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THE READER

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You've taken my book.

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- Still reading?
- My eyes hurt.

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- Then, sleep.
- I'd rather read some more.

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- Then, read.
- My eyes hurt.

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Then...

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- You know I read badly.
- You read very well.

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- And I've a pretty voice.
- And you've a very pretty voice.

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- It's short.
- It'll take an hour.

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An hour and a half.
Where were you?

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Here?

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"My friend Fran�oise said:
Marie, you've a lovely voice."

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That's just like me.

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Darling...

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Guess... I've got news.

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Promise you won't be angry?

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You know I saw the doctor
this afternoon...

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No!

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Yes.

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Charming compliments as always,
no news, close brackets.

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I open the garage door, get in the car,
reverse. Instead of the garage,

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I go into a car parked nearby...

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It was B�lu's.

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- B�lu's car.
- And ours?

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The front is untouched.

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You promised not to be angry.

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- Isn't that news?
- Read.

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And stop interrupting yourself.

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Yes, darling.

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"My friend Fran�oise said:
Marie, you've a lovely voice."

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And it's a pity that you don't use it.

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Actually, I've decided to place an ad.

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- "Pretty voice seeks outlet."
- You think...

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More modest:

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"Young lady, educated, loyal,
pretty voice, seeks employment."

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More sophisticated:

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"Intelligent young lady,
refined, gifted with pretty voice..."

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More direct:
"Intelligent, cultured..."

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Instructor?

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Protector?

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Serenader?

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Reader!

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"Fran�oise is sweet, but her naivety
is disheartening. Reader."

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"In the age of audio-books, she dreams
of duchesses and ladies' maids."

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"Not at all, said Fran�oise..."

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It's different now:

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Invalids, disabled people,
the old or lonely...

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Or bachelors.

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Move.

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<i>"Bachelors..."</i>

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<i>"I admit her naivety can be disturbing."</i>

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<i>"The idea grew until I found myself
in front of the ad man. "</i>

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<i>"He's sucking on an unlit cigar
and staring at me. "</i>

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<i>- No advice.
- "He says."</i>

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But if I was you,
I wouldn't place that ad.

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- No way.
- Why?

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"Young lady offers home reading service:

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"Literature, documents, texts."

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Phone number. It's asking for trouble.

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Believe me, I know my job.

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I'm asking you to publish it,
not criticise it.

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You know...

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Ambiguous ads
are ten a penny these days.

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- My ad's not ambiguous.
- In that case...

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- Take out "Young lady".
- And put what?

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Put...

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- "Person".
- Person?

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Say "Person offers home-reading,
services, etc, etc...".

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You see "person" is sexless.

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How do you know?

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Well, I suppose it's up to you.

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But don't give a phone number...
Type that...

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Just the advert code... 3 issues...
To minimise the damage.

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That comes to...

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<i>"And I leave."</i>

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<i>"I feel his eyes lingering on my legs."</i>

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<i>"Here I am at Philippe's. He's the man
in my life. For now anyway. "</i>

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<i>"I love him as much as one can love
a researcher</i>

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<i>who's always occupied
but rarely preoccupied. "</i>

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<i>- A man like you.
- Read.</i>

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<i>"I tell him about my plan. He agrees.
He's not at all contrary. "</i>

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<i>Just like me!</i>

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That's what I tell everyone:
"Philippe is not at all contrary."

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- What does everyone say?
- That I don't know how lucky I am.

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And now...

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Just to please me...

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- I've no idea.
- Yes.

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Choose. I want to choose
the first book with you.

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I'm too busy.

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I understand, darling.

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Too bad.

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Something easy, to begin with.

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Enjoyable...

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For all ages...

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Maupassant, perhaps.
Have you read him?

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"The Hand".

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<i>"I'm won over."</i>

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<i>"Enough not to wonder to whom
I will read these stories this evening. "</i>

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<i>"The idiots put my ad
in "Work from home" section. "</i>

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<i>"Home. Of course.
But other people's. Not mine. "</i>

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<i>"A first letter has reached the agency.
It's from a woman. "</i>

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<i>"She's not what I expected.
Serves me right. "</i>

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<i>"A reader shouldn't
pre-judge their clients. "</i>

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<i>"She tells me her son Eric
is disabled after a road accident. "</i>

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<i>- "They don't yet know...
...if he'll get better.</i>

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In any case, it will take time.

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I do what I can but I'm his mother,
so I can't help fussing.

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My husband has his work,
his amusements.

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Eric isn't lonely,
he has lots of friends.

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But when I saw your ad, I thought...

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Well, I thought that a person...

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You thought that having
a different person read to him

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might entertain him.

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You were right.

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- Eric loves novels. Do you?
- I do. Do you?

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Yes, life here is so peaceful...

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<i>"Yet peacefully.
Charlemagne and his knights"</i>

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<i>"Left the mountain. Forgetting fights"</i>

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That's grandfather.

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He adores poetry.

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<i>- Your fee?
- "Irredeemable idiot. I'd forgotten."</i>

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<i>- "If I tell her..."
- I'm working on them.</i>

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<i>"Professionalism pays. I assure her
that we will reach an agreement. "</i>

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- May I see Eric?
- Of course, he's expecting you.

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You're just the person he needs.

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Here's the lady.

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Eric.

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May I say "tu"?

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Of course, you must.

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Do you have favourite authors?

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I wasn't told you were mute.

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The important thing is, I'm not deaf.

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- What would you like to hear?
- Whatever you choose.

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Look through this and next time
I'll read the one you like best.

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<i>"Alone in my room. Far from
indiscreet ears and curious eyes.</i>

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<i>I practise. I read to myself. "</i>

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<i>"I'm afraid of hearing my own voice."</i>

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<i>"An error. One does not hear oneself."</i>

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Let's see what you've chosen.

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"The Hair".

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"Wandering in Paris one sunny morning,

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I saw in an antique dealer's window

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an 18th century marquetry bureau,
rare and beautiful."

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If any words bother you, tell me.
You know what "marquetry" is?

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Yes, I know.

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"How singular is temptation!"

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"A need to possess comes over you,
gentle, almost timid,

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but which grows,
becomes violent and irresistible."

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"I bought the bureau
and put it in my room."

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"One evening, I realised
from the thickness of a panel,

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that there must be a secret drawer.
I spent all night searching."

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"I found it the next day by forcing
a blade into a cleft in the wood..."

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<i>"All's well. He's listening.
And he seems to be enjoying the text. "</i>

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"I saw, laid out on black velvet,
a wonderful tress of a woman's hair."

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"Yes, a long braid of golden hair,
almost red, bound by a gold string."

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"I was stunned, quivering, disturbed."

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"I held it gently, almost religiously."

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"At once, the tress unwound,
its golden waves tumbling to the floor,

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thick and light, soft and shining
like the fiery tale of a comet."

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"A strange feeling came over me..."

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<i>"A curious boy."</i>

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<i>"Good. I like this. I continue."</i>

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"The vivid thought of the hair
never left me."

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"My hands and my heart had
the confused, singular, sensual need

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to plunge my fingers
into this charming stream."

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"When I finished caressing it
and had closed the bureau,

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"I had the urgent desire
to take it again, to touch it,

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to excite myself until I felt faint."

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What's going on?

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What do you do now?

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This is the first time it's happened.

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Dr Petrel is on holiday...

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- An ambulance...
- Not the hospital. No more hospital.

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- What did you do to him?
- I was reading.

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"My God, said the mother, moaning.
You hit him, you are killing him."

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"The ambulance arrives.
The mother explains Eric's condition."

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"The doctor gives an injection.
I think it wise to repeat my version..."

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I was reading to him.

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<i>"The mother is motionless. Petrified."</i>

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<i>"A single tear
runs down her sorrowful face. "</i>

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<i>"What a mess."</i>

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<i>"Next day. Expecting the worst.
I am sure of a frosty reception. "</i>

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<i>- "A smile welcomes me."
- Take a seat.</i>

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This is the person
I was telling you about.

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You! What did you read?

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You should be careful in your job.

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This is the person
we were talking about.

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Would you come to my office?

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You've gone mad, young lady!

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Are you irresponsible or what?

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The child had visions all night.

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He spoke of hair, of a fleece.
He was choking.

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What did you read to him?

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- A Maupassant short story. A classic.
- Maupassant!

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- You know where he ended up?
- In a mental hospital.

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- Well, in future...
- There will be none.

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You smoke too much.

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All that was a misunderstanding.

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The hospital is counting on you.
The child loves reading.

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<i>"And I wonder which of us is madder."</i>

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"I'm 100 years old and I'm bored."

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"Widow of General Dumesnil,
n�e Countess Pasmany."

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"P.S. I've fallen out with my family,
which brightens my solitude."

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"Your emolument
will be according to your wishes."

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"My emolument."

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I am your obedient servant, madame.

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Shall we go and see our old teacher?

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Shall we go and see
our good old teacher?

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<i>"He'd been my tutor
when I was studying literature. "</i>

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00:16:14,245 --> 00:16:17,601
<i>"His rule was never
to seduce his students. "</i>

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<i>"I'd never been his mistress.
But it could have happened. "</i>

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<i>"I tell him how I've become a reader.
About Eric.</i>

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<i>How it came about
and how the story ended. "</i>

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<i>"I'm seeing Eric tomorrow."</i>

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You always end up twisting people
around your little finger.

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You have such beautiful intonation.

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<i>"Ah." say I.</i>

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I've had another offer.
A general's widow.

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Perhaps you should avoid Maupassant.

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It won't be the hospital
but the cemetery.

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It's best if you don't specialize
in killing your customers.

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Zola.

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Your friend is right,
only the Naturalists count.

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Have you read "The Masterpiece"?

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You must, my dear.

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Here it is. It's the story...

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No, listen:

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"It was on the previous morning
that she left Clermont for Paris,

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where she was to take up a post
reading to a general's widow."

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"A maid was to meet her."

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"A means of recognition
had been arranged by letter:

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"A grey feather in a black hat."

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There you are.

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You'll wear a hat with a black feather.

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You forget she's Hungarian,
that's why I came.

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Do you know any Hungarian writers?

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I'm sorry,
I still have some marking to do.

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Will you tell me how it went?

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Come in, come in...

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Come closer.

241
00:18:19,645 --> 00:18:21,442
Sit down.

242
00:18:23,805 --> 00:18:25,955
Speak a little, to hear.

243
00:18:26,085 --> 00:18:29,202
I know usually you say "to see".

244
00:18:29,325 --> 00:18:32,840
But I can barely see,
so say something.

245
00:18:32,965 --> 00:18:35,433
You are not 100 years old, madame.

246
00:18:35,565 --> 00:18:39,638
But how pretty you are, Nouchka!

247
00:18:39,765 --> 00:18:43,155
You have the voice
of a pretty one!

248
00:18:43,285 --> 00:18:45,116
Bella!

249
00:18:46,725 --> 00:18:50,923
She doesn't answer but she's there.
I swear on my cat.

250
00:18:51,045 --> 00:18:54,515
Tell her, Bella,
that she is pretty.

251
00:18:54,645 --> 00:18:56,795
- Yes, madame.
- You see.

252
00:19:00,005 --> 00:19:02,565
I lied, of course, in my letter.

253
00:19:02,685 --> 00:19:06,837
I'm a little over 100.
And I am going blind.

254
00:19:06,965 --> 00:19:10,753
- And I had a passion.
- Soldiers. Reading.

255
00:19:10,885 --> 00:19:13,683
How pretty.
That's just like me.

256
00:19:13,805 --> 00:19:18,196
When I seduced
the French lieutenant in Budapest...

257
00:19:18,325 --> 00:19:20,634
I can see it.

258
00:19:20,765 --> 00:19:22,881
With my eyes closed,
I see perfectly.

259
00:19:23,005 --> 00:19:27,556
It was at the Embassy ball,
I was sparkling.

260
00:19:27,685 --> 00:19:29,641
And he...

261
00:19:29,765 --> 00:19:33,553
"If first she goes to her cousin,
she will be my wife."

262
00:19:33,685 --> 00:19:36,802
You've read "War and Peace",
one point to you.

263
00:19:36,925 --> 00:19:41,237
And for me, a lifetime of happiness...
Right up to this bed.

264
00:19:41,365 --> 00:19:45,597
In spite of History,
with a capital H.

265
00:19:46,645 --> 00:19:49,796
Bella, will you bring us tea?

266
00:19:53,125 --> 00:19:57,277
She insists on dressing as a maid,
I don't know why.

267
00:19:57,405 --> 00:20:01,000
I don't want to cross her,
because she has spiders.

268
00:20:01,125 --> 00:20:03,639
- Spiders?
- In the head.

269
00:20:03,765 --> 00:20:07,474
No, it seems they climb up her legs.

270
00:20:07,605 --> 00:20:11,439
At night, in her bed.
What do you think of that?

271
00:20:11,565 --> 00:20:14,921
It's just a phase she's going through.

272
00:20:15,725 --> 00:20:17,955
Here, Nouchka.

273
00:20:18,085 --> 00:20:20,440
Let's try reading a little.

274
00:20:21,285 --> 00:20:24,641
Marx. Page 166.

275
00:20:26,765 --> 00:20:28,721
The passage marked with a cross?

276
00:20:28,845 --> 00:20:34,317
Yes. A wonderful text
on precious metals.

277
00:20:34,445 --> 00:20:36,356
Read.

278
00:20:38,165 --> 00:20:42,238
"Gold and silver are not the negative
nature of superfluous things,

279
00:20:42,365 --> 00:20:44,481
that is, things one can do without."

280
00:20:44,605 --> 00:20:46,914
"...things one can do without."

281
00:20:47,045 --> 00:20:50,481
"Their aesthetic quality
makes them proper materials of luxury,

282
00:20:50,605 --> 00:20:54,678
display and sumptuousness,
necessities for festive days:

283
00:20:54,805 --> 00:20:59,321
In short, the positive form
of excess and wealth."

284
00:20:59,445 --> 00:21:03,996
"The positive form
of excess and wealth."

285
00:21:04,125 --> 00:21:07,435
You didn't expect that, did you?

286
00:21:07,565 --> 00:21:12,400
Perfect. A lovely voice, very clear.
You will receive 200 francs a session.

287
00:21:12,525 --> 00:21:15,562
Now, forgive me, I must sleep.

288
00:21:29,365 --> 00:21:31,321
Did she tell you?

289
00:21:32,645 --> 00:21:37,514
- She did. She can't help telling.
- The spiders?

290
00:21:37,645 --> 00:21:40,000
- Is it true?
- Yes.

291
00:21:40,125 --> 00:21:43,322
- Do you want to see?
- No.

292
00:21:43,445 --> 00:21:45,117
Yes.

293
00:21:52,765 --> 00:21:54,517
What do you think of that?

294
00:21:54,645 --> 00:21:57,637
- Am I supposed to say something?
- Yes.

295
00:21:58,805 --> 00:22:00,158
No.

296
00:22:10,565 --> 00:22:12,999
- Yesterday...
- Yesterday...

297
00:22:13,125 --> 00:22:16,401
I had an odd adventure
in this garden.

298
00:22:16,525 --> 00:22:20,234
On a bench,
a girl was reading a book.

299
00:22:20,365 --> 00:22:22,925
It was quiet.

300
00:22:23,045 --> 00:22:26,117
- Then suddenly...
- Suddenly?

301
00:22:27,045 --> 00:22:28,444
Yesterday?

302
00:22:28,565 --> 00:22:32,035
I received a third letter yesterday.
From a man.

303
00:22:32,165 --> 00:22:35,043
Shall I read it? I'll read it.

304
00:22:35,165 --> 00:22:37,759
"Madame, I have seen
your advertisement."

305
00:22:37,885 --> 00:22:40,399
"Chief executive officer
of a large company...

306
00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:43,278
- "Quarrying and digging."
- Fascinating.

307
00:22:43,405 --> 00:22:46,522
Exactly, a man with land is interesting.

308
00:22:46,645 --> 00:22:49,034
"I lead a very busy life."

309
00:22:49,165 --> 00:22:54,239
"The reading sessions you offer
could perfect my general culture, etc...

310
00:22:54,365 --> 00:22:56,560
Your terms will be met.

311
00:22:56,685 --> 00:23:00,644
If this offer is acceptable,
Mademoiselle, please, etc...

312
00:23:00,765 --> 00:23:02,244
Well?

313
00:23:02,365 --> 00:23:05,596
- You read like a pig.
- I know. And?

314
00:23:05,725 --> 00:23:08,364
- I'd be careful if I were you.
- Why?

315
00:23:09,405 --> 00:23:12,397
He starts with "Madame"
and ends with "Mademoiselle".

316
00:23:12,525 --> 00:23:14,880
Most significant
and not at all innocent.

317
00:23:15,005 --> 00:23:17,360
- Which means?
- Nothing.

318
00:23:17,485 --> 00:23:20,682
Be careful. That's all.

319
00:23:27,725 --> 00:23:32,480
- You like my tongue.
- I like the French tongue very much.

320
00:23:33,725 --> 00:23:35,443
<i>I'm waiting for Fran�oise.</i>

321
00:23:35,565 --> 00:23:39,877
<i>I've promised to withhold nothing
about my new career.</i>

322
00:23:42,325 --> 00:23:44,281
My dad... Bye.

323
00:23:47,925 --> 00:23:51,281
Come on, you really aren't up to it.

324
00:23:55,565 --> 00:23:57,123
How are you?

325
00:23:57,885 --> 00:24:00,160
- And you?
- Fine.

326
00:24:00,285 --> 00:24:02,594
- Tell me.
- Fine.

327
00:24:04,445 --> 00:24:06,401
Read out loud.

328
00:24:06,525 --> 00:24:08,993
- Why?
- To see what it's like.

329
00:24:09,125 --> 00:24:10,877
- No. You read.
- Why?

330
00:24:11,005 --> 00:24:13,997
To see what it's like.
Go on, read.

331
00:24:18,285 --> 00:24:19,957
Hurry up!

332
00:24:20,085 --> 00:24:21,564
"The Skirt".

333
00:24:21,685 --> 00:24:23,994
"A man, one Sunday,
suggests to his wife

334
00:24:24,125 --> 00:24:26,719
that they visit the rue St Landry."

335
00:24:26,845 --> 00:24:29,313
"Everyone knew
it was the whores' street."

336
00:24:29,445 --> 00:24:33,836
"Jocelyne also knew
but she agreed to go."

337
00:24:33,965 --> 00:24:37,480
"However indifferent, the girls
seemed amazed to see this man

338
00:24:37,605 --> 00:24:42,838
strolling past them with his wife,
inspecting them from head to foot."

339
00:24:42,965 --> 00:24:45,718
"She, the wife, followed."

340
00:24:45,845 --> 00:24:49,281
"Saying nothing,
she also looked at them."

341
00:24:49,405 --> 00:24:52,761
"All at once,
the unbelievable happened."

342
00:24:52,885 --> 00:24:57,197
<i>"He stopped by a rather alluring
redhead. Dressed in black. "</i>

343
00:24:57,325 --> 00:25:02,797
<i>"He spoke briefly to her and.
without further ado. went upstairs. "</i>

344
00:25:02,925 --> 00:25:05,564
<i>"In three words.
He asked Jocelyne to wait. "</i>

345
00:25:05,685 --> 00:25:09,121
<i>- I'll skip a bit...
- No. Read on.</i>

346
00:25:09,285 --> 00:25:13,676
<i>"Witnesses to her humiliation. The girls
displayed neither irony nor spite.</i>

347
00:25:13,805 --> 00:25:16,399
<i>Neither pity nor compassion. "</i>

348
00:25:16,525 --> 00:25:19,437
<i>"Jocelyne wandered aimlessly
for a while. "</i>

349
00:25:19,565 --> 00:25:23,399
<i>"Then. In a fit of faintness.
She lent against a wall. "</i>

350
00:25:23,525 --> 00:25:26,961
<i>"She didn't even want to cry.
Or to hide. "</i>

351
00:25:27,085 --> 00:25:31,442
<i>"Her eyes betrayed a serene despair
which invited tenderness.</i>

352
00:25:31,565 --> 00:25:34,602
<i>For a man who was passing
stopped before her. "</i>

353
00:25:34,725 --> 00:25:37,193
<i>"He looked into her eyes
for a long time. "</i>

354
00:25:37,325 --> 00:25:40,158
<i>"She tried to move away
but he'd taken her arm.</i>

355
00:25:40,285 --> 00:25:43,880
<i>Rather bossily.
And was leading her away. "</i>

356
00:25:44,925 --> 00:25:47,234
Go on...

357
00:25:47,365 --> 00:25:50,960
"He took her through a dark doorway,
up a narrow staircase."

358
00:25:51,085 --> 00:25:53,394
"She was in a hotel room."

359
00:25:53,525 --> 00:25:58,155
<i>"She saw neither walls. Nor
shabby wallpaper nor furniture. "</i>

360
00:25:58,285 --> 00:26:02,517
<i>"She sat on the bed and
bent her head towards the carpet. "</i>

361
00:26:02,645 --> 00:26:05,159
<i>"He took a chair. Sat down.</i>

362
00:26:05,285 --> 00:26:09,278
<i>And said she was not like the others
but. In her way. More lovely. "</i>

363
00:26:09,405 --> 00:26:12,841
<i>"Her eyes became so large.
He wanted to smile. "</i>

364
00:26:12,965 --> 00:26:16,355
<i>"As it was rather warm.
He took off his jacket. "</i>

365
00:26:16,485 --> 00:26:18,919
<i>"He suggested
she take off her raincoat. "</i>

366
00:26:19,045 --> 00:26:21,081
<i>"She hesitated. But did so.</i>

367
00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:24,356
<i>And placed it carefully
over the back of a chair. "</i>

368
00:26:24,485 --> 00:26:26,794
I'll summarise the rest. I'm in a hurry.

369
00:26:26,925 --> 00:26:29,485
- To see me.
- OK.

370
00:26:29,605 --> 00:26:31,402
"She was trembling."

371
00:26:31,525 --> 00:26:34,642
"He took her in his arms
and removed her sweater."

372
00:26:34,765 --> 00:26:37,199
"He undid her skirt,
which fell to her feet."

373
00:26:37,325 --> 00:26:40,283
<i>"With one foot.
She pushed the skirt away. "</i>

374
00:26:40,405 --> 00:26:44,921
<i>"She looked at it on the floor
like an unknown object. "</i>

375
00:26:45,045 --> 00:26:47,684
"She lay on the bed,
her eyes covered by her arm."

376
00:26:47,805 --> 00:26:50,365
<i>"He took off her stockings. Panties..."</i>

377
00:26:50,485 --> 00:26:52,237
<i>- I'll summarise...
- No. Please.</i>

378
00:26:52,365 --> 00:26:55,437
<i>"Caresses. Kisses... And her?"</i>

379
00:26:55,565 --> 00:26:59,683
<i>"Shame bound her to the bed.
Leaving her wholly abandoned. "</i>

380
00:26:59,805 --> 00:27:01,955
<i>"The man also undressed."</i>

381
00:27:02,085 --> 00:27:04,394
<i>"He opened her thighs
and penetrated her. "</i>

382
00:27:04,525 --> 00:27:07,756
<i>"She felt a pain almost as sharp
as on her bridal night.</i>

383
00:27:07,885 --> 00:27:11,480
<i>But followed moments later.
As he moved in her.</i>

384
00:27:11,605 --> 00:27:16,725
<i>By an illumination of her body such
as she had never believed possible. "</i>

385
00:27:16,845 --> 00:27:20,076
<i>"He orders tea. Brought by a maid.
She gets dressed. "</i>

386
00:27:20,205 --> 00:27:24,801
<i>"The street. The girls. Are still there.
She sees her husband in a caf�. "</i>

387
00:27:24,925 --> 00:27:26,517
<i>"She hesitates. Joins him."</i>

388
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:29,205
<i>"He begs forgiveness.
Can't understand it..."</i>

389
00:27:29,325 --> 00:27:31,077
<i>"She says nothing."</i>

390
00:27:31,205 --> 00:27:33,435
"He insults himself, then says:

391
00:27:33,565 --> 00:27:36,955
"I came back after 10 minutes.
I've been wandering around..."

392
00:27:37,085 --> 00:27:41,158
"He adds, softly: What did you do?"

393
00:27:41,285 --> 00:27:44,402
"I wandered around, too, she said."

394
00:27:45,005 --> 00:27:47,644
"He took her hand,
and she did not pull away."

395
00:27:47,765 --> 00:27:50,723
"He says:
Jocelyne, we'll forget all this."

396
00:27:50,845 --> 00:27:54,440
"We'll stay at home
on Sunday, watch TV."

397
00:27:54,565 --> 00:27:57,841
"He asks if she wants a drink. Silence."

398
00:27:57,965 --> 00:28:02,561
"He suggests tea.
Strange, he knows she never drinks it."

399
00:28:02,685 --> 00:28:05,643
"She replies: I've already had one."

400
00:28:05,765 --> 00:28:09,804
"With a gesture which he meant
to be affectionate, he touched her knee

401
00:28:09,925 --> 00:28:13,804
and stroked the fabric of her skirt.
The End."

402
00:28:19,205 --> 00:28:22,561
- A cat? Absolutely not.
- Why?

403
00:28:22,685 --> 00:28:25,074
You may be allergic to cats' hair.

404
00:28:25,205 --> 00:28:27,878
Whence comes, sir, this love for cats?

405
00:28:28,005 --> 00:28:30,121
From Baudelaire, madame.

406
00:28:30,245 --> 00:28:34,238
"Fervent lovers and austere scholars
Both love cats."

407
00:28:34,365 --> 00:28:37,675
And you, madame,
do you like this poem?

408
00:28:37,805 --> 00:28:39,921
"Friends of science and of delight"

409
00:28:40,045 --> 00:28:42,559
"They seek the silence
and horror of darkness"

410
00:28:42,685 --> 00:28:46,917
Did you get that from the library?
Show me.

411
00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:55,874
It's poetry. And yet...

412
00:28:56,005 --> 00:28:58,758
"Yet peacefully,
Charlemagne and his knights

413
00:28:58,885 --> 00:29:02,195
"Left the mountain, forgetting fights"

414
00:29:05,365 --> 00:29:07,720
"The Flowers of Evil"?

415
00:29:17,765 --> 00:29:21,201
- You think it's right at his age?
- Yes, I think so.

416
00:29:21,325 --> 00:29:24,476
Oh, well.
How does he seem to you?

417
00:29:24,605 --> 00:29:29,121
- Very well. It is you who are pale.
- Oh, me...

418
00:29:29,245 --> 00:29:31,201
My dream would be a few days...

419
00:29:32,325 --> 00:29:33,997
...in the mountains.

420
00:29:34,125 --> 00:29:36,639
"Yet peacefully,
Charlemagne and his knights"

421
00:29:36,765 --> 00:29:39,233
"Left the mountain,
forgetting fights"

422
00:29:40,125 --> 00:29:42,320
Let's go and see Eric.

423
00:29:47,805 --> 00:29:50,080
Baudelaire is a great poet.

424
00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:52,355
And a great lover of cats.

425
00:29:52,485 --> 00:29:55,124
We shall read this today.

426
00:29:56,045 --> 00:29:58,275
"The Cats"...

427
00:29:58,405 --> 00:30:00,794
I'd rather it was this one.

428
00:30:01,805 --> 00:30:04,000
Please.

429
00:30:04,125 --> 00:30:08,004
"The Jewels".
You've got good taste.

430
00:30:11,205 --> 00:30:14,197
"The beloved was naked
and of my heart aware"

431
00:30:14,325 --> 00:30:16,793
"She was attired
with only jewels sonorous"

432
00:30:16,925 --> 00:30:19,837
"Whose rich show
gave her a victorious air"

433
00:30:19,965 --> 00:30:23,196
"That on happy days
is worn by Moorish belles"

434
00:30:23,325 --> 00:30:26,397
"When, dancing,
it casts its lively, mocking sound"

435
00:30:26,525 --> 00:30:28,755
"This shining world
of metal and of stone"

436
00:30:28,885 --> 00:30:31,763
"Thrills me to ecstasy,
and fiercely I love"

437
00:30:31,885 --> 00:30:35,036
"All things in which sound
is mingled with light"

438
00:30:35,165 --> 00:30:37,963
"She lay there, then,
and let herself be loved"

439
00:30:38,085 --> 00:30:40,519
"With a vague and dreamy air,
she tried poses"

440
00:30:40,645 --> 00:30:42,795
"And frankness coupled with lust"

441
00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:46,201
"Gave new charm
to her metamorphoses"

442
00:30:47,325 --> 00:30:52,035
That dress from the other day,
could you wear it next time?

443
00:31:03,845 --> 00:31:06,484
She sleeps a lot.
All the time.

444
00:31:07,845 --> 00:31:10,757
Whenever she feels like it.
It's disgraceful.

445
00:31:10,885 --> 00:31:12,841
Not really.

446
00:31:14,765 --> 00:31:17,154
Have they gone higher up?

447
00:31:19,245 --> 00:31:22,476
I'm afraid they'll go even higher.

448
00:31:22,605 --> 00:31:25,039
Suppose...

449
00:31:25,165 --> 00:31:27,156
Suppose they penetrate.

450
00:31:27,285 --> 00:31:29,753
Without wanting to or wanting to?

451
00:31:29,885 --> 00:31:32,558
Without wanting to or wanting to?

452
00:31:32,685 --> 00:31:34,164
As you wish.

453
00:31:34,285 --> 00:31:37,675
If I were you,
I'd wear tight knickers for protection.

454
00:31:37,805 --> 00:31:40,114
You think so?

455
00:31:40,245 --> 00:31:42,759
The General's widow is awake.
In you go.

456
00:31:45,005 --> 00:31:48,884
Nouchka, I was waiting.
Come and help me.

457
00:31:53,405 --> 00:31:55,475
You smell nice, too. Flowers.

458
00:31:55,605 --> 00:31:57,163
No, too trite.

459
00:31:57,285 --> 00:32:00,243
Spring, damp earth.

460
00:32:00,365 --> 00:32:02,879
Not that either. You smell of fruit.

461
00:32:03,005 --> 00:32:04,802
You're superb.

462
00:32:04,925 --> 00:32:07,120
The colour is superb.

463
00:32:08,885 --> 00:32:11,115
Let's start.

464
00:32:11,245 --> 00:32:16,080
- The same as last time.
- No, I'm a reader, not a repeater.

465
00:32:16,205 --> 00:32:19,993
I'm old and you mustn't contradict me.

466
00:32:20,125 --> 00:32:24,277
- Can I change my bedside-man now?
- Of course, madame.

467
00:32:24,405 --> 00:32:27,158
Tell me how you like them.

468
00:32:27,285 --> 00:32:30,800
Gorky: "Lenin and the Russian peasant".

469
00:32:32,085 --> 00:32:36,158
"What was exceptionally great
in him was his ardent conviction

470
00:32:36,285 --> 00:32:39,755
that sorrow is not
the necessary basis of being

471
00:32:39,885 --> 00:32:43,116
but an evil which man must
and should sweep away."

472
00:32:43,245 --> 00:32:46,601
Not bad. Or else Lenin:

473
00:32:48,685 --> 00:32:50,641
"Marx's doctrine is all-powerful

474
00:32:50,765 --> 00:32:54,314
because it is fair,
complete, harmonious".

475
00:32:54,445 --> 00:32:56,037
Very, very good.

476
00:32:56,165 --> 00:32:58,121
Or else...

477
00:32:58,405 --> 00:33:03,957
I've got it. You smell of red fruit tea.
I'm listening, Nouchka.

478
00:33:04,085 --> 00:33:07,521
"Good people, hear my lament,
the story of my life"

479
00:33:07,645 --> 00:33:12,002
"An orphan recounting
his boring troubles, gee up!"

480
00:33:12,125 --> 00:33:14,195
Pr�vert, the October Group...

481
00:33:14,325 --> 00:33:17,874
Go on, don't bother to pretend to read.

482
00:33:18,005 --> 00:33:20,963
"One day, a general, or maybe one night"

483
00:33:21,085 --> 00:33:24,043
"A general had two horses
killed beneath him"

484
00:33:24,165 --> 00:33:26,804
"These horses gee'd up
Life is bitter"

485
00:33:26,925 --> 00:33:29,393
"It was my poor father, my poor mother"

486
00:33:29,525 --> 00:33:32,164
"Who hid beneath the bed,
the general's bed"

487
00:33:32,285 --> 00:33:35,482
"Who hid behind the lines
in a small southern town"

488
00:33:35,605 --> 00:33:39,962
"The general talked alone at night,
generally talked of boring troubles"

489
00:33:40,085 --> 00:33:43,316
"That's how my father
and that's how my mother, gee up!"

490
00:33:43,445 --> 00:33:45,959
"One night, died of boredom"

491
00:33:46,085 --> 00:33:49,361
"For me, family life was done
Leaving the bedside table"

492
00:33:49,485 --> 00:33:53,956
"I galloped fast away to the big city,
shining, gleaming"

493
00:33:54,085 --> 00:33:57,361
"In an auto, I reach Sabi in Paros
Sorry, I'm talking horse"

494
00:33:57,485 --> 00:33:59,601
"One morning, I reach Paris in sabots"

495
00:33:59,725 --> 00:34:03,718
"I ask to see the lion, king of beasts
Receive a bump on my nose"

496
00:34:03,845 --> 00:34:08,680
"As war was on, going on
I get blinkered, I'm drafted"

497
00:34:08,805 --> 00:34:13,481
"As there was war, war going on
Life became dear, things were scarce"

498
00:34:13,605 --> 00:34:18,042
"The scarcer they were, more I was eyed
With strange eyes and chattering teeth"

499
00:34:18,165 --> 00:34:21,362
"They called me beefsteak
I thought it was English, gee up!"

500
00:34:21,485 --> 00:34:23,521
"All who were living and loving"

501
00:34:23,645 --> 00:34:27,399
"Were awaiting my death,
so they could eat me"

502
00:34:27,525 --> 00:34:30,085
"One night in the stables,
a night I was sleeping"

503
00:34:30,205 --> 00:34:32,844
"I heard a weird sound,
a voice that I knew,"

504
00:34:32,965 --> 00:34:37,083
"The old general had returned
like a ghost with an old friend"

505
00:34:37,205 --> 00:34:39,878
"Thinking I was sleeping,
they spoke very softly:"

506
00:34:40,005 --> 00:34:42,883
"Enough of watery rice
we need to chew on red meat"

507
00:34:43,005 --> 00:34:45,803
"Just add to his oats
some needles for a treat"

508
00:34:45,925 --> 00:34:48,837
"My heart missed a beat
like a circus pony"

509
00:34:48,965 --> 00:34:52,799
"Dashing out of the stable
I hid in the spinney"

510
00:34:52,925 --> 00:34:56,042
"Now the war is over
The old general is dead"

511
00:34:56,165 --> 00:34:59,680
"Dead in his bed
Dead of a fine death"

512
00:34:59,805 --> 00:35:03,354
"But I am alive
and that's the main thing"

513
00:35:03,485 --> 00:35:07,000
"Good evening, good night"

514
00:35:07,125 --> 00:35:09,923
"Bon app�tit, dear general"

515
00:35:25,725 --> 00:35:28,478
It's the advert.

516
00:35:28,605 --> 00:35:30,357
Not funny, sorry...

517
00:35:31,405 --> 00:35:33,600
I'm not funny. I have to admit it.

518
00:35:33,725 --> 00:35:35,955
Sit down. Sorry...

519
00:35:37,885 --> 00:35:40,445
I'm quite idiotic.

520
00:35:40,565 --> 00:35:42,874
Deficient, if you prefer.

521
00:35:43,005 --> 00:35:46,202
No, I like idiotic. It's nicer.

522
00:35:46,925 --> 00:35:50,838
No, not all.
You're just a little overworked...

523
00:35:50,965 --> 00:35:54,640
Yes, I do a lot of business,
I work a lot.

524
00:35:54,765 --> 00:35:57,404
I have a lot of responsibility.

525
00:35:57,525 --> 00:36:00,085
I travel a lot,
I do everything a lot.

526
00:36:00,205 --> 00:36:02,400
- You read a lot?
- No.

527
00:36:02,525 --> 00:36:05,437
Long journeys,
time-lags, sleepless nights...

528
00:36:05,565 --> 00:36:08,841
You're joking. There's always mail,
business to discuss...

529
00:36:08,965 --> 00:36:10,842
- You talk a lot?
- Yes.

530
00:36:10,965 --> 00:36:12,762
No. Why?

531
00:36:12,885 --> 00:36:15,240
You know, I'm obliged to, Mademoiselle.

532
00:36:15,365 --> 00:36:16,878
- I'm obliged to...
- Madame.

533
00:36:19,885 --> 00:36:23,924
- Madame. Yes, very well...
- Obliged...

534
00:36:24,045 --> 00:36:27,355
Success is no longer just
efficiency, performance.

535
00:36:27,485 --> 00:36:29,874
You also need elegance, class...

536
00:36:30,005 --> 00:36:33,122
One must be able to discuss
cultural developments.

537
00:36:33,245 --> 00:36:36,954
Would you like to drink something?

538
00:36:37,085 --> 00:36:39,076
- Or anything?
- Yes, something.

539
00:36:39,205 --> 00:36:41,480
Something, fine. If you prefer...

540
00:36:41,605 --> 00:36:43,994
No, a whisky.

541
00:36:49,445 --> 00:36:51,003
Where was I?

542
00:36:51,125 --> 00:36:54,800
I thought you might help me
talk about literature.

543
00:36:54,925 --> 00:36:57,564
Some opinions,
some notes on books...

544
00:36:57,685 --> 00:37:00,916
- All right?
- A little more.

545
00:37:01,805 --> 00:37:04,000
- That's a lot.
- Not enough or too much.

546
00:37:04,125 --> 00:37:06,195
No matter.

547
00:37:10,845 --> 00:37:14,599
- So? Can you do it?
- Is it for show?

548
00:37:14,725 --> 00:37:17,842
I'm not asking for much,
extracts, summaries...

549
00:37:17,965 --> 00:37:20,957
I pretend to read
your pretended reading?

550
00:37:21,085 --> 00:37:25,363
I'm sorry.
I'm a reader, not a faker.

551
00:37:25,485 --> 00:37:27,043
You're deserting me?

552
00:37:27,165 --> 00:37:30,316
- There are specialized magazines...
- Specialized?

553
00:37:30,445 --> 00:37:32,242
Tapes, well done I'm told.

554
00:37:32,365 --> 00:37:34,799
We're deviating, madame,
make it short.

555
00:37:34,925 --> 00:37:37,678
Will you render the service
your ad suggested

556
00:37:37,805 --> 00:37:41,957
and sell me... your voice?

557
00:37:42,085 --> 00:37:43,916
- And your wife?
- My wife?

558
00:37:44,045 --> 00:37:46,639
Your wife, can't she read to you?

559
00:37:47,645 --> 00:37:51,035
Separated, we're separated.

560
00:37:51,165 --> 00:37:52,917
For over a year.

561
00:37:53,045 --> 00:37:56,594
Believe me if you like,
I live all alone.

562
00:37:56,725 --> 00:37:58,443
Not even a cleaning woman.

563
00:37:58,565 --> 00:38:02,558
I do have one,
three minutes a week, that's all.

564
00:38:02,685 --> 00:38:04,721
Well, dear sir, I'll consider it.

565
00:38:04,845 --> 00:38:07,803
- Should I read Duras or Dumas or both?
- All three.

566
00:38:07,925 --> 00:38:10,678
All three?
As you wish, whoever you like.

567
00:38:10,805 --> 00:38:14,923
Tell me. No, don't tell me.
Consider it.

568
00:38:15,045 --> 00:38:17,275
- Come back.
- Duras, I don't think so.

569
00:38:17,405 --> 00:38:19,521
Come back soon.

570
00:38:51,805 --> 00:38:54,365
Caught in the rain?

571
00:38:54,485 --> 00:38:56,441
Take it off.

572
00:38:57,685 --> 00:39:01,644
- You're soaked.
- I didn't realise, it's full of holes.

573
00:39:02,805 --> 00:39:06,081
- Can we read now?
- Just a minute.

574
00:39:06,205 --> 00:39:07,957
May I?

575
00:39:11,085 --> 00:39:13,280
Today I'll read a story of water.

576
00:39:14,885 --> 00:39:17,399
I borrowed it from a friend.

577
00:39:17,525 --> 00:39:20,483
"We were returning from Hydra...".
A Greek island.

578
00:39:20,605 --> 00:39:24,314
"...from a major meeting
of Mediterranean sociologists..."

579
00:39:25,405 --> 00:39:27,123
Sorry...

580
00:39:27,885 --> 00:39:29,637
May I?

581
00:39:31,645 --> 00:39:35,320
I just wanted to check.

582
00:39:35,445 --> 00:39:37,959
Perfect... I'll leave you.

583
00:39:45,565 --> 00:39:47,954
"We had decided, Norma, Michel and I,

584
00:39:48,085 --> 00:39:51,839
to prolong our visit by a private stay
on another island,

585
00:39:51,965 --> 00:39:56,197
much smaller and wilder,
whose name I shall withhold."

586
00:39:57,205 --> 00:39:59,435
"Michel is my friend, Norma his wife."

587
00:39:59,565 --> 00:40:03,240
"She laughs,
she has amber skin, hazel eyes."

588
00:40:03,365 --> 00:40:08,155
"She's 30 and the heroine
of this strange story."

589
00:40:08,285 --> 00:40:12,961
"It was May, when it is
already very hot in the Cyclades."

590
00:40:13,085 --> 00:40:17,681
"We'd been told that the island
offered shade, coolness,

591
00:40:17,805 --> 00:40:22,242
and all sorts of advantages.
Above all, there was water."

592
00:40:22,365 --> 00:40:24,003
"It was invaluable."

593
00:40:24,125 --> 00:40:26,639
"In particular,
there was an precious spring

594
00:40:26,765 --> 00:40:29,438
which gushed from a rocky crevice

595
00:40:29,565 --> 00:40:32,841
between tamarisks
and a gnarled olive tree."

596
00:40:35,245 --> 00:40:39,955
"Norma saw it first.
I still see her, moving barefoot

597
00:40:40,085 --> 00:40:42,315
towards the sunshot fountain,

598
00:40:42,445 --> 00:40:45,881
kneeling to catch the sparkling
water in the palm of her hands."

599
00:40:46,005 --> 00:40:50,601
"Her shirt, tied in a large knot
above her waist showed..."

600
00:40:53,885 --> 00:40:55,637
Go on...

601
00:40:58,565 --> 00:41:02,922
"...showed, as she bent over,
a broad strip of golden skin."

602
00:41:03,045 --> 00:41:06,276
"The water was plentiful,
clear, lovely."

603
00:41:06,405 --> 00:41:09,602
"She splashed her arms and her face."

604
00:41:18,365 --> 00:41:21,163
You're pretty today.

605
00:41:21,285 --> 00:41:23,241
Is she awake?

606
00:41:25,005 --> 00:41:27,394
Did the knickers do the trick?

607
00:41:27,525 --> 00:41:30,119
Yes. No. Would you like to see?

608
00:41:30,245 --> 00:41:33,317
No. Yes. As you wish.

609
00:41:50,205 --> 00:41:53,117
Those knickers are really dreadful.

610
00:42:00,005 --> 00:42:01,677
It's the revolution.

611
00:42:01,805 --> 00:42:04,080
Bella... Tea, if you please.

612
00:42:16,685 --> 00:42:21,759
"Comrade Stalin, now general secretary,
holds in his hands unlimited power

613
00:42:21,885 --> 00:42:27,084
and I'm not sure he always uses it
with enough circumspection".

614
00:42:27,205 --> 00:42:28,797
End of quote.

615
00:42:28,925 --> 00:42:30,597
Author?

616
00:42:30,725 --> 00:42:32,556
Lenin?

617
00:42:32,685 --> 00:42:35,882
December 25, 1922.

618
00:42:36,005 --> 00:42:38,075
I don't recognize uncle Joseph...

619
00:42:38,205 --> 00:42:42,403
- He was at the seminary in Georgia.
- That explains it...

620
00:42:43,605 --> 00:42:47,564
Now let's read, Nouchka.
What did you bring?

621
00:42:49,765 --> 00:42:53,724
"Michael Strogoff'
or "General Dourakine"?

622
00:42:53,845 --> 00:42:56,484
Babouchka, let's be serious.

623
00:42:56,605 --> 00:42:59,165
Let's go back to "War and Peace".

624
00:43:03,125 --> 00:43:06,515
"Next day, Prince Andrei
recalled the previous night's ball

625
00:43:06,645 --> 00:43:08,875
but his thoughts did not linger."

626
00:43:09,005 --> 00:43:12,714
"Yes, it was a brilliant ball
and little Rostov was charming."

627
00:43:12,845 --> 00:43:17,157
"She has a freshness, not from
Petersburg, which sets her apart."

628
00:43:17,285 --> 00:43:22,154
"That's all he thought of the ball
and after tea he sat down to work."

629
00:43:22,285 --> 00:43:26,642
<i>"While I continue with Chapter 18
of Tolstoy's masterpiece.</i>

630
00:43:26,765 --> 00:43:31,316
<i>I hear the door open slowly.
Bella probably. with the tea. "</i>

631
00:43:32,365 --> 00:43:36,563
<i>"No. The mauve cat
has come to spy on us. "</i>

632
00:43:43,605 --> 00:43:48,360
<i>"I called on the agency man.
To ask him to run my ad again. "</i>

633
00:43:48,485 --> 00:43:51,158
<i>"I assured him
it was all going smoothly. "</i>

634
00:43:51,285 --> 00:43:56,313
Well, if you have problems
don't complain to me.

635
00:43:56,445 --> 00:43:57,958
Same text?

636
00:43:58,085 --> 00:44:02,840
No, between "literature"
and "documents", add "poetry".

637
00:44:02,965 --> 00:44:05,354
One more word, 10 more francs.

638
00:44:05,485 --> 00:44:07,680
What a mess.

639
00:44:07,805 --> 00:44:09,363
Poetry...

640
00:44:09,485 --> 00:44:12,158
Words like that ruin everything.

641
00:44:12,285 --> 00:44:17,234
"I held out. A small challenge,
but important. It bore its fruit."

642
00:44:17,365 --> 00:44:19,435
"I received a charming letter."

643
00:44:19,565 --> 00:44:23,524
"Elegance of feeling, discreet
humour, pretty paper, nice writing."

644
00:44:23,645 --> 00:44:27,877
"In short, a very busy mother,
aware of her responsibilities,

645
00:44:28,005 --> 00:44:32,078
wants me to help Coralie,
aged 6, discover poetry."

646
00:44:32,205 --> 00:44:35,481
"I'm with the lady, I listen..."

647
00:44:35,605 --> 00:44:37,960
Mother's coming.

648
00:44:42,405 --> 00:44:46,398
Mother works hard,
not a minute to herself.

649
00:44:46,525 --> 00:44:50,803
- Will she have one for me?
- I thought you came for me?

650
00:44:50,925 --> 00:44:54,042
- And will it suit?
- It will.

651
00:44:57,045 --> 00:45:01,084
- And Papa?
- Papa is on a business trip.

652
00:45:09,365 --> 00:45:13,597
Mother ordered books
but she can't read.

653
00:45:17,165 --> 00:45:20,157
Mother, say hello to the lady.

654
00:45:25,405 --> 00:45:29,080
How delightful. You're very sweet.
You're both sweet.

655
00:45:29,205 --> 00:45:32,322
I'm sure you'll get on.
What will you read?

656
00:45:32,445 --> 00:45:35,960
- "Alice in Wonderland".
- What a lucky girl.

657
00:45:37,805 --> 00:45:40,603
Oh dear. I'm going to be late.

658
00:45:42,725 --> 00:45:45,558
She's sure to forget her gloves.

659
00:46:01,605 --> 00:46:05,518
I've brought a beautiful work
by Marguerite Duras,

660
00:46:05,645 --> 00:46:07,522
"The Lover".

661
00:46:09,925 --> 00:46:13,998
"Fifteen and a half.
It's the crossing of the river."

662
00:46:14,125 --> 00:46:18,437
"I'm wearing a silk dress.
It's worn, almost transparent."

663
00:46:18,565 --> 00:46:23,400
"It was my mother's.
One day, thinking it too light,

664
00:46:23,525 --> 00:46:25,481
she gave it to me."

665
00:46:25,605 --> 00:46:28,403
"This dress is sleeveless
and very low-cut."

666
00:46:28,525 --> 00:46:32,074
"It has the brownish tones
that silk takes on with age."

667
00:46:32,205 --> 00:46:36,596
"It's a dress I remember.
I think it suits me."

668
00:46:36,725 --> 00:46:41,162
"I wear a leather belt, belonging
perhaps to one of my brothers."

669
00:46:41,285 --> 00:46:44,402
"I do not recall the shoes
I wore during those years,

670
00:46:44,525 --> 00:46:46,880
only certain dresses."

671
00:46:47,005 --> 00:46:51,601
"Mostly, I am barefoot
with canvas sandals."

672
00:46:51,725 --> 00:46:56,162
"That day I must wear
those high-heels in gold lam�."

673
00:46:56,285 --> 00:46:59,561
"I don't see what else
I could have worn that day."

674
00:47:01,685 --> 00:47:03,721
"So I wear them."

675
00:47:04,685 --> 00:47:07,961
"A reduced bargain
my mother bought me."

676
00:47:08,085 --> 00:47:11,555
"I wear the gold lam� shoes to school."

677
00:47:12,605 --> 00:47:17,759
"I go to school in evening shoes
decorated with little paste jewels."

678
00:47:17,885 --> 00:47:20,001
"It is my wish..."

679
00:47:22,245 --> 00:47:24,440
Admirable...

680
00:47:24,565 --> 00:47:28,319
Unquestionably admirable.
How can one resist?

681
00:47:28,445 --> 00:47:31,118
You, you are admirable.

682
00:47:31,245 --> 00:47:34,282
It's you I want, not the book.

683
00:47:34,405 --> 00:47:37,920
I've thought of nothing but you
since our last session.

684
00:47:38,045 --> 00:47:39,478
Look...

685
00:47:42,885 --> 00:47:46,594
Look at us.
Don't you think we suit each other?

686
00:47:46,725 --> 00:47:48,124
No.

687
00:47:49,085 --> 00:47:52,316
And this way? I'm free,
so are you, let's get married.

688
00:47:52,445 --> 00:47:53,844
No.

689
00:47:54,365 --> 00:47:55,923
Not free?

690
00:47:56,045 --> 00:47:58,639
But why aren't you?
It's a tragedy.

691
00:47:58,765 --> 00:48:03,998
No, I am free, a little, quite free,
or not, it depends. But I don't marry.

692
00:48:04,125 --> 00:48:06,844
It's my fault.
Because I lied. It's unworthy.

693
00:48:06,965 --> 00:48:09,798
Why didn't I admit it all?
You guessed?

694
00:48:09,925 --> 00:48:13,804
Mental block. I take a book,
you take a book, I fall asleep.

695
00:48:13,925 --> 00:48:18,396
So I thought that with your voice
I could at last enter...

696
00:48:18,525 --> 00:48:19,719
There.

697
00:48:19,845 --> 00:48:21,756
You'd have been my redeemer,

698
00:48:21,885 --> 00:48:24,797
my initiator, my muse...

699
00:48:24,925 --> 00:48:26,597
No.

700
00:48:26,725 --> 00:48:29,478
I am your reader.

701
00:48:29,605 --> 00:48:32,324
Not just a reader?
You're a bit something else?

702
00:48:32,445 --> 00:48:35,243
- No.
- Well, then read.

703
00:48:35,365 --> 00:48:39,358
But I fully intend to take this further,
believe me.

704
00:48:39,525 --> 00:48:42,119
Well, then I'll read.

705
00:48:42,245 --> 00:48:45,078
"It is not the shoes that are unusual,

706
00:48:45,205 --> 00:48:47,799
unparalleled, that day,
in the girl's attire."

707
00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:52,794
"What it is, that day, is her hat,
a man's hat with a flat brim."

708
00:48:52,925 --> 00:48:56,122
"Soft, rosewood-coloured felt
with a wide black band..."

709
00:48:56,245 --> 00:48:59,760
- The first sentence again.
- Did I wake you?

710
00:48:59,885 --> 00:49:03,514
- "It is not the shoes that are..."
- No, the first one, earlier on.

711
00:49:04,885 --> 00:49:07,638
"Fifteen and a half.
It is the crossing..."

712
00:49:07,765 --> 00:49:09,244
Go on.

713
00:49:10,005 --> 00:49:13,475
"I am wearing a silk dress.
It's worn, almost transparent..."

714
00:49:13,605 --> 00:49:15,004
That's it.

715
00:49:15,125 --> 00:49:18,322
That's how I am.
A sentence like that kills me.

716
00:49:18,445 --> 00:49:21,721
This worn dress kills me.
You kill me, Mlle.

717
00:49:21,845 --> 00:49:25,474
A shiver, quivers of desire
overcome me...

718
00:49:25,605 --> 00:49:29,314
It's beautiful. You're listening,
you're unblocked.

719
00:49:29,445 --> 00:49:32,642
Believe it or not, I haven't made love

720
00:49:32,765 --> 00:49:34,596
for six months.

721
00:49:49,565 --> 00:49:52,875
That's it for today. Goodbye.

722
00:49:59,125 --> 00:50:02,003
- Did I scare you?
- Not at all, why?

723
00:50:02,125 --> 00:50:05,037
- I was afraid that...
- You were afraid.

724
00:50:05,885 --> 00:50:09,844
- You love him?
- I don't think so. You?

725
00:50:12,605 --> 00:50:16,120
- Do I love him?
- No. Do you think I do?

726
00:50:16,245 --> 00:50:19,282
I don't think so. I think you love me.

727
00:50:19,405 --> 00:50:21,521
Me too.

728
00:50:21,645 --> 00:50:26,002
- You, too, think you love me?
- I, too, think you love me.

729
00:50:26,125 --> 00:50:29,003
Me too. And you?

730
00:50:29,125 --> 00:50:31,844
Me too.

731
00:50:31,965 --> 00:50:34,081
You, too, love me?

732
00:50:34,205 --> 00:50:36,400
I think so.

733
00:50:36,525 --> 00:50:38,561
Me too.

734
00:50:43,045 --> 00:50:47,516
<i>"I cannot be said to behave rashly:
I also consult the university. "</i>

735
00:50:47,645 --> 00:50:50,159
<i>"As expected.
My old teacher is dismayed. "</i>

736
00:50:50,285 --> 00:50:52,435
You'll ruin everything.

737
00:50:53,365 --> 00:50:59,395
If it amuses you to sleep with this CEO,
who's probably a bankrupt cry-baby,

738
00:50:59,525 --> 00:51:01,755
go ahead, my dear, go to bed.

739
00:51:01,885 --> 00:51:06,834
But remember,
you placed that ad in order to read.

740
00:51:06,965 --> 00:51:12,722
If you really want my opinion,
you'd do better to stick to reading.

741
00:51:12,845 --> 00:51:14,915
That is my opinion.

742
00:51:15,045 --> 00:51:19,243
<i>"I'm so happy. At last
he has spoken out. My old teacher. "</i>

743
00:51:19,365 --> 00:51:22,914
<i>"But why do I always want to do
the opposite of what he says?"</i>

744
00:51:23,045 --> 00:51:25,434
<i>"I think I've made my decision."</i>

745
00:51:30,405 --> 00:51:34,114
- Hello, Marie.
- Hello, Coralie.

746
00:51:34,245 --> 00:51:37,203
- Hello, monsieur.
- Mademoiselle.

747
00:51:38,245 --> 00:51:40,679
We'll read in my room.

748
00:51:41,645 --> 00:51:44,000
<i>"I can hear music."</i>

749
00:51:44,125 --> 00:51:46,798
<i>"She's going to play a trick."</i>

750
00:51:47,565 --> 00:51:50,398
"Alice, sitting on the bank
by her sister,

751
00:51:50,525 --> 00:51:53,801
was beginning to tire
of having nothing to do."

752
00:51:53,925 --> 00:51:57,964
"Once or twice,
she'd peeped in to her sister's book

753
00:51:58,085 --> 00:52:00,804
but it had
no pictures or conversations."

754
00:52:00,925 --> 00:52:05,282
"And what use is a book with no pictures
or conversations, thought Alice."

755
00:52:05,405 --> 00:52:09,159
"She was wondering whether
the pleasure of making a daisy-chain

756
00:52:09,285 --> 00:52:11,719
was worth the trouble of picking them,

757
00:52:11,845 --> 00:52:17,602
when suddenly, a White Rabbit
with red eyes ran close by her."

758
00:52:17,725 --> 00:52:20,080
"This was not so very remarkable."

759
00:52:20,205 --> 00:52:24,596
"Nor did Alice think it very strange
to hear the Rabbit murmur:

760
00:52:24,725 --> 00:52:27,114
"Oh dear, oh dear, I shall be late."

761
00:52:27,245 --> 00:52:31,557
"But when the Rabbit took a watch
out of its waistcoat pocket

762
00:52:31,685 --> 00:52:35,644
looked at it and then hurried off,
Alice jumped up."

763
00:52:35,765 --> 00:52:40,236
"It flashed... across her mind...

764
00:52:40,365 --> 00:52:44,722
...that she had never seen a rabbit
take a watch out of a waistcoat..."

765
00:52:44,845 --> 00:52:46,881
- Let's go out!
- Next time.

766
00:52:47,005 --> 00:52:50,918
It is next time.
Say yes, Marie.

767
00:52:51,045 --> 00:52:55,675
<i>"I say yes.
Unwisely. Once again. "</i>

768
00:52:55,805 --> 00:52:58,956
- A fair, can you hear?
- I didn't say yes.

769
00:52:59,085 --> 00:53:01,280
Yes, you did.

770
00:53:10,725 --> 00:53:13,114
I won't tell.

771
00:53:13,245 --> 00:53:15,600
- Have you got the key?
- Yes.

772
00:53:15,725 --> 00:53:17,078
Give it to me.

773
00:53:45,525 --> 00:53:48,164
May I? It's my turn.

774
00:54:15,125 --> 00:54:20,119
<i>"She sees it all. Now. Not only
kidnapping but organized robbery. "</i>

775
00:54:20,245 --> 00:54:21,724
<i>"She calls the Inspector."</i>

776
00:54:21,845 --> 00:54:25,440
<i>"She can barely talk.
Trembling with pain and anger. "</i>

777
00:54:25,565 --> 00:54:28,443
<i>"He asks for descriptions
of Coralie and myself. "</i>

778
00:54:28,565 --> 00:54:31,523
<i>"Happily. Less than an hour later.</i>

779
00:54:31,645 --> 00:54:35,240
<i>Coralie is there and so am I. "</i>

780
00:54:36,485 --> 00:54:38,953
<i>"I plead guilty.
I do what I can</i>

781
00:54:39,085 --> 00:54:42,043
<i>to disarm the mother.
But she won't disarm. "</i>

782
00:54:42,165 --> 00:54:44,235
Alone with the rabbit!

783
00:54:44,365 --> 00:54:47,482
Had I died, you idiot,
it would have been your fault!

784
00:54:47,605 --> 00:54:50,073
You've spoilt everything.

785
00:55:17,605 --> 00:55:22,804
<i>"Realising the gravity of her misdeed.
Coralie cries and rolls on the floor. "</i>

786
00:55:22,925 --> 00:55:25,678
<i>"How can I put an end to this disaster?"</i>

787
00:55:25,805 --> 00:55:28,478
<i>"I won't see Coralie
and her mother for some time. "</i>

788
00:55:28,605 --> 00:55:33,395
<i>"Serves me right for abandoning
reading in favour of having fun. "</i>

789
00:55:44,485 --> 00:55:48,922
"I rarely cross the public garden
in N..., the small town where I live."

790
00:55:49,045 --> 00:55:53,675
"But from some months,
I've heard only awful things about it."

791
00:55:53,805 --> 00:55:57,798
"Women are attacked,
homosexuals harassed, people robbed,

792
00:55:57,925 --> 00:56:01,554
drugs are sold,
major and minor deals are done."

793
00:56:01,685 --> 00:56:05,473
"So I decided two weeks ago
to go and take a look."

794
00:56:05,605 --> 00:56:08,278
"What happened
is almost unbelievable, I was..."

795
00:56:08,405 --> 00:56:13,274
What happened to me! I don't know
about him, but me, you can't imagine.

796
00:56:13,405 --> 00:56:15,123
No, I can't. I can't.

797
00:56:15,245 --> 00:56:16,963
- That's it. Come.
- Where?

798
00:56:17,085 --> 00:56:18,313
- Where?
- Yes.

799
00:56:18,445 --> 00:56:20,800
- My room. You said yes.
- Yes.

800
00:56:43,045 --> 00:56:45,081
I was sure...

801
00:56:45,205 --> 00:56:48,356
...that you'd keep your knickers on.

802
00:56:48,485 --> 00:56:51,318
I knew from your face
that you'd keep them on.

803
00:56:51,445 --> 00:56:54,198
That's right.

804
00:56:54,325 --> 00:56:56,964
And from my bum
that I'd keep on my glasses.

805
00:56:57,085 --> 00:57:01,283
It's terribly hypocritical
to keep your knickers on.

806
00:57:01,405 --> 00:57:04,715
Many African tribes,
I often go to Africa,

807
00:57:04,845 --> 00:57:08,155
Australians too, or Oceanians,
I don't recall, never mind.

808
00:57:08,285 --> 00:57:13,882
I don't go there, but I'm assured.
How do they say "hypocrite"?

809
00:57:14,005 --> 00:57:15,961
"Knickers", they say "knickers".

810
00:57:16,085 --> 00:57:18,553
Hypocrite, knickers.

811
00:57:18,685 --> 00:57:21,279
I'm very moved...

812
00:57:21,405 --> 00:57:24,841
So... so moved, no other word.

813
00:57:26,685 --> 00:57:30,758
Feel, feel my pulse.
You feel how it's beating?

814
00:57:33,765 --> 00:57:35,596
Come.

815
00:58:42,965 --> 00:58:45,798
Have mercy. Don't be a sadist.

816
00:58:45,925 --> 00:58:50,601
"I'd been walking for a while
between clipped thujas and yews,

817
00:58:50,725 --> 00:58:54,798
and I'd reached a sort of lawn
arranged for children,

818
00:58:54,925 --> 00:58:57,883
a small pool in the middle
surrounded by benches."

819
00:58:58,005 --> 00:59:01,077
"On one of them,
a young girl was reading a book..."

820
00:59:01,205 --> 00:59:03,514
Your voice.

821
00:59:03,645 --> 00:59:06,364
- It's all your voice.
- My voice?

822
00:59:06,485 --> 00:59:10,558
It penetrates as far...
I've never heard such a voice...

823
00:59:10,685 --> 00:59:14,473
Marie, look. I'm shivering.

824
00:59:18,365 --> 00:59:22,722
"I'd been watching this girl,
when the event took place."

825
00:59:22,845 --> 00:59:25,678
"Two youths,
I was tempted to think hooligans,

826
00:59:25,805 --> 00:59:30,401
appeared near the bench,
sat down on either side of her,

827
00:59:30,525 --> 00:59:34,598
clearly intent on bothering her
and making her react."

828
00:59:34,725 --> 00:59:39,082
"They began by making remarks,
doubtless intended to be funny,

829
00:59:39,205 --> 00:59:43,278
but which only made her
concentrate on her reading

830
00:59:43,405 --> 00:59:47,717
in an attempt to escape,
make herself totally deaf and dumb."

831
00:59:47,845 --> 00:59:53,044
"Their words and laughter flew
around her in a rather sinister game."

832
00:59:53,165 --> 00:59:55,918
"Finally, she shut her book
and stood up."

833
00:59:56,045 --> 01:00:01,802
"One of them seized her wrist
and forced her to sit down."

834
01:00:01,925 --> 01:00:03,836
"The other, without hesitation,

835
01:00:03,965 --> 01:00:07,844
put his hand on her knee
and tried to slide it under her skirt."

836
01:00:07,965 --> 01:00:10,274
"She screamed, pulled down...".

837
01:00:40,845 --> 01:00:44,155
I knew I wouldn't have time.

838
01:00:45,205 --> 01:00:48,242
- It was too much.
- Or not enough.

839
01:00:48,365 --> 01:00:51,038
Come on,
all this couldn't be more normal.

840
01:00:51,165 --> 01:00:52,883
Couldn't be.

841
01:00:53,005 --> 01:00:55,883
Calm. Relaxation.

842
01:00:56,005 --> 01:00:58,473
The body relaxes.

843
01:00:58,605 --> 01:01:01,677
The mind relaxes.

844
01:01:01,805 --> 01:01:03,841
And for that...

845
01:01:03,965 --> 01:01:07,958
nothing better
than a little reading.

846
01:01:09,165 --> 01:01:12,714
"She screamed,
quickly pulled down her skirt."

847
01:01:12,845 --> 01:01:18,397
"They moved closer to her
until they held her as if in a vice."

848
01:01:18,525 --> 01:01:23,155
"I wondered if I wasn't dreaming,
if it wasn't a hallucination."

849
01:01:23,285 --> 01:01:27,244
"But the smaller of the two youths,
put a hand on her breasts."

850
01:01:27,365 --> 01:01:30,596
"The other took out
of his pocket a switchblade

851
01:01:30,725 --> 01:01:33,159
and, after springing the blade,

852
01:01:33,285 --> 01:01:36,800
used it to slit the girl's blouse,

853
01:01:36,925 --> 01:01:41,123
as though intending
to uncover her bust."

854
01:01:41,245 --> 01:01:46,273
"Tension rose from minute to minute.
I could hardly breathe."

855
01:01:46,405 --> 01:01:50,683
"What happened next
seemed to me totally astonishing."

856
01:02:03,205 --> 01:02:07,198
You've never seen speaker women?

857
01:02:07,325 --> 01:02:11,034
I wondered if black suited them.

858
01:02:11,165 --> 01:02:13,998
Maybe a pale mauve.

859
01:02:14,125 --> 01:02:16,161
Or raspberry pink.

860
01:02:16,285 --> 01:02:20,119
You have a lovely,
a very lovely bust.

861
01:02:26,645 --> 01:02:28,761
I suggest...

862
01:02:28,885 --> 01:02:31,445
No, you'll catch cold.

863
01:02:31,565 --> 01:02:34,523
I'll turn up the heating,
if you like.

864
01:02:36,965 --> 01:02:39,684
I can put on an electric fire...
I have one.

865
01:02:39,805 --> 01:02:42,365
Two, in fact.

866
01:03:32,245 --> 01:03:33,997
Bottoms up.

867
01:03:36,765 --> 01:03:39,359
There, it's all over now.

868
01:03:40,365 --> 01:03:43,277
Back to beddy-byes.

869
01:04:05,405 --> 01:04:07,839
In love...

870
01:04:07,965 --> 01:04:11,435
...nothing should be hurried.

871
01:04:14,245 --> 01:04:17,362
Things should be made to last.

872
01:04:19,925 --> 01:04:21,756
Refined...

873
01:04:23,725 --> 01:04:26,080
Infinite...

874
01:04:28,085 --> 01:04:30,838
So I am going...

875
01:04:30,965 --> 01:04:33,115
...to continue...

876
01:04:33,245 --> 01:04:35,713
...reading.

877
01:04:40,765 --> 01:04:44,314
"The two hooligans
abruptly changed their attitude."

878
01:04:44,445 --> 01:04:46,595
"The knife disappeared,

879
01:04:46,725 --> 01:04:49,637
a whistle blew behind me."

880
01:04:49,765 --> 01:04:54,520
"Two policemen stopped me,
asked to see my papers."

881
01:04:54,645 --> 01:04:57,523
"They told me
I probably did not know about

882
01:04:57,645 --> 01:05:01,001
failure to assist a person in danger."

883
01:05:01,125 --> 01:05:04,162
"I couldn't understand it."

884
01:05:04,285 --> 01:05:08,483
"They explained it had all been staged."

885
01:05:08,605 --> 01:05:11,642
"The two hooligans were in fact..."

886
01:05:11,765 --> 01:05:14,404
No reading, not now...

887
01:05:17,605 --> 01:05:19,800
Dear sir,

888
01:05:19,925 --> 01:05:25,443
please remember
I came to read you books,

889
01:05:26,445 --> 01:05:29,323
and I fully intend...

890
01:05:29,445 --> 01:05:32,721
...to take this further.

891
01:05:32,845 --> 01:05:35,313
Very well... OK.

892
01:05:37,405 --> 01:05:38,758
"A rolling feeling takes over my body."

893
01:05:40,125 --> 01:05:43,003
"It's like a boat, a voyage."

894
01:05:43,125 --> 01:05:46,037
"He begs that this voyage never end."

895
01:05:46,165 --> 01:05:49,874
"I tell him that it will end,
like all voyages".

896
01:05:52,285 --> 01:05:55,800
"I am astonished to be summoned
to the police station."

897
01:05:55,925 --> 01:05:59,281
- Inspector, the lady was upset...
- Please...

898
01:05:59,405 --> 01:06:03,603
...quite rightly, but she was reunited
with her daughter and jewels.

899
01:06:03,725 --> 01:06:05,477
I know that very well.

900
01:06:05,605 --> 01:06:09,996
But you also know what routine is,
a little routine enquiry?

901
01:06:10,125 --> 01:06:13,322
We don't have the littlest thing
against you, I insist.

902
01:06:13,445 --> 01:06:18,439
I can forget the little girl,
your little ad,

903
01:06:18,565 --> 01:06:21,921
but all of that
has aroused a little curiosity.

904
01:06:22,045 --> 01:06:25,481
That's why I asked you
to pay me a little visit.

905
01:06:25,605 --> 01:06:28,073
And I'd be curious, Inspector,

906
01:06:28,205 --> 01:06:31,003
to know if I contravened,
in even the littlest way,

907
01:06:31,125 --> 01:06:33,958
the regulations of my profession...

908
01:06:34,085 --> 01:06:36,553
I'd point out
that it is not a profession.

909
01:06:36,685 --> 01:06:40,314
That's why it is not regulated.
And as it's not regulated,

910
01:06:40,445 --> 01:06:43,960
on a purely personal note,
I would advise caution, that is all.

911
01:06:44,085 --> 01:06:48,601
- I have no more to say.
- On a purely personal note, nor do I.

912
01:06:50,445 --> 01:06:52,959
Himself...? Sorry.

913
01:06:55,565 --> 01:06:59,353
Thank you. Delighted to have met you.

914
01:07:04,565 --> 01:07:08,717
<i>"It would seem I now have a career
and even a certain renown. "</i>

915
01:07:08,845 --> 01:07:11,313
<i>"Unless the Inspector
was flattering me. "</i>

916
01:07:26,965 --> 01:07:29,433
I think I have pretty skin.

917
01:07:29,565 --> 01:07:33,558
So smooth, not a mark.
Just a little pale.

918
01:07:33,685 --> 01:07:36,916
I'm going to tan, just a little.

919
01:07:37,045 --> 01:07:40,162
I've started reading.
It's not unpleasant,

920
01:07:40,285 --> 01:07:43,004
but as for making a career of it...

921
01:07:43,125 --> 01:07:46,037
Go on,
the general's widow is waiting.

922
01:07:46,165 --> 01:07:49,043
What's this I see?

923
01:07:51,205 --> 01:07:56,279
- No.
- Three little spider bites?

924
01:07:56,405 --> 01:07:58,361
- Yes.
- No.

925
01:08:00,685 --> 01:08:03,836
You must cut your hair, my dear.

926
01:08:09,565 --> 01:08:12,921
- Good Lord!
- Be quiet, come and help.

927
01:08:14,765 --> 01:08:17,154
Bend down, pull them out...

928
01:08:24,245 --> 01:08:26,805
But why the flags, madame?

929
01:08:29,885 --> 01:08:33,514
Today is the anniversary
of Lenin's death.

930
01:09:02,365 --> 01:09:04,595
<i>"Today is also Eric's birthday."</i>

931
01:09:04,725 --> 01:09:09,003
<i>"His mother insisted
I attend the party. "</i>

932
01:09:09,125 --> 01:09:11,719
<i>"She even said
there would be a surprise. "</i>

933
01:09:19,125 --> 01:09:23,323
"The Most Beautiful Love Poems
in French Literature".

934
01:09:23,805 --> 01:09:26,717
- What a good idea.
- I hope it's all right.

935
01:09:35,645 --> 01:09:37,920
Thank you very much, madame.

936
01:09:40,645 --> 01:09:43,079
- You shouldn't have.
- It's a pleasure.

937
01:09:43,205 --> 01:09:45,765
I have a gift for you, too.

938
01:09:45,885 --> 01:09:47,841
A present for me?

939
01:09:55,365 --> 01:09:59,153
- It's pretty.
- A bed-jacket.

940
01:09:59,285 --> 01:10:02,357
You need it for reading in bed.

941
01:10:02,485 --> 01:10:05,079
It is really too kind.

942
01:10:06,605 --> 01:10:08,197
And it's a surprise.

943
01:10:08,325 --> 01:10:10,395
I love surprises.

944
01:10:10,525 --> 01:10:13,722
- No, that's not the surprise.
- Try it on, let's see.

945
01:10:15,405 --> 01:10:19,557
- Over the sweater you can't tell.
- It'll give us an idea.

946
01:10:19,685 --> 01:10:21,641
It suits you very well.

947
01:10:21,765 --> 01:10:25,474
Well done, mother.
What a pretty bed-jacket.

948
01:10:26,525 --> 01:10:28,595
Surprise.

949
01:10:34,525 --> 01:10:36,755
Here is the pretty reader.

950
01:11:18,645 --> 01:11:21,284
Stay there. I'll bring the tea.

951
01:11:23,845 --> 01:11:28,396
Jo�l's mother works in a hotel,
in room-service.

952
01:11:51,285 --> 01:11:55,676
What's it like in a hotel?
Things must go on.

953
01:11:55,805 --> 01:11:57,761
Less than in a novel.

954
01:11:57,885 --> 01:11:59,955
Go on, blow.

955
01:12:11,165 --> 01:12:12,996
Lights out.

956
01:12:13,125 --> 01:12:16,481
"Peaceful yet,
Charlemagne and his frights"

957
01:12:16,605 --> 01:12:20,962
"Left the mountain,
forgetting lights"

958
01:12:26,005 --> 01:12:28,360
My bed-jacket will get marks on it.

959
01:12:28,485 --> 01:12:30,635
It would be a pity.

960
01:12:39,085 --> 01:12:43,363
<i>Why does one decide
to read to strangers?</i>

961
01:12:43,485 --> 01:12:46,921
<i>I don't know. To talk. Maybe.</i>

962
01:12:47,045 --> 01:12:50,833
<i>Because words one likes.
One wants to share.</i>

963
01:12:50,965 --> 01:12:52,921
That's nice.

964
01:12:56,965 --> 01:13:00,082
<i>Reading a lot.
Doesn't one want to invent stories?</i>

965
01:13:00,205 --> 01:13:03,322
No. I have no imagination.

966
01:13:07,445 --> 01:13:11,120
I've had too much to drink.
Boys, let's read a little.

967
01:13:11,245 --> 01:13:15,079
My 15th birthday,
I'm starting to regress.

968
01:13:18,565 --> 01:13:21,033
"The Blind man and the Paralytic".

969
01:13:23,445 --> 01:13:26,437
"Brothers Pierre and Paul
disliked one another."

970
01:13:26,565 --> 01:13:31,161
"So when Paul was knocked down
by a mad horse and was paralysed,

971
01:13:31,285 --> 01:13:33,799
Pierre was not sad."

972
01:13:33,925 --> 01:13:38,521
"When Paul, through the attic window
of the room where he lay,

973
01:13:38,645 --> 01:13:42,957
saw Pierre brought home,
his face bloody, his eyes dead,

974
01:13:43,085 --> 01:13:45,997
he felt avenged and was ashamed."

975
01:13:46,125 --> 01:13:49,162
"They both suffered and did not speak."

976
01:13:49,285 --> 01:13:52,834
"They both dreamed of the distant sea
of which all speak,

977
01:13:52,965 --> 01:13:55,957
but which no one knows
who has not tasted it."

978
01:13:56,085 --> 01:13:57,837
"Pierre confessed:

979
01:13:57,965 --> 01:14:02,322
"I will never go to the sea, for I live
in darkness and would lose my way."

980
01:14:02,445 --> 01:14:04,083
"And Paul answered:

981
01:14:04,205 --> 01:14:07,720
"I will never go to the sea,
for my legs will not carry me."

982
01:14:07,845 --> 01:14:13,203
"They understood and left,
the blind man carrying the paralytic."

983
01:14:13,325 --> 01:14:18,194
"Pierre did not let Paul know
how he tired under him."

984
01:14:18,325 --> 01:14:20,919
"Paul did not say how his eyes wearied

985
01:14:21,045 --> 01:14:26,244
from seeking their path
in darkness, fog and rain."

986
01:14:26,365 --> 01:14:30,677
"In the morning, a new scent
is in the air, an unknown wind blows."

987
01:14:30,805 --> 01:14:33,080
"They have reached the world's end."

988
01:14:33,205 --> 01:14:36,515
"Laughing, one carrying the other,

989
01:14:36,645 --> 01:14:39,682
they go still further into the deep sea,

990
01:14:39,805 --> 01:14:42,399
not thinking that
they are at last brothers,

991
01:14:42,525 --> 01:14:46,120
for the sea burns each one's eyes

992
01:14:46,245 --> 01:14:48,998
and wipes out his traces."

993
01:14:50,325 --> 01:14:52,600
It's beautiful.

994
01:14:58,605 --> 01:15:00,561
It's more beautiful for me.

995
01:15:00,685 --> 01:15:02,164
For he cannot see you.

996
01:15:02,285 --> 01:15:03,559
No.

997
01:15:03,685 --> 01:15:08,964
It's more beautiful for me,
for I do not have to see to imagine.

998
01:15:17,085 --> 01:15:18,643
"The Passion."

999
01:15:18,765 --> 01:15:22,883
<i>"My president is madly in love.
wants to take me to Zimbabwe</i>

1000
01:15:23,005 --> 01:15:27,237
<i>where he's a chance to put his
company on its feet on good terms. "</i>

1001
01:15:27,365 --> 01:15:31,040
<i>"The state of his company
affords him no choice. He'll go. "</i>

1002
01:15:31,165 --> 01:15:35,636
<i>"If I go too. He'll rebuild his life.
It'll be heaven. "</i>

1003
01:15:35,765 --> 01:15:39,963
Is it true? I don't know
if I believe you. I believe I don't.

1004
01:15:40,085 --> 01:15:44,556
<i>"If I don't go. It will be a slow
sinking into deepest Africa.</i>

1005
01:15:44,685 --> 01:15:47,722
<i>"Exhausted by work.
The mine will devour him.</i>

1006
01:15:47,845 --> 01:15:49,756
<i>He'll fall into oblivion.
And drown in alcohol. "</i>

1007
01:15:51,485 --> 01:15:55,034
<i>"With me. His business will flourish.
Money will flow. "</i>

1008
01:15:55,165 --> 01:15:58,635
<i>"I will be spoilt. F�ted. Ioved. Happy."</i>

1009
01:15:58,765 --> 01:16:03,156
Happier than with a rotten job in a
sleepy town and a lover who ignores you.

1010
01:16:03,285 --> 01:16:05,355
<i>"At that. I react violently."</i>

1011
01:16:05,485 --> 01:16:08,795
My lover, you hear, is worth
1000 CEOs of your sort.

1012
01:16:08,925 --> 01:16:11,359
He'd never think of
leaving me for Africa.

1013
01:16:11,485 --> 01:16:15,034
He loves me, my lover,
let it be said, it's been said.

1014
01:16:15,165 --> 01:16:18,601
<i>"I take advantage of his disarray
to return to reading. "</i>

1015
01:16:18,725 --> 01:16:23,241
<i>"I don't intend to allow my
professional duties to come second. "</i>

1016
01:16:23,365 --> 01:16:27,040
<i>"If he wants any favours from me.
He must listen. "</i>

1017
01:16:27,165 --> 01:16:31,716
<i>"Or. Exceptionally.
I let him read to me. "</i>

1018
01:16:33,525 --> 01:16:35,595
"H.B., in Sao Paulo for a conference,

1019
01:16:35,725 --> 01:16:40,879
noticed that at certain times of the
day or night, in this fabulous city,

1020
01:16:41,005 --> 01:16:44,156
men and women were indistinguishable."

1021
01:16:44,445 --> 01:16:49,439
"This strange sexual ambiguity stemmed
from a particular way of dressing,

1022
01:16:49,565 --> 01:16:52,204
of swaying hips, of hairdressing."

1023
01:16:54,365 --> 01:16:57,198
"Certain totally shaved heads,

1024
01:16:57,325 --> 01:17:00,761
on slender necks, made the uncertainty
even more disturbing."

1025
01:17:00,885 --> 01:17:02,841
It's a pity we're splitting.

1026
01:17:02,965 --> 01:17:05,763
You read very well.

1027
01:17:06,245 --> 01:17:09,635
"H. B, tired from a day
of endless debate,

1028
01:17:09,765 --> 01:17:13,041
went for a drink in a nightclub
in a nearby street,

1029
01:17:13,165 --> 01:17:16,282
an odd place called
"Chez Dolores et Sandra"

1030
01:17:17,325 --> 01:17:20,044
after the two women who ran it."

1031
01:17:20,165 --> 01:17:23,202
"When he came in,
they were standing motionless,

1032
01:17:23,325 --> 01:17:26,078
in the red light of an American bar,

1033
01:17:26,205 --> 01:17:29,038
welcoming, smiling."

1034
01:17:30,245 --> 01:17:33,362
"Sandra's head was shaved, like..."

1035
01:17:33,485 --> 01:17:36,522
Here. Give it back to your wife.

1036
01:17:38,045 --> 01:17:40,684
- Well?
- Well?

1037
01:17:42,085 --> 01:17:43,484
Shall we close this chapter?

1038
01:17:44,405 --> 01:17:46,316
Let's close this chapter.

1039
01:18:04,005 --> 01:18:06,803
- Your patients?
- They come and go.

1040
01:18:06,925 --> 01:18:09,883
Still reading.
But you should move, my girl.

1041
01:18:10,005 --> 01:18:12,519
But professor, I'm travelling.

1042
01:18:33,005 --> 01:18:37,795
<i>"I decided something interesting
had to happen to me today. "</i>

1043
01:18:38,405 --> 01:18:40,635
<i>"Could I count
on the general's widow?"</i>

1044
01:18:49,085 --> 01:18:51,041
Come in, Douchka.

1045
01:18:51,165 --> 01:18:52,359
Where's Bella?

1046
01:18:52,485 --> 01:18:53,964
I was wondering.

1047
01:18:54,085 --> 01:18:58,203
Bella has mysteriously disappeared.
But she sent a postcard.

1048
01:18:58,325 --> 01:19:00,714
Don't know where it is.
It's anywhere, nowhere.

1049
01:19:00,845 --> 01:19:02,278
Read it.

1050
01:19:05,325 --> 01:19:06,963
- "I came...".
- Skip it.

1051
01:19:07,085 --> 01:19:08,040
"The weather..."

1052
01:19:08,925 --> 01:19:11,359
"I obeyed Marie

1053
01:19:11,485 --> 01:19:13,441
and I had my hair cut."

1054
01:19:13,565 --> 01:19:16,443
"The hairdresser
and I were so nervous

1055
01:19:16,565 --> 01:19:20,558
the scissors slipped
and cut my forehead open."

1056
01:19:20,685 --> 01:19:22,437
"Out of...

1057
01:19:22,565 --> 01:19:26,558
...the swelling,
three small spiders escaped."

1058
01:19:26,685 --> 01:19:28,562
"The hairdresser fainted."

1059
01:19:28,685 --> 01:19:31,199
"The clients ran away."

1060
01:19:31,325 --> 01:19:33,202
"I feel healed."

1061
01:19:33,325 --> 01:19:36,954
"I think the salon is closed.
You could check...".

1062
01:19:49,965 --> 01:19:51,364
Come on.

1063
01:19:51,485 --> 01:19:53,794
Madame, I'm a little tired.

1064
01:19:53,925 --> 01:19:56,962
I don't know why.
I'm very tired. I'm frozen.

1065
01:19:57,085 --> 01:19:59,360
Cover up. Let's go down.

1066
01:19:59,765 --> 01:20:01,642
I brought a wonderful novel...

1067
01:20:01,765 --> 01:20:03,039
Epic...

1068
01:20:03,165 --> 01:20:04,120
Inspired...

1069
01:20:04,285 --> 01:20:08,119
Then read, Marie, I will go alone.
I'll tell you about it.

1070
01:20:08,765 --> 01:20:12,644
It's a small, intimate demonstration,
we're not even invited.

1071
01:20:14,925 --> 01:20:17,439
Marie, for the last time...

1072
01:20:25,565 --> 01:20:27,715
At your service, madame.

1073
01:20:27,965 --> 01:20:29,956
NO TO CLOSURE

1074
01:20:40,085 --> 01:20:43,236
Why didn't you come back?
Did you change jobs?

1075
01:20:46,085 --> 01:20:47,916
Compliments, Majesty.

1076
01:20:48,885 --> 01:20:51,445
You really are nice.

1077
01:20:52,805 --> 01:20:53,760
Really.

1078
01:20:58,245 --> 01:20:59,644
The girl with the jewels?

1079
01:21:01,165 --> 01:21:02,883
How charming.

1080
01:21:03,685 --> 01:21:06,563
The problem is,
not everyone agrees.

1081
01:21:07,245 --> 01:21:09,281
You know, people...

1082
01:21:09,405 --> 01:21:13,364
On the council, for example,
there are reds and whites.

1083
01:21:13,485 --> 01:21:17,000
Just imagine,
I had complaints from both.

1084
01:21:17,925 --> 01:21:20,041
The carnations were highly unpopular.

1085
01:21:20,165 --> 01:21:23,635
The florists felt
you were invading their patch.

1086
01:21:23,765 --> 01:21:26,359
And this one...

1087
01:21:32,685 --> 01:21:36,041
Fortunately, you were there
to prevent her falling.

1088
01:21:36,165 --> 01:21:38,725
Had her husband seen her,
from where he is,

1089
01:21:38,845 --> 01:21:44,363
making fun of a perfectly
well-organised, peaceful demonstration.

1090
01:21:44,485 --> 01:21:48,160
Unworthy. Reading is fine,
but look where it leads.

1091
01:21:49,325 --> 01:21:50,724
And you?

1092
01:21:51,765 --> 01:21:53,960
Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth.

1093
01:21:55,005 --> 01:21:57,121
That, too, is worrying.

1094
01:21:58,965 --> 01:22:03,516
Terrorists, for example,
I said for example...

1095
01:22:03,645 --> 01:22:06,443
...look like you or me.

1096
01:22:06,685 --> 01:22:07,800
You particularly.

1097
01:22:09,925 --> 01:22:13,964
What do you do in people's houses,
pretending to read?

1098
01:22:17,925 --> 01:22:19,916
Did you take down madame's answers?

1099
01:22:21,085 --> 01:22:23,280
It will be ready for next time...

1100
01:22:26,965 --> 01:22:29,718
<i>"This meeting told me
I'd lost any hope</i>

1101
01:22:29,845 --> 01:22:32,598
<i>of finding clients
among the town's notable citizens. "</i>

1102
01:22:34,085 --> 01:22:36,201
<i>"Just then. Against all hope.</i>

1103
01:22:36,325 --> 01:22:40,204
<i>I receive a letter from a retired judge.
A solitary widower.</i>

1104
01:22:40,325 --> 01:22:43,715
<i>whose eyes let him down.
He says. Could I lend him mine?"</i>

1105
01:22:43,845 --> 01:22:47,963
A book, you see,
is our last link with the world

1106
01:22:48,085 --> 01:22:51,282
when we can no longer be wholly present.

1107
01:22:53,005 --> 01:22:55,041
What a beautiful library.

1108
01:22:57,245 --> 01:22:59,713
I won't need to bring mine.

1109
01:22:59,845 --> 01:23:01,881
You will let me share your tastes...

1110
01:23:02,005 --> 01:23:04,803
<i>"I am just the person to suit him."</i>

1111
01:23:05,165 --> 01:23:08,794
<i>"Dear Marie. He says.
If you allow this paternal manner.</i>

1112
01:23:08,925 --> 01:23:13,203
<i>I still have things
I wish to discover before dying. "</i>

1113
01:23:13,325 --> 01:23:19,036
Yes, in the field of reading, too,
there are unsatisfied desires.

1114
01:23:19,925 --> 01:23:22,280
A rare edition.

1115
01:23:22,405 --> 01:23:26,876
A family heirloom,
hidden for years in attic or cellar.

1116
01:23:27,005 --> 01:23:30,884
Today, the last of the line,
I can no longer read.

1117
01:23:31,845 --> 01:23:35,474
Donatien Alphonse Fran�ois Sade.

1118
01:23:35,605 --> 01:23:37,641
"The Hundred and Twenty Days...".

1119
01:23:41,565 --> 01:23:43,442
<i>"Stuck... I really am."</i>

1120
01:23:43,565 --> 01:23:45,954
<i>"If I accept. I am caught."</i>

1121
01:23:46,085 --> 01:23:48,963
<i>"If I refuse. I am not a reader."</i>

1122
01:23:49,085 --> 01:23:51,041
<i>"A reader must read."</i>

1123
01:23:51,165 --> 01:23:54,123
<i>"Read out loud.
What is asked of her. "</i>

1124
01:23:54,525 --> 01:23:57,961
Well, I will consider it.
We will see next time.

1125
01:23:58,085 --> 01:24:02,044
Listen, let us have
a short reading today,

1126
01:24:02,165 --> 01:24:07,683
I'd like to hear you read so I can judge
this voice of which I hear wonders.

1127
01:24:07,805 --> 01:24:09,636
Let us sit down.

1128
01:24:09,765 --> 01:24:11,357
I am listening.

1129
01:24:11,485 --> 01:24:14,283
A page, any page...

1130
01:24:18,765 --> 01:24:20,562
<i>"I have been had."</i>

1131
01:24:20,685 --> 01:24:25,600
<i>"So I say to myself. Marie don't give in
to this toad. Take heart. "</i>

1132
01:24:38,845 --> 01:24:43,794
"A month later", said La Duclos,
"I had to deal with another debaucher."

1133
01:24:43,925 --> 01:24:45,438
"An old rake,

1134
01:24:45,565 --> 01:24:49,240
who having kissed
and fondled my arse for half an hour,

1135
01:24:49,365 --> 01:24:52,323
put his tongue in the hole,
entered it,

1136
01:24:52,445 --> 01:24:55,721
jabbed at it, rotated it

1137
01:24:55,845 --> 01:24:59,804
with such art I almost thought
it touched the depth of my innards."

1138
01:24:59,925 --> 01:25:03,634
"Hiding my cunt in one hand,
he used the other to excite his member

1139
01:25:03,765 --> 01:25:08,122
he came as he pulled
my anus violently to him,

1140
01:25:08,245 --> 01:25:10,475
stroking me with such lubricity

1141
01:25:10,605 --> 01:25:12,516
that I shared his ecstasy."

1142
01:25:12,845 --> 01:25:17,282
"When he had done,
he examined my arse a moment,

1143
01:25:17,405 --> 01:25:19,555
stared at the hole he had enlarged,

1144
01:25:19,685 --> 01:25:22,757
could not help but kiss it again

1145
01:25:22,885 --> 01:25:25,877
and hurried off assuring me
he would ask for me often,

1146
01:25:26,005 --> 01:25:28,314
that he was pleased with me

1147
01:25:28,445 --> 01:25:31,278
and the way I had allowed him
to spill his seed."

1148
01:25:33,685 --> 01:25:37,598
<i>"My voice did not tremble or weaken.
I am pleased with myself. "</i>

1149
01:25:37,725 --> 01:25:38,874
<i>"He. Too. It seems."</i>

1150
01:25:39,405 --> 01:25:40,599
<i>"He tells me so."</i>

1151
01:25:40,725 --> 01:25:42,841
I am very pleased with you.

1152
01:25:43,485 --> 01:25:48,275
<i>"I have progressed in the theory
and practice of my profession. "</i>

1153
01:25:48,405 --> 01:25:49,963
<i>"I thank him."</i>

1154
01:25:50,085 --> 01:25:51,598
<i>"I will return."</i>

1155
01:26:01,165 --> 01:26:03,520
You are not wearing your bed-jacket?

1156
01:26:03,645 --> 01:26:06,717
No, I wear it in bed at night.

1157
01:26:09,005 --> 01:26:11,963
<i>Can you tell me, madame,
what cestuy-l� means?</i>

1158
01:26:12,085 --> 01:26:13,564
The sonnet?

1159
01:26:13,685 --> 01:26:16,916
"Happy he who, like Ulysses,
has been on a voyage, or like he who..."

1160
01:26:17,045 --> 01:26:20,879
<i>- "...has won the Fleece."
- "Cestuy-l�" means "He who wins..."</i>

1161
01:26:21,005 --> 01:26:22,358
"...the Fleece."

1162
01:26:33,085 --> 01:26:36,475
Why do we say,
"Read the lines of the hand"?

1163
01:26:36,605 --> 01:26:41,963
You do not only read books.
You can read in the stars,

1164
01:26:42,085 --> 01:26:44,201
or in someone's eyes.

1165
01:26:44,605 --> 01:26:46,800
- Or their lips.
- Yes.

1166
01:26:47,685 --> 01:26:49,641
What is the Fleece?

1167
01:26:51,005 --> 01:26:54,122
The Golden Fleece,
you know very well.

1168
01:26:55,125 --> 01:26:59,038
To win it you must go on a long voyage.

1169
01:27:05,925 --> 01:27:10,521
And I, madame,
when will I go on a voyage?

1170
01:27:28,845 --> 01:27:33,965
<i>"We remain silent.
I can barely hear his breath. "</i>

1171
01:27:34,085 --> 01:27:36,201
<i>"Then he says very clearly:"</i>

1172
01:27:36,325 --> 01:27:41,001
Next time, could you
come without your knickers?

1173
01:27:41,125 --> 01:27:44,356
<i>"I did not dream it. He really said it."</i>

1174
01:27:46,085 --> 01:27:49,236
<i>"My old teacher returned
from a trip to Brazil. "</i>

1175
01:27:49,365 --> 01:27:52,641
<i>"I missed him.
I want to tell him what I'm doing. "</i>

1176
01:27:52,765 --> 01:27:54,801
<i>"But what am I doing?"</i>

1177
01:27:54,925 --> 01:27:56,916
Quite a mystery...

1178
01:27:58,045 --> 01:28:01,276
I'm afraid I chose
the most precarious job in the world.

1179
01:28:01,405 --> 01:28:04,920
At your age, with each book
anything may happen.

1180
01:28:05,045 --> 01:28:08,037
Please, Marie, don't tell me about it.

1181
01:28:09,245 --> 01:28:11,805
<i>"I want to leave. Or to cry."</i>

1182
01:28:11,925 --> 01:28:14,359
<i>"Or both. which would be worse."</i>

1183
01:28:14,485 --> 01:28:17,045
Don't tell me you've forgotten me.

1184
01:28:17,165 --> 01:28:18,723
Of course not.

1185
01:28:20,325 --> 01:28:23,123
I chose a souvenir for you
in Sao Paulo, but...

1186
01:28:23,245 --> 01:28:24,803
You are forgiven.

1187
01:28:24,925 --> 01:28:25,880
Go...

1188
01:28:29,085 --> 01:28:30,803
It will be all right.

1189
01:28:30,925 --> 01:28:33,280
You'll open a school for reading.

1190
01:28:36,085 --> 01:28:38,155
Good luck, Marie.

1191
01:28:43,925 --> 01:28:46,041
You don't even know how to kiss.

1192
01:28:47,485 --> 01:28:51,273
You give me your ears.
Perhaps you like your ears to be kissed.

1193
01:28:51,405 --> 01:28:52,804
As for your mouth...

1194
01:28:54,165 --> 01:28:55,803
...you just give air kisses.

1195
01:28:55,925 --> 01:28:59,361
It's fine, but it's not really kissing.
Look...

1196
01:28:59,485 --> 01:29:01,123
I kiss you

1197
01:29:01,565 --> 01:29:05,274
and you kiss me
on the other cheek at the same time.

1198
01:29:05,405 --> 01:29:07,635
There, we could say we kissed.

1199
01:29:07,765 --> 01:29:11,644
I'm speaking, of course,
about a friendly kiss,

1200
01:29:11,765 --> 01:29:13,198
a fatherly one.

1201
01:29:14,685 --> 01:29:16,801
Go on, run along.

1202
01:29:16,925 --> 01:29:19,485
At least I've taught you something.

1203
01:29:25,005 --> 01:29:28,520
<i>"Facing all dangers.
I return to the judge. "</i>

1204
01:29:28,765 --> 01:29:29,754
<i>"Prepared."</i>

1205
01:29:29,885 --> 01:29:32,274
<i>"I have reread Sade. Alone.</i>

1206
01:29:32,405 --> 01:29:34,714
<i>Aloud in my bedroom. "</i>

1207
01:29:34,845 --> 01:29:39,236
<i>"I even tried out a few pages
on Philippe. He enjoyed it. "</i>

1208
01:29:39,365 --> 01:29:41,959
<i>"He'd always heard
that Sade was boring. "</i>

1209
01:29:42,085 --> 01:29:44,041
<i>"He was not of this opinion."</i>

1210
01:29:44,165 --> 01:29:47,316
<i>"Philippe has anything
but a mediocre mind. "</i>

1211
01:29:49,725 --> 01:29:53,559
Dear child, let us chat
to become better acquainted?

1212
01:29:53,685 --> 01:29:57,041
<i>"Chat. A charming word to make me
forgive many things. "</i>

1213
01:29:57,165 --> 01:29:58,120
<i>"Gladly. I said..."</i>

1214
01:29:58,245 --> 01:29:59,234
Let us chat...

1215
01:29:59,765 --> 01:30:01,198
<i>"We chatted."</i>

1216
01:30:01,325 --> 01:30:03,555
<i>"I hoped that the modesty
of our words</i>

1217
01:30:03,685 --> 01:30:06,722
<i>would incite the judge
to more sober reading. "</i>

1218
01:30:06,845 --> 01:30:09,803
I believe it is time to start reading.

1219
01:30:11,365 --> 01:30:13,595
Excuse me a moment, dear child.

1220
01:30:36,085 --> 01:30:37,234
Gentlemen...

1221
01:30:37,685 --> 01:30:39,641
...my reader.

1222
01:30:40,405 --> 01:30:42,965
My dear Marie,
I have taken the liberty

1223
01:30:43,085 --> 01:30:45,553
of inviting two old acquaintances...

1224
01:30:45,685 --> 01:30:47,357
Yes, two old acquaintances...

1225
01:30:47,485 --> 01:30:53,958
We represent, each in our own way,
what people listen to in our town.

1226
01:30:54,085 --> 01:30:59,603
Why should we not, in turn,
listen to your talent?

1227
01:31:02,085 --> 01:31:03,882
And what shall I read?

1228
01:31:04,005 --> 01:31:06,041
Well, my dear child,

1229
01:31:06,165 --> 01:31:07,564
<i>"he says."</i>

1230
01:31:07,685 --> 01:31:10,279
The same thing as last time.

1231
01:31:29,685 --> 01:31:33,200
"I take my leave
and slam the door behind me."

1232
01:31:33,325 --> 01:31:37,113
"I'm quite sure
that I'll be out of a job now."

1233
01:31:38,525 --> 01:31:43,041
There you have it... No more reader.

1234
01:31:48,925 --> 01:31:51,723
I, too, have a little tale to tell.

1235
01:31:51,845 --> 01:31:53,198
At this time of night?

1236
01:31:53,325 --> 01:31:55,202
If he's not warned, he'll be furious.

1237
01:31:55,325 --> 01:31:57,600
Have you ever seen B�lu furious?

1238
01:31:59,765 --> 01:32:02,120
Hello, Mr B�lu?

1239
01:32:02,245 --> 01:32:03,644
Did I wake you?

1240
01:32:03,765 --> 01:32:06,359
I don't like that either.
You well?

1241
01:32:06,485 --> 01:32:09,443
Good. Nice weather. Today, anyway.

1242
01:32:10,165 --> 01:32:12,838
Good. Good weekend?

1243
01:32:13,765 --> 01:32:15,084
Good.

1244
01:32:15,205 --> 01:32:17,161
So all is well.

1245
01:32:17,325 --> 01:32:22,240
So, my wife damaged your car a bit.
Shall we talk again tomorrow?

1246
01:32:22,365 --> 01:32:23,798
Good night.

1247
01:32:23,925 --> 01:32:26,678
Hope you get back to sleep,
Inspector.

1248
01:32:28,165 --> 01:32:31,237
- What did he say?
- Not much.

1249
01:32:31,365 --> 01:32:34,960
- But I think it'll damage me.
- Damage me, more like.

1250
01:32:35,085 --> 01:32:38,282
I read very well,
I have a lovely voice.

1251
01:32:39,205 --> 01:32:40,957
I am going to place an ad.

1252
01:32:41,085 --> 01:32:42,803
A lot of people can't read.

1253
01:32:42,925 --> 01:32:46,634
The too old, the too young,
the too sad, the all-alone...

1254
01:32:48,005 --> 01:32:51,281
I'm not through yet.