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[slow piano music playing]
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Mrs. Anderson?
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Olivia?
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(Marcus, off) It is important
to understand about dying
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that even though in general you do not
have a personal choice in the matter,
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it is going to happen to you
when it happens to you.
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There are reasons you die.
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There are causes,
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a chain of events
linked by causality,
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and those events include decisions
that you have personally made.
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How did you end up here,
on this exact day,
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at this exact time,
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with this specific event
happening to you?
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[gunshot]
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[gunfire]
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[soldier shouts]
Hey!
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[gunshot]
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[thud on floor]
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[singing in Hebrew]
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(rabbi)
May our mourners rise.
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Today, we mourn the loss
of young Jonah Greenberg,
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fallen in Korea,
fighting for his country,
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at 19 years of age.
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Moses Greenberg, please,
to recite the Kaddish.
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[reciting in Hebrew]
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(all)
Amen.
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(all)
Amen.
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[light chatter]
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[whispering]
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Yeah, sure.
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Marcus.
Hi, Mrs. Greenberg.
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I'm so sorry for your loss.
Yes, Marcus.
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You're such a clever boy.
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Jonah, he always looked
up to you.
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Maybe not such close friends.
But he respected.
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We were teammates. He
was a really good guy.
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Baseball.
He enjoyed.
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Marcus.
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Don't go into this war.
For your parents' sake.
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You should be
a baseball star.
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Don't go into this draft.
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(Max) He's going to
college, Miriam.
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They keep the ones in
college from the draft.
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Such a clever boy,
Marcus.
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A scholarship,
is that right?
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Yes. In Ohio,
this college is.
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Ohio...
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how will you keep kosher?
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(David) Only one thing worse than dyin'
by gettin' stabbed with a bayonet,
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and that's dyin' by gettin' stabbed with
a bayonet when you're still a virgin.
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And Greenberg
was definitely a virgin.
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Yeah? I thought maybe you and Greenberg
had taken care of each other
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before he shipped out.
Shut up, asshole.
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So, when do you report?
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Two weeks.
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Ah, you'll be okay.
You're smarter than Greenberg.
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Not as smart
as you.
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[bell on door rings]
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Mrs. Davidovich.
Two chickens?
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Let me see. (Max) Of course.
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Markie! Flick two chickens
for Mrs. Davidovich, will ya?
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Turn them around.
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Yeah. I'll wrap them for you.
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So what will you do when this
one goes off next month?
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(Max) The Mrs. will help.
Like the old days.
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(Max) I can't keep him here
chopping meat like me.
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I have to go see Gurevich.
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You can close up early.
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And bring home some
brisket for your mother.
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I told you, Dad. I'm going out
with Davey and Sam tonight.
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You didn't tell me.
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I told you! We're going
to the pictures.
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To the pictures.
[scoffs]
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I know what you boys are doing.
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I heard from Mrs. Pearlgreen, about
that Eddie, going to pool halls.
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Dad, I'm going to the pictures.
I told you.
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I'm not Eddie Pearlgreen!
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For Chrissake, I don't even
know how to play pool!
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He took his father's car,
drove all the way to Scranton
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to some special pool hall
they have there.
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He bets, he gambles...
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his father says he'll
be stealing cars next.
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What does Eddie Pearlgreen
have to do with me?
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Dad, I'm leaving
in less than a month.
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You think I'm tempted
to steal cars?
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[car horn honks]
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Markie?
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Mom?
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Everything okay?
What's going on?
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Your father.
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What happened?
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He went out.
Looking for you.
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He was worried.
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He's been talking to Artie Pearlgreen
again, it got him all riled up.
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I think he smoked three packs of
cigarettes. Then he went. [sigh]
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What's happening to him, Mom?
What's the matter with him?
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He's crazy... he's driving me
crazy, he's driving you crazy.
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It's your leaving.
It's all the boys dying,
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Bennie and Abe in the last war,
now this new war, I don't know.
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He's worried about you. He's
worried about Ohio... [door opens]
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So, there you are.
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Yeah, strange, here I am,
in my own house.
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I've been everywhere
looking for you.
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Why? Why? Why?
Somebody tell me why?
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(Max) Because if anything
were to happen to you...
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(Marcus) Oh, come on...
(Max) If anything were
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to ever happen
to you.
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What is this all about?
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It's about life, Markie.
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It's about the tiniest mistake
that can have consequences.
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Christ, you sound
like a fortune cookie.
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Do I?
Like a fortune cookie?
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Not like the concerned father
that I am
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but like
a fortune cookie?
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I can't take this anymore-
I can't take this.
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You know,
thank God I'm leaving.
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Thank God!
So I don't end up...
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What? End up what?
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I don't know!
I don't know!
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[sigh]
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[quiet knock
at door]
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Maybe I shouldn't go.
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No.
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Come on.
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You go.
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You gotta stop worrying.
It's scaring Ma.
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You go.
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Just... be careful.
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(girl) Everything's in the envelope.
You're in Jenkins 211.
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That's behind the men's
quad, back towards the gym.
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Keys are in there, and check your
class schedule, in there too.
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And, looks like you're
doing a campus job.
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The job board
is right over there.
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Just take a ticket down from
the board for the job you want
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and turn it back
in with the form.
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I'd go now, otherwise all
that's left is the dining hall.
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Hi. Marcus Messner.
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Hey. Ron Foxman.
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That's Bert Flusser.
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Where are you from?
Newark.
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Where's that?
New Jersey.
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Right.
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Cleveland, Ohio.
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Flusser's from Chicago.
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(Ron) He's...
cultured, you'll see.
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Oh, yeah? Does Flusser talk?
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Oh, I talk all right.
I even talk in my sleep.
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I have so much to say, so
much to share with the world.
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Young freshman
Marcus Messner,
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from Newark, New Jersey.
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What a surprise to find yourself
in a triple with two other Jews.
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What a coincidence.
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Ronald and I are the only
two Jews at Winesburg
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who are not
in the Jewish fraternity.
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After all, we are juniors,
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we ought to be living in
style over at Zeta Tau Mu,
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not bunking
with young freshman
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Marcus Messner.
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(men singing on record
with Bert)
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♪ All of us with one heart
With the torch of freedom ♪
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♪ March on! March on! ♪
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♪ March on and on! ♪
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♪ Chi Lai! Chi Lai! Chi Lai! ♪
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Bert. Close the door
at least.
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Ronald doesn't like
Negro Communists.
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Paul Robeson
in particular.
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He doesn't like music at all,
in fact.
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If Dean Caudwell ever heard you
playing that commie propaganda,
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he'd probably toss you
right out of here.
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Dean Caudwell loves me.
Dean Caudwell?
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Dean of men.
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And a man among deans,
if I do say so myself.
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In fact he's addressing
us in 15 minutes.
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Shit.
Chapel.
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Uh... chapel?
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Didn't you read
the handbook?
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Required.
Every Wednesday at 11.
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You have to go to at least 10 of
them a year if you want to graduate.
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Might as well
get started today!
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(Dean Caudwell) To you who join
us today for the first time,
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to you who enter
your final year,
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looking out at the prospect
of what may seem to be
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an uncertain
and dangerous horizon,
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menaced as this country may be
by enemies both foreign and native,
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fear not, puzzle not,
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hesitate not,
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for the spirit of Winesburg
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will animate and fortify you.
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And now, Dr. Donehower
will lead us in prayer.
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(Dr. Donehower)
Righteous God,
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who rules the nations,
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we pray that you guard all the
strong young men and women
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who enter the gates
of Winesburg College
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in the service
of greater knowledge
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and greater strength.
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To our fellow Winesburgians currently
serving the cause of freedom in Korea...
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(officer)
Order, Arms...
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Left Shoulder, Arms...
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Order, Arms...
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[phone rings]
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Yes? (operator) Call
from Marcus Messner.
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Yes, I'll accept the charges.
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Marcus? Marcus, honey?
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Yes, Mom. I'm here.
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(Mom) You sound tired.
Are you tired?
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No, I'm not too tired.
I'm just busy.
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Tell me about your classes.
Have you gotten any grades yet?
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It's only two weeks, Ma.
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I have an American History
paper due tomorrow.
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Hold on,
your father wants to talk...
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So Markus, what else,
what else is going on?
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Studying. Studying
and working at the library.
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(Max) And what are you
doing to divert yourself?
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Nothing. I don't need diversions.
I don't have the time for them.
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Is there a girl
in the picture yet?
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(Marcus)
Not yet.
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You be careful.
I will be.
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You know what I mean. Yeah.
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You don't want to get into any trouble.
I won't, Dad. Stop.
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That Karpen boy,
the army sent him home.
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They found that
he has flat feet.
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Gershowitz gave him
a job at the grocery,
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first thing he's delivering the
groceries and crashes the truck...
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[Max continues speaking]
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[loud classical
piano music]
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[knocking
at door]
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You're Marcus Messner,
right?
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I'm Sonny, Sonny Cottler.
This is Marty Ziegler.
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We're wondering if you
have a couple of minutes,
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maybe head over
to the Owl for a soda.
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What's this
all about?
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We're with Zeta Tau Mu. The
Jewish fraternity on campus.
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We'd love to talk
to you about rushing.
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Look. I'm sorry. I don't think
I'm going to join a fraternity.
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Well, you don't have to.
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Why don't you just come over to
the house for dinner some time?
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You can come tomorrow night.
It's roast beef night.
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You'll have a good meal,
meet some of the brothers,
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and there's no obligation
to do anything else.
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No. I don't believe
in fraternities.
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Believe in them? What
is there to believe in?
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A couple of like-minded guys get
together for friendship and camaraderie.
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We play sports together,
we hold parties and dances.
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We share our meals together, it
can get awfully lonely otherwise.
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You know that out of
1400 people on campus,
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less than 80
are Jewish?
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00:20:06,873 --> 00:20:08,293
That's a pretty
small percentage.
249
00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:10,245
The only other fraternity
that'll have a Jew is
250
00:20:10,335 --> 00:20:11,625
the non-sectarian house,
251
00:20:11,712 --> 00:20:14,592
and they don't have much going for
them in the way of facilities
252
00:20:14,673 --> 00:20:16,473
or really anything.
253
00:20:16,550 --> 00:20:18,590
I'm a senior, Marcus. And
president of the house.
254
00:20:18,677 --> 00:20:19,797
I don't want
to pressure you
255
00:20:19,886 --> 00:20:21,686
but some of the brothers
have seen you around,
256
00:20:21,722 --> 00:20:22,949
they think you'd make
a great addition.
257
00:20:22,973 --> 00:20:24,773
They say you seem
to be a real scholar.
258
00:20:24,850 --> 00:20:27,600
Did you know that since Zeta Tau
was formed just ten years ago,
259
00:20:27,686 --> 00:20:30,556
we've won the Inter fraternity
Scholarship Cup five times...
260
00:20:30,647 --> 00:20:31,727
more than any
other house.
261
00:20:31,815 --> 00:20:33,105
Sonny's being
modest, Marcus.
262
00:20:33,191 --> 00:20:35,952
He's actually the president of the
Inter fraternity Council this year.
263
00:20:35,986 --> 00:20:37,356
Listen, that's great.
264
00:20:37,446 --> 00:20:41,826
I appreciate your coming around, but I'm
not going to be joining any fraternity.
265
00:20:41,908 --> 00:20:43,538
Can I ask why?
266
00:20:43,619 --> 00:20:47,659
I, uh... I have my job,
I have my studies.
267
00:20:47,748 --> 00:20:52,998
I'm just not in the market for
anything more than that right now.
268
00:20:53,086 --> 00:20:55,836
Thank you anyways.
I hope you're not offended.
269
00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:57,592
Not offended at all.
270
00:20:57,674 --> 00:20:59,554
I admire
your determination.
271
00:20:59,635 --> 00:21:02,295
Give me a ring at the house if
you think about it some more
272
00:21:02,387 --> 00:21:03,847
or if you need
anything at all.
273
00:21:03,930 --> 00:21:07,560
And if you decide to stay for
dinner, all the better. Deal?
274
00:21:07,643 --> 00:21:09,813
Sure. Sure.
275
00:21:10,646 --> 00:21:11,806
Alright.
276
00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:17,110
...But the Puritans faced
a particular challenge
277
00:21:17,194 --> 00:21:20,914
as, by the 1660s, the first
generation began to die out.
278
00:21:20,989 --> 00:21:25,789
So in 1662 the Reverend
Solomon Stoddard
279
00:21:25,869 --> 00:21:28,329
devised the so-called
Half-Way Covenant,
280
00:21:28,413 --> 00:21:30,083
whereby members
of the community
281
00:21:30,165 --> 00:21:31,825
could be half-members
of the church
282
00:21:31,917 --> 00:21:33,877
if they agreed to abide
by its rules,
283
00:21:34,503 --> 00:21:36,763
even if in their hearts
they could not profess
284
00:21:36,838 --> 00:21:40,258
a complete Puritan
conversion... Yes, Jack?
285
00:21:40,342 --> 00:21:42,342
So, "go along to get along."
286
00:21:42,427 --> 00:21:43,717
That's right.
287
00:21:43,804 --> 00:21:45,724
By allowing people
to stay part of the church,
288
00:21:45,806 --> 00:21:47,386
and by extension,
the community,
289
00:21:47,474 --> 00:21:52,234
the Puritan leaders were able to maintain
authority and political continuity. Yes?
290
00:21:52,312 --> 00:21:56,692
Isn't that the same kind of hypocrisy
the Puritans claimed to rebel against?
291
00:21:56,775 --> 00:21:58,935
(Marcus) Aren't they doing
the exact same thing
292
00:21:59,027 --> 00:22:01,067
they accused
the Church of England of?
293
00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:04,204
Well, Mr. Messner, hypocrisy
is a very strong word.
294
00:22:04,282 --> 00:22:07,872
It is a strong word,
but as ironic as it appears,
295
00:22:07,953 --> 00:22:10,793
I believe it is a word
that accurately describes
296
00:22:10,872 --> 00:22:13,882
the political position of the
Puritans of the second generation.
297
00:22:13,959 --> 00:22:18,299
(Sundquist) Pragmatism might
be an even more accurate term.
298
00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:22,260
I do not now fool myself,
to let imagination...
299
00:22:22,342 --> 00:22:23,342
...Jade me.
300
00:22:23,385 --> 00:22:24,505
...jade me...
301
00:22:24,594 --> 00:22:26,604
for every reason
excites to this,
302
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,600
that my lady loves me.
303
00:22:29,683 --> 00:22:31,893
She did commend my yellow
stockings of late,
304
00:22:31,977 --> 00:22:33,977
she did praise them
being cross-gartered
305
00:22:34,062 --> 00:22:36,442
and in this she manifests
herself to my love,
306
00:22:36,523 --> 00:22:40,783
and with a kind of injunction drives
me to these habits of her liking.
307
00:22:40,861 --> 00:22:42,901
I thank my stars
I am happy.
308
00:22:42,988 --> 00:22:47,868
I will be strange, stout,
in yellow stockings,
309
00:22:47,951 --> 00:22:50,621
and cross-gartered, even with
the swiftness of putting on.
310
00:22:50,704 --> 00:22:52,414
(Flusser) Jove and
my stars be praised!
311
00:22:52,497 --> 00:22:54,997
I'll be revenged on the
whole pack of you!
312
00:22:56,168 --> 00:22:58,248
Flusser's a real star.
313
00:22:58,336 --> 00:22:59,956
You gonna come see
this thing?
314
00:23:00,046 --> 00:23:03,046
You know as well as I
that Marcus is a scholar.
315
00:23:03,133 --> 00:23:06,803
He hasn't time for frivolities
like the theater.
316
00:23:22,068 --> 00:23:25,358
(Marcus, off) What is it that
pivots or turns a person
317
00:23:25,447 --> 00:23:28,367
from existence
to non-existence?
318
00:23:29,826 --> 00:23:32,576
For myself, perhaps it was
the unceasing movement
319
00:23:32,662 --> 00:23:35,042
of Olivia Hutton's leg.
320
00:23:48,094 --> 00:23:50,934
That night, I had to stay up
til 3 am to finish the homework
321
00:23:51,014 --> 00:23:55,064
I didn't get done while I
was watching that leg,
322
00:23:55,143 --> 00:23:57,523
rehearsing in my head how
I would ask my roommate
323
00:23:57,604 --> 00:24:03,824
Ron Foxman the loan of his beloved
1940 LaSalle Touring Sedan,
324
00:24:03,902 --> 00:24:07,492
building up the courage to ask
Olivia Hutton out on a date.
325
00:24:10,325 --> 00:24:13,825
Weekday curfew
is 9pm sharp.
326
00:24:13,912 --> 00:24:17,872
Okay. I will have her back by then.
Thank you.
327
00:24:17,958 --> 00:24:20,288
Why are you
thanking me?
328
00:24:20,377 --> 00:24:21,587
Uh, sorry.
329
00:24:21,670 --> 00:24:24,710
And you're sorry because...?
330
00:24:24,798 --> 00:24:27,508
I'm... just going to sit...
331
00:24:44,234 --> 00:24:49,784
[giggling]
332
00:24:59,499 --> 00:25:01,129
[sigh]
333
00:25:17,142 --> 00:25:19,942
(Marcus, off)
Dear Olivia,
334
00:25:20,020 --> 00:25:24,690
You think I've spurned you because of
what happened in the car the other night.
335
00:25:24,774 --> 00:25:29,324
As I explained, it's because nothing approaching
that has ever happened to me before.
336
00:25:30,780 --> 00:25:33,030
Just as no girl has ever
said to me anything
337
00:25:33,116 --> 00:25:37,116
resembling what you said
to me in the library tonight.
338
00:25:37,203 --> 00:25:39,873
You are different
from anyone I've known,
339
00:25:39,956 --> 00:25:43,876
and the last thing you could
ever be called is a slut.
340
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,550
You're mature.
You're beautiful.
341
00:25:47,255 --> 00:25:50,795
You are vastly more
experienced than I am.
342
00:25:50,884 --> 00:25:52,974
That's what threw me.
343
00:25:53,053 --> 00:25:55,183
Forgive me.
344
00:25:55,263 --> 00:25:56,973
Say hello
to me in class.
345
00:26:04,397 --> 00:26:07,107
You fucker!
Oh, I'm not the slut.
346
00:26:19,537 --> 00:26:21,157
It's no fun
being in the hospital alone.
347
00:26:21,247 --> 00:26:23,327
I brought these over
to keep you company.
348
00:26:23,416 --> 00:26:25,536
It was worth
the appendicitis.
349
00:26:25,627 --> 00:26:27,207
I doubt it.
350
00:26:29,381 --> 00:26:30,971
Were you
in a lot of pain?
351
00:26:31,049 --> 00:26:34,759
For about an hour or so
before I blacked out.
352
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,680
The best part came
in Dean Caudwell's office.
353
00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:41,015
He called me in to grill me
about changing my dorm
354
00:26:41,101 --> 00:26:44,401
I puked all over his trophies.
Then you turn up.
355
00:26:44,479 --> 00:26:47,689
It's been a great case
of appendicitis all around.
356
00:26:47,774 --> 00:26:50,284
Let me get something
to put these in.
357
00:26:54,364 --> 00:26:57,744
Escargot. It's the name
of the restaurant.
358
00:26:57,826 --> 00:26:59,116
Snails...
359
00:26:59,202 --> 00:27:03,752
I have a feeling Marcus Messner has
never seen them served or eaten before.
360
00:27:03,832 --> 00:27:05,462
You want to try one?
361
00:27:05,542 --> 00:27:06,922
No.
Not really.
362
00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:10,051
So Marcus Messner decided
to take Olivia Hutton
363
00:27:10,130 --> 00:27:13,970
to the only fancy French restaurant
in all of Franklin County.
364
00:27:14,050 --> 00:27:17,890
I'm so sorry. Do you want to leave?
Is this alright?
365
00:27:32,777 --> 00:27:36,737
May I please speak
to Miss Olivia Hutton?
366
00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:39,700
Who?
367
00:27:39,784 --> 00:27:43,374
Oh, Marcus Messner.
368
00:27:43,455 --> 00:27:45,325
Yeah. Yeah sure, I'll wait.
369
00:27:48,585 --> 00:27:49,745
Can I leave a message?
370
00:27:52,964 --> 00:27:55,594
Well, yeah, another message.
371
00:28:04,684 --> 00:28:07,154
(Olivia) I don't mind talking about it.
They got divorced.
372
00:28:07,228 --> 00:28:09,478
Irreconcilable differences.
373
00:28:09,564 --> 00:28:13,194
I suppose that's why I left Mt. Holyoke
and transferred here closer to Cleveland.
374
00:28:13,276 --> 00:28:16,276
My mother kept the house,
but she changed all the furnishings.
375
00:28:16,362 --> 00:28:17,412
Even my room.
376
00:28:17,489 --> 00:28:19,409
It now looks like
Marie Antoinette's boudoir,
377
00:28:19,491 --> 00:28:23,451
if Marie Antoinette were a slightly crazed suburban
woman who wished she were still a teenager.
378
00:28:25,455 --> 00:28:26,655
Oh.
379
00:28:29,042 --> 00:28:30,252
Thank you.
380
00:28:31,211 --> 00:28:32,251
Thank you.
381
00:28:34,589 --> 00:28:35,629
Hey...
382
00:28:38,259 --> 00:28:42,309
Relax.
You're so intense.
383
00:28:44,057 --> 00:28:45,677
Trust me,
I'm trying.
384
00:28:47,894 --> 00:28:49,854
Tell me more.
385
00:28:49,938 --> 00:28:51,148
Not about your classes,
386
00:28:51,231 --> 00:28:53,191
or why General MacArthur
is insubordinate,
387
00:28:53,274 --> 00:28:54,534
or why you're an atheist.
388
00:28:54,609 --> 00:28:57,819
Though you have to admit I got all of
that out of you in a mere 20 minutes.
389
00:28:57,904 --> 00:29:00,007
Pretty good seeing as I don't
believe you've spoken to anyone
390
00:29:00,031 --> 00:29:02,831
for more than 40 seconds since you
got to Winesburg, am I right?
391
00:29:02,909 --> 00:29:04,539
Yeah. Yeah,
you're right.
392
00:29:04,619 --> 00:29:06,289
I want to hear
all about your mother,
393
00:29:06,996 --> 00:29:08,098
and your father the butcher,
394
00:29:08,122 --> 00:29:09,882
and what it's like working
in a butcher shop,
395
00:29:09,958 --> 00:29:12,668
and what the girls
were like in Newark.
396
00:29:12,752 --> 00:29:16,092
Okay. But first, you're going to
have to eat all those snails.
397
00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:19,512
Oh, you think I ordered
these just to spite you?
398
00:29:19,592 --> 00:29:21,262
I actually love escargot.
399
00:29:25,265 --> 00:29:28,385
Alright... [clears
throat] let me try one.
400
00:29:28,476 --> 00:29:31,266
How do you do this?
This one here.
401
00:29:31,354 --> 00:29:32,354
[giggles]
402
00:29:32,397 --> 00:29:33,647
This big guy.
403
00:29:33,731 --> 00:29:35,611
Oooh, okay.
404
00:29:38,528 --> 00:29:39,818
And?
405
00:29:41,781 --> 00:29:43,491
It's chewy.
406
00:29:43,575 --> 00:29:45,485
But good.
Very good.
407
00:29:45,577 --> 00:29:48,287
You grew up
eating these at home?
408
00:29:48,371 --> 00:29:51,541
No, just at places like these.
409
00:29:51,624 --> 00:29:54,094
My mother insisted;
part of my education.
410
00:29:54,168 --> 00:29:58,758
So what'd
your father think?
411
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,220
He's a steak and potatoes man.
He never approved.
412
00:30:01,301 --> 00:30:07,181
Maybe being a doctor, he thought
that snails were unclean.
413
00:30:08,808 --> 00:30:11,438
Or simply un-American.
414
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:13,899
But perhaps
you're onto something, Marcus.
415
00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:15,730
My father
washes his hands.
416
00:30:15,815 --> 00:30:19,145
He's always washing his hands.
He washes them all the time.
417
00:30:19,235 --> 00:30:20,775
Why?
418
00:30:20,862 --> 00:30:23,112
Well, because they're dirty,
of course.
419
00:30:24,365 --> 00:30:26,275
[orchestra music playing]
420
00:30:26,367 --> 00:30:30,577
[music playing
on the car radio]
421
00:30:49,390 --> 00:30:52,390
It's 55 minutes to curfew.
In case you were wondering.
422
00:31:05,615 --> 00:31:07,525
Make a left at the next street.
423
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,940
[radio clicks off]
424
00:32:32,785 --> 00:32:34,115
(Marcus, off)
What happened next
425
00:32:34,203 --> 00:32:36,583
I puzzled over
for weeks afterwards.
426
00:32:37,665 --> 00:32:41,705
Trying to reconstruct the morals
that reigned over Winesburg College,
427
00:32:43,129 --> 00:32:46,339
and I wonder how my own sorry
efforts to overcome those morals
428
00:32:46,424 --> 00:32:50,684
may have fostered so much
misunderstanding, even grief.
429
00:32:50,762 --> 00:32:52,602
Ahhh!
430
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,310
[heavy breathing]
431
00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:04,980
[sound of zipper]
432
00:33:14,952 --> 00:33:18,752
Even now I continue
to puzzle over Olivia's actions.
433
00:33:19,749 --> 00:33:22,789
Hers, and maybe
even more so, mine.
434
00:33:26,005 --> 00:33:29,425
I told myself, "It's because
her parents are divorced."
435
00:33:29,509 --> 00:33:33,299
I could think of no other explanation
for a mystery so profound.
436
00:33:35,681 --> 00:33:38,851
Because in Newark,
437
00:33:38,935 --> 00:33:43,515
it was inconceivable that girls like
Olivia Hutton could do such a thing,
438
00:33:43,606 --> 00:33:45,266
but then again,
439
00:33:45,358 --> 00:33:48,528
there were no girls
like Olivia Hutton in Newark.
440
00:34:23,479 --> 00:34:26,899
Thanks for the loan.
441
00:34:26,983 --> 00:34:29,573
How'd she run?
Hm?
442
00:34:29,652 --> 00:34:32,242
Oh. Oh, yeah, great.
Thank you.
443
00:34:32,321 --> 00:34:33,571
She should of.
444
00:34:33,656 --> 00:34:36,446
Next I'm going to be working
on the suspension.
445
00:34:36,534 --> 00:34:37,914
It's pretty good, though, huh?
446
00:34:37,994 --> 00:34:39,544
Yeah.
447
00:34:46,002 --> 00:34:48,422
She blew me.
She what?
448
00:34:50,715 --> 00:34:51,795
Oh.
449
00:34:54,135 --> 00:34:57,595
I didn't even ask her for it.
She just did it.
450
00:35:00,308 --> 00:35:03,188
Did you ever hear of anything
like that ever happening?
451
00:35:04,812 --> 00:35:06,062
Nope.
452
00:35:06,147 --> 00:35:10,527
Huh. I think it's because
her parents are divorced.
453
00:35:12,278 --> 00:35:13,528
Did she tell you that?
454
00:35:13,613 --> 00:35:15,493
No.
455
00:35:15,573 --> 00:35:18,333
I'm just guessing.
456
00:35:18,409 --> 00:35:20,619
She just did it.
457
00:35:21,495 --> 00:35:22,705
We parked
near the cemetery...
458
00:35:22,788 --> 00:35:25,538
Okay. Okay. Well,
I'm very happy for you.
459
00:35:25,625 --> 00:35:28,125
But if you don't mind,
I've got some work to do here.
460
00:35:28,210 --> 00:35:29,630
Oh, yeah sure. Sure.
461
00:35:30,171 --> 00:35:32,971
Just thank you for the car. It wouldn't
have happened without the car.
462
00:35:33,049 --> 00:35:35,009
Yeah. You're welcome.
463
00:35:39,138 --> 00:35:43,768
She must have done it before,
don't you think?
464
00:35:43,851 --> 00:35:45,101
Could be.
465
00:35:45,186 --> 00:35:48,806
Huh. I really don't know
what to make of it.
466
00:35:48,898 --> 00:35:51,028
That's clear.
467
00:35:55,363 --> 00:35:57,323
You think I should
see her again?
468
00:35:57,406 --> 00:35:59,276
[inhales]
Up to you.
469
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,300
(Max) So we understand
you met the Cottler boy.
470
00:36:15,383 --> 00:36:17,223
Esther, what's his name?
471
00:36:17,301 --> 00:36:18,391
(Mom)
Sonny.
472
00:36:18,469 --> 00:36:22,429
Donald Cottler, Donald Cottler,
but they call him Sonny.
473
00:36:22,515 --> 00:36:24,225
His aunt lives
here in Newark.
474
00:36:24,308 --> 00:36:27,398
When we said where you were, she told
us that her maiden name was Cottler,
475
00:36:27,478 --> 00:36:30,648
and her brother's family
lives in Cleveland,
476
00:36:30,731 --> 00:36:32,941
and her nephew goes
to the same college
477
00:36:33,025 --> 00:36:35,605
and is president
of the Jewish Fraternity
478
00:36:35,695 --> 00:36:37,985
and captain
of the basketball team.
479
00:36:38,072 --> 00:36:39,492
And something else.
What else?
480
00:36:39,573 --> 00:36:41,953
President of the Greeks...
the Greek system council.
481
00:36:42,034 --> 00:36:44,164
Right, right, right.
President of the council.
482
00:36:44,245 --> 00:36:47,415
Imagine that, a Jew,
president of the Greeks.
483
00:36:47,498 --> 00:36:50,498
Oh, yeah. Sonny. Yeah, right.
He came around.
484
00:36:50,584 --> 00:36:52,344
So what did he tell you?
485
00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:54,670
He made a pitch
for his fraternity.
486
00:36:54,755 --> 00:36:57,545
(Dad) And? I said I
wasn't interested.
487
00:36:57,633 --> 00:37:00,893
But his aunt says
he's a wonderful boy.
488
00:37:00,970 --> 00:37:02,260
All A's like you.
489
00:37:02,346 --> 00:37:04,716
And a very handsome boy,
I understand.
490
00:37:04,807 --> 00:37:07,227
Extremely handsome.
A dreamboat.
491
00:37:07,309 --> 00:37:09,059
What's that
supposed to mean?
492
00:37:09,145 --> 00:37:12,305
Dad, please stop sending
people to visit me.
493
00:37:12,398 --> 00:37:13,978
But you're there
all by yourself.
494
00:37:14,066 --> 00:37:15,936
Dad, I can't take
any more of this.
495
00:37:16,027 --> 00:37:17,587
But how do I know what's
going on with you?
496
00:37:17,611 --> 00:37:19,361
You could be doing anything.
497
00:37:19,447 --> 00:37:22,527
I do one thing.
I go to classes and I study.
498
00:37:22,616 --> 00:37:24,736
And I make 18 bucks
a week at the library.
499
00:37:24,827 --> 00:37:27,037
And what's wrong with
making some friends?
500
00:37:27,121 --> 00:37:29,291
Some Jewish friends?
501
00:37:29,373 --> 00:37:32,713
I... [clears throat] I gotta go.
Marcus!
502
00:37:32,793 --> 00:37:35,003
I'm hanging up...
Marcus!
503
00:37:38,174 --> 00:37:40,384
[loud orchestra music]
504
00:38:18,089 --> 00:38:19,509
(Olivia)
Hello, Marc.
505
00:38:19,590 --> 00:38:20,380
Oh...
506
00:38:20,466 --> 00:38:22,256
Olivia.
Hi.
507
00:38:24,637 --> 00:38:26,887
I did that because
I liked you so much.
508
00:38:26,972 --> 00:38:30,272
Um, um, um, pardon?
509
00:38:30,351 --> 00:38:32,901
I said I did that
because I liked you.
510
00:38:34,146 --> 00:38:36,316
I know
you can't figure it out.
511
00:38:36,398 --> 00:38:38,028
I know it's why
I haven't heard from you
512
00:38:38,109 --> 00:38:39,689
and why you ignored
me in class.
513
00:38:39,777 --> 00:38:41,567
So I'm figuring it
out for you.
514
00:38:41,695 --> 00:38:45,315
Any other mysteries?
No, no, that's okay.
515
00:38:45,407 --> 00:38:49,077
No. It's not okay.
516
00:38:49,161 --> 00:38:51,791
It's not okay with you.
517
00:38:51,872 --> 00:38:53,292
You know,
518
00:38:53,374 --> 00:38:56,794
I liked your seriousness,
I liked your maturity at dinner
519
00:38:56,877 --> 00:38:58,957
or what I took
to be maturity.
520
00:38:59,046 --> 00:39:01,626
I made a joke about it,
but I liked your intensity.
521
00:39:01,715 --> 00:39:05,795
I never met anyone
so intense before.
522
00:39:05,886 --> 00:39:08,966
I liked your looks,
Marcus, I still do.
523
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:13,309
It's just that I've um...
524
00:39:13,394 --> 00:39:18,194
Never...
525
00:39:18,274 --> 00:39:22,534
Did you ever do that
with somebody else?
526
00:39:22,611 --> 00:39:25,491
I did.
527
00:39:25,573 --> 00:39:29,333
So no one's
ever done it with you.
528
00:39:29,410 --> 00:39:30,490
Not even close.
529
00:39:30,578 --> 00:39:32,538
So now you think
I'm a slut.
530
00:39:33,414 --> 00:39:35,794
I... No. Absolutely not.
531
00:39:35,875 --> 00:39:37,495
You're lying.
532
00:39:37,585 --> 00:39:40,165
That's why you won't speak to me.
Because I'm a slut.
533
00:39:40,254 --> 00:39:41,764
But you did
do it before...
534
00:39:41,881 --> 00:39:44,221
This was the second time. But
that doesn't make you a slut.
535
00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:46,010
I was at Mt. Holyoke.
536
00:39:46,093 --> 00:39:48,053
I was at a party at Amherst.
I was drunk.
537
00:39:48,137 --> 00:39:50,427
The whole thing was awful.
I didn't know anything.
538
00:39:50,514 --> 00:39:52,184
And I was drinking all the time.
539
00:39:52,266 --> 00:39:56,016
It's why I transferred.
They suspended me.
540
00:39:56,103 --> 00:39:58,443
I spent three months
at a clinic drying out.
541
00:39:58,522 --> 00:39:59,822
I don't drink anymore.
542
00:39:59,899 --> 00:40:03,149
I don't drink anything alcoholic
and I won't ever again.
543
00:40:03,235 --> 00:40:05,395
This time with you
I wasn't drunk.
544
00:40:05,487 --> 00:40:07,567
I wasn't drunk
and I wasn't crazy.
545
00:40:07,656 --> 00:40:09,576
I wanted to do it to you
not because I'm a slut
546
00:40:09,658 --> 00:40:11,738
but because I wanted
to do it to you.
547
00:40:11,827 --> 00:40:14,207
Can't you understand that I
wanted to give you that?
548
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,210
I think so.
I'm trying. Really.
549
00:40:22,129 --> 00:40:23,339
But you can't.
550
00:40:25,674 --> 00:40:27,434
God, what is wrong
with you?
551
00:40:36,060 --> 00:40:37,980
I used the razor
when I was drunk.
552
00:40:39,188 --> 00:40:41,568
If I had been sober
I would have succeeded.
553
00:40:41,649 --> 00:40:43,979
So three cheers
for ten rye and gingers...
554
00:40:44,068 --> 00:40:46,278
they're why I'm alive today.
555
00:40:48,948 --> 00:40:51,908
That, and my incapacity
to carry anything out.
556
00:40:53,202 --> 00:40:55,122
Even suicide is beyond me.
557
00:40:58,165 --> 00:41:00,165
I don't regret doing what we did,
558
00:41:00,251 --> 00:41:02,461
but we mustn't do anything more.
559
00:41:04,171 --> 00:41:07,881
Forget about me, Marcus.
There's no one around here like you.
560
00:41:07,967 --> 00:41:12,217
You are not a simple soul
and have no business being here.
561
00:41:12,304 --> 00:41:17,694
If you survive the squareness of this
place, you'll have a sterling future.
562
00:41:17,768 --> 00:41:21,148
Why did you come
to Winesburg to begin with?
563
00:41:21,230 --> 00:41:23,070
I came
because it's so square.
564
00:41:23,148 --> 00:41:25,648
That's supposed to make me
a normal girl.
565
00:41:26,819 --> 00:41:30,659
But you? You should be studying
philosophy at the Sorbonne
566
00:41:30,739 --> 00:41:33,619
and living in a garret
in Montparnasse.
567
00:41:33,701 --> 00:41:36,411
We both should.
568
00:41:36,495 --> 00:41:40,165
Farewell, beauticious man.
Olivia.
569
00:41:50,843 --> 00:41:52,393
[vehicle approaching]
570
00:42:04,898 --> 00:42:08,778
(Dr. Hutton) Olivia! You
forgot your allowance.
571
00:42:10,529 --> 00:42:12,239
I will see you
at Thanksgiving.
572
00:42:12,323 --> 00:42:13,873
Your mother will join us.
573
00:42:40,059 --> 00:42:42,479
(Flusser)
Ah. What employment have we here?
574
00:42:42,561 --> 00:42:45,481
Please, no Shakespeare
rehearsal tonight.
575
00:42:50,277 --> 00:42:52,647
Hey!
By my life,
576
00:42:52,738 --> 00:42:54,618
this is my lady's hand.
577
00:42:54,698 --> 00:42:57,528
These be her very C's,
her U's and her T's
578
00:42:57,618 --> 00:42:59,538
thus makes she her.
579
00:43:01,789 --> 00:43:03,169
'To the unknown beloved, this,
580
00:43:03,248 --> 00:43:05,748
and my good wishes:'
her very phrases!
581
00:43:05,834 --> 00:43:11,514
By your leave, wax. Soft! and the impressure her
Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady.
582
00:43:11,590 --> 00:43:13,090
To whom should this be?
583
00:43:13,175 --> 00:43:14,965
Jove knows I love: But who?
584
00:43:15,052 --> 00:43:17,552
Lips, do not move;
no man must know.
585
00:43:17,638 --> 00:43:19,008
God damn it, Flusser!
586
00:43:19,098 --> 00:43:20,678
'No man must know.'
587
00:43:20,766 --> 00:43:22,346
What follows?
The numbers altered!
588
00:43:22,434 --> 00:43:25,524
'No man must know:' unless
this should be thee, Malvolio?
589
00:43:28,816 --> 00:43:30,066
What the hell
is wrong with you?
590
00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:31,650
Hey, stop getting
all worked up.
591
00:43:31,735 --> 00:43:33,395
How about a little bit
of respect, huh?
592
00:43:33,487 --> 00:43:37,737
What? That's from the one
that blew you?
593
00:43:37,825 --> 00:43:39,155
In my car?
594
00:43:39,243 --> 00:43:41,333
How about respecting my car
595
00:43:41,412 --> 00:43:43,662
by not driving around
with some slut in it.
596
00:43:45,374 --> 00:43:47,924
[groaning]
597
00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:50,051
Oh!
598
00:44:07,855 --> 00:44:11,225
You're in luck. There's
a vacancy in Neil Hall.
599
00:44:11,316 --> 00:44:13,936
Mrs. Burgess in Housing
can get you the key.
600
00:44:14,027 --> 00:44:16,237
It's rather... rustic.
601
00:44:16,321 --> 00:44:19,951
Oh, and you will need to schedule
a chat with Dean Caudwell.
602
00:44:20,033 --> 00:44:22,703
He likes to be informed
of these kinds of changes.
603
00:44:22,786 --> 00:44:26,496
Can you come by Monday,
say, 2:30?
604
00:44:26,915 --> 00:44:28,535
Sure.
605
00:44:44,516 --> 00:44:48,476
Volunteers are still needed
for Homecoming Weekend.
606
00:44:50,063 --> 00:44:52,073
As you know,
last year's defeat
607
00:44:52,149 --> 00:44:54,819
at the hands
of the College of Wooster
608
00:44:54,902 --> 00:44:58,112
broke a winning streak
that will require,
609
00:44:58,197 --> 00:45:00,777
shall we say,
all hands on deck.
610
00:45:00,866 --> 00:45:08,116
I speak on behalf of Coach
Blauvelt when I say
611
00:45:08,207 --> 00:45:13,247
the bulldog bite can only be
commensurate with the bulldog bark.
612
00:45:13,337 --> 00:45:18,297
All of us
are responsible...
613
00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:48,458
Olivia.
Olivia. Please.
614
00:45:48,539 --> 00:45:50,119
Yes, Marcus?
615
00:45:52,334 --> 00:45:56,174
If... if you could just...
616
00:45:57,631 --> 00:46:00,471
sit next to me again
in class.
617
00:46:00,551 --> 00:46:02,141
It would really help
me concentrate.
618
00:46:03,845 --> 00:46:07,215
It's harder when you're behind me,
I keep wanting to turn around.
619
00:46:10,269 --> 00:46:11,689
Okay. Maybe.
620
00:46:14,314 --> 00:46:15,654
Alright. Thank you.
621
00:46:17,359 --> 00:46:18,989
I heard you moved rooms.
622
00:46:21,613 --> 00:46:27,413
Yeah. I had a disagreement
with my roommates.
623
00:46:28,328 --> 00:46:29,538
I moved to Neil Hall.
624
00:46:31,790 --> 00:46:34,080
You weren't
in Chapel yesterday.
625
00:46:34,167 --> 00:46:36,837
I just needed a break.
626
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,840
I don't know how much more of Dr.
Donehower
627
00:46:38,922 --> 00:46:42,052
going on about "Christ's
example" I can take.
628
00:46:42,134 --> 00:46:45,764
Maybe you could get some kind of
waiver for conscientious objection.
629
00:46:45,846 --> 00:46:47,926
Why is that?
Because I'm Jewish?
630
00:46:48,015 --> 00:46:50,326
I don't object because I'm
Jewish, I object I'm an atheist.
631
00:46:50,350 --> 00:46:51,810
I know.
632
00:46:56,481 --> 00:46:58,071
Thank you
for talking to me.
633
00:46:58,150 --> 00:47:02,400
If I talk to you again, maybe you won't
have to stand under my window all the time.
634
00:47:04,781 --> 00:47:07,491
Oh.
[clears throat]
635
00:47:07,576 --> 00:47:09,366
Um...
[giggles]
636
00:47:09,453 --> 00:47:12,253
I, uh...
637
00:47:12,331 --> 00:47:15,291
You know, it's funny,
I don't actually know...
638
00:47:15,375 --> 00:47:16,785
which window is yours.
639
00:47:16,877 --> 00:47:21,337
I'm on the third floor, on the left,
facing the quad, just for the record.
640
00:47:22,466 --> 00:47:24,836
I rarely see you looking up.
641
00:47:24,926 --> 00:47:28,176
If you're not a Peeping Tom,
what's the point?
642
00:47:28,263 --> 00:47:31,063
It just makes
me feel as if...
643
00:47:33,935 --> 00:47:38,265
like I'm making...
sure you're okay.
644
00:47:38,357 --> 00:47:42,437
Oh, Marcus. I'm fine.
645
00:47:42,527 --> 00:47:45,027
It's you I'm worried about.
646
00:47:48,241 --> 00:47:49,911
You can come in now.
647
00:47:57,834 --> 00:47:58,884
Come on in.
648
00:48:10,055 --> 00:48:11,885
Marcus Messner.
649
00:48:14,726 --> 00:48:16,556
I wanted you to come in
so we could meet
650
00:48:16,645 --> 00:48:20,725
and find out if I could be of any help
to you in adjusting to Winesburg.
651
00:48:20,816 --> 00:48:25,316
I see by your transcript that
you're a remarkably gifted student.
652
00:48:25,404 --> 00:48:29,204
First in your family ever
to attend college.
653
00:48:29,282 --> 00:48:32,292
Captain of your baseball team
at high school.
654
00:48:32,369 --> 00:48:34,289
Scholarship from your temple.
655
00:48:34,371 --> 00:48:37,671
I wouldn't want anything
at Winesburg to interfere
656
00:48:37,749 --> 00:48:40,839
in the slightest with such a
stellar record of achievement.
657
00:48:40,919 --> 00:48:42,209
Neither do I, sir.
658
00:48:47,134 --> 00:48:51,224
Do you see any potential
difficulties on the horizon here?
659
00:48:51,304 --> 00:48:53,524
No, sir. I don't, sir.
660
00:48:53,598 --> 00:48:55,348
How are things
going with your classwork?
661
00:48:55,434 --> 00:48:57,604
You're getting all you hoped for
from your courses?
662
00:48:57,686 --> 00:48:59,726
[clears throat]
Yes. Yes, sir.
663
00:48:59,813 --> 00:49:01,113
You're socializing enough?
664
00:49:01,189 --> 00:49:04,989
[cough]
Yes. Yes, I am, sir.
665
00:49:05,068 --> 00:49:07,778
[sighs and clears throat]
666
00:49:13,034 --> 00:49:14,124
Thank you, sir.
667
00:49:16,830 --> 00:49:19,080
The only problem is that you
seem to have some trouble
668
00:49:19,166 --> 00:49:21,916
settling into dormitory life.
669
00:49:22,002 --> 00:49:24,092
Tell me, in your own words,
670
00:49:24,171 --> 00:49:25,461
what seems to be the trouble?
671
00:49:27,966 --> 00:49:29,886
I'm sorry.
Could you repeat your question, sir?
672
00:49:30,635 --> 00:49:32,715
Calm down, son.
Try a little more water.
673
00:49:36,183 --> 00:49:39,693
And no need to call me sir,
by the way.
674
00:49:39,770 --> 00:49:44,860
So... what was the problem
with your accommodations?
675
00:49:44,941 --> 00:49:48,111
In the room
to which I was assigned
676
00:49:48,195 --> 00:49:50,565
one of my roommates
[clears throat]
677
00:49:50,655 --> 00:49:53,575
Would always play the
phonograph after I went to bed
678
00:49:53,658 --> 00:49:57,448
and I was not able to get
a good night's sleep.
679
00:49:57,537 --> 00:49:59,457
I need my sleep
in order to do my work.
680
00:49:59,539 --> 00:50:03,539
The situation
was... insupportable.
681
00:50:03,627 --> 00:50:05,587
But couldn't you sit down
and work out a time
682
00:50:05,670 --> 00:50:09,760
for his playing the phonograph that
was agreeable to the two of you?
683
00:50:09,841 --> 00:50:13,011
You had to move out?
There was no other choice?
684
00:50:13,094 --> 00:50:15,224
I had to move out.
685
00:50:15,305 --> 00:50:17,425
No way of reaching
a compromise.
686
00:50:17,516 --> 00:50:20,596
Did you seek the support
of your other roommate?
687
00:50:20,685 --> 00:50:22,935
There was no compromise
with him, sir.
688
00:50:23,021 --> 00:50:25,071
And my other roommate
was not sympathetic.
689
00:50:25,148 --> 00:50:28,438
Are you often unable to reach
a compromise with people
690
00:50:28,527 --> 00:50:29,947
whom you don't see
eye to eye with?
691
00:50:30,028 --> 00:50:31,658
I wouldn't say often, sir.
692
00:50:31,738 --> 00:50:34,318
I wouldn't say that anything
like this has happened before.
693
00:50:34,407 --> 00:50:37,077
Really, Marcus, you don't have
to do that, calling me sir.
694
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,160
Call me Dean Caudwell, or
call me Dean, if you like.
695
00:50:40,247 --> 00:50:42,747
Winesburg isn't
a military academy.
696
00:50:43,416 --> 00:50:45,786
I don't mind
calling you "sir", Dean.
697
00:50:46,545 --> 00:50:49,625
It says here your father
is a kosher butcher.
698
00:50:49,714 --> 00:50:51,934
No. No, it does not.
699
00:50:52,008 --> 00:50:54,968
I remember just writing
down just 'butcher.'
700
00:50:55,053 --> 00:50:57,183
That's what I'd write
down on any form.
701
00:50:57,264 --> 00:50:59,524
Well, that's what
you did write.
702
00:50:59,599 --> 00:51:03,349
I'm merely assuming
that he's a kosher butcher.
703
00:51:03,436 --> 00:51:05,686
He is. But that is
not what I wrote down.
704
00:51:05,772 --> 00:51:08,072
I acknowledged that.
705
00:51:08,149 --> 00:51:10,649
But it's not inaccurate,
is it?
706
00:51:10,735 --> 00:51:14,775
To identify him more precisely
as a kosher butcher?
707
00:51:14,865 --> 00:51:17,325
But neither is what
I wrote down inaccurate, sir.
708
00:51:17,409 --> 00:51:22,459
I'd be curious to know why you
didn't write down 'kosher, ' Marcus.
709
00:51:22,539 --> 00:51:24,959
Sir, if you are asking me
if I was trying to hide
710
00:51:25,041 --> 00:51:28,461
the religion into which
I was born, the answer is no.
711
00:51:28,545 --> 00:51:31,755
Well, I certainly hope that's so.
712
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,840
I'm glad to hear that.
713
00:51:34,551 --> 00:51:38,391
Everyone has a right to openly
practice his own faith,
714
00:51:38,471 --> 00:51:42,681
and that holds true at Winesburg just as
it does everywhere else in this country.
715
00:51:42,767 --> 00:51:45,057
On the other hand,
716
00:51:45,145 --> 00:51:48,605
under 'religious preference'
I see you didn't write 'Jewish, '
717
00:51:48,690 --> 00:51:50,860
though you are
of Jewish extraction
718
00:51:50,942 --> 00:51:53,822
and, in accordance with the college's
attempt to assist students
719
00:51:53,904 --> 00:51:55,704
in residing
with others of the same faith,
720
00:51:55,780 --> 00:51:59,660
you were assigned
Jewish roommates.
721
00:51:59,743 --> 00:52:02,333
I didn't write anything
under religious preference, sir.
722
00:52:02,412 --> 00:52:05,752
I can see that.
I'm wondering why that is.
723
00:52:05,832 --> 00:52:08,922
It's because I have none.
724
00:52:09,002 --> 00:52:12,802
I don't prefer to practice
one religion over another.
725
00:52:12,881 --> 00:52:16,721
What then provides you
with spiritual sustenance?
726
00:52:16,801 --> 00:52:19,931
To whom do you pray
when you need solace?
727
00:52:20,013 --> 00:52:21,683
I don't need solace, sir.
728
00:52:22,515 --> 00:52:26,435
I don't believe in God
and I don't believe in prayer.
729
00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:30,939
I am sustained by what is real.
Praying, to me, is preposterous.
730
00:52:31,024 --> 00:52:35,654
Is it now?
And yet so many millions do it.
731
00:52:35,737 --> 00:52:39,277
Millions once thought
the earth was flat, sir.
732
00:52:39,366 --> 00:52:41,366
Yes, that's true.
But may I ask you, Marcus,
733
00:52:41,451 --> 00:52:45,871
merely out of curiosity,
how do you get by in life...
734
00:52:45,956 --> 00:52:49,916
filled as life is inevitably
with trials and tribulations
735
00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:51,881
lacking spiritual guidance?
736
00:52:51,962 --> 00:52:53,252
I get straight A's, sir.
737
00:52:53,338 --> 00:52:56,588
I didn't ask about your grades.
738
00:52:57,008 --> 00:52:58,588
I know your grades.
739
00:52:58,677 --> 00:53:00,277
You have every right
to be proud of them,
740
00:53:00,345 --> 00:53:01,505
as I've already told you.
741
00:53:01,596 --> 00:53:03,596
Well, then you know
the answer to your question
742
00:53:03,682 --> 00:53:05,432
of how I get by just fine.
743
00:53:05,517 --> 00:53:09,437
Well, if I may say so, it doesn't look
to me like you get along just fine.
744
00:53:09,521 --> 00:53:12,151
It seems to me as soon as there's
a difference of opinion,
745
00:53:12,232 --> 00:53:13,532
you pick up and leave.
746
00:53:13,608 --> 00:53:16,528
Is there a problem with finding
a solution in quietly leaving?
747
00:53:16,611 --> 00:53:18,991
But look
where you've wound up...
748
00:53:19,072 --> 00:53:22,492
in the least desirable room
on the entire campus.
749
00:53:22,575 --> 00:53:25,285
Frankly, I don't like the idea
of you up there alone.
750
00:53:25,370 --> 00:53:28,830
But I did not end up there because
of lack of religious beliefs, sir,
751
00:53:28,915 --> 00:53:32,705
if that is what you are
suggesting in a roundabout way.
752
00:53:32,794 --> 00:53:33,964
Why is it, then?
753
00:53:35,839 --> 00:53:37,759
As I explained
to you before,
754
00:53:37,841 --> 00:53:40,471
the living arrangements
I was given were intolerable.
755
00:53:40,552 --> 00:53:44,262
Tolerance appears to be something
of a problem for you, young man.
756
00:53:44,347 --> 00:53:47,137
I've never heard that
said about me before, sir.
757
00:53:47,225 --> 00:53:50,435
There appear to be several things you've
never heard about yourself before.
758
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,060
But before, you were living
at home,
759
00:53:53,148 --> 00:53:56,108
in the bosom
of your childhood family.
760
00:53:56,192 --> 00:53:59,492
Now you are living
at Winesburg as an adult,
761
00:53:59,571 --> 00:54:01,871
and aside
from mastering your studies
762
00:54:01,948 --> 00:54:05,078
your task is to learn
how to get along with people
763
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:10,120
and to extend tolerance to those who
may not be carbon copies of yourself.
764
00:54:10,206 --> 00:54:14,336
Tolerance? How about extending
some tolerance to me, sir?
765
00:54:15,211 --> 00:54:18,301
I don't mean to be brash
or insolent
766
00:54:18,381 --> 00:54:23,301
but what exactly is the crime I
have committed? Here? Today?
767
00:54:24,095 --> 00:54:25,385
So I've switched rooms.
768
00:54:25,472 --> 00:54:28,182
Is that considered a crime
here at Winesburg?
769
00:54:28,266 --> 00:54:30,016
Has anyone said
it is a crime?
770
00:54:30,727 --> 00:54:34,267
You display a fondness
for dramatic exaggeration.
771
00:54:34,355 --> 00:54:36,065
It doesn't serve you well.
772
00:54:36,149 --> 00:54:39,399
It is a characteristic
you might want to reflect upon.
773
00:54:39,486 --> 00:54:42,656
Now tell me, how do you get
along with your family?
774
00:54:42,739 --> 00:54:46,329
I see from the form here,
you also have no siblings,
775
00:54:46,409 --> 00:54:48,369
so it's just you
and your parents at home,
776
00:54:48,453 --> 00:54:51,043
if I'm to take what you've
written here to be accurate.
777
00:54:51,122 --> 00:54:53,712
Why wouldn't it
be accurate?
778
00:54:53,792 --> 00:54:56,342
I was accurate when I wrote
down my father is a butcher.
779
00:54:56,419 --> 00:54:57,589
He is a butcher.
780
00:54:57,670 --> 00:55:00,380
It isn't I alone who would
describe him as a butcher.
781
00:55:00,465 --> 00:55:03,335
He would describe
himself as a butcher.
782
00:55:03,426 --> 00:55:06,756
You described him as a kosher butcher.
Which is fine.
783
00:55:06,846 --> 00:55:09,386
But that's not grounds for
intimating that I've been in any way
784
00:55:09,516 --> 00:55:11,806
inaccurate in filling out...
If I may interrupt, Marcus.
785
00:55:11,893 --> 00:55:15,193
How do you three get along,
from your perspective?
786
00:55:15,271 --> 00:55:16,821
That's the question I asked.
787
00:55:16,898 --> 00:55:19,818
You, your mother, and your father:
how do you get along?
788
00:55:19,901 --> 00:55:21,991
A straight answer, please.
789
00:55:27,617 --> 00:55:30,367
My mother and I get along perfectly well.
We always have.
790
00:55:31,788 --> 00:55:34,248
So have my father and I
for most of my life.
791
00:55:34,332 --> 00:55:38,632
[inhales]
[clears throat]
792
00:55:38,711 --> 00:55:40,261
From my last year
at grade school
793
00:55:40,338 --> 00:55:43,418
until I moved to Winesburg
794
00:55:43,508 --> 00:55:46,218
I worked part time
for him at the shop.
795
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,639
We were as close as
father and son could be.
796
00:55:53,017 --> 00:55:55,767
Of late there's been
some strain between us.
797
00:55:55,854 --> 00:55:58,524
Strain over what,
may I ask?
798
00:55:58,606 --> 00:56:03,486
He's been unnecessarily
worried about my independence.
799
00:56:03,570 --> 00:56:09,370
I think it has to do with many of my
cousins having died in the last war.
800
00:56:09,450 --> 00:56:13,910
You say unnecessarily worried about
you because he has no reason to be?
801
00:56:13,997 --> 00:56:14,997
None at all.
802
00:56:15,081 --> 00:56:18,711
Is he worried, for instance,
about your inability
803
00:56:18,793 --> 00:56:21,673
to adjust to your roommates
here at Winesburg?
804
00:56:21,754 --> 00:56:24,884
I have not told him
about my roommates.
805
00:56:24,966 --> 00:56:26,626
I did not think
it was important.
806
00:56:26,718 --> 00:56:31,888
Nor is 'inability to adjust' a proper
way to describe the difficulty, sir.
807
00:56:32,974 --> 00:56:36,944
I do not want to be distracted from
my studies by superfluous problems.
808
00:56:37,020 --> 00:56:39,560
I wouldn't consider your having
to move out of your room
809
00:56:39,647 --> 00:56:41,267
a superfluous problem,
810
00:56:41,357 --> 00:56:45,487
and neither would your father, I'm sure,
if he were apprised of the situation
811
00:56:45,570 --> 00:56:48,530
as he has every right to be,
by the way.
812
00:56:48,615 --> 00:56:51,525
But be that as it may...
813
00:56:51,618 --> 00:56:55,248
have you gone on any dates
since you've been to Winesburg?
814
00:56:55,330 --> 00:56:57,830
Uh, dates?
815
00:56:57,916 --> 00:57:00,536
Dates.
816
00:57:00,627 --> 00:57:02,877
Uh. Yes. Yes, I have.
817
00:57:02,962 --> 00:57:07,382
A few? Some? Many?
818
00:57:07,467 --> 00:57:09,547
One.
819
00:57:09,636 --> 00:57:11,096
Just one?
820
00:57:13,097 --> 00:57:15,347
Sir! I object to being
interrogated like this!
821
00:57:15,433 --> 00:57:17,193
I do not see
the purpose of it.
822
00:57:17,268 --> 00:57:19,018
These are
my own private affairs,
823
00:57:19,103 --> 00:57:23,443
as is my religious life and my
social life and how I conduct it.
824
00:57:23,524 --> 00:57:26,994
I have broken no laws, I've
caused no one injury or harm,
825
00:57:27,070 --> 00:57:32,030
and in no way have my actions
impinged on anyone's rights.
826
00:57:32,116 --> 00:57:34,536
If anyone's rights have been
impinged on they are mine.
827
00:57:34,619 --> 00:57:36,499
Sit down please,
and explain yourself.
828
00:57:36,579 --> 00:57:40,289
I also object to having to
attend chapel forty times
829
00:57:40,375 --> 00:57:42,455
before I graduate in
order to earn a degree.
830
00:57:42,543 --> 00:57:44,553
I do not see where the
college has the right
831
00:57:44,629 --> 00:57:48,259
to force me to listen to a
clergyman of whatever faith,
832
00:57:48,341 --> 00:57:51,841
even once, or listen
to a Christian hymn
833
00:57:51,928 --> 00:57:53,758
invoking the Christian deity,
834
00:57:53,846 --> 00:57:56,676
given that I am an atheist
who is, to be truthful,
835
00:57:56,766 --> 00:58:00,436
deeply offended by the practices
of organized religion.
836
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:02,400
I am altogether capable
837
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,070
of leading a moral existence
without crediting beliefs
838
00:58:05,149 --> 00:58:07,739
that are impossible to
substantiate and beyond credulity.
839
00:58:08,695 --> 00:58:11,985
I take it you are familiar,
Dean Caudwell,
840
00:58:12,073 --> 00:58:13,873
with the writings
of Bertrand Russell.
841
00:58:15,118 --> 00:58:17,368
Bertrand Russell,
the distinguished
842
00:58:17,453 --> 00:58:20,753
mathematician and philosopher,
was last year's recipient
843
00:58:20,832 --> 00:58:23,132
of the Nobel Prize
in Literature.
844
00:58:23,209 --> 00:58:26,249
The work of literature in which
he was awarded the Nobel Prize is
845
00:58:26,337 --> 00:58:29,757
his widely read essay entitled
"Why I Am Not a Christian."
846
00:58:29,841 --> 00:58:31,431
Are you familiar
with this essay, sir?
847
00:58:31,509 --> 00:58:33,049
Marcus, please sit down...
848
00:58:33,136 --> 00:58:34,596
Sir, I was asking
if you are familiar
849
00:58:34,679 --> 00:58:36,809
with this very important
essay by Bertrand Russell.
850
00:58:36,889 --> 00:58:38,769
I take it
that the answer is no.
851
00:58:38,850 --> 00:58:41,600
Well, I am very familiar
with this essay
852
00:58:41,686 --> 00:58:46,356
because I set myself the task
of memorizing large sections of it
853
00:58:46,441 --> 00:58:49,491
when I was captain
of my high school debating team.
854
00:58:50,236 --> 00:58:52,316
Now, if you were
to read this essay,
855
00:58:53,239 --> 00:58:57,909
and in the interest of open-mindedness
I would urge you to do so,
856
00:58:57,994 --> 00:59:01,834
you would see that Bertrand
Russell, undoes with logic
857
00:59:01,914 --> 00:59:05,214
that is beyond dispute
the first-cause argument,
858
00:59:05,293 --> 00:59:07,923
the natural-law argument,
the argument from design,
859
00:59:08,004 --> 00:59:09,594
the moral arguments
for a deity,
860
00:59:09,672 --> 00:59:12,012
and the argument
for the remedying of injustice.
861
00:59:13,551 --> 00:59:15,971
Having studied these arguments,
862
00:59:16,054 --> 00:59:18,474
I intend to live my life
in accordance with them,
863
00:59:18,556 --> 00:59:21,016
as I am sure
you would have to admit, sir,
864
00:59:21,100 --> 00:59:22,520
I have every right to do.
865
00:59:22,602 --> 00:59:24,602
Please sit down.
866
00:59:30,735 --> 00:59:31,895
I'm sorry.
867
00:59:40,870 --> 00:59:44,120
I see here that you are studying
to be a lawyer.
868
00:59:44,207 --> 00:59:45,917
On the basis of this interview,
869
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,840
I think you are destined
to be an outstanding lawyer.
870
00:59:49,921 --> 00:59:54,011
I can see you one day arguing a
case before the Supreme Court,
871
00:59:54,092 --> 00:59:56,052
and winning it.
872
00:59:56,135 --> 01:00:00,175
I admire your directness,
your diction,
873
01:00:00,723 --> 01:00:03,273
your sentence structure,
874
01:00:03,351 --> 01:00:08,651
even if I don't necessarily choose to
admire whom or what you choose to read
875
01:00:08,731 --> 01:00:12,531
and the gullibility with which you
take at face value
876
01:00:12,610 --> 01:00:18,490
rationalist blasphemies spouted by an
immoralist of the ilk of Bertrand Russell,
877
01:00:18,574 --> 01:00:21,204
four times married,
a blatant adulterer,
878
01:00:21,285 --> 01:00:23,325
an advocate of free love,
879
01:00:23,413 --> 01:00:27,503
a self-confessed socialist
dismissed from his university position
880
01:00:27,583 --> 01:00:30,423
and imprisoned during the First War
by the British
881
01:00:30,503 --> 01:00:32,673
for what in plain English
I would call treason.
882
01:00:32,755 --> 01:00:34,255
What about
the Nobel Prize!
883
01:00:34,340 --> 01:00:36,010
I even admire you
now, Marcus,
884
01:00:36,092 --> 01:00:37,802
when you hammer on my desk
885
01:00:37,885 --> 01:00:41,255
and point to me so as to ask
about the Nobel Prize.
886
01:00:41,347 --> 01:00:42,967
You have a fighting spirit.
887
01:00:43,057 --> 01:00:46,227
I'm sorry, sir. I didn't know that
I pointed. I didn't mean to point.
888
01:00:46,310 --> 01:00:50,440
You did, son. Not for the first
time and probably not for the last.
889
01:00:50,523 --> 01:00:52,733
But that is the least of it.
890
01:00:52,817 --> 01:00:56,067
To find that Bertrand Russell
is a hero of yours
891
01:00:56,154 --> 01:00:58,414
comes as no great surprise.
892
01:00:59,282 --> 01:01:02,582
There are always one or two
intellectually precocious students
893
01:01:02,660 --> 01:01:07,540
on every campus, self-appointed
members of an elite intelligentsia
894
01:01:07,623 --> 01:01:11,503
who need to elevate themselves and feel
superior to their fellow students,
895
01:01:11,586 --> 01:01:14,166
superior even
to their professors.
896
01:01:15,173 --> 01:01:19,343
Nonetheless, that is not what
we are here to discuss.
897
01:01:19,427 --> 01:01:23,677
What worries me
rather is your isolation.
898
01:01:24,974 --> 01:01:28,024
What worries me
is your outspoken rejection
899
01:01:28,102 --> 01:01:30,982
of long-standing Winesburg tradition,
900
01:01:31,063 --> 01:01:34,153
as witness your response
to Chapel attendance,
901
01:01:34,233 --> 01:01:35,233
[inhales]
902
01:01:35,318 --> 01:01:38,278
A simple undergraduate requirement
which amounts to, on average,
903
01:01:38,362 --> 01:01:41,622
little more than a few minutes
per week of your years here.
904
01:01:41,699 --> 01:01:44,789
In all my experience
at Winesburg
905
01:01:44,869 --> 01:01:47,039
I have never come across
a student
906
01:01:47,121 --> 01:01:51,211
who objected to that requirement
as an infringement on his rights.
907
01:01:52,376 --> 01:01:55,626
What worries me
is how poorly
908
01:01:55,713 --> 01:01:59,223
you are fitting
into the Winesburg community.
909
01:01:59,300 --> 01:02:03,050
To me it seems something
to be attended to promptly,
910
01:02:03,763 --> 01:02:05,933
and nipped in the bud.
911
01:02:06,015 --> 01:02:08,515
I can't take any more of this.
912
01:02:08,601 --> 01:02:10,601
[swallows hard]
Sir, I think I'm going to vomit.
913
01:02:10,686 --> 01:02:11,976
Excuse me?
914
01:02:12,063 --> 01:02:16,073
I feel ill. I think
I'm going to vomit.
915
01:02:17,068 --> 01:02:20,148
I cannot bear
being lectured like this.
916
01:02:20,238 --> 01:02:22,408
I am not a malcontent.
I am not a rebel.
917
01:02:24,283 --> 01:02:27,583
I have the right to socialize
918
01:02:27,662 --> 01:02:29,662
or not socialize
with whomever I see fit.
919
01:02:29,747 --> 01:02:33,327
Furthermore, your argument
against Bertrand Russell
920
01:02:33,417 --> 01:02:36,047
is not an argument
against his ideas
921
01:02:36,128 --> 01:02:38,088
based on reason
922
01:02:38,589 --> 01:02:40,589
but an argument
against his character,
923
01:02:41,551 --> 01:02:44,761
i.e., an ad hominem attack,
924
01:02:44,845 --> 01:02:47,005
which is logically worthless.
925
01:02:47,098 --> 01:02:49,678
Sir, I respectfully ask
your permission to stand up
926
01:02:49,767 --> 01:02:53,227
and leave now because I am afraid
if I don't I am going to be sick.
927
01:02:53,312 --> 01:02:55,192
Of course
you may leave.
928
01:02:55,273 --> 01:02:59,363
I just ask that you reflect on why
leaving appears to be the only way
929
01:02:59,443 --> 01:03:02,323
you are dealing
with your problems here.
930
01:03:02,405 --> 01:03:06,985
I'm genuinely sorry if you think
I've been wasting your time.
931
01:03:07,076 --> 01:03:09,866
Leaving is not how I cope
with my difficulties.
932
01:03:09,954 --> 01:03:13,424
I strongly object to you
saying that, Dean Caudwell.
933
01:03:13,499 --> 01:03:16,339
Well, at least we got
over calling me 'sir.'
934
01:03:16,419 --> 01:03:18,499
Marcus.
Just one last thing.
935
01:03:18,588 --> 01:03:20,758
I have the impression
from your application
936
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:22,880
that you're a talented
baseball player.
937
01:03:22,967 --> 01:03:26,847
Would you give a thought about
going up for the Winesburg team?
938
01:03:26,929 --> 01:03:30,559
I played for that team myself
when I was a student here.
939
01:03:30,641 --> 01:03:33,691
Dean Caudwell, my high school
had the worst team in the league.
940
01:03:33,769 --> 01:03:35,399
I don't think
I could play at this level.
941
01:03:35,479 --> 01:03:37,729
The pitching would be a lot
faster than what I'm used to,
942
01:03:37,815 --> 01:03:40,855
and I don't think choking up on
the bat, the way I did back home,
943
01:03:40,943 --> 01:03:45,243
is going to solve my hitting problems
at this level of competition.
944
01:03:45,323 --> 01:03:47,583
So you're saying you're not
going out for baseball
945
01:03:47,658 --> 01:03:48,908
because of the competition?
946
01:03:48,993 --> 01:03:52,333
No! I am saying that I am
realistic about my chances
947
01:03:52,413 --> 01:03:53,833
for making the team...
948
01:03:58,919 --> 01:04:00,339
(Dean)
Alice!
949
01:04:12,933 --> 01:04:14,733
(Marcus, off)
I was always a light sleeper,
950
01:04:15,353 --> 01:04:16,943
though I never could remember
my dreams
951
01:04:17,021 --> 01:04:19,021
or even whether I had
any dreams.
952
01:04:20,107 --> 01:04:22,397
But for that day,
and night, and day...
953
01:04:22,485 --> 01:04:26,485
what with the anesthesia,
I slept a great deal...
954
01:04:27,740 --> 01:04:31,830
I remember vaguely thinking
I was married to Olivia Hutton.
955
01:04:33,287 --> 01:04:34,957
I remember us
sharing a bedroom,
956
01:04:35,039 --> 01:04:36,959
of me going off to work,
957
01:04:37,041 --> 01:04:39,131
an argument
we had over dinner,
958
01:04:39,502 --> 01:04:43,052
of a long drive
through a series of small towns,
959
01:04:43,714 --> 01:04:45,424
and then us reaching
the ocean,
960
01:04:45,841 --> 01:04:47,841
and a cabin by the ocean.
961
01:04:49,011 --> 01:04:51,101
It's strange, being dead,
962
01:04:51,180 --> 01:04:54,140
as I am now and have been
for I don't know how long...
963
01:04:55,101 --> 01:04:58,061
"if" now' can be said to mean
anything any longer...
964
01:04:59,188 --> 01:05:02,318
that I remember those dreams
as accurately as anything
965
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,900
I actually experienced in reality.
966
01:05:08,614 --> 01:05:09,914
Good morning.
967
01:05:12,326 --> 01:05:14,446
You're in the hospital, son.
968
01:05:14,537 --> 01:05:17,867
You had your appendix removed. Just
in the nick of time, the doctors say.
969
01:05:18,916 --> 01:05:20,996
I had my what?
970
01:05:21,085 --> 01:05:22,665
Your appendix out.
971
01:05:22,753 --> 01:05:25,973
Your dean, from the college, Mr.
Caudwell, was just now here.
972
01:05:26,048 --> 01:05:28,508
I sent him home -
didn't want to wake you.
973
01:05:28,592 --> 01:05:31,142
He's called your parents.
They know you're fine.
974
01:05:31,220 --> 01:05:33,890
Your mother will be here
in a few days.
975
01:05:34,724 --> 01:05:36,934
And you're to call your father.
But first...
976
01:05:38,352 --> 01:05:41,192
I need you to do some business for me.
Into this.
977
01:06:05,463 --> 01:06:09,133
(Olivia)
Dear Marcus, I can't see you.
978
01:06:09,216 --> 01:06:12,086
You'll only run away
from me again,
979
01:06:12,178 --> 01:06:16,468
this time when you see the scar
across the width of my wrist.
980
01:06:16,557 --> 01:06:20,477
Had you seen it the night of our date I
would have honestly explained it to you.
981
01:06:20,561 --> 01:06:23,651
I was prepared to do that.
982
01:06:23,731 --> 01:06:25,571
I didn't try to cover it up,
but as it happened
983
01:06:25,649 --> 01:06:27,189
you failed to notice it.
984
01:06:29,028 --> 01:06:31,238
It's a scar from a razor.
985
01:06:31,322 --> 01:06:33,452
I tried to kill myself.
986
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,620
That's why I went
for three months to the clinic.
987
01:06:37,703 --> 01:06:40,793
It was the Menninger Clinic
in Topeka, Kansas.
988
01:06:40,873 --> 01:06:44,173
The Menninger Sanitarium
and Psychopathic Hospital.
989
01:06:44,251 --> 01:06:45,961
There's the full name
for you.
990
01:06:47,463 --> 01:06:49,593
My father the doctor
knows people there.
991
01:06:53,052 --> 01:06:54,392
[faucet running]
992
01:06:55,721 --> 01:06:58,271
Where will you be able
to see these best?
993
01:06:58,349 --> 01:07:01,269
I see them best
in your two hands.
994
01:07:01,352 --> 01:07:04,812
I see them best with you
standing right there.
995
01:07:04,897 --> 01:07:07,267
Just stay like that
for the next couple of days.
996
01:07:08,484 --> 01:07:10,284
What are they giving you
to eat?
997
01:07:10,361 --> 01:07:14,951
Jell-O and ginger ale. Tomorrow
I start on the snails.
998
01:07:15,032 --> 01:07:16,662
You seem very chipper.
999
01:07:16,742 --> 01:07:18,292
I am.
1000
01:07:23,207 --> 01:07:24,327
Can I see?
1001
01:07:25,376 --> 01:07:27,376
My stitches?
1002
01:07:32,466 --> 01:07:33,586
Okay.
1003
01:07:39,473 --> 01:07:41,813
Is the wound draining?
1004
01:07:41,892 --> 01:07:44,522
Is that tube dangling
down there a drain?
1005
01:07:46,021 --> 01:07:48,521
I don't know.
I suppose so. Yeah.
1006
01:07:51,026 --> 01:07:52,946
What about the stitches?
1007
01:07:56,115 --> 01:07:57,945
Well, we're in a hospital.
1008
01:07:58,033 --> 01:08:01,373
What better place to be in
when they come undone?
1009
01:08:01,453 --> 01:08:03,623
You are odd, you know.
1010
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:07,420
Odder than I think you realize.
1011
01:08:08,919 --> 01:08:11,379
I'm always odd after I have
my appendix taken out.
1012
01:08:11,463 --> 01:08:15,093
Do you always get as big as this
after you have your appendix out?
1013
01:08:15,175 --> 01:08:16,755
[groans]
1014
01:08:16,844 --> 01:08:18,434
Never fails.
1015
01:08:21,682 --> 01:08:23,272
Of course we shouldn't.
1016
01:08:23,350 --> 01:08:26,310
We could both get thrown
out of school for this.
1017
01:08:26,395 --> 01:08:27,805
Then stop.
1018
01:08:37,031 --> 01:08:38,621
[loud groan]
There.
1019
01:08:40,659 --> 01:08:41,949
"I shot an arrow into the air.
1020
01:08:42,036 --> 01:08:43,946
It fell to earth I knew not where."
[door opens]
1021
01:08:47,958 --> 01:08:49,878
Excuse me.
[door slams]
1022
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:54,010
Oh, my God. What is
she going to do now?
1023
01:08:54,089 --> 01:08:55,089
Nothing.
1024
01:08:55,174 --> 01:08:56,344
What do you
mean "nothing"?
1025
01:08:56,425 --> 01:08:59,885
How can you be so poised
about all this?
1026
01:08:59,970 --> 01:09:01,930
One call to the dean,
and we're out.
1027
01:09:02,014 --> 01:09:03,684
How do you know
she's going to do nothing?
1028
01:09:03,766 --> 01:09:05,926
She's too embarrassed to.
1029
01:09:07,353 --> 01:09:10,063
I don't understand
how you can be so...
1030
01:09:10,147 --> 01:09:11,267
So what?
1031
01:09:11,398 --> 01:09:14,938
Under control. So expert.
[faucet running]
1032
01:09:15,027 --> 01:09:19,237
Oh, yes, Olivia the expert.
1033
01:09:19,323 --> 01:09:21,783
That's what they called me
at the Menninger Clinic.
1034
01:09:21,867 --> 01:09:23,157
But you are.
1035
01:09:23,827 --> 01:09:25,907
You really think so,
do you?
1036
01:09:27,498 --> 01:09:30,168
I, who have eight thousand
moods a minute,
1037
01:09:30,250 --> 01:09:33,630
whose every emotion is a tornado,
who can be thrown by a word,
1038
01:09:33,712 --> 01:09:36,512
by a syllable,
am 'under control'?
1039
01:09:39,093 --> 01:09:40,593
You are blind.
1040
01:09:52,272 --> 01:09:54,692
Do you hate me?
1041
01:09:55,484 --> 01:09:58,324
No. I don't hate you.
1042
01:10:00,364 --> 01:10:02,374
I think maybe you hate me.
1043
01:10:02,449 --> 01:10:03,989
Maybe you should.
1044
01:10:15,754 --> 01:10:17,264
Will you come tomorrow?
1045
01:10:21,552 --> 01:10:22,642
Yes.
1046
01:10:50,414 --> 01:10:53,334
I need to see you walk to the end
of the hall and back with this.
1047
01:10:53,417 --> 01:10:55,917
Then you can use
the bathroom yourself.
1048
01:11:15,397 --> 01:11:16,687
Marcus!
1049
01:11:18,108 --> 01:11:22,488
Oh, hey Sonny.
So Caudwell sent you?
1050
01:11:22,571 --> 01:11:25,371
Yeah. yeah. It's something we
do at the house, volunteer.
1051
01:11:25,449 --> 01:11:28,369
He said you gave the okay to go
into your room and get your books.
1052
01:11:28,452 --> 01:11:30,622
I basically grabbed
everything off the desk.
1053
01:11:30,704 --> 01:11:32,004
Quite a room
you got there.
1054
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:33,500
Yeah, it's deluxe.
[chuckle]
1055
01:11:34,833 --> 01:11:37,253
It was like
a medieval inquisition.
1056
01:11:37,336 --> 01:11:39,206
Except he was smiling
most of the time.
1057
01:11:39,296 --> 01:11:41,296
I think that's what annoyed me
the most.
1058
01:11:41,381 --> 01:11:43,511
You mind?
1059
01:11:43,592 --> 01:11:45,682
Yeah, dig in.
1060
01:11:47,137 --> 01:11:49,137
So you mixed it up
with old Dean Caudwell?
1061
01:11:49,223 --> 01:11:51,643
He's actually not such a bad
guy, he's just a blowhard.
1062
01:11:52,017 --> 01:11:56,307
He didn't make you move back in with that
moron Foxman and that queer Flusser, did he?
1063
01:11:56,438 --> 01:11:59,438
Huh? Uh, no.
See?
1064
01:11:59,525 --> 01:12:04,735
But then, he started grilling
me about my beliefs,
1065
01:12:04,822 --> 01:12:08,082
my social life, my principles.
Mainly about Chapel.
1066
01:12:08,158 --> 01:12:11,698
I tried to explain to him
as clearly as I could,
1067
01:12:11,787 --> 01:12:13,997
as rationally as I could,
1068
01:12:14,081 --> 01:12:17,581
why the chapel requirement
is unjust.
1069
01:12:17,668 --> 01:12:22,668
I don't... I don't know how you
and your fraternity brothers
1070
01:12:22,756 --> 01:12:25,426
take all that Christ stuff,
week in week out?
1071
01:12:25,509 --> 01:12:27,429
Chapel?
Who goes to chapel?
1072
01:12:27,511 --> 01:12:30,240
You pay somebody to go for you and you
never have to get anywhere near chapel.
1073
01:12:30,264 --> 01:12:32,224
Is that what you do?
What else would I do?
1074
01:12:32,307 --> 01:12:34,477
You know, I went a couple
of times freshman year.
1075
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:36,560
They had a rabbi once,
so I had to go then.
1076
01:12:36,645 --> 01:12:39,895
Otherwise it's Caudwell
and Donehower
1077
01:12:39,982 --> 01:12:43,992
and all the other great
Ohio spiritual leaders.
1078
01:12:44,069 --> 01:12:47,159
So how much do you pay?
1079
01:12:47,239 --> 01:12:49,869
For a proxy? Two bucks a pop.
That's nothing.
1080
01:12:49,950 --> 01:12:51,370
That's not nothing.
1081
01:12:51,451 --> 01:12:54,201
Look. Figure you spend 15
minutes getting off the hill
1082
01:12:54,288 --> 01:12:55,538
and over to the church.
1083
01:12:55,622 --> 01:12:58,712
An hour of subjecting
yourself to chapel,
1084
01:12:58,834 --> 01:13:01,804
and knowing you, you're seething
with rage the entire time, Mm-hm.
1085
01:13:01,879 --> 01:13:04,419
You're probably another half
hour afterwards still seething.
1086
01:13:04,506 --> 01:13:08,836
That's a hundred and
five minutes, times forty,
1087
01:13:08,927 --> 01:13:09,967
that's...
1088
01:13:10,053 --> 01:13:12,643
Four thousand two hundred minutes
that's 70 hours.
1089
01:13:12,723 --> 01:13:15,483
Yeah. Right.
And that's not nothing!
1090
01:13:15,559 --> 01:13:20,019
[sigh]
Alright. So how does it work?
1091
01:13:20,105 --> 01:13:23,685
Well, the guy you hire takes the card
the usher hands him at the door,
1092
01:13:23,775 --> 01:13:26,815
and when he hands it back at the
end he's signed your name on it.
1093
01:13:26,904 --> 01:13:30,324
That's it. You think a handwriting
specialist pores over each card
1094
01:13:30,407 --> 01:13:31,827
back where they keep
the records?
1095
01:13:31,909 --> 01:13:34,239
No. All you have to do
is pay somebody.
1096
01:13:34,369 --> 01:13:36,459
Yeah, but who? Plenty of
brothers willing to do it.
1097
01:13:36,538 --> 01:13:39,328
And it's work. I'll find
somebody if you want me to.
1098
01:13:39,416 --> 01:13:41,666
I can even try to find someone
for less than two bucks.
1099
01:13:41,752 --> 01:13:44,212
And if this person shoots off his mouth?
Then what?
1100
01:13:44,296 --> 01:13:45,956
You're out of here
on your ass.
1101
01:13:46,048 --> 01:13:48,088
No one would do that.
They'd be out, too.
1102
01:13:48,175 --> 01:13:50,005
Look, it's a business,
Marcus.
1103
01:13:50,093 --> 01:13:53,563
Clearly Dean Caudwell
knows what's going on?
1104
01:13:53,639 --> 01:13:55,599
Caudwell's the biggest
Christer around.
1105
01:13:55,682 --> 01:13:59,312
He couldn't imagine why people
don't love listening to Donehower
1106
01:13:59,394 --> 01:14:02,984
instead of having the hour free every
Wednesday to jack off in their rooms.
1107
01:14:03,065 --> 01:14:08,025
That was a big mistake you made,
bringing up chapel with Caudwell.
1108
01:14:08,111 --> 01:14:10,741
Hawes D. Caudwell
was the idol of this place.
1109
01:14:10,822 --> 01:14:12,662
Winesburg's greatest
halfback in football,
1110
01:14:12,741 --> 01:14:14,451
greatest slugger in baseball,
1111
01:14:14,534 --> 01:14:17,664
greatest exponent on earth
of all things Winesburg tradition.
1112
01:14:17,746 --> 01:14:21,246
Meet this guy head-on about this
stuff and he'll make you into mush.
1113
01:14:21,333 --> 01:14:23,293
You go around
guys like him, Marcus.
1114
01:14:23,377 --> 01:14:26,507
You keep your mouth shut,
your ass covered, smile...
1115
01:14:26,588 --> 01:14:29,048
and then
you do whatever you like.
1116
01:14:29,132 --> 01:14:33,432
Look, don't... don't take
everything so seriously.
1117
01:14:33,512 --> 01:14:35,892
You might find this is not
the worst place in the world
1118
01:14:35,973 --> 01:14:38,353
to spend the next four
years of your life.
1119
01:14:38,433 --> 01:14:39,643
At least you're not in Korea.
1120
01:14:39,726 --> 01:14:44,356
Plus... you've already located
the Blowjob Queen of 1951.
1121
01:14:44,481 --> 01:14:46,691
That's a start. I don't know
what you're talking about.
1122
01:14:46,775 --> 01:14:49,395
You mean she didn't blow you?
You are unique.
1123
01:14:49,486 --> 01:14:52,236
I still don't know
what you are referring to.
1124
01:14:52,322 --> 01:14:54,282
Olivia Hutton.
1125
01:14:54,366 --> 01:14:57,406
Look, blowjobs are at a premium
in north-central Ohio,
1126
01:14:57,494 --> 01:15:00,624
as you can imagine.
News of Olivia has traveled fast.
1127
01:15:01,331 --> 01:15:03,881
Don't look so puzzled.
1128
01:15:03,959 --> 01:15:05,459
Uh, I don't believe this.
1129
01:15:05,544 --> 01:15:07,714
What's not to believe?
Hm?
1130
01:15:07,796 --> 01:15:10,506
She sounds like a bit of a nutcase.
There's nothing wrong with that.
1131
01:15:10,590 --> 01:15:12,590
I wish there were
more of them around.
1132
01:15:12,676 --> 01:15:16,886
I'll pick you up on Saturday. That's
when you're getting out of here?
1133
01:15:16,972 --> 01:15:19,642
You okay? Do you want
me to call the nurse?
1134
01:15:19,725 --> 01:15:23,685
No, no, I'm fine. I'm just in a
little bit of pain. I'm okay.
1135
01:15:25,313 --> 01:15:28,863
Yeah. Okay.
I'll see you Saturday.
1136
01:15:29,860 --> 01:15:31,700
I'll set you up
with a cot at the house.
1137
01:15:32,863 --> 01:15:33,863
[door closes]
1138
01:15:55,385 --> 01:15:59,965
[moans]
1139
01:16:11,902 --> 01:16:14,572
Ah!
1140
01:16:38,261 --> 01:16:41,641
Now, I want you
to tell me everything.
1141
01:16:42,891 --> 01:16:45,351
Everything?
Everything about what?
1142
01:16:46,436 --> 01:16:49,436
About you.
I want to learn all about you.
1143
01:16:49,523 --> 01:16:51,783
I want to know
what made you you.
1144
01:16:54,277 --> 01:16:57,277
What about
what made you you?
1145
01:16:57,364 --> 01:16:58,874
You first.
1146
01:16:58,949 --> 01:17:01,369
[groan]
[faucet running]
1147
01:17:01,451 --> 01:17:07,581
Well, I guess the shop
made me, if anything did.
1148
01:17:07,666 --> 01:17:12,666
Though what was made exactly
I can't say I entirely know anymore.
1149
01:17:12,754 --> 01:17:17,224
I've been in a very confused state
of mind ever since I hit this place.
1150
01:17:17,300 --> 01:17:18,510
Thank you.
1151
01:17:18,593 --> 01:17:23,313
It made you hard-working.
It gave you integrity.
1152
01:17:23,849 --> 01:17:26,309
Oh, did it?
The butcher shop?
1153
01:17:26,393 --> 01:17:27,983
Absolutely.
1154
01:17:30,647 --> 01:17:34,987
Well... let me tell you
about my father.
1155
01:17:35,068 --> 01:17:38,778
Let me tell you about what he
gave me in the way of integrity.
1156
01:17:38,864 --> 01:17:39,994
We'll start with him.
1157
01:17:41,283 --> 01:17:43,873
Oh, good.
Story time.
1158
01:17:44,578 --> 01:17:47,578
Well, every week,
the fat man
1159
01:17:47,664 --> 01:17:50,884
would come into the store
and he'd pick up all the fat.
1160
01:17:50,959 --> 01:17:53,459
And the fat itself was stored
in a garbage pail.
1161
01:17:53,545 --> 01:17:54,915
After the fat man came,
1162
01:17:55,005 --> 01:17:59,045
I would take this can out front
of the store and I'd wash it out.
1163
01:17:59,134 --> 01:18:02,434
So one day one of the pretty girls
from my class came up to me
1164
01:18:02,512 --> 01:18:05,522
"and said," I stopped
at the bus stop
1165
01:18:05,599 --> 01:18:07,639
across the street
from your father's store
1166
01:18:07,726 --> 01:18:11,266
"and I saw you cleaning
the garbage cans."
1167
01:18:11,354 --> 01:18:15,984
So, I went up to my father and I said
"Boss,"I always called him "Boss,"
1168
01:18:16,067 --> 01:18:19,907
I said, "Boss, I can't clean
the garbage cans anymore."
1169
01:18:19,988 --> 01:18:21,568
You were ashamed?
1170
01:18:21,656 --> 01:18:24,276
No. No, you see,
that's what he thought.
1171
01:18:24,367 --> 01:18:25,737
To me, it was practical.
1172
01:18:26,620 --> 01:18:30,920
How am I supposed to ask them out,
if they know that I clean the cans?
1173
01:18:30,999 --> 01:18:32,129
Well, you asked me out.
1174
01:18:32,209 --> 01:18:34,499
But you didn't see me
clean the garbage cans.
1175
01:18:34,586 --> 01:18:35,876
I could have guessed.
1176
01:18:36,796 --> 01:18:39,796
So what did your father say?
Did he let you off the hook?
1177
01:18:39,883 --> 01:18:42,763
No. He said,
"What, you're ashamed?"
1178
01:18:43,845 --> 01:18:46,885
What are you ashamed of? All you
have to be ashamed of is stealing.
1179
01:18:46,973 --> 01:18:48,063
Nothing else.
1180
01:18:49,184 --> 01:18:50,604
"Clean the cans."
1181
01:18:52,729 --> 01:18:54,769
He could have told
Big Mendelson to do it.
1182
01:18:54,898 --> 01:18:56,608
Big Mendelson?
Mm-hm.
1183
01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,110
He worked there too
until things slowed down.
1184
01:19:02,322 --> 01:19:04,072
Boy, did he have
a nasty mouth on him.
1185
01:19:04,157 --> 01:19:06,867
He belonged in the back,
trust me, in the refrigerator.
1186
01:19:06,952 --> 01:19:10,042
I thought he was hilarious,
but we had to let him go.
1187
01:19:11,081 --> 01:19:13,581
What did Big Mendelson do?
1188
01:19:14,251 --> 01:19:15,881
Well, on Thursdays,
1189
01:19:15,961 --> 01:19:18,131
my father, he would come back
from the chicken market,
1190
01:19:18,213 --> 01:19:19,673
he'd dump all the
chickens in a pile
1191
01:19:19,756 --> 01:19:23,466
and people would come in and pick whatever
chicken they wanted for the weekend.
1192
01:19:23,551 --> 01:19:27,011
Anyway, this one woman,
Mrs. Sklon,
1193
01:19:27,097 --> 01:19:30,517
she would always come in,
she would pick up a chicken
1194
01:19:31,476 --> 01:19:34,976
and she would smell its mouth
and then smell its rear end.
1195
01:19:35,939 --> 01:19:39,069
It got to the point that one day Big
Mendelson couldn't contain himself.
1196
01:19:39,150 --> 01:19:41,700
He said, "Mrs. Sklon",
1197
01:19:41,778 --> 01:19:44,198
could you pass
that inspection?"
1198
01:19:44,281 --> 01:19:47,661
I swear I've never seen anybody
get more mad in my life.
1199
01:19:47,742 --> 01:19:50,002
She picked up a knife,
tried to stab the big guy.
1200
01:19:50,078 --> 01:19:52,078
So that's why your father
had to let him go?
1201
01:19:52,163 --> 01:19:56,043
Well, he had to. He had to. By then
he said lots of things like that.
1202
01:19:56,751 --> 01:19:59,251
But about Mrs. Sklon,
Big Mendelson was right.
1203
01:19:59,337 --> 01:20:01,877
She was no picnic
not even for me,
1204
01:20:01,965 --> 01:20:04,715
and I was the nicest
boy in the world.
1205
01:20:04,801 --> 01:20:06,591
Oh, I never doubted that.
1206
01:20:06,678 --> 01:20:09,258
For better or worse
that's what I was.
1207
01:20:09,347 --> 01:20:11,977
Am. Are.
1208
01:20:12,058 --> 01:20:14,308
You had humble origins.
Like Abe Lincoln.
1209
01:20:14,394 --> 01:20:18,444
Honest Marcus. Working side by
side, every day with your father.
1210
01:20:18,523 --> 01:20:23,783
He was, mm, he used to be,
something great. That's true.
1211
01:20:24,487 --> 01:20:25,697
Used to be?
1212
01:20:27,073 --> 01:20:29,243
He is.
1213
01:20:29,326 --> 01:20:31,366
So what about your father?
1214
01:20:31,453 --> 01:20:35,083
He's a doctor.
What kind of medicine?
1215
01:20:35,165 --> 01:20:37,575
You ever see him
working, at his office?
1216
01:20:37,667 --> 01:20:40,957
My father?
There's nothing to tell.
1217
01:20:41,046 --> 01:20:42,256
Nothing?
1218
01:20:42,339 --> 01:20:44,969
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
1219
01:20:45,050 --> 01:20:46,630
Surely there's something.
1220
01:20:46,718 --> 01:20:50,008
Marcus... practice tact.
1221
01:21:00,523 --> 01:21:02,653
You know, I can give
you a recommendation.
1222
01:21:04,319 --> 01:21:06,149
For what?
1223
01:21:06,237 --> 01:21:09,657
A summer job.
At Anker's Flower Shop.
1224
01:21:09,741 --> 01:21:10,951
You're a natural.
1225
01:21:24,881 --> 01:21:26,761
[knocking at door]
Hm?
1226
01:21:28,843 --> 01:21:30,263
You have a guest.
1227
01:21:34,557 --> 01:21:35,727
Markie!
1228
01:21:41,147 --> 01:21:42,977
I don't know what it is.
1229
01:21:43,066 --> 01:21:45,396
Is he sick?
Does he have something?
1230
01:21:47,278 --> 01:21:49,568
Markie, I think
he's losing his mind.
1231
01:21:50,698 --> 01:21:53,618
You know how he was with you on
the phone about the operation?
1232
01:21:54,619 --> 01:21:58,669
That's how he is with everyone,
about everything, all the time!
1233
01:21:58,748 --> 01:22:01,498
At the store, he's yelling
at the customers.
1234
01:22:01,584 --> 01:22:04,674
And my God, in the car,
in the truck,
1235
01:22:04,754 --> 01:22:07,094
he's been driving around
Essex County all his life
1236
01:22:07,173 --> 01:22:10,183
and suddenly everyone on the
road is a maniac except for him.
1237
01:22:10,260 --> 01:22:13,760
The horn, he honks the horn from
the second we leave the driveway.
1238
01:22:15,306 --> 01:22:17,926
We're losing customers, Markie.
1239
01:22:18,017 --> 01:22:20,647
They all go to the supermarket now,
and who can blame them.
1240
01:22:20,728 --> 01:22:24,478
People call, I take their
orders, make some conversation.
1241
01:22:24,566 --> 01:22:26,526
He used to like that I
talked to the customers.
1242
01:22:26,609 --> 01:22:28,319
Now he grabs the phone
from my hand,
1243
01:22:28,403 --> 01:22:30,613
"You want to talk to my wife,
you call at night,
1244
01:22:30,697 --> 01:22:33,027
not during business hours,"
and he hangs up.
1245
01:22:34,159 --> 01:22:36,119
What's happened, Markie?
1246
01:22:37,495 --> 01:22:41,875
Have I been living all these
years with a time bomb?
1247
01:22:41,958 --> 01:22:43,878
All I know is that...
1248
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:47,800
something has made my husband into a
different person, into a monster.
1249
01:22:50,842 --> 01:22:52,012
You should have told me, Mom.
1250
01:22:52,093 --> 01:22:54,683
You should have told me how bad
it was getting. I'm sorry.
1251
01:22:54,762 --> 01:22:58,392
Why should I bother you?
At school, with your studies?
1252
01:23:00,602 --> 01:23:02,902
Take him to a doctor.
Take him to Dr. Shildkret.
1253
01:23:03,730 --> 01:23:07,820
Maybe he can give him
something to calm down.
1254
01:23:09,068 --> 01:23:11,358
He won't go.
He refuses to go.
1255
01:23:11,446 --> 01:23:14,986
There's nothing wrong with him. It's the
rest of the world that's in the wrong.
1256
01:23:15,074 --> 01:23:16,584
Then you see Shildkret.
1257
01:23:16,659 --> 01:23:18,749
Mom, you're as strong
as a person can be
1258
01:23:18,828 --> 01:23:20,708
and you've become a wreck.
He's killing you.
1259
01:23:20,788 --> 01:23:22,958
Oh, Markie. Darling.
1260
01:23:24,083 --> 01:23:27,553
Should I?
Can I possibly?
1261
01:23:29,047 --> 01:23:31,837
I came all this way
to ask you.
1262
01:23:32,217 --> 01:23:34,507
You're the only one
I can ask about this.
1263
01:23:36,513 --> 01:23:40,063
Could you possibly what?
What?
1264
01:23:40,141 --> 01:23:41,941
I can't say the word.
1265
01:23:42,018 --> 01:23:45,608
What word?
1266
01:23:45,688 --> 01:23:46,768
Divorce.
1267
01:23:48,691 --> 01:23:51,441
Oh, Ma.
You're in a state of shock.
1268
01:23:51,528 --> 01:23:52,948
You don't know
what you're saying.
1269
01:23:53,029 --> 01:23:56,659
You've been married
to him for 25 years.
1270
01:23:56,741 --> 01:23:59,371
You love him.
I don't!
1271
01:24:00,328 --> 01:24:01,578
I hate him!
1272
01:24:02,664 --> 01:24:06,174
I sit in the car as he's
driving and screaming at me
1273
01:24:06,251 --> 01:24:09,671
and I hate him and loathe him
from the bottom of my heart!
1274
01:24:09,754 --> 01:24:11,264
That is not true.
1275
01:24:11,339 --> 01:24:14,629
Even if it seems so,
it's not a permanent condition.
1276
01:24:14,717 --> 01:24:22,347
Just see Dr. Shildkret, please,
at least as a start.
1277
01:24:22,433 --> 01:24:23,693
Do it for me.
1278
01:24:25,562 --> 01:24:26,812
I'm seeing a lawyer.
1279
01:24:26,896 --> 01:24:28,016
What?
1280
01:24:28,106 --> 01:24:30,976
Yes.
I've already seen him.
1281
01:24:32,110 --> 01:24:34,110
I have an attorney.
1282
01:24:54,465 --> 01:24:57,335
So you met in American,
you said.
1283
01:24:57,427 --> 01:25:00,217
American History to 1865.
1284
01:25:00,305 --> 01:25:03,765
I'm also taking Principles
of American Government,
1285
01:25:03,850 --> 01:25:05,770
but Olivia is
just in American History.
1286
01:25:05,852 --> 01:25:09,022
That's why she brought the textbook.
So I could study.
1287
01:25:09,105 --> 01:25:12,775
Your son, Mrs. Messner,
is a star student.
1288
01:25:12,859 --> 01:25:16,609
He always asks the most
interesting questions in class.
1289
01:25:17,739 --> 01:25:20,529
I wouldn't be surprised
if Professor Sundquist
1290
01:25:20,617 --> 01:25:22,827
weren't a bit intimidated
by Marcus.
1291
01:25:22,910 --> 01:25:25,200
Marcus has always been
a straight-A student.
1292
01:25:25,288 --> 01:25:28,078
It's because of that he has
been awarded the scholarship.
1293
01:25:28,166 --> 01:25:30,746
And you, Miss Hutton,
do you...
1294
01:25:30,835 --> 01:25:33,455
are you enjoying
your studies?
1295
01:25:36,966 --> 01:25:38,546
I enjoy the books, yes.
1296
01:25:39,844 --> 01:25:41,764
I'm going to be
a French Literature major.
1297
01:25:41,846 --> 01:25:44,096
French literature?
1298
01:25:44,182 --> 01:25:46,392
Is this something of which
your parents approve?
1299
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,100
Well, my father is
a very practical man.
1300
01:25:51,147 --> 01:25:54,937
But he hasn't suggested any alternative,
so I have to assume that he believes,
1301
01:25:55,026 --> 01:25:58,696
from a practical perspective, that it would
be a waste of his time to think about it.
1302
01:25:59,739 --> 01:26:01,819
And your mother,
Miss Hutton.
1303
01:26:01,908 --> 01:26:04,738
Oh. My mother
isn't very practical at all.
1304
01:26:04,827 --> 01:26:07,077
But she has visited Paris,
and loved it,
1305
01:26:07,163 --> 01:26:10,633
so I think I should have her
vote if it should come to it.
1306
01:26:10,708 --> 01:26:17,008
It sounds like you have a very democratic
household. That's very American.
1307
01:26:17,090 --> 01:26:19,260
Yes we are - American.
1308
01:26:20,343 --> 01:26:22,933
Though as a student
of American civilization, Marcus,
1309
01:26:23,012 --> 01:26:26,852
you must remember how Benjamin
Franklin once defined democracy?
1310
01:26:26,933 --> 01:26:31,353
Democracy, he said, is two wolves and a
lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
1311
01:27:06,764 --> 01:27:08,434
[bell tinkles]
1312
01:28:20,296 --> 01:28:22,006
Ma.
1313
01:28:22,089 --> 01:28:24,589
Marcus, I won't divorce him.
1314
01:28:27,637 --> 01:28:31,177
I'll bear him.
I'll do all I can to help him.
1315
01:28:33,601 --> 01:28:36,401
I'm sorry I even allowed myself
to have such thoughts.
1316
01:28:36,479 --> 01:28:38,309
I'm sorry I told them to you.
1317
01:28:39,565 --> 01:28:42,395
The way that I did it, here at this
hospital, with you just out of bed
1318
01:28:42,485 --> 01:28:47,155
and starting to walk around on your
own, that wasn't right. I apologize.
1319
01:28:48,991 --> 01:28:50,331
I wasn't thinking of you.
1320
01:28:52,328 --> 01:28:55,578
Marcus, you appear so strong,
1321
01:28:55,665 --> 01:28:59,415
you are in so many ways,
that I forget you are a boy,
1322
01:28:59,502 --> 01:29:01,632
a very sensitive boy.
1323
01:29:02,713 --> 01:29:05,173
A boy who loves
and honors his father.
1324
01:29:08,511 --> 01:29:11,851
You can cry, Markie.
I've seen you cry before.
1325
01:29:13,850 --> 01:29:15,770
I know I can.
I know...
1326
01:29:15,852 --> 01:29:18,562
I just don't want to.
1327
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:28,360
Thank you. Thank you, Ma.
This is a great relief to me.
1328
01:29:31,075 --> 01:29:33,905
I couldn't imagine him
living all alone...
1329
01:29:33,995 --> 01:29:36,155
it was unimaginable.
1330
01:29:36,247 --> 01:29:37,867
Don't imagine it.
1331
01:29:42,628 --> 01:29:45,508
But now I must ask
for something in return.
1332
01:29:45,590 --> 01:29:48,340
Because something
is unimaginable to me.
1333
01:29:51,721 --> 01:29:53,561
I never asked
anything of you before.
1334
01:29:54,307 --> 01:29:55,927
I never asked
because I never had to.
1335
01:29:56,017 --> 01:29:58,807
Because you are perfect
where sons are concerned.
1336
01:29:58,895 --> 01:30:01,645
All you've ever wanted to be
is a boy who does well.
1337
01:30:01,731 --> 01:30:04,361
You have been the best son
a mother could have.
1338
01:30:05,276 --> 01:30:08,146
But I am going to ask you to have
nothing more to do with Miss Hutton.
1339
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:12,780
Because for you to be with
her is unimaginable for me.
1340
01:30:12,867 --> 01:30:14,617
[clears throat]
1341
01:30:14,744 --> 01:30:17,164
Ma... Markie, you are
here to be a student
1342
01:30:17,246 --> 01:30:20,706
and to study the Supreme Court
and to prepare to go to law school.
1343
01:30:20,791 --> 01:30:22,541
You are here so someday
you will become
1344
01:30:22,627 --> 01:30:25,047
a person in the community
that other people look up to
1345
01:30:25,129 --> 01:30:27,629
and that they come to for help.
1346
01:30:27,715 --> 01:30:30,005
You are here so you don't
have to be a Messner
1347
01:30:30,092 --> 01:30:32,802
and work in a butcher shop
for the rest of your life.
1348
01:30:32,887 --> 01:30:35,307
You are not here
to look for trouble
1349
01:30:35,389 --> 01:30:38,059
with a girl who has taken a
razor and slit her wrists.
1350
01:30:38,142 --> 01:30:39,392
Wrist. She slit one wrist.
1351
01:30:39,477 --> 01:30:40,727
One is enough.
1352
01:30:42,355 --> 01:30:45,355
We have only two,
and one is too much.
1353
01:30:46,442 --> 01:30:47,992
Ma, you don't understand...
1354
01:30:48,110 --> 01:30:49,990
You think I don't understand?
You don't.
1355
01:30:50,863 --> 01:30:53,243
You don't understand. Markie,
I will stay with your father
1356
01:30:53,324 --> 01:30:55,124
But for this
I am offering a deal.
1357
01:30:56,243 --> 01:31:00,293
Markie, the world is full of young
women who have not slit any wrists -
1358
01:31:00,373 --> 01:31:03,383
who have slit nothing.
They exist by the millions.
1359
01:31:03,459 --> 01:31:05,589
Find one of them.
1360
01:31:05,670 --> 01:31:07,760
She can be a Gentile,
she can be anything.
1361
01:31:08,422 --> 01:31:11,632
This is 1951. You don't live in
the old world. Why should you.
1362
01:31:12,343 --> 01:31:14,353
Date anyone you want,
marry anyone you want,
1363
01:31:14,428 --> 01:31:16,348
do whatever you want
with whoever you choose...
1364
01:31:16,430 --> 01:31:19,810
as long as she's never put
a razor to herself.
1365
01:31:19,892 --> 01:31:22,272
A girl so wounded
as to do such a thing
1366
01:31:22,353 --> 01:31:26,653
will wipe out everything before
your life has even begun.
1367
01:31:26,732 --> 01:31:29,032
Ma, you don't understand.
1368
01:31:29,110 --> 01:31:31,280
It's not as serious
a relationship as you think.
1369
01:31:31,362 --> 01:31:33,242
Serious?
She is serious for you,
1370
01:31:33,322 --> 01:31:36,282
because she is suffering,
she is weak.
1371
01:31:36,367 --> 01:31:39,287
And weak people, Markie,
weak people are not harmless.
1372
01:31:39,996 --> 01:31:41,656
Their weakness
is their strength.
1373
01:31:41,747 --> 01:31:44,747
A person so unstable
is a menace to you, Markie.
1374
01:31:44,834 --> 01:31:49,264
And she is a beautiful young
woman, she looks like a goddess.
1375
01:31:50,381 --> 01:31:52,841
Obviously she is
well brought up.
1376
01:31:53,467 --> 01:31:56,757
Though maybe there is more to her
upbringing than meets the eye.
1377
01:31:56,846 --> 01:32:01,226
You never know about those things,
about what goes on in people's houses.
1378
01:32:01,308 --> 01:32:04,848
When the child goes wrong,
look to the family.
1379
01:32:06,522 --> 01:32:09,942
Regardless, my heart
goes out to her.
1380
01:32:10,401 --> 01:32:12,781
I pray for her.
I have nothing against her.
1381
01:32:14,697 --> 01:32:17,367
But you, you are my son...
1382
01:32:19,201 --> 01:32:21,661
and my only child.
1383
01:32:22,496 --> 01:32:24,116
And I am your mother,
1384
01:32:24,206 --> 01:32:27,876
who will, who must,
do anything for you.
1385
01:32:28,711 --> 01:32:30,171
Do you understand?
1386
01:32:30,254 --> 01:32:32,264
[sigh]
1387
01:32:37,386 --> 01:32:38,716
I understand.
1388
01:32:40,139 --> 01:32:41,639
I understand.
1389
01:32:41,724 --> 01:32:45,394
And that means you will promise, no
matter the tears, the pleas from her,
1390
01:32:45,478 --> 01:32:50,478
no matter, you promise,
this will end now.
1391
01:33:02,244 --> 01:33:03,704
You promise?
1392
01:33:05,706 --> 01:33:09,706
I promise...
1393
01:33:09,794 --> 01:33:10,924
I promise.
1394
01:33:15,549 --> 01:33:17,379
(Sundquist)
By late 1747,
1395
01:33:17,468 --> 01:33:19,888
Celeron was marching
with over 200 French troops
1396
01:33:19,970 --> 01:33:22,100
and a party of Indians
down through Pennsylvania.
1397
01:33:22,973 --> 01:33:25,853
And then Southwest,
over here to the Ohio country,
1398
01:33:25,935 --> 01:33:29,015
reaching Pickawillany where the
Ohio and Miami rivers meet
1399
01:33:29,105 --> 01:33:34,355
and where Celeron engaged with the
Miami Indian chief known as Old Briton
1400
01:33:34,443 --> 01:33:38,413
who he threatened for continuing
to trade with the British.
1401
01:33:43,661 --> 01:33:45,701
(Anker) I have a wonderful
weekend planned.
1402
01:33:45,788 --> 01:33:47,618
Going to Kenyon
with some brothers.
1403
01:33:47,706 --> 01:33:49,518
That prick Harding just
sprang another paper on us.
1404
01:33:49,542 --> 01:33:50,752
There goes my weekend.
1405
01:33:50,835 --> 01:33:52,835
Harding? What are you
complaining about?
1406
01:33:52,920 --> 01:33:56,550
[conversation continues]
1407
01:33:56,632 --> 01:33:59,892
(Anker) Had it last year. I
have it upstairs somewhere.
1408
01:33:59,969 --> 01:34:06,389
[conversation continues]
1409
01:34:06,475 --> 01:34:08,555
(Kessler) That'd be great.
You know I still owe you
1410
01:34:08,644 --> 01:34:10,404
for that Nestrick paper
from last year.
1411
01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:12,229
(Anker)
No problem, anytime.
1412
01:34:12,314 --> 01:34:15,114
Sonny says you're in the
market for a proxy at chapel.
1413
01:34:15,192 --> 01:34:17,612
I got it all out of the way
by the end of sophomore year,
1414
01:34:17,695 --> 01:34:20,565
and I just polished off
Kessler's last three,
1415
01:34:20,656 --> 01:34:22,446
so I'm a free agent.
1416
01:34:22,533 --> 01:34:24,663
Sonny says
you're on scholarship.
1417
01:34:24,743 --> 01:34:28,913
I'll cut my fee
to a buck and a half. Deal?
1418
01:34:28,998 --> 01:34:30,328
Sure.
1419
01:34:32,626 --> 01:34:36,666
By definition, the slope
is given by m,
1420
01:34:37,798 --> 01:34:41,258
which is the change in y
over the change in x,
1421
01:34:41,343 --> 01:34:46,973
or delta y by delta x.
1422
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:14,920
(Marcus on phone) Yes, I'm trying to
reach Miss Olivia Hutton? Is she there?
1423
01:35:17,046 --> 01:35:21,756
Uh-huh. Yes, that's me.
I left word yesterday.
1424
01:35:23,552 --> 01:35:24,802
I know.
1425
01:35:27,264 --> 01:35:28,974
What was that?
1426
01:35:31,560 --> 01:35:32,900
Home?
1427
01:35:32,978 --> 01:35:35,858
You mean she's visiting home?
1428
01:35:37,858 --> 01:35:39,528
[dial tone
over phone]
1429
01:35:56,961 --> 01:35:59,211
Is Dean Caudwell free?
If he has a minute.
1430
01:35:59,296 --> 01:36:03,006
Why don't you have a seat and
we'll find out if he can see you.
1431
01:36:23,946 --> 01:36:26,566
(secretary) Dean Caudwell,
Marcus Messner is here.
1432
01:36:26,657 --> 01:36:28,027
(dean)
Bring him in.
1433
01:36:40,796 --> 01:36:42,006
You look well, Marcus.
1434
01:36:42,589 --> 01:36:45,759
Maybe lost a pound or two
but otherwise you look fine.
1435
01:36:46,969 --> 01:36:49,599
Dean Caudwell...
1436
01:36:49,680 --> 01:36:51,560
I don't know
who else to turn to
1437
01:36:51,640 --> 01:36:54,350
about something
that is very important to me.
1438
01:36:55,894 --> 01:36:57,774
I didn't mean to throw up here,
you know.
1439
01:36:57,855 --> 01:37:01,065
You fell ill and you were
sick and that's that.
1440
01:37:02,109 --> 01:37:05,319
Lucky we got you
to the hospital in time.
1441
01:37:06,196 --> 01:37:07,736
What can I do for you?
1442
01:37:11,243 --> 01:37:13,203
I'm here
about a female student.
1443
01:37:14,747 --> 01:37:19,497
She was in my history class.
And now she is gone.
1444
01:37:19,585 --> 01:37:22,585
I told you I'd been on one date,
it had been with her.
1445
01:37:22,671 --> 01:37:25,801
Her name
is Olivia Hutton.
1446
01:37:25,883 --> 01:37:28,393
Now she's disappeared.
1447
01:37:28,469 --> 01:37:30,259
I would like to know
what happened to her.
1448
01:37:30,346 --> 01:37:33,596
I'm afraid something
terrible happened.
1449
01:37:33,682 --> 01:37:35,852
And I'm afraid I may have had
something to do with it.
1450
01:37:36,894 --> 01:37:39,614
What is it you think you did
that makes you think this?
1451
01:37:39,688 --> 01:37:43,188
[sigh]
1452
01:37:43,275 --> 01:37:44,775
I took her out on a date.
1453
01:37:44,860 --> 01:37:48,860
Did something happen on that
date you want to tell me about?
1454
01:37:50,366 --> 01:37:51,486
No, sir.
1455
01:37:53,035 --> 01:37:57,455
Dean... I'm 'Dean'
to you, please.
1456
01:37:57,539 --> 01:38:01,289
The answer is no,
Dean Caudwell.
1457
01:38:01,377 --> 01:38:03,667
Nothing happened that I would
like to tell you about.
1458
01:38:06,715 --> 01:38:08,755
Did you impregnate
this young lady, Marcus?
1459
01:38:08,842 --> 01:38:10,682
What?! No!
1460
01:38:12,054 --> 01:38:14,394
You sure?
Absolutely sure.
1461
01:38:14,515 --> 01:38:18,265
She wasn't pregnant as
far as you know? No.
1462
01:38:18,352 --> 01:38:21,442
You didn't force
yourself on Olivia Hutton?
1463
01:38:21,522 --> 01:38:24,272
No, sir. I did not force
myself on her.
1464
01:38:26,902 --> 01:38:29,452
She came and visited you in your
hospital room, did she not?
1465
01:38:29,530 --> 01:38:33,830
Uh, yes.
Yes, she did, Dean.
1466
01:38:33,909 --> 01:38:36,159
According to a member
of the hospital staff,
1467
01:38:36,245 --> 01:38:39,075
something occurred between the
two of you at the hospital,
1468
01:38:39,164 --> 01:38:44,254
something sordid occurred that
was observed and duly noted.
1469
01:38:44,336 --> 01:38:47,006
Yet you say you didn't
force yourself on her.
1470
01:38:47,089 --> 01:38:49,219
I had just had
my appendix taken out!
1471
01:38:49,299 --> 01:38:51,839
That doesn't answer
my question.
1472
01:38:52,845 --> 01:38:54,175
No sir, I did not.
1473
01:38:54,263 --> 01:38:57,523
I've never used force
on anyone in my life.
1474
01:38:57,599 --> 01:38:58,979
I've never had to.
1475
01:38:59,059 --> 01:39:02,599
"You didn't have to."
May I ask what that means?
1476
01:39:02,688 --> 01:39:05,108
No. No, you can't.
1477
01:39:07,067 --> 01:39:09,357
Dean Caudwell, this is very
hard for me to talk about.
1478
01:39:09,445 --> 01:39:13,195
But I do think that whatever happened
in the privacy of my hospital room
1479
01:39:13,282 --> 01:39:15,452
was strictly
between Olivia and myself.
1480
01:39:15,534 --> 01:39:18,044
Perhaps
and perhaps not.
1481
01:39:18,871 --> 01:39:21,211
Especially in light
of the circumstances.
1482
01:39:22,958 --> 01:39:24,378
Why?
1483
01:39:24,460 --> 01:39:27,880
Olivia Hutton had a nervous
breakdown, Marcus.
1484
01:39:29,214 --> 01:39:32,014
She had to be taken away
in an ambulance.
1485
01:39:38,515 --> 01:39:40,175
[exhales]
1486
01:39:41,393 --> 01:39:45,063
I really don't know what goes
into a nervous breakdown.
1487
01:39:47,149 --> 01:39:52,069
You lose control over yourself and
your emotions, like an infant.
1488
01:39:53,322 --> 01:39:58,082
You have to be hospitalized
and cared for like an infant
1489
01:39:58,160 --> 01:40:02,500
until you recover,
if you ever do recover.
1490
01:40:03,707 --> 01:40:06,457
The college took a chance
with Olivia Hutton.
1491
01:40:06,543 --> 01:40:09,553
We knew her mental
history, the relapses,
1492
01:40:09,630 --> 01:40:11,590
the electroshock treatments.
1493
01:40:11,673 --> 01:40:14,093
But her father is
a Cleveland surgeon
1494
01:40:14,176 --> 01:40:16,796
and a distinguished alumnus
at Winesburg,
1495
01:40:17,679 --> 01:40:20,139
and so we took her in
at Dr. Hutton's request.
1496
01:40:21,517 --> 01:40:23,847
Things didn't work out
well for any of us.
1497
01:40:25,145 --> 01:40:27,555
They especially didn't
work out for Olivia.
1498
01:40:29,066 --> 01:40:30,316
She is where?
1499
01:40:30,400 --> 01:40:33,450
At a hospital specializing
in psychiatric care.
1500
01:40:33,529 --> 01:40:34,529
[exhales]
1501
01:40:34,571 --> 01:40:37,281
She can't possibly be
pregnant, too.
1502
01:40:37,366 --> 01:40:39,736
Time will tell.
1503
01:40:43,163 --> 01:40:44,333
It's not me.
1504
01:40:47,209 --> 01:40:48,839
What was reported to us
1505
01:40:48,919 --> 01:40:50,879
about your conduct
at the hospital
1506
01:40:51,004 --> 01:40:54,724
suggests it could be, Marcus. I
don't care what it suggests.
1507
01:40:54,800 --> 01:40:55,800
[inhales]
1508
01:40:55,884 --> 01:41:01,724
Dean Caudwell, I will not be condemned
on the basis of no evidence.
1509
01:41:03,100 --> 01:41:09,190
Sir, I resent once again
your portrayal of me.
1510
01:41:09,273 --> 01:41:13,033
I did not have sexual
intercourse with Olivia Hutton.
1511
01:41:13,110 --> 01:41:16,110
I have never had sexual
intercourse with anyone.
1512
01:41:16,196 --> 01:41:21,156
Nobody in this world could possibly
be pregnant because of me.
1513
01:41:21,243 --> 01:41:22,663
It is impossible!
1514
01:41:22,744 --> 01:41:24,664
Marcus, it is possible...
1515
01:41:24,746 --> 01:41:26,706
Oh, fuck you it is!
1516
01:42:59,007 --> 01:43:02,137
(Wentz) To what do we owe this
outbreak of moral laxity?
1517
01:43:02,219 --> 01:43:04,969
To what do we owe
this shameful fall from grace,
1518
01:43:05,055 --> 01:43:07,095
and from Winesburg tradition?
1519
01:43:07,182 --> 01:43:10,352
A drunken brawl outside
The Owl this weekend.
1520
01:43:10,435 --> 01:43:13,055
Two students
suspended for cheating
1521
01:43:13,146 --> 01:43:16,016
on their mathematics
mid-term examination.
1522
01:43:17,818 --> 01:43:19,438
Let there be no mistake,
1523
01:43:19,528 --> 01:43:23,448
as God looks scornfully down
upon this assembly today,
1524
01:43:23,532 --> 01:43:27,162
he regards a community
that has lost its way.
1525
01:43:27,244 --> 01:43:31,674
(Wentz) God's all-encompassing
vision will from this day forward
1526
01:43:31,748 --> 01:43:33,788
find ample supplement
1527
01:43:33,875 --> 01:43:38,125
with a renewed and reinvigorated
supervision from me
1528
01:43:38,213 --> 01:43:41,053
and from the entire
administrative staff.
1529
01:43:41,133 --> 01:43:45,393
Let there be
no mistake about that.
1530
01:44:27,262 --> 01:44:31,392
(Marcus, off) I wonder if
everyone, after they die,
1531
01:44:31,475 --> 01:44:35,015
remembers all the little details
and decisions they made,
1532
01:44:35,103 --> 01:44:39,193
all the reasons they ended up
ending the exact way they did.
1533
01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:44,490
That's how I am...
1534
01:44:44,571 --> 01:44:46,701
I remember,
and replay those things,
1535
01:44:46,782 --> 01:44:50,372
even if I can't remember how
long I've been remembering...
1536
01:44:50,452 --> 01:44:52,622
maybe it's been forever.
1537
01:44:53,288 --> 01:44:55,458
And I speak to everyone...
1538
01:44:56,500 --> 01:45:00,590
Ma, Pa, Olivia, everyone,
1539
01:45:01,630 --> 01:45:05,380
even if they've been dead
already a million years,
1540
01:45:06,301 --> 01:45:10,761
but I keep speaking
to them. Forever...
1541
01:45:23,443 --> 01:45:24,443
(soldier)
Hey!
1542
01:45:30,408 --> 01:45:33,948
[distant shouting
in foreign language]
1543
01:45:35,664 --> 01:45:37,174
[groans] [knife
sinking in flesh]
1544
01:45:40,794 --> 01:45:41,964
[thud]
1545
01:45:50,554 --> 01:45:52,724
(Marcus, off)
Can you hear me, Olivia?
1546
01:45:54,933 --> 01:45:57,563
Can you hear me
when I tell you that it's okay,
1547
01:45:58,353 --> 01:46:02,443
whatever it is, that it's okay?
1548
01:46:07,612 --> 01:46:09,662
Because someone did love you.
1549
01:46:13,076 --> 01:46:15,036
At least I think that's what it was.
1550
01:46:18,707 --> 01:46:20,247
And you should know that.
1551
01:46:22,294 --> 01:46:24,344
You should know, Olivia.
1552
01:46:26,798 --> 01:46:28,088
You should know.
1553
01:46:30,010 --> 01:46:32,760
(nurse)
Mrs. Anderson?
1554
01:46:32,846 --> 01:46:34,216
Olivia?
1555
01:46:34,681 --> 01:46:36,061
Your pills.
1555
01:46:37,305 --> 01:46:43,888
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