, whatever.

OKAY-
- OK!!...

Hey.

You know why you're my second
favorite professor of all time?

- I have no idea.

- Because you had us read bank:
By authors you hated.

Feel good
about what you did here.

- Thank you.

Gel in your car now,
and leave me be.

- "Dear Zibby,
oven alter all these months,

"I'm still half-expecting
a letter from you

"to be sitting in my mailbox.

"I'm sure you have little left
to say to me at this point,

'bu! your letters
are very much missed.

"I know I hurt you,
and I'm sorry.

“Any bone-headed moves I made

'were born of confusion
and not malice.

"That said, I've been feeling
lately the stirring:

"of something
I can only call growth

"It's a tribute of sorts to say
that someone 16 years my junior

'helped me finally start
acting my age.

"A wise man in a red hat
once told me,

“Everything is okay.'

"I didn't believe him then,

but for some reason,
I'm starting to.'

[bell dings]

- Sorry, we're closed!

Oh,

Hey.

- Hi.

- Are you here for this?

I always notice you reading it
when you're in here.

- Yeah.

Any bookstore I'm in,
I have to read then.

- Both: Last three pages.

- I know.
They're devastating.

- Yeah.

I'm Jesse.

- I'm Ana.

- Hi.
- Hi.

I love books.

I do in, like,
the dorkiest way possible.

- Oh, me too.

It's a problem.

- Like, I love trees
cause they give us books.

- It': super cool of the trees
to do that, light'!

- I'm actually...

this is weird.

I'm actually trying
to read less.

- WM?

- I felt like I wasn't watching
enough television.

- [laughs]

- No, l just-I started to feel
like reading about life

was taking time away
from actually living life,

so I'm trying to, like,
accept invitations to things,

say "hi" to the world
a little more.

- That sounds scary.

It's going well?

- It’s..okay.

Most of the time when I'm out,

I keep thinking
I'd be so much happier

in bed with a book,

and that makes me feel
not super cool.

I still read tons.

I just feel like I'm more aware
of a book's limitations.

Does that make sense?

- Yeah, totally.

- How am I doing here?

- What?
Here in this conversation?

- Yeah.

- Very well.
You are doing great

So you maybe want to gel away
from these books

and walk somewhere?

- Yeah, okay.

- Really?
- Sure, let': do it

- Great.
Great.

And feel free to invite
your husband or boyfriend.

- They're both pretty busy
right now, so...

- Probably just be us, then.

- Yeah.
Just us.

[soft classical music]

[phone ringing]

- Hello.

- Oh, hi.

It's Dean

Franzen?
We like the same writer.

- Right, hey.
Dean, what': up?

- Uh, you gave me your number,
and you told me to call you.

- Uh, yeah.
No, ifs good to hear from you.

How are you doing?

- Uh, I'm pretty good, yeah.

Things, um...

I've been...

- Dean?

- I just took a bunch of pills.

- What?

- I just took a lot of pills.

- How many'?

- I don't know.
Um...

I'm really scared.

- Where are you'!
- In my dorm.

- Stay-stay there, okay?

Stay right there.

Okay, yeah, just stay ri-
I'm gonna make a call,

and I'm gonna call...

I need you lo stay by the phone,
though, okay?

Dean?

[sirens wailing]

- Miss Hanson
to reception area, please

Miss Hanson.

- Hey...

- Hey, man.

How you feeling?

- Kind of ridiculous.

You didn't have to drive
all the way out here.

- I flaw, you bastard.

- Thanks'

For picking up the phone.

I didn't know who else to call.

- Can I make a suggestion?

- Yeah.

- Stop reading this.

- WM?

- Because he killed himself,
and you're not gonna do that.

You need to read something else.

Listen, don'! be a genius
who dies young.

Be one who dies old.

Being old is cool.

Grow old and die old.

It's a better arc.

Listen to me, man.

This right now, all this stuff
you're feeling,

this is a footnote, okay'?

You're gonna graduate,

and you're gonna get out
in the world

and stumble into something
like contentment.

I know it.

- In that how ifs been for you?

- Hell, no.

[laughter]

But some days are all right,
you know?

Some days are like a gift,

and some days suck.

But all of that's okay.

So I'm taking you
off post-modernists.

- [chuckles]

What are you prescribing?

- There are
these vampire books.

The kids love 'em.

Trust me, they will empty
your mind completely.

- Why are you being
so nice to me?

You flew all the way beck here
to see me,

and we had, like,
two conversations.

- I have a soft spot
for good readers.

They're hard to find these days'

[knocking]

- I really did miss you.

You know, we had this thing
happening,

and it was so exciting,
and then you were just gone.

But it's okay now.

I get it.

I sometimes feel like
I'm looking down on myself,

like there':
This older, wiser mu

watching over
this 19-year-old rough draft

who's full of all this potential

but has to live more

to catch up
with that other self somehow.

And...

I know I'll get there.

It's just sometimes I think

I want to rush the process,
you know?

And I don't know.

Maybe-maybe I thought
you were some sort of shortcut.

Does that make any sense?

- If I wrote you,
I would be like,

"This is
the but rough draft ever.'

- [laughs]

[door opens]

- Seriously?

[door closes]

- Roommates.

- Well, I should gel back
lo adulthood.

- Yeah.

See you there soon, I guess.

. Bye, Zibby.

- Bye, Jesse

[Zefiro torna
by Monteverdi plays]

J'J'

- You're so beautiful
and fascinating

and age-appropriate.

- What?

- Oh, nothing.

- J' Torna J'
- J' Torna J'

J' Zefiro J'
- J' Torna, toma J'

- J' Torna, zefiro J'

both: J' Ze... J'

J' Firo toms J'

- [laughs]

- J' E di soavi accenti J'

J' L'aer fa grato J'

both: I E di soavi accenli... J'

- Look, you're getting wise.

- I'm getting old.

- Not the same thing.
I say you're getting wise.

You worry about getting old?

- I think being old's
gonna be okay.

It's just the getting there
that kicks your ass, you know?

- You're gonna be
a great old guy.

- Really?
- Mm-hmm.

- I feel like
that': the nicest thing

anyone's ever said to me.

Unless it's a criticism,

like, "You're already
judgmental and racist.

You're gonna be
a great old guy."

- No, I mean
you'll wear baggy pants,

and you'll have a little belly,

And when you want more coffee,
you'll say to the waitress,

"Could you warm this up
for me, dear?'

- You're right.

I will say that.

I think you're gonna be
a great old person too.

- Thanks'

I want to be an old lady with
long, gray hair in a ponytail.

- I can see it.

You're still foxy.
You still got it.

That's what they're gonna 85”!'
about you.

"She's still got it.“

- They're saying it now.

[laughter]

And I want a really,
really wrinkly face.

A small house,
maybe by some water.

I think getting old
could be really nice.

[light piano music]

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J' You can't beat
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J' I look out toward
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