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Tell the truth.
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Chain the devil.
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In the battle between good
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and evil,
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the devil's territory
is growing.
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Home again, home again,
chickity-chee.
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- Thomas?
- Yes?
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This is Star.
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Star's gonna be staying
with us for a few days.
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Oh, no, don't worry.
I don't mind you.
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Come in.
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She says she's an atheist.
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Only God's an atheist.
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And when sin and seduction
are set free...
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Get off!
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Get... away! Evil woman!
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I know this game.
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She's a nymphomaniac.
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That's just another way
she's unfortunate.
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It was the filthy, dirty,
criminal slut who stole my gun.
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- Oh, Thomas don't you...
- You believe me, don't you, Mom?
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You believe me Shut up!
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Fleas come with the dog.
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Mystery, thrills.
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Scandal
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with today's
most electric stars.
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FLANNERY [Narrating]:
The sky was underpinned
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with long silver streaks
that looked like scaffolding.
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And behind it
were thousands of stars
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still moving slowly,
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as if they were about
some vast construction work
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that involved the whole order
of the universe
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and would take all of time
to complete.
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But no one was paying
any attention to the sky.
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Damn.
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The world was made for the dead.
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Think of all
the dead that are there,
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so many more dead
than there are living.
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And the dead are dead
much longer than the living
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are alive.
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And they don't seem to mind.
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Dear God,
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I am so discouraged
about my work.
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I want to write a novel.
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A good novel.
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I want to do this
for a good feeling
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and for a bad one.
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The bad one is uppermost.
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Please, help me get down
under things, where you are.
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WOMAN [Whispering]:
Obadiah Elihue.
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Obadiah, Obadiah,
Obadiah Elihue.
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Obadiah Elihue.
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What, Obadiah Elihue?
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Obadiah Elihue.
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O... Obadiah Elihue.
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What does that name mean?
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Servant of God.
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Miss O'Connor, I...
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I respect you,
so I'm gonna be honest.
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Sometimes, I feel like
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you're trying to stick pins
in your readers.
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I don't think you need to
make them suffer
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in order to introduce them to
the unusual way your mind works.
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It feels a little like
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you're trying to pick a fight
with your reader,
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when all they ever did was open
the front cover of your book.
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I'm also not sure
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if all the rewriting
that you're doing is helping.
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I mean, I only say that
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because the book, as it was
on the whole, is very strong.
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I'm wondering if you want to
get into some specifics.
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I'm amenable to criticism.
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Okay.
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Well, these are just
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some of our initial thoughts
and reservations
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about your book so far.
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You can take it home with you.
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I do think... an outline
would be useful at this point,
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just to give us a sense of
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what the final chapters
will look like.
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I'm amenable to criticism,
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but only within the sphere
of what I'm trying to do.
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All right, the real question is,
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do you want me to be specific
and work with you
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the way that I work with
all the writers on the payroll,
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or do you prefer to go it alone?
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Think about it.
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Take some time, and
I'll follow up with Miss McKee.
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Um...
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it was really, really nice
to meet you in person,
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Miss O'Connor.
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- Uh...
- Safe travels.
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- Thank you.
- Take care.
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Oh, you're back.
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Before I go,
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I think my position on the novel
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and on your criticism
should be made plain.
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I don't outline.
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I... I have to write
to discover what I'm doing,
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and I don't know so well
what I think
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until I see what I say.
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Then I have to say it
over again.
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I feel that whatever virtues
the novel may have
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are very much connected with
the limitations you mentioned.
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To develop at all as a writer,
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I... I think I have to develop
in my own way.
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I will not be persuaded
to do otherwise.
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The objections you raised
suggest that
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you would like to rescue
the book at this point,
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and train it into
a conventional novel.
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But I'm not writing
a conventional novel.
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Wise Blood, when finished,
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will be hopefully less angular,
but just as odd, if not odder,
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than the nine chapters
you have now.
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So, the question is...
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Is Rinehart interested
in publishing
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a new kind of novel?
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He says to me,
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"Miss O'Connor, you seem like
a straight shooter,
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"but I'm disturbed by
the hardening of the arteries
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"of your cooperative sense.
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"It is most unbecoming
in a woman writer so young."
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- A straight shooter?
- Yes.
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You know, I think I'd rather
throw myself
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in front of the Dixie Limited
than write an outline.
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I know.
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If they don't think I'm worth
giving more money to
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and just leaving alone,
then they should let me go.
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He is an idiot.
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I don't know.
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He and I came up with
the expression
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that I was
"prematurely arrogant."
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I had to supply him with
the phrase.
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Of course.
That's good.
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It's edit-proof.
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If he has any sense,
he'll publish it.
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Thanks, Cal.
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I try to turn the other cheek,
but my tongue is always in it.
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I do need that advance, though.
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I need cigarettes.
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Oh, all right.
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Will you get me
a New York Times, please?
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Two of 'em.
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Two?
Two.
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FLANNERY [Narrating]:
The tramp swung both his whole
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and his short arm up slowly
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so that they indicated
an expanse of sky,
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and his figure formed
a crooked cross.
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Although the old woman
lived in this desolate spot
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with only her daughter, Lucynell,
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and had never seen
the one-armed man before,
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she could tell,
even from a distance,
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he was a tramp
and no one to be afraid of.
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I'd pay a fortune
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to live in a spot
as pretty as this one.
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I'll bet that sunset...
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is something to see.
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Happens every evening.
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Yeah.
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Well...
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You ladies drive?
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Oh, that car ain't run in years.
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Well, nothing's like
it used to be.
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World is almost rotten.
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Where are you from, mister?
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Well...
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Well, I could tell you anything.
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I could tell you that
I'm Tom T. Shiftlet
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from Tarwater, Tennessee,
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but how would you know
I ain't lying, hmm?
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I could be Aaron Sparks
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from... Singleton, Georgia.
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You don't know.
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I don't know nothing about you.
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Maybe... the best
I can tell you
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is that I'm a man.
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Well, not a whole man, but...
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but what is a man,
you know?
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Well, you could hang
around here,
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work.
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I'll pay you in food,
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you don't mind sleeping
in the car yonder.
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The monks of old
slept in their coffins.
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They wasn't as advanced
as we are.
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Yeah.
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Oh, hey,
I... I have something for you.
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- Oh?
- Mm-hmm.
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Here it is.
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What is this?
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This is courtesy of Bob Giroux
at Harcourt.
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I showed him your story
in the Partisan Review.
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His exact quote was,
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"That young Catholic writer
is an astonishing talent."
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He wants to meet you.
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- Thanks, Cal.
- Mm-hmm.
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Hey, we can go together.
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You... you're back next week?
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I'll be back,
if it wasn't for my mother,
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I'd never see Georgia
ever again.
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Now boarding on Track 7,
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Crescent Line to New Orleans,
now boarding.
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Oh.
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I should come down
and visit it sometime.
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You would return
with the curled hair.
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- Cal.
- Oh.
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You are an angel.
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I don't want to be an angel...
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though my relations with them
have improved over time.
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You speak with them?
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When I was in Catholic school,
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I had what the Freudians would
call anti-angel aggression.
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I would seclude myself
in a locked room every so often,
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and ball up my fist,
and whirl around in circles
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knocking out my guardian angel.
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At least trying to dirty up
his feathers a little.
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Well, haven't they suffered
enough?
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I don't know what angels are,
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but I know what they are not.
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And what they are not
is a great comfort to me.
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I love you, Flannery.
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Well, that's not a proposal.
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You know me, I have...
I have a lot of eggs to fry.
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You let me know when you're done
with breakfast, then.
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FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Speaking with Lucynell
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was like speaking with a dog
who has been trained
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to say a few words,
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but once addressed,
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becomes overcome with
inadequacy and forgets them.
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That's a bird.
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Bird.
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Yeah.
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Now arriving, station stop.
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Wilmington, Delaware.
Wilmington, Delaware.
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Bird.
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Bird!
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Teach her to say something else.
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LUCYNELL [In distance]:
Bird.
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What you want her to say next?
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Bird.
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Teach her to say...
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"sugar pie."
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Bird.
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Bird.
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Sugar pie.
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LUCYNELL [Voice echoing]:
Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird. Bird.
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That'll be $3.50.
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Sugar pie.
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LUCYNELL [Voice echoing]:
Bird.
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Yeah okay.
We got three dollars...
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Well, that didn't satisfy me none.
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That was just something
a woman in an office did,
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paperwork and blood tests.
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Well, it satisfied the law.
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Well, you can cut my heart out.
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You can look at my heart,
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and you wouldn't know
a thing about me.
265
00:18:47,822 --> 00:18:49,954
Well, just look how pretty
Lucynell looks.
266
00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:52,435
She looks like a baby doll.
267
00:18:52,609 --> 00:18:53,828
Hey, listen.
268
00:18:55,264 --> 00:18:57,223
You got a prize.
269
00:18:58,485 --> 00:19:01,096
What do they know
about my blood, huh?
270
00:19:01,270 --> 00:19:02,880
I mean, what...
271
00:19:03,054 --> 00:19:04,708
Hey.
272
00:19:04,882 --> 00:19:06,493
Now, I ain't never been
273
00:19:06,667 --> 00:19:08,625
parted with her
for more than two days before.
274
00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:10,497
Mm-hmm.
275
00:19:10,671 --> 00:19:14,109
So, I wouldn't let
no man have her but you,
276
00:19:14,283 --> 00:19:16,372
'cause I've seen you.
You do right.
277
00:19:18,069 --> 00:19:21,421
All right. I'll see you
in a couple of days, okay?
278
00:19:21,595 --> 00:19:23,858
Okay.
279
00:19:24,032 --> 00:19:25,294
Bye-bye, sugar baby.
280
00:19:25,468 --> 00:19:27,035
- Bye-bye.
- All right, bye.
281
00:19:27,209 --> 00:19:29,907
Take care of her.
282
00:19:30,081 --> 00:19:32,301
Take care of my car!
You hear?
283
00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,056
The life you save may be
your own.
284
00:19:48,230 --> 00:19:51,102
♪ Come softly, darling ♪
285
00:19:51,277 --> 00:19:53,409
♪ Come softly ♪
286
00:19:53,583 --> 00:19:57,196
Your mama thinks $17.50
is enough for two days.
287
00:19:58,893 --> 00:20:00,721
It takes money.
288
00:20:00,895 --> 00:20:02,984
You got me, girl?
289
00:20:03,158 --> 00:20:04,464
I said...
290
00:20:04,638 --> 00:20:06,292
You know, some people...
291
00:20:06,466 --> 00:20:09,512
Some people, they'll do anything
anyhow these days.
292
00:20:09,686 --> 00:20:11,732
The way I think,
I wouldn't marry me a woman
293
00:20:11,906 --> 00:20:13,560
if I couldn't take her on a trip
294
00:20:13,734 --> 00:20:14,822
like she was somebody.
295
00:20:14,996 --> 00:20:15,996
You know?
296
00:20:17,303 --> 00:20:20,697
I mean, you know,
take her to a hotel,
297
00:20:20,871 --> 00:20:22,395
treat her.
298
00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,747
♪ I love, I love you so ♪
299
00:20:26,921 --> 00:20:28,357
Hey, stop it. Hey!
300
00:20:28,531 --> 00:20:30,925
I wouldn't marry
the Duchess of Windsor
301
00:20:31,099 --> 00:20:32,883
if I couldn't take her
on a trip,
302
00:20:33,057 --> 00:20:35,277
and get her to, like, a hotel,
303
00:20:35,451 --> 00:20:37,410
and get her something nice
to eat.
304
00:20:39,107 --> 00:20:41,631
God damn it. Stop!
See, I almost crashed.
305
00:20:44,765 --> 00:20:45,766
God!
306
00:20:47,028 --> 00:20:49,378
I'm sorry. You hungry?
307
00:20:49,552 --> 00:20:52,120
You want to get something
to eat, huh?
308
00:20:52,294 --> 00:20:53,556
How about that?
309
00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,222
Can I help you?
310
00:21:07,396 --> 00:21:09,076
Can I get, uh, two plates
of ham and grits,
311
00:21:09,224 --> 00:21:11,139
please, sir?
312
00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:12,923
Coming right up.
313
00:21:32,073 --> 00:21:33,248
Hey.
314
00:21:41,387 --> 00:21:44,390
Hey. Yeah. Can I...
Just one.
315
00:21:44,564 --> 00:21:45,913
I'll pay for it now.
316
00:21:46,087 --> 00:21:48,307
Just give it to her
when she wakes up, okay?
317
00:21:48,481 --> 00:21:50,004
She looks like an angel of God.
318
00:21:50,178 --> 00:21:51,962
No. She's a hitcher.
319
00:21:52,136 --> 00:21:54,269
No time, gotta make Tuscaloosa.
320
00:21:55,705 --> 00:21:57,446
Thought leads to action, right?
321
00:21:57,620 --> 00:22:00,536
What if I could write a poem
about a skunk?
322
00:22:02,712 --> 00:22:04,671
A skunk named Frederick
323
00:22:04,845 --> 00:22:08,892
who smells like
a strawberry malted milkshake.
324
00:22:12,505 --> 00:22:14,898
But I wrote this poem
325
00:22:15,072 --> 00:22:17,597
so honestly,
326
00:22:17,771 --> 00:22:20,513
and I imagine this possibility
of Frank,
327
00:22:20,687 --> 00:22:24,386
the sweet-scented skunk,
so thoroughly
328
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,669
that people saw each and every
black and white creature
329
00:22:26,693 --> 00:22:29,435
slinking around their farmyards
in some new, caring way.
330
00:22:32,438 --> 00:22:33,830
They weren't afraid.
331
00:22:34,004 --> 00:22:35,528
They wondered...
332
00:22:35,702 --> 00:22:37,486
"Is that Frank?"
333
00:22:40,750 --> 00:22:44,450
And could their
newfound interest and curiosity
334
00:22:44,624 --> 00:22:47,278
positively impact all those
slinking, stinky skunks?
335
00:22:47,453 --> 00:22:49,193
I think so.
336
00:22:52,458 --> 00:22:53,981
Station stop, next stop
337
00:22:54,155 --> 00:22:56,200
is Milledgeville, Georgia.
338
00:22:56,375 --> 00:22:59,247
And if imagination
impacts reality,
339
00:22:59,421 --> 00:23:02,250
then isn't faith where those
rivers meet?
340
00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:13,260
Ah!
341
00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:14,436
Mary Flannery!
342
00:23:21,269 --> 00:23:22,575
Hey, sweetheart.
343
00:23:23,793 --> 00:23:25,665
Well, let me help you with that.
344
00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:27,493
No. I'll take my typewriter,
thank you.
345
00:23:27,667 --> 00:23:29,514
- You can take my trunk.
- Well, let me take something.
346
00:23:29,538 --> 00:23:31,258
- Thank you.
- All right. Are you all right?
347
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,520
Think Milledgeville
has improved?
348
00:23:37,633 --> 00:23:38,939
It's still here.
349
00:23:40,331 --> 00:23:43,422
Well, two of the stores
have new fronts.
350
00:23:46,773 --> 00:23:48,470
Aunt Katie's sleeping
in the car,
351
00:23:48,644 --> 00:23:50,883
so let's keep our voices down
when we get up there, all right?
352
00:23:50,907 --> 00:23:52,779
What's Dutchess doing
sleeping in the car?
353
00:23:54,868 --> 00:23:57,653
Well, you know,
354
00:23:57,827 --> 00:23:59,867
I don't like to come all the way
out here by myself.
355
00:24:00,917 --> 00:24:02,789
No, there are...
356
00:24:02,963 --> 00:24:06,357
more of them now
than there are of us.
357
00:24:09,404 --> 00:24:11,124
I'm taking you to Dr. Block
on the way home.
358
00:24:11,275 --> 00:24:12,538
I'm not going to Dr. Block.
359
00:24:12,712 --> 00:24:15,932
He will take a personal
interest in you.
360
00:24:16,106 --> 00:24:17,386
None of those doctors
up there'll
361
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:19,022
take a personal interest in you.
362
00:24:19,196 --> 00:24:20,913
I don't want anyone taking
a personal interest in me.
363
00:24:20,937 --> 00:24:22,537
- I want to go home.
- What in the world?
364
00:24:22,678 --> 00:24:25,159
Mary Flannery, what are you a
hobo? What is this?
365
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,468
We need to get you
a proper Yankee coat.
366
00:24:29,642 --> 00:24:30,947
I know what the temperature is,
367
00:24:31,121 --> 00:24:32,841
and I'm old enough
to pick out my own coat...
368
00:24:32,949 --> 00:24:34,342
I know you don't feel well,
369
00:24:34,516 --> 00:24:36,953
but let's try and have
a nicer disposition.
370
00:24:37,127 --> 00:24:38,955
There's no need
to wake up Sissy.
371
00:24:40,870 --> 00:24:42,350
Many governors on both sides
372
00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:46,049
of the Mason and Dixon line
have talked
373
00:24:46,223 --> 00:24:48,748
of the need for unity on
the issue of civil rights.
374
00:24:48,922 --> 00:24:51,359
It's suggested that
the Stevens-Russell team
375
00:24:51,533 --> 00:24:52,926
might provide
the proper balance...
376
00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:56,103
Oh, Mary Flannery.
Hey, sweetheart.
377
00:24:56,277 --> 00:24:58,105
Look at you.
378
00:24:58,279 --> 00:25:00,020
Governors here
are making large
379
00:25:00,194 --> 00:25:01,954
and enthusiastic noises
for General Eisenhower.
380
00:25:01,978 --> 00:25:04,328
Oh, you don't look very well.
381
00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:06,113
Regina, she looks sick.
382
00:25:06,287 --> 00:25:08,028
I know.
I'm taking her to Dr. Block.
383
00:25:08,202 --> 00:25:09,769
I'm not going
to Dr. Block.
384
00:25:09,943 --> 00:25:11,901
She has chills and that rash.
385
00:25:12,075 --> 00:25:14,115
Would switch to the
general on the second ballot.
386
00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:15,557
She says her arms are too heavy
387
00:25:15,731 --> 00:25:17,385
to lift up to reach
the typewriter.
388
00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:18,999
The governors we
already talked to
389
00:25:19,082 --> 00:25:20,606
or where the switches
might come.
390
00:25:22,216 --> 00:25:23,609
You, uh...
391
00:25:23,783 --> 00:25:26,481
You've been writing
any cute stories lately?
392
00:25:26,655 --> 00:25:28,135
No.
393
00:25:28,309 --> 00:25:30,920
Oh, you must be writing something.
394
00:25:31,094 --> 00:25:34,010
I read that last one
you sent your mama.
395
00:25:34,184 --> 00:25:36,317
And?
396
00:25:36,491 --> 00:25:39,668
I... I must admit, you know,
it wasn't for me.
397
00:25:41,365 --> 00:25:43,629
Left kind of a... a bad taste
in my mouth.
398
00:25:43,803 --> 00:25:45,243
Well, you weren't supposed to
eat it.
399
00:25:46,980 --> 00:25:48,329
Oh, don't be coy.
Oh, come on.
400
00:25:48,503 --> 00:25:49,852
Tell us what you're working on.
401
00:25:50,026 --> 00:25:52,855
I'm writing a novel.
402
00:25:53,029 --> 00:25:55,118
It's called Wise Blood.
403
00:25:55,292 --> 00:25:57,599
It's about an atheist who sleeps
with a prostitute,
404
00:25:57,773 --> 00:25:59,229
and then starts his own
religion called
405
00:25:59,253 --> 00:26:00,950
The Church of Christ
Without Christ.
406
00:26:02,996 --> 00:26:05,316
I'm thinking at the end, he
might scratch out his own eyes.
407
00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:12,788
A church without Christ?
408
00:26:12,962 --> 00:26:14,964
Like most of the ones I know.
409
00:26:15,138 --> 00:26:17,880
Well, you can write about
nice people this time.
410
00:26:18,054 --> 00:26:21,667
Maybe you'll be another
Margaret Mitchell.
411
00:26:21,841 --> 00:26:25,453
We need another good book
like Gone with the Wind.
412
00:26:25,627 --> 00:26:29,065
Put the war in it.
That always makes a long book.
413
00:26:29,239 --> 00:26:31,677
I love... that... movie.
414
00:26:33,243 --> 00:26:35,202
That colored gal
that played Mammy,
415
00:26:35,376 --> 00:26:38,335
oh, she just tickles me.
416
00:26:40,424 --> 00:26:43,210
It's so nice to see
a respectable Negress.
417
00:26:43,384 --> 00:26:45,560
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
418
00:26:45,734 --> 00:26:48,128
"Ashley, Ashley.
What ever will I do?"
419
00:26:50,478 --> 00:26:52,567
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Sometimes, Ruby Turpin
420
00:26:52,741 --> 00:26:54,569
occupied herself
421
00:26:54,743 --> 00:26:56,702
by naming the classes of people.
422
00:26:56,876 --> 00:26:59,139
On the bottom of the heap
were most colored people.
423
00:26:59,313 --> 00:27:00,749
Not all, but most of them.
424
00:27:02,446 --> 00:27:04,884
Then, next to them, not above,
just away from,
425
00:27:05,058 --> 00:27:06,712
were the white trash.
426
00:27:06,886 --> 00:27:09,105
Then, above them were
the homeowners,
427
00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:11,151
and above them,
the home and landowners,
428
00:27:11,325 --> 00:27:14,807
to which she and her husband,
Claud, belonged.
429
00:27:14,981 --> 00:27:17,070
Above she and Claud were people
with a lot of money,
430
00:27:17,244 --> 00:27:20,247
and much bigger houses
and much more land.
431
00:27:21,291 --> 00:27:22,684
But here, the complexity of it
432
00:27:22,858 --> 00:27:25,165
would begin to bear in on Ruby.
433
00:27:25,339 --> 00:27:27,123
For some of the people
with a lot of money
434
00:27:27,297 --> 00:27:29,822
were common, and ought to be
below she and Claud.
435
00:27:29,996 --> 00:27:31,737
And some of the people
who had good blood
436
00:27:31,911 --> 00:27:34,043
had lost their money
and had to rent.
437
00:27:34,217 --> 00:27:35,958
And then, there were
some colored people
438
00:27:36,132 --> 00:27:38,831
who owned their homes
and land as well.
439
00:27:39,005 --> 00:27:40,267
Sit down.
440
00:27:40,441 --> 00:27:42,051
You know you can't stand on
that leg.
441
00:27:42,225 --> 00:27:43,923
He has an ulcer on his leg.
442
00:27:46,534 --> 00:27:49,189
My! How did you do
that?
443
00:27:49,363 --> 00:27:50,625
A cow kicked him.
444
00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:53,367
Oh, goodness.
445
00:27:53,541 --> 00:27:55,935
The doctor will see you
now, Mr. Mulligan.
446
00:27:59,025 --> 00:28:00,679
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Usually, by the time
447
00:28:00,853 --> 00:28:02,985
she had fallen asleep,
all the classes of people
448
00:28:03,159 --> 00:28:05,858
were moiling and roiling
around in her head.
449
00:28:06,032 --> 00:28:08,338
And she would dream they were
all crammed in together
450
00:28:08,512 --> 00:28:12,429
in a boxcar, being ridden off
to be put in a gas oven.
451
00:28:13,517 --> 00:28:15,041
Ooh, Lord.
452
00:28:17,783 --> 00:28:18,958
I wish I could reduce.
453
00:28:20,220 --> 00:28:22,352
Oh, you aren't fat.
454
00:28:22,526 --> 00:28:24,572
Oooh, I am, too.
455
00:28:24,746 --> 00:28:27,140
Oh, Claud, he... he can eat
all he wants to.
456
00:28:27,314 --> 00:28:29,446
He never weighs more than
175 pounds.
457
00:28:29,620 --> 00:28:31,144
But me? I just...
458
00:28:31,318 --> 00:28:34,147
I look at something good to eat,
and I gain weight.
459
00:28:35,670 --> 00:28:39,195
You... You can eat all you want
to, can't you, Claud, hmm?
460
00:28:41,110 --> 00:28:43,983
Well, as long as you have
such a good disposition,
461
00:28:44,157 --> 00:28:45,797
I don't think it makes
a bit of difference
462
00:28:45,854 --> 00:28:47,073
what size you are.
463
00:28:47,247 --> 00:28:48,596
You just...
464
00:28:48,770 --> 00:28:52,513
You just can't beat
a good disposition.
465
00:28:56,604 --> 00:28:58,345
You must be in college,
466
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:01,261
reading a book there.
467
00:29:01,435 --> 00:29:03,654
Lady asked you a question,
Mary Grace.
468
00:29:03,829 --> 00:29:05,308
I have ears.
469
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:10,313
As we start to pray...
470
00:29:10,487 --> 00:29:12,576
It's wonderful weather,
isn't it?
471
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,883
Oh, well, it's good weather
for cotton,
472
00:29:15,057 --> 00:29:17,059
if you can get the Negroes
to pick it.
473
00:29:17,233 --> 00:29:20,062
But they don't want to
pick cotton anymore.
474
00:29:20,236 --> 00:29:21,823
But you can't get the white
folks to pick it,
475
00:29:21,847 --> 00:29:23,167
and now you can't get
the Negroes,
476
00:29:23,239 --> 00:29:24,608
'cause they got to be
right up there
477
00:29:24,632 --> 00:29:26,155
with the white folk.
478
00:29:26,329 --> 00:29:28,009
They ought to send them
all back to Africa.
479
00:29:28,114 --> 00:29:30,377
That's where they come from
in the first place.
480
00:29:32,379 --> 00:29:34,381
Heap of things worse than
a Negro.
481
00:29:36,818 --> 00:29:39,386
It's all kinds of them.
Like all kinds of us.
482
00:29:41,301 --> 00:29:42,606
Hmm! Yes, indeed.
483
00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:45,609
A heap of things worse.
484
00:29:50,092 --> 00:29:51,528
Hmm.
485
00:29:51,702 --> 00:29:52,791
Ruby.
486
00:29:52,965 --> 00:29:54,749
Hmm.
487
00:30:00,624 --> 00:30:02,191
Ruby.
488
00:30:04,628 --> 00:30:05,891
Ruby.
489
00:30:07,370 --> 00:30:10,417
You will be reborn.
490
00:30:10,591 --> 00:30:13,072
But there are only
two spaces available
491
00:30:13,246 --> 00:30:14,638
for you on Earth.
492
00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:18,947
You can either be a nigger
or white trash.
493
00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:22,559
No.
494
00:30:23,604 --> 00:30:25,736
Please, Jesus...
495
00:30:25,911 --> 00:30:28,304
Please, just let me be myself.
496
00:30:30,089 --> 00:30:32,613
Or let me wait until there's
another place available.
497
00:30:32,787 --> 00:30:34,267
No.
498
00:30:34,441 --> 00:30:35,616
You have to go right now,
499
00:30:35,790 --> 00:30:38,924
and I have only
those two spaces,
500
00:30:39,098 --> 00:30:40,142
so make up your mind.
501
00:30:41,535 --> 00:30:42,928
Oh...
502
00:30:46,061 --> 00:30:48,063
Well, make me a Negro then,
503
00:30:48,237 --> 00:30:50,849
but... but not a trashy one.
504
00:30:51,023 --> 00:30:53,416
Make me a...
505
00:30:53,590 --> 00:30:54,940
A neat, clean,
506
00:30:55,114 --> 00:30:58,465
respectable Negro woman.
507
00:30:58,639 --> 00:31:00,423
Myself...
508
00:31:00,597 --> 00:31:01,729
but Black.
509
00:31:16,004 --> 00:31:17,353
Did you hear that the Mexicans
510
00:31:17,527 --> 00:31:20,574
want to translate the Bible
into Spanish?
511
00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:27,146
I think the worst thing in the
world is an ungrateful person.
512
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:28,669
Hmm.
513
00:31:28,843 --> 00:31:31,715
To have everything
and not appreciate it.
514
00:31:33,108 --> 00:31:37,852
I know a girl whose parents
would give her anything,
515
00:31:38,026 --> 00:31:40,811
who's getting a good education,
516
00:31:40,986 --> 00:31:43,597
who wears the best clothes,
517
00:31:43,771 --> 00:31:48,123
but who never has a kind word
to say to anyone.
518
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,955
It never hurt anyone to smile.
519
00:31:54,129 --> 00:31:57,785
It just... It just makes you
feel better.
520
00:31:57,959 --> 00:31:59,526
Just all over.
521
00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:01,310
Of course.
522
00:32:01,484 --> 00:32:03,564
But there are some people
you can't tell anything to.
523
00:32:04,705 --> 00:32:07,751
Well, if it's one thing I am,
it's grateful.
524
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:10,493
When I think of...
525
00:32:10,667 --> 00:32:13,583
who all I could have
been beside myself,
526
00:32:13,757 --> 00:32:15,672
and what all I got,
527
00:32:15,846 --> 00:32:20,590
a little bit of everything
and a good disposition besides,
528
00:32:20,764 --> 00:32:22,810
I just...
529
00:32:22,984 --> 00:32:24,855
I just want to shout,
"Oh, thank you, Jesus."
530
00:32:25,030 --> 00:32:27,075
Thank you.
Thank you, Jesus,
531
00:32:27,249 --> 00:32:30,600
for making everything
the way it is."
532
00:32:32,167 --> 00:32:34,691
Oh, thank you, Jesus, thank you.
533
00:32:42,351 --> 00:32:44,614
What you got to say to me?
534
00:32:44,788 --> 00:32:48,836
Go back to hell where
you came from, you old warthog!
535
00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:51,534
Nurse! Call the ambulance!
536
00:33:00,065 --> 00:33:01,738
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
A visionary light settled
537
00:33:01,762 --> 00:33:03,329
in her eyes.
538
00:33:03,503 --> 00:33:06,071
She could see souls rumbling
into heaven.
539
00:33:06,245 --> 00:33:08,595
There were whole companies
of white trash
540
00:33:08,769 --> 00:33:10,771
and Black folks in white robes,
541
00:33:10,945 --> 00:33:12,512
battalions of freaks
and lunatics
542
00:33:12,686 --> 00:33:15,210
shouting and leaping like frogs,
543
00:33:15,384 --> 00:33:18,126
all clean for the first time.
544
00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:22,000
She could see by their shocked
and altered faces
545
00:33:22,174 --> 00:33:25,264
that even their virtues
were being burned away.
546
00:33:28,441 --> 00:33:30,660
Sooey. Pig, pig.
547
00:33:44,283 --> 00:33:46,241
Dear Cal,
548
00:33:46,415 --> 00:33:48,417
I left New York, 24 years old,
549
00:33:48,591 --> 00:33:50,724
and arrived back in Georgia 107.
550
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,553
My bones feel made of charcoal,
551
00:33:53,727 --> 00:33:56,295
and the fever continues to
cook 'em.
552
00:33:56,469 --> 00:33:58,906
I aim to get back
to New York soon,
553
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,734
but my mama
is none too favorable
554
00:34:00,908 --> 00:34:04,129
towards any kind of travel
for me at the moment.
555
00:34:04,303 --> 00:34:07,958
But don't worry,
I won't be here long.
556
00:34:08,133 --> 00:34:10,265
Everybody around here thinks
the height of Bohemianism
557
00:34:10,439 --> 00:34:12,572
is wearing slacks
out of the house.
558
00:34:16,315 --> 00:34:18,665
When I get up there, maybe
you'll be ready for lunch.
559
00:34:21,146 --> 00:34:22,756
Oh,
560
00:34:22,930 --> 00:34:25,050
y'all should see our new
preacher singing his sermons.
561
00:34:25,150 --> 00:34:27,456
He puts a chair out on
the platform
562
00:34:27,630 --> 00:34:29,545
and he'll call out
for some biblical character
563
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:31,939
to come out and testify.
564
00:34:32,113 --> 00:34:35,247
He'll say, "Paul, will you
come out and testify?"
565
00:34:35,421 --> 00:34:37,162
And he'll wait for Paul
to sit down,
566
00:34:37,336 --> 00:34:38,815
and then he starts to sing:
567
00:34:38,989 --> 00:34:40,600
♪ Rock of Ages ♪
568
00:34:40,774 --> 00:34:42,854
You know, I think I may have
something in the kitchen
569
00:34:42,993 --> 00:34:44,908
that'll settle
Carramae's stomach,
570
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:47,259
and you know, I need to speak
with Mary Flannery
571
00:34:47,433 --> 00:34:49,353
alone for a minute,
so why don't you run on home?
572
00:34:49,478 --> 00:34:51,350
- I'll call you when I need you.
- Oh, okay.
573
00:34:51,524 --> 00:34:53,221
Okay?
Thank you so very much.
574
00:34:53,395 --> 00:34:54,570
Thank you.
575
00:34:56,224 --> 00:34:57,834
Ugh.
576
00:34:58,008 --> 00:34:59,848
You suppose they imagined
that the Apostle Paul
577
00:35:00,010 --> 00:35:02,012
is really coming down
to sit in that chair?
578
00:35:03,927 --> 00:35:06,016
I have no idea
what they imagined.
579
00:35:06,191 --> 00:35:08,280
Look at this.
580
00:35:10,369 --> 00:35:12,675
Dr. Wells gave
an educational meeting
581
00:35:12,849 --> 00:35:14,634
at the college the other day,
582
00:35:14,808 --> 00:35:18,812
and two Negroes... teachers or
superintendents or something,
583
00:35:18,986 --> 00:35:20,683
they attended.
584
00:35:20,857 --> 00:35:22,076
How'd that go?
585
00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:24,209
Well, everybody's losing
their minds.
586
00:35:24,383 --> 00:35:26,776
They burned a cross
on Dr. Wells's side lawn.
587
00:35:26,950 --> 00:35:28,778
You think that's funny?
588
00:35:28,952 --> 00:35:32,086
Well, it was too damp out
for a fiery cross,
589
00:35:32,260 --> 00:35:34,610
so they set up a portable one.
590
00:35:34,784 --> 00:35:38,571
It was lit up with red electric bulbs.
591
00:35:38,745 --> 00:35:41,791
All these people couldn't have
gone past the fourth grade.
592
00:35:41,965 --> 00:35:43,315
Nice to know
they're so interested
593
00:35:43,489 --> 00:35:45,708
in education all of a sudden.
594
00:35:45,882 --> 00:35:47,362
Mary Flannery, sit... sit.
595
00:35:47,536 --> 00:35:49,364
Please stay for a minute, please.
596
00:35:49,538 --> 00:35:51,453
No, I... I need to be working.
597
00:35:53,934 --> 00:35:55,501
You need to rest.
598
00:35:57,242 --> 00:35:59,548
And to get your strength.
599
00:35:59,722 --> 00:36:02,203
I think I'm strong enough
to type, Regina.
600
00:36:02,377 --> 00:36:03,770
Well, that is not...
601
00:36:05,337 --> 00:36:07,991
what the doctor says.
602
00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:12,866
And... Dr. Block is coming out
here this morning
603
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,128
to speak with us.
604
00:36:14,302 --> 00:36:16,348
What's this?
605
00:36:16,522 --> 00:36:18,088
What's this for?
606
00:36:21,918 --> 00:36:23,355
Is this for me?
607
00:36:29,099 --> 00:36:31,232
Regina.
608
00:36:31,406 --> 00:36:33,060
Chancey says the cow
609
00:36:33,234 --> 00:36:35,394
that's got the bad quarter's
gonna have to see the vet.
610
00:36:35,497 --> 00:36:38,152
Oh, all right, okay. Well, then,
come on, now. Let's go.
611
00:36:38,326 --> 00:36:40,459
Oh, if there's one thing
I don't like, it's needles.
612
00:36:40,633 --> 00:36:42,678
We'll be right back.
I've always said it.
613
00:36:44,158 --> 00:36:45,812
This is enormous.
614
00:36:45,986 --> 00:36:47,944
It looks like it's for
a farm animal.
615
00:36:49,119 --> 00:36:51,252
I think I'd rather have arthritis.
616
00:36:59,478 --> 00:37:01,523
Mary Flannery.
617
00:37:01,697 --> 00:37:04,657
You don't have arthritis.
618
00:37:05,919 --> 00:37:07,964
You have lupus.
619
00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:11,229
Now, you're an adult now.
620
00:37:12,534 --> 00:37:16,451
And you need to know...
621
00:37:16,625 --> 00:37:19,149
your mama, she didn't want
you to worry.
622
00:37:19,324 --> 00:37:21,978
You were already weak,
623
00:37:22,152 --> 00:37:23,937
and she just thought it would...
624
00:37:25,982 --> 00:37:27,897
She doesn't want you to think
625
00:37:28,071 --> 00:37:29,464
that there isn't any hope.
626
00:37:32,946 --> 00:37:35,122
Because it's not like
when your daddy had it.
627
00:37:36,384 --> 00:37:38,038
See, nowadays,
628
00:37:38,212 --> 00:37:41,955
nowadays, doctors
don't let young people die.
629
00:37:42,129 --> 00:37:44,436
They give 'em some of these
new medicines.
630
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:47,308
People don't die...
631
00:37:49,136 --> 00:37:50,703
like they used to.
632
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,144
Well, that's not good news...
633
00:37:58,711 --> 00:38:01,453
but I can't thank you enough
for telling me.
634
00:38:01,627 --> 00:38:05,326
I thought I had lupus,
and I thought I was going crazy.
635
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:07,676
I'd a lot rather be
sick than crazy.
636
00:38:09,243 --> 00:38:10,940
But don't tell Regina
that you told me,
637
00:38:11,114 --> 00:38:13,160
because if you do,
638
00:38:13,334 --> 00:38:14,974
she'll never tell you anything
ever again.
639
00:38:15,118 --> 00:38:16,685
And I might like to know
something else
640
00:38:16,859 --> 00:38:18,470
about myself sometime.
641
00:38:18,644 --> 00:38:19,644
Okay?
642
00:38:23,823 --> 00:38:24,867
Thank you.
643
00:39:01,164 --> 00:39:02,818
I'm working.
644
00:39:02,992 --> 00:39:05,821
I told you not to enter my room
when I'm working.
645
00:39:07,214 --> 00:39:09,259
I know that,
646
00:39:09,434 --> 00:39:12,959
but you need to come on down
now, when you're ready.
647
00:39:13,133 --> 00:39:14,700
Rinehart rejected my novel.
648
00:39:17,659 --> 00:39:19,019
I'm sure
that's very disappointing,
649
00:39:19,139 --> 00:39:20,880
but the doctor's downstairs now.
650
00:39:21,054 --> 00:39:23,665
How long have you known?
651
00:39:23,839 --> 00:39:25,232
Known what?
652
00:39:27,103 --> 00:39:29,584
I look just like Daddy.
653
00:39:29,758 --> 00:39:31,281
No, you don't.
654
00:39:33,458 --> 00:39:35,285
You go talk to the doctor.
655
00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:37,984
I don't need one.
I need a priest.
656
00:40:06,752 --> 00:40:08,406
The reality of death
657
00:40:08,580 --> 00:40:12,018
has come upon me.
658
00:40:12,192 --> 00:40:14,455
And a consciousness
of the power of God
659
00:40:14,629 --> 00:40:18,372
has broken my complacency
like a bullet in the side.
660
00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:26,728
A sense of the dramatic,
661
00:40:26,902 --> 00:40:28,600
of the tragic, of the infinite,
662
00:40:28,774 --> 00:40:31,167
has descended,
filling me with grief.
663
00:40:33,039 --> 00:40:34,519
But even more than grief...
664
00:40:36,259 --> 00:40:37,696
wonder.
665
00:40:58,978 --> 00:41:00,283
"Dear Regina,
666
00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:02,982
I have good news.
667
00:41:03,156 --> 00:41:04,592
They tell me I've won
668
00:41:04,766 --> 00:41:06,420
the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction Award.
669
00:41:06,594 --> 00:41:08,514
It means $750 from a respected
New York publisher
670
00:41:08,683 --> 00:41:11,207
and gives them an option
to publish the novel,
671
00:41:11,381 --> 00:41:13,471
if I can ever finish it.
672
00:41:13,645 --> 00:41:15,298
I hope you and Duchess are well.
673
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:18,214
Don't let the new yard man
demoralize the ducks.
674
00:41:18,388 --> 00:41:20,608
Love, MF."
675
00:41:21,696 --> 00:41:24,743
"P.S. Please restrain yourself
676
00:41:24,917 --> 00:41:27,267
from sending me any more aprons.
677
00:41:27,441 --> 00:41:30,357
I know it will be hard,
but please."
678
00:41:32,272 --> 00:41:35,971
All right, Flannery,
the room is yours.
679
00:41:49,332 --> 00:41:51,509
This story's called
Parker's Back.
680
00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:03,129
Sarah Ruth was plain plain.
681
00:42:03,303 --> 00:42:04,826
The skin on her face was thin
682
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,611
and drawn tight
as the skin on an onion.
683
00:42:06,785 --> 00:42:08,787
And her eyes were gray and sharp
684
00:42:08,961 --> 00:42:10,789
like the points
of two ice picks.
685
00:42:10,963 --> 00:42:13,182
Come on. God...
686
00:42:13,356 --> 00:42:15,010
Damn it!
God damn it to hell.
687
00:42:15,184 --> 00:42:17,404
Hey.
Jesus Christ.
688
00:42:17,578 --> 00:42:19,406
We don't talk no filth here.
Huh?
689
00:42:19,580 --> 00:42:21,800
We don't talk no filth here.
690
00:42:21,974 --> 00:42:23,628
Oh, okay.
Okay, okay, okay.
691
00:42:23,802 --> 00:42:25,194
Hey, hey.
692
00:42:25,368 --> 00:42:27,762
I just... It's my hand.
I hurt my hand.
693
00:42:27,936 --> 00:42:29,198
I think it's broken.
694
00:42:30,243 --> 00:42:31,592
Let me see.
695
00:42:33,986 --> 00:42:34,986
Your hand's fine.
696
00:42:35,074 --> 00:42:36,074
Well, I'm cured.
697
00:42:36,162 --> 00:42:39,295
Oh!
Okay.
698
00:42:39,469 --> 00:42:41,776
All right. Be careful
with me now, all right?
699
00:42:41,950 --> 00:42:44,083
I'm a Navy man.
I've been all around the world.
700
00:42:44,257 --> 00:42:46,520
I could teach you
a thing or two, all right?
701
00:42:46,694 --> 00:42:49,610
This right here,
got this in Cape Horn.
702
00:42:50,655 --> 00:42:52,047
Got this one in Burma.
703
00:42:52,221 --> 00:42:54,397
I got this one here
when I was 15 years old.
704
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:56,892
Don't tell me. I don't like it.
I ain't got any use for it.
705
00:42:57,009 --> 00:42:59,489
- It's idolatry.
- Hold on a second.
706
00:42:59,664 --> 00:43:01,206
You ought to see the ones
you can't see.
707
00:43:01,230 --> 00:43:02,670
All that there
is nothing better than
708
00:43:02,710 --> 00:43:03,790
what a fool Indian would do.
709
00:43:03,929 --> 00:43:05,495
Vanity.
Vanity of vanities.
710
00:43:05,670 --> 00:43:07,193
Hold on a second.
711
00:43:07,367 --> 00:43:08,736
You must like one of these
a bit more than the rest.
712
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,544
I mean, take a good look
at this here.
713
00:43:10,718 --> 00:43:12,981
Chicken ain't so bad.
714
00:43:13,155 --> 00:43:14,243
A chicken?
715
00:43:14,417 --> 00:43:16,376
Girly, this is an eagle.
716
00:43:16,550 --> 00:43:18,441
What kind of fool a would put
a chicken on himself?
717
00:43:18,465 --> 00:43:20,305
Well, what kind of a fool
would have any of it?
718
00:43:25,559 --> 00:43:27,430
You saved?
719
00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:28,649
Saved?
720
00:43:31,217 --> 00:43:33,177
I don't really know
what I would need saving from.
721
00:43:34,437 --> 00:43:37,223
Would a kiss from you
take care of that, though?
722
00:43:37,397 --> 00:43:38,441
What's your name?
723
00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,269
Parker.
724
00:43:40,443 --> 00:43:42,489
O.E. Parker.
725
00:43:42,663 --> 00:43:44,752
What's the "O.E." stand for?
726
00:43:44,926 --> 00:43:47,494
Never mind that.
What's your name?
727
00:43:47,668 --> 00:43:48,887
I'll tell you if you tell me
728
00:43:49,061 --> 00:43:51,629
what them letters
are the short of.
729
00:43:51,803 --> 00:43:53,500
Nah, nah, I can't do that.
730
00:43:53,674 --> 00:43:56,416
You'll just go blabbing it
all around town.
731
00:43:56,590 --> 00:43:57,635
I won't.
732
00:43:58,853 --> 00:44:00,550
I swear.
733
00:44:00,725 --> 00:44:02,117
Swear to God.
734
00:44:03,684 --> 00:44:05,468
All right.
735
00:44:07,296 --> 00:44:09,429
All right. I will then.
736
00:44:09,603 --> 00:44:12,214
That's a secret now. You can't
tell anybody, all right?
737
00:44:12,388 --> 00:44:13,651
Come here close.
738
00:44:14,869 --> 00:44:16,523
My name...
739
00:44:16,697 --> 00:44:21,006
is Obadiah Elihue Parker.
740
00:44:22,094 --> 00:44:24,357
Means "servant of God."
741
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:28,360
Hey!
742
00:44:29,667 --> 00:44:31,146
You kids want some apples?
743
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:32,582
Yeah!
Come on.
744
00:44:34,019 --> 00:44:36,151
Now, I think I'll come by tomorrow.
745
00:44:37,196 --> 00:44:38,937
I'll bring you
some blackberries.
746
00:44:39,111 --> 00:44:40,373
How about that?
747
00:44:41,722 --> 00:44:43,550
Dive in, everybody. Come on.
748
00:44:45,770 --> 00:44:47,032
Say "thank you."
749
00:44:47,206 --> 00:44:48,816
Thank you!
750
00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:50,751
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
It was as if a blind boy
751
00:44:50,775 --> 00:44:52,777
had been turned so gently
in a different direction
752
00:44:52,951 --> 00:44:54,343
that he did not know
753
00:44:54,517 --> 00:44:56,302
his destination
had been changed.
754
00:45:05,877 --> 00:45:07,705
Parker, no.
Not till I'm married.
755
00:45:07,879 --> 00:45:10,098
- Oh, come on.
- Parker, no!
756
00:45:10,272 --> 00:45:12,405
What, are you,
one of them Suffragettes?
757
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:15,930
A lesbian?
758
00:45:16,104 --> 00:45:17,864
I don't divide people up
into boys and girls.
759
00:45:18,019 --> 00:45:21,849
I divide them up by irritating
and less irritating.
760
00:45:23,633 --> 00:45:25,984
Oh.
761
00:45:26,158 --> 00:45:30,075
Well... which am I?
762
00:45:30,249 --> 00:45:33,208
Mm-hmm. There's my answer.
Less irritating.
763
00:45:37,082 --> 00:45:40,476
Parker, wait, no. No, really.
Not till I'm married, Parker.
764
00:45:40,650 --> 00:45:42,609
- Parker, Parker, Parker!
- Ow, ow!
765
00:45:43,784 --> 00:45:45,327
- Not till we're married! No!
- Come on!
766
00:45:45,351 --> 00:45:46,744
Parker!
767
00:45:51,792 --> 00:45:52,912
Not till we're married, okay?
768
00:45:55,404 --> 00:45:56,492
Ah.
769
00:45:59,887 --> 00:46:03,369
Lo,
this is the man
770
00:46:03,543 --> 00:46:05,023
that made not God his strength,
771
00:46:05,197 --> 00:46:07,037
but trusted in the abundance
of his richness...
772
00:46:07,155 --> 00:46:10,245
and the strength in himself.
773
00:46:10,419 --> 00:46:12,136
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Sometimes, Parker supposed
774
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,814
she married him to save him.
775
00:46:13,988 --> 00:46:15,428
At other times,
he had the impression
776
00:46:15,468 --> 00:46:16,861
she actually liked
all the things
777
00:46:17,035 --> 00:46:18,906
she said she despised.
778
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,387
He could account for her
one way or another.
779
00:46:21,561 --> 00:46:23,868
It was himself
he didn't understand.
780
00:46:24,042 --> 00:46:28,263
But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
781
00:46:28,437 --> 00:46:31,571
I trust in the mercy of God
forever and ever.
782
00:46:33,965 --> 00:46:36,837
At the judgment of God,
Jesus is gonna ask you
783
00:46:37,011 --> 00:46:38,411
what you've been doing
all your life
784
00:46:38,578 --> 00:46:41,407
'sides drawing pictures
all over yourself.
785
00:46:41,581 --> 00:46:43,409
Girly, you ain't fooling nobody.
786
00:46:43,583 --> 00:46:45,387
You're just worried
that big hefty blonde woman
787
00:46:45,411 --> 00:46:47,587
I've been working for is going
to come around one day
788
00:46:47,761 --> 00:46:50,068
and say, "Hey, Mr. Parker,
789
00:46:50,242 --> 00:46:52,331
why don't you and me
just go take off together?"
790
00:46:52,505 --> 00:46:54,463
Now, you are tempting sin.
791
00:46:56,683 --> 00:46:58,163
You should have seen her
792
00:46:58,337 --> 00:46:59,749
the first time she seen me
with my shirt off.
793
00:46:59,773 --> 00:47:01,166
She looked at me and said,
794
00:47:01,340 --> 00:47:05,474
"Why, Mr. Parker, you are
a regular old panorama."
795
00:47:05,648 --> 00:47:07,215
Now, at the judgment of God,
796
00:47:07,389 --> 00:47:08,749
you'll have to answer
for that too.
797
00:47:08,826 --> 00:47:10,262
Vanity.
798
00:47:10,436 --> 00:47:11,979
See, I'm thinking I'm going to
put a Bible verse
799
00:47:12,003 --> 00:47:13,221
right here on my back
800
00:47:13,395 --> 00:47:14,875
so you have something better
to read.
801
00:47:17,051 --> 00:47:20,881
Now, ain't I...
802
00:47:21,055 --> 00:47:25,364
already got myself a real fire.
803
00:47:26,452 --> 00:47:28,628
Yeah, but I want you
looking at me.
804
00:47:37,811 --> 00:47:39,334
Oh!
805
00:47:39,508 --> 00:47:40,509
All right.
806
00:47:43,469 --> 00:47:45,340
Lift up.
807
00:47:52,086 --> 00:47:54,001
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Parker understood
808
00:47:54,175 --> 00:47:55,568
why he married her.
809
00:47:55,742 --> 00:47:57,570
He couldn't have her
any other way.
810
00:47:57,744 --> 00:48:00,834
But he couldn't understand
why he stayed with her now.
811
00:48:01,008 --> 00:48:02,662
She would be pregnant soon,
812
00:48:02,836 --> 00:48:05,273
and pregnant women
were not his favorite kind.
813
00:48:07,145 --> 00:48:09,016
He thought of his own head
as a switchbox
814
00:48:09,190 --> 00:48:10,931
where he controlled from.
815
00:48:11,105 --> 00:48:14,630
But with her, he could only
imagine the outside in.
816
00:48:14,804 --> 00:48:16,719
The whole black world
in her head,
817
00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:20,114
big enough to include the sky
and the planets.
818
00:48:20,288 --> 00:48:21,637
Shut your mouth.
819
00:48:21,811 --> 00:48:23,011
Whatever had been or would be.
820
00:48:23,117 --> 00:48:24,553
I wanna show you something
821
00:48:24,727 --> 00:48:26,407
and then I don't want to hear
another word.
822
00:48:27,208 --> 00:48:29,254
When he closed his eyes,
823
00:48:29,428 --> 00:48:31,343
he could see some type of star.
824
00:48:31,517 --> 00:48:34,215
The kind of star
on a Christmas card.
825
00:48:34,389 --> 00:48:36,783
But he couldn't hold the star
steady in his mind.
826
00:48:36,957 --> 00:48:39,568
He felt as if he were blocked
at the entrance of something,
827
00:48:39,742 --> 00:48:41,502
or as if he was at
the beginning of something
828
00:48:41,570 --> 00:48:43,746
that didn't have a beginning.
829
00:48:43,921 --> 00:48:45,681
He saw the star moving
farther and farther away
830
00:48:45,705 --> 00:48:48,838
into darkness, until he realized
831
00:48:49,013 --> 00:48:51,493
Sarah Ruth
was the pinpoint of light.
832
00:48:53,408 --> 00:48:55,976
A ferocious thud
propelled him into the air.
833
00:48:56,150 --> 00:48:57,456
He landed on his back
834
00:48:57,630 --> 00:48:58,950
while the tractor
crashed sideways
835
00:48:59,110 --> 00:49:01,286
and the tree burst into flames.
836
00:49:01,460 --> 00:49:04,637
He could feel the hot breath of
the burning tree on his face.
837
00:49:04,811 --> 00:49:07,074
If he had known
how to cross himself,
838
00:49:07,248 --> 00:49:08,510
he would have done it.
839
00:49:10,121 --> 00:49:12,950
Hey!
Hey, open up!
840
00:49:14,125 --> 00:49:15,865
God.
841
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,042
Parker longed
miserably for Sarah Ruth.
842
00:49:18,216 --> 00:49:20,174
Her sharp tongue
and ice pick eyes
843
00:49:20,348 --> 00:49:22,481
were the only comfort
he could bring to mind.
844
00:49:23,830 --> 00:49:26,180
She can't say she don't like
the looks of God.
845
00:49:33,883 --> 00:49:36,016
Then, a calm descended on him,
846
00:49:36,190 --> 00:49:39,324
as nerve-shattering as
if the long, barn-like room
847
00:49:39,498 --> 00:49:42,675
were a ship from which Jonah
had been cast into the sea.
848
00:49:47,723 --> 00:49:51,336
It was as if he were himself,
but a stranger to himself,
849
00:49:51,510 --> 00:49:53,816
driving into a new country,
850
00:49:53,991 --> 00:49:55,905
though everything he saw
was familiar.
851
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,691
That blonde woman was here and
she ain't as hefty as you said.
852
00:49:58,865 --> 00:50:00,736
You're gonna have
to pay every penny
853
00:50:00,910 --> 00:50:03,280
on that tractor you busted. She
don't keep the insurance on it.
854
00:50:03,304 --> 00:50:05,195
What you doing wasting
electricity in the daylight?
855
00:50:05,219 --> 00:50:07,656
- I ain't got to look at you.
- Shut your mouth!
856
00:50:07,830 --> 00:50:09,745
You ain't gonna have none of me
this morning.
857
00:50:09,919 --> 00:50:11,356
Look at me, all right?
858
00:50:11,530 --> 00:50:12,986
Look at me. I want to show you
something, okay?
859
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:14,402
I wanna show you something
860
00:50:14,576 --> 00:50:15,858
and then I don't want to hear
another word.
861
00:50:15,882 --> 00:50:17,536
- Not another word.
- Don't touch me.
862
00:50:19,364 --> 00:50:21,366
I should've known you was off
putting more trash...
863
00:50:21,540 --> 00:50:22,820
Well, just look at it,
all right?
864
00:50:22,845 --> 00:50:24,717
- Just look at it.
- I done looked.
865
00:50:24,891 --> 00:50:26,153
Don't you know who that is?
866
00:50:26,327 --> 00:50:27,763
Look! Don't you know
who that is?
867
00:50:27,937 --> 00:50:29,137
Who is it?
Ain't nobody I know.
868
00:50:29,287 --> 00:50:31,028
It's Him, all right?
It's... It's Him!
869
00:50:31,202 --> 00:50:33,943
- Him who?
- Him! It's... It's God.
870
00:50:34,118 --> 00:50:36,033
Just look at it for a second.
871
00:50:36,207 --> 00:50:37,773
Just look. Huh?
872
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:40,556
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
He felt as though
873
00:50:40,602 --> 00:50:42,256
under her gaze,
874
00:50:42,430 --> 00:50:44,998
he was as transparent
as the wing of a fly.
875
00:50:45,172 --> 00:50:46,695
God?
876
00:50:46,869 --> 00:50:49,481
God don't look like that.
877
00:50:51,396 --> 00:50:53,615
What you mean?
878
00:50:53,789 --> 00:50:55,289
How do you know? You don't know
what God look.
879
00:50:55,313 --> 00:50:57,097
You ain't never seen him before.
880
00:50:57,271 --> 00:50:59,056
He don't look.
He's a spirit.
881
00:50:59,230 --> 00:51:00,709
No man shall see his face.
882
00:51:00,883 --> 00:51:02,383
Come on.
This is just a picture of him.
883
00:51:02,407 --> 00:51:03,886
No! Parker, no!
884
00:51:04,061 --> 00:51:05,366
This is just a picture of him.
885
00:51:05,540 --> 00:51:07,586
No! No! That's idolatry,
Parker. Parker!
886
00:51:14,419 --> 00:51:18,075
Stop! Stop! Ah!
887
00:51:18,249 --> 00:51:22,079
Idolatry! Parker!
888
00:51:22,253 --> 00:51:24,124
Idolatry!
889
00:51:24,298 --> 00:51:25,299
'Idolatry!'
890
00:51:26,474 --> 00:51:27,562
Sarah Ruth screamed.
891
00:51:30,478 --> 00:51:32,480
Still gripping the broom,
892
00:51:32,654 --> 00:51:34,047
she looked toward the pecan tree
893
00:51:34,221 --> 00:51:36,441
and her eyes hardened
still more.
894
00:51:36,615 --> 00:51:41,054
There he was, who called
himself Obadiah Elihue...
895
00:51:42,099 --> 00:51:43,970
crying like a baby.
896
00:51:59,028 --> 00:52:01,118
- The thing I struggle with is...
- Hey, Walter...
897
00:52:04,382 --> 00:52:07,211
There won't be any critical
dissecting this afternoon.
898
00:52:08,951 --> 00:52:10,344
Workshop's over for the day.
899
00:52:39,982 --> 00:52:42,159
Creativity is nature
900
00:52:42,333 --> 00:52:44,465
manifest in us.
901
00:52:47,642 --> 00:52:49,905
It is you inside us rising.
902
00:52:54,432 --> 00:52:56,173
Writing is dead without you.
903
00:52:58,610 --> 00:53:00,786
Oh, Lord, please rise in me.
904
00:53:02,744 --> 00:53:04,833
Make this dead desire living.
905
00:53:06,879 --> 00:53:09,490
You are the slim crescent moon
that I see,
906
00:53:09,664 --> 00:53:12,232
and myself is the earth's shadow
907
00:53:12,406 --> 00:53:14,756
that keeps me from seeing
all the moon.
908
00:53:18,282 --> 00:53:20,022
Help me feel
909
00:53:20,197 --> 00:53:22,000
that I will give up
every earthly thing for this.
910
00:53:22,024 --> 00:53:23,852
every earthly thing
for this.
911
00:53:24,026 --> 00:53:25,700
- I do not mean becoming a nun...
- Hey. Who are you talking to?
912
00:53:25,724 --> 00:53:26,899
Oh, God.
913
00:53:27,073 --> 00:53:28,553
Oh!
914
00:53:28,727 --> 00:53:32,339
- It's Cal. It's you.
- I didn't... I'm sorry.
915
00:53:32,513 --> 00:53:34,211
No. I'm...
916
00:53:34,385 --> 00:53:36,213
I'm scared to death.
917
00:53:36,387 --> 00:53:37,866
I should be working.
918
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,565
You know,
I don't even like parties.
919
00:53:40,739 --> 00:53:42,419
I think whoever invented
the cocktail party
920
00:53:42,523 --> 00:53:45,874
ought to be drawn and quartered.
921
00:53:46,048 --> 00:53:48,442
And I think my ankles
are soaked in Beefeater.
922
00:53:48,616 --> 00:53:50,575
Well, uh, I can get you
some vermouth,
923
00:53:50,749 --> 00:53:52,316
and they'll be...
They'll be perfect.
924
00:53:52,490 --> 00:53:54,622
No, really, I... I came to pay
my respects to you,
925
00:53:54,796 --> 00:53:57,973
and in some way I've done that.
926
00:53:58,147 --> 00:53:59,323
And I think I should go home.
927
00:53:59,497 --> 00:54:01,455
No. No, no, no, no,
no, no, no.
928
00:54:01,629 --> 00:54:04,806
Please stay. Please. Please
stay. Yeah.
929
00:54:04,980 --> 00:54:06,591
I won't be any good in there.
I need...
930
00:54:06,765 --> 00:54:08,288
I need your help.
931
00:54:08,462 --> 00:54:13,075
Uh, I'm finding this party
to be so... so trying.
932
00:54:13,250 --> 00:54:15,252
If you are here,
I could be assured of
933
00:54:15,426 --> 00:54:19,908
at least one conversation
that isn't sordid
934
00:54:20,082 --> 00:54:23,042
or gossipy,
935
00:54:23,216 --> 00:54:26,393
or about some abstract
aesthetic theory.
936
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,702
Well, that's high praise, Cal.
937
00:54:30,876 --> 00:54:32,181
It's true.
938
00:54:36,273 --> 00:54:37,752
You got any food in there?
939
00:54:37,926 --> 00:54:39,580
Yes.
940
00:54:39,754 --> 00:54:42,061
Chicken a la king.
941
00:54:42,235 --> 00:54:44,063
Well, then maybe
for a minute then.
942
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:47,327
It's just that I hadn't eaten
all day.
943
00:54:50,069 --> 00:54:51,462
Thank you.
944
00:54:57,424 --> 00:55:00,079
Your story...
945
00:55:00,253 --> 00:55:01,689
Parker's Back.
946
00:55:05,127 --> 00:55:06,303
It's good.
947
00:55:09,044 --> 00:55:10,307
Thank you.
948
00:55:16,138 --> 00:55:17,139
I...
949
00:55:21,230 --> 00:55:24,712
canonize... you...
950
00:55:29,151 --> 00:55:31,980
Saint Flannery.
951
00:55:42,513 --> 00:55:44,253
- Take a swig.
- Oh.
952
00:55:44,428 --> 00:55:46,212
Ah, there you are.
953
00:55:46,386 --> 00:55:49,824
Of course, your party
filled with adoring students,
954
00:55:49,998 --> 00:55:51,652
and you vanish.
955
00:55:51,826 --> 00:55:54,351
I don't even know
half of those people, Cal.
956
00:55:57,005 --> 00:56:00,966
Elizabeth, Flannery.
Flannery, Elizabeth.
957
00:56:01,140 --> 00:56:04,404
Hi. I... I've read your book.
I liked it right much.
958
00:56:04,578 --> 00:56:06,319
I was very impressed.
959
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,192
Oh, thank you.
960
00:56:13,544 --> 00:56:16,982
Welcome to Cal's party.
961
00:56:18,244 --> 00:56:19,898
He's very important.
962
00:56:20,072 --> 00:56:21,726
He's won a Pulitzer.
963
00:56:24,642 --> 00:56:25,773
Uh...
964
00:56:29,821 --> 00:56:31,910
Come on.
965
00:56:32,084 --> 00:56:34,869
♪ What a rare
mood I'm in ♪
966
00:56:36,741 --> 00:56:41,528
♪ Why, it's almost like being
in love ♪
967
00:56:41,702 --> 00:56:43,269
When I was seven years old,
968
00:56:43,443 --> 00:56:45,116
my daddy and I had a chicken
that walked backwards.
969
00:56:45,140 --> 00:56:47,447
♪ There's a smile
on my face... ♪
970
00:56:47,621 --> 00:56:49,231
Pathé News came all the way
to Georgia
971
00:56:49,406 --> 00:56:51,408
to make a newsreel of it.
972
00:56:51,582 --> 00:56:53,584
I was in it, too.
973
00:56:53,758 --> 00:56:55,934
I was only there
to assist the chicken,
974
00:56:56,108 --> 00:56:58,415
but it was the high point
of my life.
975
00:56:58,589 --> 00:57:00,591
Everything since
has been anticlimax.
976
00:57:00,765 --> 00:57:02,506
Oh.
977
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,159
Is she good?
978
00:57:04,333 --> 00:57:06,945
She's the most promising writer
in the class.
979
00:57:08,425 --> 00:57:11,036
Ouch, Walter, he said that
right in front of you.
980
00:57:14,256 --> 00:57:15,606
Congrats on winning
the Rinehart.
981
00:57:15,780 --> 00:57:17,477
- Oh, you won that?
- Oh, sorry.
982
00:57:17,651 --> 00:57:19,871
- Definitely beating you now.
- Here.
983
00:57:20,045 --> 00:57:21,263
Thanks.
984
00:57:21,438 --> 00:57:23,701
Can I give you some advice
though?
985
00:57:23,875 --> 00:57:25,180
You should use
the word "Negro."
986
00:57:25,354 --> 00:57:27,008
- Ready?
- Instead of that other word.
987
00:57:30,447 --> 00:57:31,796
The people I'm writing about
988
00:57:31,970 --> 00:57:33,426
would never dream of
using any other word.
989
00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,582
Just a friendly warning.
990
00:57:35,756 --> 00:57:37,584
And I prefer not
to tidy up reality.
991
00:57:37,758 --> 00:57:39,020
I'm not tidying up reality.
992
00:57:39,194 --> 00:57:40,754
What you're talking about
is propaganda,
993
00:57:40,848 --> 00:57:42,130
and propaganda even on the side
of the angels
994
00:57:42,154 --> 00:57:43,154
only makes it worse.
995
00:57:43,198 --> 00:57:44,461
The truth doesn't change
996
00:57:44,635 --> 00:57:46,134
according to your ability
to stomach it.
997
00:57:46,158 --> 00:57:47,158
Guys?
998
00:57:49,074 --> 00:57:52,033
Hey. I was just trying
to be nice to you.
999
00:58:01,956 --> 00:58:03,871
Well, I guess you're up.
1000
00:58:04,045 --> 00:58:05,046
Ready?
1001
00:58:06,526 --> 00:58:08,876
So, my question is,
1002
00:58:09,050 --> 00:58:11,052
do Christians, do Catholics,
1003
00:58:11,226 --> 00:58:13,881
do whoever, pick... pick one,
1004
00:58:14,055 --> 00:58:17,102
believe that they're actually
eating Jesus?
1005
00:58:17,276 --> 00:58:18,320
Like cannibals.
1006
00:58:18,495 --> 00:58:19,496
Walter!
1007
00:58:19,670 --> 00:58:21,410
I'm just saying.
1008
00:58:21,585 --> 00:58:24,892
And if so, then how can you
stand on a moral high ground?
1009
00:58:25,066 --> 00:58:29,157
Well, Walter, the question seems
to be, to me,
1010
00:58:29,331 --> 00:58:33,118
whether a person believes that
we are created in God's image,
1011
00:58:33,292 --> 00:58:36,121
or whether he believes that
we create God in our own.
1012
00:58:36,295 --> 00:58:37,644
Hmm?
1013
00:58:37,818 --> 00:58:39,428
Now, I don't know the answer,
1014
00:58:39,603 --> 00:58:41,387
but I do remember, as a child,
1015
00:58:41,561 --> 00:58:44,608
when I would stand in line
to receive the Host,
1016
00:58:44,782 --> 00:58:47,524
I always thought of it
as the Holy Ghost.
1017
00:58:47,698 --> 00:58:49,264
That's beautiful.
1018
00:58:49,438 --> 00:58:52,180
He seemed like the most portable
person of the Trinity.
1019
00:58:52,354 --> 00:58:54,748
Now, I think of the Eucharist
1020
00:58:54,922 --> 00:58:59,536
as a lovely,
expressive symbol...
1021
00:59:00,711 --> 00:59:02,277
The synecdoche of God.
1022
00:59:02,451 --> 00:59:04,366
If it's a symbol,
then to hell with it.
1023
00:59:06,630 --> 00:59:10,111
Uh, it's a lot harder to believe
than not to believe.
1024
00:59:14,202 --> 00:59:16,988
What people don't understand
1025
00:59:17,162 --> 00:59:19,599
is how much religion costs.
1026
00:59:19,773 --> 00:59:24,343
They think that faith is a...
big electric blanket,
1027
00:59:24,517 --> 00:59:26,432
when really, it's the cross.
1028
00:59:32,612 --> 00:59:35,659
♪ Dropped into a tavern ♪
1029
00:59:36,834 --> 00:59:38,836
♪ Saw some friends of mine ♪
1030
00:59:40,141 --> 00:59:43,014
♪ The party
was gettin' underway ♪
1031
00:59:43,188 --> 00:59:45,407
♪ And the truth
was really flyin' ♪
1032
00:59:45,582 --> 00:59:47,279
♪ And I got loaded ♪
1033
00:59:47,453 --> 00:59:49,324
♪ I got loaded ♪
1034
00:59:52,110 --> 00:59:54,460
There are many who say
1035
00:59:54,634 --> 00:59:55,809
that a dog has its day,
1036
00:59:55,983 --> 00:59:59,683
and a cat has a number of lives.
1037
00:59:59,857 --> 01:00:03,295
There are others who think
that a lobster is pink
1038
01:00:03,469 --> 01:00:07,560
and that bees
never work in their hives.
1039
01:00:07,734 --> 01:00:09,127
Drink.
1040
01:00:14,393 --> 01:00:16,743
♪ I got loaded ♪
1041
01:00:29,147 --> 01:00:30,322
Your eyes had no bottom.
1042
01:00:30,496 --> 01:00:32,454
They can see more.
1043
01:00:32,629 --> 01:00:35,414
I did not lie.
You lied.
1044
01:00:35,588 --> 01:00:38,330
- I didn't lie.
- You lied.
1045
01:00:38,504 --> 01:00:40,375
You have your truth,
I have mine.
1046
01:00:40,549 --> 01:00:41,725
There is only one truth.
1047
01:00:41,899 --> 01:00:44,205
In that there is no truth.
1048
01:00:49,863 --> 01:00:51,691
All my thoughts are
so far away from God,
1049
01:00:51,865 --> 01:00:53,606
He may as well not have made me.
1050
01:00:59,438 --> 01:01:01,222
♪ Hmm... ♪
1051
01:01:11,145 --> 01:01:16,063
♪ Hmm... ♪
1052
01:01:17,282 --> 01:01:19,632
♪ Hmm ♪
1053
01:01:42,394 --> 01:01:43,961
Here's Mary O'Connor,
1054
01:01:44,135 --> 01:01:45,484
of Savannah, Georgia,
1055
01:01:45,658 --> 01:01:47,027
holding the only chicken
in the world
1056
01:01:47,051 --> 01:01:49,009
that actually walks backwards.
1057
01:01:49,183 --> 01:01:51,055
When she advances, she retreats,
1058
01:01:51,229 --> 01:01:53,274
to go forward, she goes back.
1059
01:01:53,448 --> 01:01:55,581
When she looks ahead,
she's going astern,
1060
01:01:55,755 --> 01:01:58,627
and when she arrives,
she's really leaving.
1061
01:02:39,103 --> 01:02:42,846
Dear God, please, help me
1062
01:02:43,020 --> 01:02:46,327
to eliminate my picky,
fishbone way of doing things.
1063
01:02:48,068 --> 01:02:49,635
I can never seem to
escape myself
1064
01:02:49,809 --> 01:02:51,506
unless I'm writing,
and, strangely,
1065
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:55,206
I'm never more myself
than when I'm writing.
1066
01:02:55,380 --> 01:02:56,903
Is there no way for me to disappear
1067
01:02:57,077 --> 01:02:58,252
into something bigger?
1068
01:02:58,426 --> 01:03:00,559
Don't slouch.
Thank you.
1069
01:03:02,517 --> 01:03:05,303
I don't want to die.
1070
01:03:06,695 --> 01:03:08,523
Please, give me one good story.
1071
01:03:11,222 --> 01:03:13,006
Let me be your typewriter.
1072
01:03:21,798 --> 01:03:23,321
We only live once.
1073
01:03:23,495 --> 01:03:26,672
And by... by paying
just a little bit more for it,
1074
01:03:26,846 --> 01:03:29,240
I, at least, I won't meet myself
coming and going.
1075
01:03:30,719 --> 01:03:32,132
I mean, this hat
looked much better on me
1076
01:03:32,156 --> 01:03:33,331
than any of the others.
1077
01:03:33,505 --> 01:03:35,072
And when I bought it, I said,
1078
01:03:35,246 --> 01:03:37,509
"Take this thing back.
I won't have it on my head."
1079
01:03:37,683 --> 01:03:40,773
And the lady person said,
"Now, wait till you try it on."
1080
01:03:40,947 --> 01:03:42,514
So I did,
1081
01:03:42,688 --> 01:03:46,605
and she said, "Now,
you do something for that hat,
1082
01:03:46,779 --> 01:03:49,608
and that hat,
it does something for you."
1083
01:03:49,782 --> 01:03:51,175
She said, "With that hat,
1084
01:03:51,349 --> 01:03:53,220
you won't miss yourself
coming and going."
1085
01:03:54,526 --> 01:03:56,180
I like it, Mother.
1086
01:03:58,399 --> 01:04:00,184
With the way the world is,
1087
01:04:00,358 --> 01:04:02,142
it's a wonder
we can enjoy anything.
1088
01:04:03,274 --> 01:04:04,754
I tell you,
the bottom rail is on top.
1089
01:04:04,928 --> 01:04:06,494
Let's skip it.
1090
01:04:06,668 --> 01:04:09,933
You know, I remember this
old darky who was my nurse,
1091
01:04:10,107 --> 01:04:12,196
Caroline, there was no better
person in the world.
1092
01:04:12,370 --> 01:04:14,589
For God's sakes, Mother,
please come off the subject.
1093
01:04:22,293 --> 01:04:24,861
Why must you always dress
like this when we go into town?
1094
01:04:25,035 --> 01:04:26,253
You look like a gangster.
1095
01:04:26,427 --> 01:04:27,864
Nobody cares what I look like.
1096
01:04:28,038 --> 01:04:29,691
I care.
1097
01:04:32,390 --> 01:04:35,219
I can be gracious to anybody.
I know who I am.
1098
01:04:35,393 --> 01:04:37,351
Nobody gives a damn about
your graciousness,
1099
01:04:37,525 --> 01:04:39,484
and you haven't the foggiest
idea of who you are.
1100
01:04:39,658 --> 01:04:41,878
I most certainly do know
who I am,
1101
01:04:42,052 --> 01:04:43,880
and if you don't,
I'm ashamed of you.
1102
01:04:44,054 --> 01:04:45,577
Oh, hell.
1103
01:04:50,538 --> 01:04:52,149
Your grandfather
1104
01:04:52,323 --> 01:04:54,107
was the former governor
of this state.
1105
01:04:54,281 --> 01:04:56,544
Your grandmother was a Godhigh.
1106
01:04:56,718 --> 01:04:58,546
And your great-grandfather,
1107
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,288
he owned a plantation
and 200 slaves.
1108
01:05:02,899 --> 01:05:07,686
Luckily, people are not allowed
to be bought and sold anymore.
1109
01:05:07,860 --> 01:05:09,580
Except when they dress it up
like a wedding.
1110
01:05:09,731 --> 01:05:13,126
Hmm. What would you know
about a wedding?
1111
01:05:17,435 --> 01:05:18,958
Colby, come on, baby.
1112
01:05:23,267 --> 01:05:25,138
Be still, be still.
Come on.
1113
01:06:10,705 --> 01:06:12,969
Ooh, isn't he cute?
1114
01:06:22,108 --> 01:06:24,023
Peek-a-boo.
1115
01:06:24,197 --> 01:06:27,722
Oh, I think he likes me.
1116
01:06:27,896 --> 01:06:29,594
Stop all this mess.
1117
01:06:29,768 --> 01:06:31,770
Quit this foolishness,
sit up straight.
1118
01:06:31,944 --> 01:06:33,815
Sit up straight. Sit up.
1119
01:06:43,695 --> 01:06:46,741
I want to give
that boy a nickel.
1120
01:06:46,915 --> 01:06:48,178
No.
Uhhuh.
1121
01:06:48,352 --> 01:06:49,962
Mother, Mother,
he won't like it.
1122
01:06:50,136 --> 01:06:51,790
Oh, I can't find nothing
but a penny.
1123
01:06:51,964 --> 01:06:53,313
Don't do that.
1124
01:06:53,487 --> 01:06:55,011
Oh, but it looks like shiny new.
1125
01:06:55,185 --> 01:06:56,465
Put your purse away...
Little boy?
1126
01:06:56,621 --> 01:06:57,883
Hey-hey, woo-hoo!
1127
01:06:58,057 --> 01:07:02,105
Little boy, look,
I got a bright new penny.
1128
01:07:02,279 --> 01:07:06,805
I got a nice shiny penny
just for you.
1129
01:07:07,849 --> 01:07:10,548
Uh-huh. Ooh, got it?
There you go.
1130
01:07:10,722 --> 01:07:12,941
He don't take...
nobody's pennies!
1131
01:07:13,116 --> 01:07:15,161
Nobody's.
1132
01:07:19,861 --> 01:07:20,906
This...
1133
01:07:45,452 --> 01:07:48,325
That's why I told you
not to do that.
1134
01:07:49,674 --> 01:07:51,415
In the future, please spare me
1135
01:07:51,589 --> 01:07:54,635
any more moral lectures
on the race problem.
1136
01:07:54,809 --> 01:07:58,857
I... I will no longer allow you
to confine my friendships
1137
01:07:59,031 --> 01:08:00,032
based on matters of race.
1138
01:08:00,206 --> 01:08:01,903
I want to go home.
1139
01:08:02,078 --> 01:08:04,143
Oh, what? You think that was
just one uppity Negro woman?
1140
01:08:04,167 --> 01:08:05,516
It wasn't.
1141
01:08:05,690 --> 01:08:08,040
That was all colored people
telling you that
1142
01:08:08,214 --> 01:08:10,260
they won't take your
condescending pennies anymore.
1143
01:08:12,131 --> 01:08:15,091
Don't act like it's the end
of the world, 'cause it ain't.
1144
01:08:15,265 --> 01:08:17,223
We are going to
your reducing class
1145
01:08:17,397 --> 01:08:18,659
'cause you are fat.
1146
01:08:18,833 --> 01:08:20,661
Fat, Mama!
1147
01:08:20,835 --> 01:08:22,446
I need to go.
1148
01:08:22,620 --> 01:08:25,449
- Mama, come on!
- I wanna go home.
1149
01:08:27,407 --> 01:08:31,194
Mother, where are you going?
1150
01:08:34,719 --> 01:08:37,156
Mother,
I'm not walking any further.
1151
01:08:37,330 --> 01:08:39,637
Going home.
1152
01:08:39,811 --> 01:08:41,247
Mother!
1153
01:08:43,119 --> 01:08:46,252
Tell Grandpa to come get me!
1154
01:08:50,213 --> 01:08:51,605
Tell...
1155
01:08:51,779 --> 01:08:53,999
Tell Caroline.
1156
01:08:55,609 --> 01:08:58,395
Tell Caroline to come get me.
1157
01:09:06,838 --> 01:09:08,274
What?
1158
01:09:08,448 --> 01:09:11,582
Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama.
1159
01:09:11,756 --> 01:09:13,540
Mama. I'm sorry.
1160
01:09:13,714 --> 01:09:15,194
I'm sorry.
I'll take you home.
1161
01:09:15,368 --> 01:09:17,370
Mama, I'll take you.
1162
01:09:17,544 --> 01:09:21,113
Mama. Mama, I'm sorry.
1163
01:09:23,507 --> 01:09:24,638
Help me!
1164
01:09:33,430 --> 01:09:34,953
Well?
1165
01:09:36,650 --> 01:09:38,304
Uh, well...
1166
01:09:45,398 --> 01:09:46,573
I...
1167
01:09:46,747 --> 01:09:48,793
I don't understand...
1168
01:09:50,969 --> 01:09:52,840
why you don't wanna write something
1169
01:09:53,014 --> 01:09:55,234
that people would like to read.
1170
01:09:57,845 --> 01:10:01,153
I mean, it's not exactly
Harper's BAZAAR now, is it?
1171
01:10:02,459 --> 01:10:03,895
Harper's BAZAAR?
1172
01:10:04,069 --> 01:10:05,636
But do...
1173
01:10:05,810 --> 01:10:10,118
Do you really think you're using
the talent God gave you,
1174
01:10:10,293 --> 01:10:13,339
if you don't write something
that a lot...
1175
01:10:13,513 --> 01:10:15,341
A lot of people like?
1176
01:10:17,125 --> 01:10:19,084
That is a literary magazine.
1177
01:10:21,347 --> 01:10:22,870
Do they pay?
1178
01:10:23,044 --> 01:10:24,916
Yes, they pay.
1179
01:10:25,090 --> 01:10:27,614
They don't pay a lot.
1180
01:10:27,788 --> 01:10:29,188
But those are
the kinds of magazines
1181
01:10:29,355 --> 01:10:31,836
that help establish
a writer's reputation.
1182
01:10:33,098 --> 01:10:35,796
Well, reputations
don't buy groceries.
1183
01:10:38,625 --> 01:10:40,540
I'm thinking of ordering me
a peacock.
1184
01:10:41,889 --> 01:10:44,283
- A peacock?
- Mm.
1185
01:10:45,371 --> 01:10:47,373
Don't those things eat flowers?
1186
01:10:47,547 --> 01:10:49,506
No, they eat Startena,
like the rest of 'em.
1187
01:10:50,855 --> 01:10:52,160
I... I don't know.
1188
01:10:53,161 --> 01:10:54,641
I'll need a new hobby
1189
01:10:54,815 --> 01:10:56,415
if I'm gonna be
a decoration around here.
1190
01:11:04,999 --> 01:11:07,263
You know,
1191
01:11:07,437 --> 01:11:10,570
you might want to consider being
a little more friendly.
1192
01:11:13,704 --> 01:11:15,575
I'm not gonna let you die.
1193
01:11:19,536 --> 01:11:20,667
Hmm?
1194
01:11:47,825 --> 01:11:50,567
Dear Cal, I'm making out fine,
1195
01:11:50,741 --> 01:11:53,874
in spite of
any conflicting stories.
1196
01:11:54,048 --> 01:11:56,181
Me and the novel are stuck in
the Georgia wilderness
1197
01:11:56,355 --> 01:11:58,488
at my bird sanctuary
for a few months,
1198
01:11:58,662 --> 01:12:00,533
waiting to see
how much of an invalid
1199
01:12:00,707 --> 01:12:02,622
I'm going to get to be.
1200
01:12:04,276 --> 01:12:06,626
In a sense, sickness is
a place more instructive
1201
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:08,585
than a long trip to Europe.
1202
01:12:11,065 --> 01:12:12,458
I'm writing and revising
the novel,
1203
01:12:12,632 --> 01:12:14,025
but it's so bad at present
1204
01:12:14,199 --> 01:12:15,719
that I'm writing
a lot of short stories
1205
01:12:15,766 --> 01:12:17,376
as to not have to look at it.
1206
01:12:18,899 --> 01:12:21,075
I'm getting up a collection
that I plan on calling
1207
01:12:21,249 --> 01:12:23,817
A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
1208
01:12:26,124 --> 01:12:28,213
If you make any trips,
1209
01:12:28,387 --> 01:12:30,563
I hope you will include Milledgeville.
1210
01:12:49,147 --> 01:12:50,714
Learning to walk
on these crutches,
1211
01:12:50,888 --> 01:12:52,716
I feel like a large,
stiff, anthropoid ape
1212
01:12:52,890 --> 01:12:56,110
who has no cause to be thinking
about St. Thomas or Aristotle
1213
01:12:56,284 --> 01:12:58,044
and instead should be thinking
about bananas.
1214
01:12:58,112 --> 01:12:59,897
Oh, baby.
1215
01:13:00,071 --> 01:13:03,988
You'll be walking on 'em
just as good as new in no time.
1216
01:13:04,162 --> 01:13:05,685
You'll get used to 'em.
1217
01:13:05,859 --> 01:13:08,862
Hey, did I ever tell you
about that time
1218
01:13:09,036 --> 01:13:11,082
that my little pony, Patina,
1219
01:13:11,256 --> 01:13:12,779
reared up and hit me
in the head?
1220
01:13:12,953 --> 01:13:14,714
- Did I ever tell you that?
- Maybe once or twice.
1221
01:13:14,738 --> 01:13:16,479
Well, I was out lunging her...
Oh, okay.
1222
01:13:16,653 --> 01:13:17,893
I was out lunging her one day...
1223
01:13:18,002 --> 01:13:19,002
Lord, I do not want
1224
01:13:19,133 --> 01:13:20,874
to be lonely all my life.
1225
01:13:21,048 --> 01:13:22,765
Well, she'd had enough of it.
Just had...
1226
01:13:22,789 --> 01:13:24,182
People only make me lonelier
1227
01:13:24,356 --> 01:13:25,879
by reminding me of you.
1228
01:13:26,053 --> 01:13:28,534
reared up on me,
smacked me in the forehead,
1229
01:13:28,708 --> 01:13:32,886
left a hoof print on my forehead
for 37 days.
1230
01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:34,627
You should have seen
your grandmother.
1231
01:13:34,801 --> 01:13:36,455
She came flying out of
the kitchen door.
1232
01:13:36,629 --> 01:13:39,719
"That pony's gonna kill you.
That pony's gonna kill you."
1233
01:13:41,808 --> 01:13:44,115
I'm reading Mr. Kafka,
1234
01:13:44,289 --> 01:13:47,292
and I'm understanding more
about his problem of grace.
1235
01:13:50,338 --> 01:13:52,079
God's love is always available.
1236
01:13:54,125 --> 01:13:57,258
And the more we suffer,
the closer you come.
1237
01:14:01,567 --> 01:14:05,441
But it is still so difficult
to want to suffer.
1238
01:14:11,098 --> 01:14:13,231
Lord, please grant me grace...
1239
01:14:15,842 --> 01:14:16,962
and please,
if possible...
1240
01:14:19,063 --> 01:14:21,848
don't make it as painful
as it was for Mr. Kafka.
1241
01:14:34,644 --> 01:14:35,688
Oh, my God. Mary Flannery!
1242
01:14:35,862 --> 01:14:38,604
Oh, my God. No. Do not move.
1243
01:14:38,778 --> 01:14:40,867
Do not... I'm calling the doctor.
1244
01:14:41,041 --> 01:14:43,174
I'm not climbing
those stairs anymore.
1245
01:14:58,406 --> 01:15:02,193
Mary Flannery?
Mary Flannery?
1246
01:15:02,367 --> 01:15:04,804
Ah, there she is.
1247
01:15:06,545 --> 01:15:08,242
Forgive me for waking you up.
1248
01:15:09,766 --> 01:15:10,767
Father Flynn?
1249
01:15:12,812 --> 01:15:14,812
Are you... are you here
to give me Extreme Unction?
1250
01:15:14,945 --> 01:15:16,555
No, no, no.
1251
01:15:16,729 --> 01:15:19,036
Regina requested a visitation.
1252
01:15:19,210 --> 01:15:21,168
Oh.
Thank you.
1253
01:15:24,694 --> 01:15:27,087
Regina, I'd like to speak
to the father alone, please.
1254
01:15:46,324 --> 01:15:47,499
Thank you for coming.
1255
01:15:47,673 --> 01:15:49,849
Happy to do it.
Happy to do it.
1256
01:15:50,023 --> 01:15:51,111
How do you feel?
1257
01:15:51,285 --> 01:15:53,636
I feel awful.
1258
01:15:53,810 --> 01:15:56,943
The cortisone shots make me
think night and day, and then,
1259
01:15:57,117 --> 01:15:58,945
the blood transfusions
knock me out again.
1260
01:15:59,119 --> 01:16:01,121
- Cortisone?
- I feel awful.
1261
01:16:01,295 --> 01:16:02,949
I feel like I got no blood.
1262
01:16:04,472 --> 01:16:06,518
Ah, you've got enough
for a Southern girl.
1263
01:16:06,692 --> 01:16:09,347
Confession and communion
will sort you out.
1264
01:16:11,523 --> 01:16:14,874
Father, I'm afraid.
1265
01:16:17,181 --> 01:16:18,312
Afraid of what?
1266
01:16:20,488 --> 01:16:22,012
You'll be the pallbearer
at my funeral
1267
01:16:22,186 --> 01:16:23,970
like you were for my father,
1268
01:16:24,144 --> 01:16:26,320
or worse, I'll be stuck here
for the rest of my life.
1269
01:16:26,494 --> 01:16:30,063
I wasn't a pallbearer.
I conducted the mass.
1270
01:16:30,237 --> 01:16:32,283
I'm sorry, Father.
I thought...
1271
01:16:34,546 --> 01:16:39,420
Now, I want you to read these.
That'll sort you out.
1272
01:16:44,948 --> 01:16:46,776
"Preserve the Lily
of Innocence."
1273
01:16:48,734 --> 01:16:50,518
Have you read Joyce?
1274
01:16:50,693 --> 01:16:54,131
- Who?
- James Joyce.
1275
01:16:54,305 --> 01:16:56,133
Haven't met him.
1276
01:16:56,307 --> 01:16:57,307
No, he's a great writer.
1277
01:16:57,438 --> 01:16:59,049
It... him.
1278
01:16:59,223 --> 01:17:02,400
Yes, he's banned in Ireland,
of course.
1279
01:17:06,534 --> 01:17:08,754
Are you a... a writer, yourself?
1280
01:17:12,323 --> 01:17:13,933
I want to be.
1281
01:17:15,718 --> 01:17:19,896
Well, you'll never learn to be
good at anything without prayer.
1282
01:17:20,070 --> 01:17:22,986
You can't love Jesus
if you don't talk to him.
1283
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:24,465
I do talk to him.
1284
01:17:26,554 --> 01:17:27,860
I try every day.
1285
01:17:29,819 --> 01:17:31,037
I say, "Oh, God, please,"
1286
01:17:31,211 --> 01:17:32,822
and "I must," and
"please, please."
1287
01:17:32,996 --> 01:17:35,912
But I don't know him,
because I'm in the way.
1288
01:17:37,522 --> 01:17:41,221
I long for grace.
I see it.
1289
01:17:41,395 --> 01:17:45,051
I know it's there,
but I can't touch it.
1290
01:17:45,225 --> 01:17:48,054
My faith rises and falls in me
1291
01:17:48,228 --> 01:17:50,013
like the tide of
an invisible sea.
1292
01:17:50,187 --> 01:17:51,841
It's torment.
1293
01:17:52,015 --> 01:17:54,670
But then I think
that might be the process
1294
01:17:54,844 --> 01:17:57,281
by which faith can be deepened.
1295
01:17:57,455 --> 01:17:59,413
Maybe God finds us
in the darkness
1296
01:17:59,587 --> 01:18:01,459
and not in the light.
1297
01:18:01,633 --> 01:18:03,313
Maybe faith is a little more
like marriage,
1298
01:18:03,461 --> 01:18:05,178
that when you get into it,
you find it is the beginning
1299
01:18:05,202 --> 01:18:06,701
and not the end
of how to make love work.
1300
01:18:06,725 --> 01:18:09,293
But I don't know anything
about marriage.
1301
01:18:10,860 --> 01:18:12,557
I spend my days injecting myself
1302
01:18:12,731 --> 01:18:14,820
with the pituitary glands
of poor, slaughtered pigs.
1303
01:18:14,994 --> 01:18:18,650
And I do know
1304
01:18:18,824 --> 01:18:22,088
that mystery isn't
gradually evaporating.
1305
01:18:22,262 --> 01:18:24,221
It grows with more knowledge.
1306
01:18:25,483 --> 01:18:27,267
Right?
1307
01:18:27,441 --> 01:18:30,227
Today's Christians,
like my mother, for example,
1308
01:18:30,401 --> 01:18:32,838
operate by the slide rule.
1309
01:18:33,012 --> 01:18:35,319
And the church for them is
a poor man's insurance company,
1310
01:18:35,493 --> 01:18:36,581
the Elks Club.
1311
01:18:38,670 --> 01:18:40,672
But I don't want it to be fear
1312
01:18:40,846 --> 01:18:42,282
which keeps me in the church.
1313
01:18:42,456 --> 01:18:43,762
I don't want to be a coward,
1314
01:18:43,936 --> 01:18:45,503
staying with Him
because I fear hell.
1315
01:18:45,677 --> 01:18:47,133
Though hell seems
a great deal more feasible
1316
01:18:47,157 --> 01:18:48,811
than my weak mind in heaven.
1317
01:18:48,985 --> 01:18:53,293
No doubt because hell is a more
earthly-seeming thing.
1318
01:18:53,467 --> 01:18:54,787
If we could
accurately map heaven,
1319
01:18:54,817 --> 01:18:56,514
some of our
up-and-coming scientists
1320
01:18:56,688 --> 01:18:58,622
would begin drawing blueprints
for its improvement,
1321
01:18:58,646 --> 01:19:00,686
and the bourgeois would sell
guides ten cents a copy
1322
01:19:00,779 --> 01:19:02,259
to all over 65.
1323
01:19:04,696 --> 01:19:06,306
I don't mean to be clever.
1324
01:19:10,049 --> 01:19:13,313
Although I do mean to be clever.
1325
01:19:13,487 --> 01:19:15,925
And I want you to think so.
1326
01:19:16,099 --> 01:19:18,579
What I pray for is ridiculous.
1327
01:19:18,754 --> 01:19:20,277
My demands are absurd.
1328
01:19:20,451 --> 01:19:23,410
I want to be a mystic,
but I am cheese.
1329
01:19:23,584 --> 01:19:25,543
I am the moth who would be king.
1330
01:19:25,717 --> 01:19:27,458
Shh, shh, shh.
1331
01:19:35,335 --> 01:19:36,902
Amen.
1332
01:19:39,035 --> 01:19:42,429
You don't need to see grace.
It's always here.
1333
01:19:44,214 --> 01:19:47,913
You resist it
because grace changes us,
1334
01:19:48,087 --> 01:19:50,437
and change is bloody painful.
1335
01:19:51,874 --> 01:19:55,486
This notion
that grace is healing
1336
01:19:55,660 --> 01:19:58,532
omits that, before it heals,
1337
01:19:58,706 --> 01:20:00,099
it cuts with a sword
1338
01:20:00,273 --> 01:20:02,493
that Christ said
He came to bring.
1339
01:20:06,366 --> 01:20:08,499
The way to gladness
begins with a hard blow.
1340
01:20:09,979 --> 01:20:13,199
Joy is sorrow overcome.
1341
01:20:18,639 --> 01:20:20,772
- Father?
- Yes?
1342
01:20:20,946 --> 01:20:22,643
How can I be a good Catholic?
1343
01:20:27,605 --> 01:20:31,478
Give alms, Mary Flannery.
Serve others.
1344
01:20:31,652 --> 01:20:35,439
A full heart,
enriched by honest service,
1345
01:20:35,613 --> 01:20:38,877
love, sacrifice, and courage.
1346
01:20:42,141 --> 01:20:44,491
You mean like charity.
1347
01:20:44,665 --> 01:20:47,799
I fear the only thing I'll ever
be able to do is write.
1348
01:20:47,973 --> 01:20:51,368
- Then write.
- But my writing is scandalous.
1349
01:20:53,239 --> 01:20:55,241
Can it still serve God?
1350
01:20:55,415 --> 01:20:57,678
People are always
imagining themselves
1351
01:20:57,853 --> 01:20:59,855
to be scandalized
by one thing or another.
1352
01:21:01,595 --> 01:21:03,815
Banning choice is your disease.
1353
01:21:06,078 --> 01:21:08,341
Is your writing honest?
Is your conscience clear?
1354
01:21:10,343 --> 01:21:12,171
Then the rest is God's business.
1355
01:21:15,174 --> 01:21:17,785
In the end, it's all straw.
1356
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:23,443
I suppose I can take being sick
1357
01:21:23,617 --> 01:21:26,316
if I have the strength
to write a little each day.
1358
01:21:26,490 --> 01:21:27,491
Hm.
1359
01:21:29,797 --> 01:21:34,759
With God's help, you can even
see it all as a blessing.
1360
01:21:37,718 --> 01:21:42,375
Now, should we try
at a proper confession?
1361
01:21:42,549 --> 01:21:43,550
Hmm?
1362
01:21:55,954 --> 01:21:57,086
Oh, y'all should see
1363
01:21:57,260 --> 01:22:00,176
our new preacher
singing his sermon.
1364
01:22:00,350 --> 01:22:02,613
He puts a chair out
on the platform,
1365
01:22:02,787 --> 01:22:04,963
and he'll call out
for some biblical character
1366
01:22:05,137 --> 01:22:07,313
to come up and testify.
1367
01:22:07,487 --> 01:22:09,098
Mm-hm.
1368
01:22:09,272 --> 01:22:11,317
I'm gonna go
start on those bulbs
1369
01:22:11,491 --> 01:22:13,972
and check on Carramae.
1370
01:22:14,146 --> 01:22:17,062
She's thrown up
four times after supper.
1371
01:22:17,236 --> 01:22:18,324
The Idiot?
1372
01:22:20,370 --> 01:22:24,548
You would get something
called Idiot.
1373
01:22:24,722 --> 01:22:26,898
What's it about?
1374
01:22:27,072 --> 01:22:28,378
An idiot.
1375
01:22:32,860 --> 01:22:33,860
Mrs. Cedars?
1376
01:22:37,039 --> 01:22:38,649
Mrs. Cedars?
1377
01:22:41,478 --> 01:22:43,349
Good morning,
Mrs. Cedars.
1378
01:22:43,523 --> 01:22:45,699
I'm Mrs. Hopewell.
1379
01:22:45,873 --> 01:22:47,397
Oh!
I... I...
1380
01:22:47,571 --> 01:22:49,442
Well, I saw it said
The Cedars on the mailbox,
1381
01:22:49,616 --> 01:22:51,357
so I thought you
was Mrs. Cedars.
1382
01:22:51,531 --> 01:22:52,968
- Hm.
- Mrs. Hopewell.
1383
01:22:53,142 --> 01:22:54,970
I hope you are well.
1384
01:22:55,144 --> 01:22:56,686
I've come to speak to
you of serious things.
1385
01:22:56,710 --> 01:22:58,495
Lady, I've come
to speak of serious things.
1386
01:23:05,197 --> 01:23:06,938
How may I help you?
1387
01:23:07,112 --> 01:23:09,152
Mrs. Hopewell, you believe
in the Christian service?
1388
01:23:10,550 --> 01:23:12,639
Oh, yes.
1389
01:23:12,813 --> 01:23:14,554
And you're a good woman.
1390
01:23:14,728 --> 01:23:15,991
- Friends have told me.
- Mm.
1391
01:23:16,165 --> 01:23:17,165
What are you selling?
1392
01:23:17,296 --> 01:23:18,863
What are you selling?
1393
01:23:19,037 --> 01:23:20,082
Bibles.
1394
01:23:21,997 --> 01:23:24,477
And you have a beautiful home.
1395
01:23:24,651 --> 01:23:28,090
But I see you have no family
bible in your parlor.
1396
01:23:28,264 --> 01:23:29,806
"Well, you might as well
put those bibles up.
1397
01:23:29,830 --> 01:23:30,831
"I don't want any."
1398
01:23:31,006 --> 01:23:32,572
I don't want to buy a bible,
1399
01:23:32,746 --> 01:23:35,140
and... and I smell
my dinner burning.
1400
01:23:35,314 --> 01:23:36,968
Well, lady,
I'll tell you the truth.
1401
01:23:37,142 --> 01:23:38,622
I'm just a country boy.
1402
01:23:38,796 --> 01:23:41,016
Oh, well,
I think good country people
1403
01:23:41,190 --> 01:23:43,235
are the salt of the earth.
1404
01:23:43,409 --> 01:23:45,194
Well, I think there
aren't enough
1405
01:23:45,368 --> 01:23:47,239
good country people
in the world.
1406
01:23:47,413 --> 01:23:50,068
It... that's what I think's
wrong with it.
1407
01:23:53,245 --> 01:23:54,942
I didn't introduce myself.
1408
01:24:00,731 --> 01:24:04,822
I'm Manley Pointer, from out in
the country around Willohobie.
1409
01:24:04,996 --> 01:24:07,651
Not even from a place,
just from near a place.
1410
01:24:10,958 --> 01:24:12,395
I need to see to my dinner.
1411
01:24:12,569 --> 01:24:13,787
Of course.
1412
01:24:17,878 --> 01:24:20,142
Get rid of the salt of the earth
and let's eat.
1413
01:24:21,752 --> 01:24:24,276
I can't be rude to anybody.
1414
01:24:38,682 --> 01:24:43,426
I heard some farms are breeding
chickens without wings.
1415
01:24:43,600 --> 01:24:45,341
That way we get more white meat.
1416
01:24:45,515 --> 01:24:46,907
Mm.
1417
01:24:47,082 --> 01:24:48,735
It's a whole society
of wingless chickens.
1418
01:24:48,909 --> 01:24:50,737
That's why Nietzsche says
God is dead.
1419
01:24:53,088 --> 01:24:55,873
- Joy, here, is a writer.
- Mm.
1420
01:24:56,047 --> 01:24:58,745
Yeah. She spends all day long
up in her room writing.
1421
01:24:58,919 --> 01:25:01,226
- Mm.
- Lord knows what.
1422
01:25:05,404 --> 01:25:09,539
She looks like a writer.
It must come easy for you.
1423
01:25:11,149 --> 01:25:13,456
It's like giving birth
to a piano sideways.
1424
01:25:20,593 --> 01:25:21,962
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Bible salesman
1425
01:25:21,986 --> 01:25:23,553
with a bad heart.
1426
01:25:23,727 --> 01:25:25,226
Strange, I could seduce him
quite easily,
1427
01:25:25,250 --> 01:25:27,122
but then I'd have to reckon
with his remorse.
1428
01:25:45,314 --> 01:25:47,074
You ever ate a chicken
that was two days old?
1429
01:25:49,100 --> 01:25:51,146
Yes.
1430
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,497
It must have been mighty small!
1431
01:26:00,416 --> 01:26:04,289
- How old are you?
- Seventeen.
1432
01:26:12,254 --> 01:26:13,342
I see you got a wooden leg.
1433
01:26:17,433 --> 01:26:18,695
What's your name?
1434
01:26:18,869 --> 01:26:20,131
Hulga.
1435
01:26:20,305 --> 01:26:23,613
Hulga.
Hulga.
1436
01:26:23,787 --> 01:26:25,092
Hulga.
1437
01:26:27,878 --> 01:26:30,359
I ain't never heard of
anybody named Hulga before.
1438
01:26:32,187 --> 01:26:34,624
My mama named me Joy.
1439
01:26:34,798 --> 01:26:37,540
I changed it to Hulga
when I went away to school.
1440
01:26:39,977 --> 01:26:41,824
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Her mind, clear and detached
1441
01:26:41,848 --> 01:26:43,720
and ironic anyway,
was regarding him
1442
01:26:43,894 --> 01:26:47,550
from a great distance
with amusement, with pity.
1443
01:26:51,162 --> 01:26:52,729
I like girls that wear glasses.
1444
01:26:54,339 --> 01:26:55,601
I think a lot.
1445
01:26:57,299 --> 01:26:59,190
I'm not like one of these people
that serious thoughts
1446
01:26:59,214 --> 01:27:01,520
don't ever enter their heads.
1447
01:27:01,694 --> 01:27:03,043
Because I may die, Hulga.
1448
01:27:04,654 --> 01:27:06,743
You and I have
the same condition.
1449
01:27:07,787 --> 01:27:09,267
I may die too.
1450
01:27:12,792 --> 01:27:15,273
Listen, don't you think some
people are just meant to meet
1451
01:27:15,447 --> 01:27:17,754
on account of what they got
in common and all?
1452
01:27:19,495 --> 01:27:21,295
Like they both think
serious thoughts and all?
1453
01:27:24,239 --> 01:27:26,284
I don't work Saturday.
1454
01:27:26,458 --> 01:27:28,330
Couldn't we go on a picnic?
1455
01:27:28,504 --> 01:27:30,854
Say yes, Hulga.
Say yes.
1456
01:27:32,464 --> 01:27:33,683
Please?
1457
01:27:36,686 --> 01:27:37,991
She decided
1458
01:27:38,165 --> 01:27:39,689
for the first time in her life,
1459
01:27:39,863 --> 01:27:41,908
she was face to face
with real innocence.
1460
01:27:45,695 --> 01:27:47,740
I guess God takes care of you.
1461
01:27:47,914 --> 01:27:49,612
No, I don't believe in God.
1462
01:27:54,181 --> 01:27:55,270
No?
1463
01:27:57,315 --> 01:27:59,317
That's very unusual for a girl.
1464
01:28:15,812 --> 01:28:17,204
She had never been kissed before
1465
01:28:17,379 --> 01:28:18,858
and she was pleased to discover
1466
01:28:19,032 --> 01:28:20,686
that it was
an unexceptional experience,
1467
01:28:20,860 --> 01:28:23,602
and all a matter
of the mind's control.
1468
01:28:23,776 --> 01:28:25,136
Some people
might enjoy drain water
1469
01:28:25,256 --> 01:28:27,650
if they were told it was vodka.
1470
01:28:39,966 --> 01:28:41,533
Well, come on if you're coming!
1471
01:28:41,707 --> 01:28:44,057
Okay, I'm coming.
1472
01:28:44,231 --> 01:28:45,450
I love you.
1473
01:28:48,105 --> 01:28:50,455
I love you.
1474
01:28:50,629 --> 01:28:52,327
I said it,
now, you gotta say it.
1475
01:28:53,632 --> 01:28:56,026
I don't have illusions.
1476
01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:59,812
I'm one of those people
who see through to nothing.
1477
01:29:01,161 --> 01:29:02,511
Okay, okay, okay.
1478
01:29:02,685 --> 01:29:04,208
Okay, but do you love me
or don't you?
1479
01:29:04,382 --> 01:29:06,776
You poor baby.
I mean...
1480
01:29:09,256 --> 01:29:11,737
makes sense
you don't understand.
1481
01:29:11,911 --> 01:29:15,001
We are all damned.
1482
01:29:15,175 --> 01:29:19,571
But some of us
have taken off our blindfolds
1483
01:29:19,745 --> 01:29:24,359
and see that
there is nothing to see.
1484
01:29:26,099 --> 01:29:27,666
It's a kind of salvation.
1485
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:32,454
Okay, okay, okay, but do you
love me or don't you?
1486
01:29:33,585 --> 01:29:35,892
I'm a great deal older than you,
1487
01:29:36,066 --> 01:29:37,807
and I have a number of degrees.
1488
01:29:41,332 --> 01:29:42,855
I don't care.
1489
01:29:43,029 --> 01:29:44,709
I don't care a thing
about all you've done.
1490
01:29:44,770 --> 01:29:47,077
I just want to know
if you love me or don't you.
1491
01:29:48,644 --> 01:29:51,124
Yes.
1492
01:29:58,523 --> 01:30:02,266
Okay, okay, okay, then prove it.
1493
01:30:02,440 --> 01:30:03,441
Okay.
1494
01:30:04,747 --> 01:30:06,202
Show me where
your wooden leg joins on.
1495
01:30:06,226 --> 01:30:07,532
No.
1496
01:30:07,706 --> 01:30:09,226
Show me where
your wooden leg joins on.
1497
01:30:09,316 --> 01:30:10,840
No.
1498
01:30:11,014 --> 01:30:12,600
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
She was as sensitive
1499
01:30:12,624 --> 01:30:14,254
about her leg as a peacock
about his tail.
1500
01:30:14,278 --> 01:30:16,106
No one ever touched it but her.
1501
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:19,326
She took care of it as someone
else would his soul.
1502
01:30:30,294 --> 01:30:32,165
All right.
1503
01:30:48,921 --> 01:30:50,377
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
She was thinking
1504
01:30:50,401 --> 01:30:52,447
that she would run away
with him.
1505
01:30:52,621 --> 01:30:56,538
And that every night,
he would take the leg off,
1506
01:30:56,712 --> 01:30:58,409
and every morning
put it back on again.
1507
01:31:08,637 --> 01:31:10,677
Now, will you let me show you
how to put it back on?
1508
01:31:10,813 --> 01:31:12,597
Oh, come on, now.
You got me instead.
1509
01:31:14,338 --> 01:31:16,296
- Just give me my leg.
- Wait.
1510
01:31:16,471 --> 01:31:18,342
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
1511
01:31:33,836 --> 01:31:34,837
Take a swig.
1512
01:31:35,011 --> 01:31:37,274
Um, uh...
1513
01:31:39,102 --> 01:31:41,408
I thought you were
just good country people.
1514
01:31:41,583 --> 01:31:43,846
Yeah, but it
ain't held me back none.
1515
01:31:44,020 --> 01:31:45,325
Come on, now,
1516
01:31:45,500 --> 01:31:47,545
I'm as good as you
any day in the week.
1517
01:31:47,719 --> 01:31:49,329
I know.
1518
01:31:49,504 --> 01:31:50,722
So give me my leg.
1519
01:31:50,896 --> 01:31:52,202
Oh, come on, now.
1520
01:31:52,376 --> 01:31:53,856
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
Without her leg,
1521
01:31:53,899 --> 01:31:55,553
she felt entirely dependent
on him.
1522
01:31:55,727 --> 01:31:57,183
Her brain seemed to have
stopped thinking altogether
1523
01:31:57,207 --> 01:31:58,567
and to be about
some other function
1524
01:31:58,730 --> 01:32:00,050
that it was not
entirely good at...
1525
01:32:00,079 --> 01:32:01,733
Not very good at.
1526
01:32:01,907 --> 01:32:04,170
Without her leg, she seemed
entirely dependent on him.
1527
01:32:04,344 --> 01:32:06,024
What's the matter
with you all of a sudden?
1528
01:32:06,085 --> 01:32:07,522
And... Yes.
1529
01:32:07,696 --> 01:32:09,915
And I thought
you were a Christian.
1530
01:32:10,089 --> 01:32:12,962
A fine Christian.
1531
01:32:13,136 --> 01:32:15,051
I hope you don't think
I believe in that crap.
1532
01:32:17,967 --> 01:32:19,988
Listen, I may sell bibles,
but I know which end is up,
1533
01:32:20,012 --> 01:32:22,406
and I wasn't born yesterday.
1534
01:32:22,580 --> 01:32:24,190
And I know where I'm going.
1535
01:32:26,628 --> 01:32:28,412
Hey. Give me my leg!
1536
01:32:31,633 --> 01:32:32,764
Please.
1537
01:33:00,052 --> 01:33:01,924
I've gotten a lot of
interesting things.
1538
01:33:03,752 --> 01:33:05,841
One time I got
a woman's glass eye this way.
1539
01:33:08,844 --> 01:33:10,343
And you needn't to think
you'll catch me
1540
01:33:10,367 --> 01:33:11,767
'cause Pointer
ain't really my name.
1541
01:33:11,934 --> 01:33:13,738
I use a different name
at every house I call at
1542
01:33:13,762 --> 01:33:15,372
and don't stay nowhere long.
1543
01:33:19,637 --> 01:33:21,006
And I'll tell you
another thing, Hulga,
1544
01:33:21,030 --> 01:33:22,640
you ain't so smart!
1545
01:33:26,078 --> 01:33:27,645
Come on.
1546
01:33:27,819 --> 01:33:30,909
I been believing in nothing
ever since I was born.
1547
01:33:32,955 --> 01:33:36,175
FLANNERY [Narrating]:
What's more comic and terrible
1548
01:33:36,349 --> 01:33:40,353
than an angular,
1549
01:33:40,527 --> 01:33:42,225
intellectual woman
1550
01:33:42,399 --> 01:33:45,576
approaching God inch by inch...
1551
01:33:48,361 --> 01:33:50,581
with grinding teeth?
1552
01:34:23,353 --> 01:34:28,010
Dear Flannery,
you must feel better soon.
1553
01:34:30,708 --> 01:34:33,972
I miss you, and I hope
your health is safe.
1554
01:34:36,409 --> 01:34:40,631
I've been reading that Thomas
Merton book I gave you.
1555
01:34:40,805 --> 01:34:43,242
I hope you are too.
1556
01:34:43,416 --> 01:34:45,897
Listen to this.
1557
01:34:46,071 --> 01:34:48,247
"At the center of our being
is a point or a spark
1558
01:34:48,421 --> 01:34:50,423
which belongs
entirely to God."
1559
01:34:53,731 --> 01:34:56,778
"It is like a pure diamond...
1560
01:34:56,952 --> 01:34:59,302
blazing with the invisible light
1561
01:34:59,476 --> 01:35:02,000
of heaven."
1562
01:35:12,010 --> 01:35:14,099
"It is in everybody.
1563
01:35:14,273 --> 01:35:15,753
And if we could see it,
1564
01:35:15,927 --> 01:35:17,973
we would see these
billion points of light
1565
01:35:18,147 --> 01:35:21,628
coming together in the face
and blaze of a sun
1566
01:35:21,803 --> 01:35:23,674
that would make all the darkness
1567
01:35:23,848 --> 01:35:27,112
and cruelty of life vanish.
1568
01:35:27,286 --> 01:35:28,853
Completely."
1569
01:35:37,427 --> 01:35:39,124
"I have no program
for this seeing.
1570
01:35:39,298 --> 01:35:40,386
It is only given,
1571
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:43,172
but the gate of heaven...
1572
01:35:43,346 --> 01:35:44,695
is everywhere."
1573
01:35:48,133 --> 01:35:50,222
I wish I could come
and visit, but I won't be
1574
01:35:50,396 --> 01:35:52,877
making it down there
to see you anytime soon,
1575
01:35:53,051 --> 01:35:55,706
as Elizabeth
and I are getting married.
1576
01:36:38,053 --> 01:36:40,707
In the very depths
of our imagination,
1577
01:36:40,882 --> 01:36:44,537
springs forward our reality.
1578
01:36:44,711 --> 01:36:47,062
I sense you have
implanted in me,
1579
01:36:47,236 --> 01:36:51,936
in all of us, a desire
irresistible, hallowing,
1580
01:36:52,110 --> 01:36:53,677
which makes us cry out,
1581
01:36:53,851 --> 01:36:57,637
believer and unbeliever alike,
'Make us want.'
1582
01:37:09,649 --> 01:37:10,825
Knock-knock.
1583
01:37:14,829 --> 01:37:16,189
You didn't come down
for breakfast.
1584
01:37:16,352 --> 01:37:18,180
'Cause it tastes like
a horse blanket.
1585
01:37:20,095 --> 01:37:21,226
Yeah.
1586
01:37:23,272 --> 01:37:26,231
Well...
1587
01:37:26,405 --> 01:37:29,931
Hopefully soon you'll
be able to have salt again.
1588
01:37:30,105 --> 01:37:33,586
Or milk, or eggs, or cheese,
or anything I like.
1589
01:37:35,197 --> 01:37:38,765
The treatment is worse
than the disease.
1590
01:37:38,940 --> 01:37:41,420
You gotta eat.
1591
01:37:41,594 --> 01:37:42,726
Have you tried it?
1592
01:37:44,380 --> 01:37:48,210
Have I tried...
Lord, no. I wouldn't eat that.
1593
01:37:48,384 --> 01:37:51,343
Nothing but plain oats.
Tastes like a horse blanket.
1594
01:37:56,783 --> 01:37:58,002
Oh, and I saw your peacock
1595
01:37:58,176 --> 01:37:59,496
having his breakfast
this morning.
1596
01:37:59,656 --> 01:38:02,267
You were right
about him eating Startena.
1597
01:38:02,441 --> 01:38:04,617
He also eats everything else.
1598
01:38:04,791 --> 01:38:08,708
No, he got every single one
of my Herbert Hoover roses.
1599
01:38:08,883 --> 01:38:11,407
And when he's not eating 'em,
he's sitting on top of 'em.
1600
01:38:12,974 --> 01:38:15,019
Well, what good is he?
1601
01:38:15,193 --> 01:38:17,674
He hasn't even put up
his tail feathers.
1602
01:38:17,848 --> 01:38:20,068
- Now, what ails him?
- Nothing ails him.
1603
01:38:20,242 --> 01:38:22,287
He'll put it up.
You just have to wait.
1604
01:38:22,461 --> 01:38:24,942
Mm.
1605
01:38:25,116 --> 01:38:28,554
I just have to get a wire fence
around my flowers.
1606
01:38:35,213 --> 01:38:36,911
Eat.
1607
01:38:43,613 --> 01:38:45,049
Oh.
1608
01:38:47,617 --> 01:38:50,185
It's nice you got this view
while you're writing.
1609
01:38:51,316 --> 01:38:52,535
Hmm.
1610
01:38:56,887 --> 01:38:58,323
I bet it helps.
1611
01:39:01,413 --> 01:39:03,241
Thank you, Mama.
1612
01:40:20,318 --> 01:40:22,016
I used to have the notion
1613
01:40:22,190 --> 01:40:24,061
that the life
of my writing depended
1614
01:40:24,235 --> 01:40:27,195
on my staying away.
1615
01:40:27,369 --> 01:40:30,111
I would certainly have
persisted in that delusion
1616
01:40:30,285 --> 01:40:33,418
had I not gotten very ill
and had to come home.
1617
01:40:34,854 --> 01:40:37,379
I thought it'd be
the ending of any creation...
1618
01:40:39,859 --> 01:40:42,645
any writing,
1619
01:40:42,819 --> 01:40:44,255
any work for me.
1620
01:40:45,822 --> 01:40:48,216
Now, I see it as
only the beginning.
1621
01:40:53,308 --> 01:40:56,093
Everything that rises
must converge.
1622
01:41:30,084 --> 01:41:33,957
♪ To Canaan's land,
I'm on my way ♪
1623
01:41:34,131 --> 01:41:38,483
♪ Where the soul of man
never dies ♪
1624
01:41:38,657 --> 01:41:42,792
♪ My darkest night
will turn to day ♪
1625
01:41:42,966 --> 01:41:47,231
♪ Where the soul of man
never dies ♪
1626
01:41:47,405 --> 01:41:51,453
♪ Dear friends there'll be
no sad farewells ♪
1627
01:41:51,627 --> 01:41:55,979
♪ There'll be
no tear-dimmed eyes ♪
1628
01:41:56,153 --> 01:42:00,288
♪ Where all is love,
and peace, and joy ♪
1629
01:42:00,462 --> 01:42:04,509
♪ And the soul of man
never dies ♪
1630
01:42:04,683 --> 01:42:09,123
♪ The rose is blooming
there for me ♪
1631
01:42:09,297 --> 01:42:13,475
♪ Where the soul of man
never dies ♪
1632
01:42:13,649 --> 01:42:17,740
♪ And I will
spend eternity ♪
1633
01:42:17,914 --> 01:42:22,005
♪ Where the soul of man
never dies ♪
1634
01:42:22,179 --> 01:42:26,357
♪ Dear friends there'll be
no sad farewells ♪
1635
01:42:26,531 --> 01:42:30,709
♪ There'll be
no tear-dimmed eyes ♪
1636
01:42:30,883 --> 01:42:35,105
♪ Where all is love,
and peace, and joy ♪
1637
01:42:35,279 --> 01:42:38,848
♪ And the soul of man
never dies ♪
1638
01:43:23,501 --> 01:43:27,026
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1639
01:43:27,201 --> 01:43:29,203
♪ Lord ♪
1640
01:43:29,377 --> 01:43:30,987
♪ Lord ♪
1641
01:43:31,161 --> 01:43:34,730
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1642
01:43:34,904 --> 01:43:38,690
♪ Lord, Lord ♪
1643
01:43:38,864 --> 01:43:42,607
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1644
01:43:42,781 --> 01:43:46,481
♪ Lord, Lord ♪
1645
01:43:46,655 --> 01:43:50,441
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1646
01:43:50,615 --> 01:43:53,792
♪ Lord, Lord ♪