REVELATIONS
This is the story of difficult life. and the bitter fall of Coleman Silk.
ATHENA UNIVERSITY So, if you were President of the United States,
was having sex with a young White House trainee,
and ask her to be quiet, thinks even if she would? Come on!
Clinton is lucky she did not. have gone straight to Oprah.
Come on, she's had a hard time. of Starr in that hotel room.
Poor thing. Eleven faces to pressing? Cole Collective rape.
I know, so I talked to Linda Tripp. He spoke to everyone. of those who speak.
If Clinton could not judge the character of Monica, she should not be president.
That's the reason for impeachment. - It's true.
Before he had sex with her. once you create loyalty.
- That way. "Do you know what Kennedy would have done?"
Or Nixon? They would say to her: "It will not be you
who will never work again. Your father will be unemployed,
your mother is also your brother.
No one in your family will gain a bored toast,
- unless you keep quiet ". - Clinton acts as a lawyer.
"That's why I did not want to ejaculate." - By ejaculating, he danced. Evidence.
Ejaculation of the cigar.
1998 was the summer of holiness.
After the fall of Communism and before the horrors of terrorism,
There was a brief interlude in which He did not worry about bass players.
This Coleman Silk,
rector and teacher of Classical History of Athena University,
in western Massachusetts.
Graduated from NYU and Oxford,
Coleman taught in England before returning to the US
and become one of the first Jews to teach Classical History
throughout the US. When rector was appointed,
Coleman picked up a university indolent and superficial
and dragged her, screaming and shouting, of mediocrity excellence.
Of course, in the process, made a lot of enemies.
"Proclaim, O Gods, the wrath of Achilles. "
And, finally, the spirit persecutor got Coleman.
All European Literature out of a fight.
A bar fight, actually.
And with that Achilles Was he so angry?
He and King Agamemnon were disputing among themselves a woman.
A young woman, her body.
and the delights of sexual voracity.
Achilles the war machine more hypersensitive
the history of war.
Achilles, who because of his for having to give up the girl,
is provocatively isolated
of the same company
what protector is that you need it tremendously.
Achilles
Thank you for giving up the girl. Thank you to return it.
And so the great literature Imaginative Europe begins
and that's why three thousand years later
we will begin to study it today.
MS. Cummings. Tracy Cummings. Can you tell us ...
It's not here. It's all right. Mr. Thomas. William Thomas.
Is he here?
We are in the 5th week of the semester and I still have not seen these two.
Can someone tell me if they exist?
Or are they spooks?
Did you know that Tracy Cummings and William Thomas
- Were they African-Americans? "How could I know?" I've never seen them.
But you know the English term "spook"?
Ghost, Prof. Roux. Ghost.
I was referring to the character ectoplasmic.
I have here one definition of this term.
And I quote: "Spook." Informal expression:
Ghost, Specter ".
But let's look at the second definition. "Pejorative Term: Black".
I've never seen them. How was going to to know they were black?
"I only knew they were invisible. "Even so, they complained.
Ms. Cummings stayed devastated The question here ...
They never attended class. Do they exist or are they "spooks"?
- Consider the context. - But, Dean ...
I'm not done!
The only question their absence,
unforgivable negligence in the work and the hearing they have.
So, Miss. Cummings is devastated. Have the holy patience.
Accuse me of racism, no. false, spectacularly false!
And you know!
Thank you very much, Herb.
- I quit. - What?
I've resigned this little college. Where's the phone book?
Wait a moment, wait a little. What happened?
- I was charged with a racist nickname. - What did you call racist?
I used the term "spook", which in English can mean ...
I know what it means.
Where's the list? I'm going to sue the cretins. I want that lawyer.
- You reminded them that ... "Yes, I remembered them.
You hired Herb Keble, the first black ...
- Please, African American. - First African American from college.
- Where's the list? - Herb, not the committee?
- He lives by changing things. - You're friends, my God!
"Did he at least say something?" - Said.
"I'm sorry, Coleman, but no. I can support you. "
It's fine. You want a fight? They'll have a fight. This is crazy!
After 35 years of dedication ... I know. Let's get organized.
We'll have them sign a petition. What will we do? No.
You know what we'll do? We'll make a double attack.
Let's hire lawyers, because I know
"I know I saw it here another day. - Coly?
What?
- There's something wrong. - I know you do. What you mean?
- Coly ... - What happened?
Sit down, what happened?
What happened?
Let's go. Let's go.
- I'm sorry. - It's okay.
I'm sorry.
Iris Silk died hours later in her husband's arms.
Six months after the event, Coleman came into my life.
I lived alone in a hut next to a lake, near Athena.
Including inquiries about my private life.
Questions that no citizen never wanted to respond.
Even so, I assume total responsibility for my actions,
both public how much particular.
That's why I'm going to you tonight.
- How do you know ... - Ol ?
I was interrogated in January about my relationship ...
Mr. Zuckerman?
Nathan Zuckerman?
Zuckerman, the writer, right?
- Yes but... - We need to talk. I can enter?
Thank you. Your last book won Kind of a prize, right?
- It was indicated for the ... - This was 5 years ago. What happened?
It's blocked, right? Blocked. You think you have no other story.
I can help you. I am the answer to his prayers. Do you know who I am?
- Rector Silk? - Dean Coleman Silk, that's right.
The late retired and now resigned and no dear Rector Silk.
After the murder,
did you hear? After the murder of my wife.
Do you find it interesting, Zuckerman? Is it enough for you to write?
"I do not think I understand." - The bastards killed her.
They killed my wife like they would if they shot in your heart.
Who could have imagined that Iris could not stand,
being strong and brave how was? But
it was too stupid even for a warrior like Iris.
Soft embolism.
I took her to the hospital, but it was too late. The issue
that the intention was to kill me, but they killed her instead.
All on behalf of politically correct.
That, there, is a beautiful oxmobile. So, there's your book, Nathan.
Can I call you Nathan?
- Look, Dean. - Yes, Coleman. I quit the titles.
Coleman. I'm sorry but
- I write fiction and, at the moment ... "You will be a" Under the Dominion of Evil. "
They killed the wrong person, for the love of God!
Just for saying "spooks."
Spooks! It's unbelievable.
I'll tell you a story, Nathan.
My father was a tavern. in New Jersey.
He was the only Jewish taverneiro in East Orange.
He only studied until the 7th grade
but insisted on accuracy of words.
And I kept the faith in it. I kept the f in it.
If you accept a suggestion, maybe you You should even write this book.
Maybe I should.
I think I should go.
Answer me something: Why are you? hiding in the woods?
- Me hiding? - Yes. What are you doing?
What's the name of the moment? in Greek tragedy
in which the herii discovers that Is everything he knows wrong?
It is called peripcia or "peripeteia", you choose.
Where am I?
Do you play gin rummy?
And that's how my friendship with Coleman Silk started.
And how do I get out of my life in prison,
living alone in a hut next to a lake.
You're divorced, are not you?
- Are you in that face? - You look like an unsolved man.
One is the same to know another. Why did your wife abandon you?
Which one? The first or the second?
Years ago, I was diagnosed with prostrate cancer.
Although the treatment has been successful, even so,
I was isolated in my hut in the woods, far from the expectations
and ties of modern life.
In the year that followed my meeting with Coleman,
during the time it took to write your book,
We had dinner together several times a week.
Sometimes playing "gin rummy" betting cents,
Sometimes listening to music small FM radio from Springfield
that touched hits from "big bands" of the 40s and 50s.
It was at this time that Coleman dragged me back to life,
the same way he had resurrected Athena University.
"How's the book going?" "He came and went."
What you mean?
That has no value.
There is no college without annoying idiots and
I could not write a book called "Spooks"
that did not sound like the ravings of a lunatic.
Therefore,
all this endeavor is useless.
Unless you tell the emotion you knew to reread old love letters.
Who's the girl?
- Steena Paulsson. - Very pretty.
- This one? - Yes it's me.
I met her when I was studying at NYU,
it was 1948, and I had a purse studying for being a veteran.
I lived in the village. at that time
I used to go to the library.
It seemed to fish. I entered the shelves and goes out with a girl.
Steena Paulsson. I almost married her.
Hi.
This book will change your life. - I can not stay long.
- In between. I'll get it in a minute. - It's beautiful here.
I live in a small West 26th Street with two friends.
- Would you like some coffee? - No, thank you. I need to get back.
Just one cup, I promise.
"And the library only closes at 10 p.m. - Sure, why not?
- How nice. How do you take it? - Black is great, thank you.
So, Steena Paulsson. What's this name? Swedish?
Almost. Danish and Icelandic.
- Well, no, not from New York? - How did you guess?
Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
Well, Miss. Steena Paulsson, of Fergus Falls, Minnesota,
here is my gift. "Smooth by Night," Scott Fitzgerald.
- He's also from the Midwest. - Thanks.
No hay de qu .
The coffee?
Caf .
What happened?
- As? - This cut over your eye.
- It was in boxing. It's just a hobby. "Do you like that sort of thing?"
Yes, I like it.
Make no mistake about it. It is not but for smartness.
You smart ... Miss. Paulsson?
What do you think, Mr. Silk?
I think it would be an ultimate boxer.
Nice answer.
Let's go. We will see.
- See what? - Show me.
- Show you what? - Show me if it's good.
- You're right? - I am.
Put your left leg in front and right back. Bend your knees.
Close your hands. The right is near the chin. Keep it there.
The left is in front of you. with her to give the punches.
Right? And leave the thumbs out.
Right. so.
Punch. Punch. Punch.
Try it.
- Punch. Punch. Punch. "Very good for a beginner."
Your right hand. Release it once in a while When. To confuse the adversary.
the right crusader. so. Punch, right punch.
Punch. Right Punch.
- Punch. Right Punch. - Very well.
- Punch. Right Punch. - Right. In the hands.
I'm getting hot. Punch. Right Punch.
- Punch. Right Punch. - Good. Keep right on the chin.
Right. Punch. Right Punch. Punch. Right Punch.
- Watch your hands. - Do not move. Punch. Right Punch.
- Punch. Right Punch. - It's good.
Punch. Right Punch. Punch. Right Punch.
I hurt you?
No.
Your heart is beating fast.
I do not believe it.
Me neither.
I think we do things different l in my city.
I guess.
First,
We'll be exchanging looks. in church on Sundays, right?
And when autumn was changed in winter
and the wind stayed cold we would make
train rides.
We would skate on frozen lakes.
We will sing songs at the time of Christmas.
Are you forgetting to walk? on logs in water
and get more out of a tub.
Come on, tell me everything.
Tell me how the real ones Americans are dating.
You're American. Jews are Americans.
Ou a. from Irving Berlin.
When I hear this, everything in me relax
and the desire not to die,
never die, it becomes almost too big to bear.
Come on, dance with me.
Come on, dance with me. I'm not giving on top of you. Come here.
Relax. Live a little. You go easy.
- Leave the tension, relax. - Just do not sing in my ear, okay?
- Enough, enough, enough. - Wait.
This is good. It will do you good.
Turn. Pretty.
Good. Now turn.
Go!
Now a little tap dancing.
Look at that!
Step away.
You're good. Very good indeed.
I'm having an affair, Nathan,
with a 34-year-old woman. You do not know how much it does to me.
I think I can imagine.
When love comes back I'm late in life,
completely unexpected, completely unintentionally,
back with such force
that there is no way to resist. Nothing can dilute it.
And when she's 34?
Inflammable, Nathan. Inflammable.
Have you heard of Viagra?
Without Viagra, I would continue in my declining years,
still taking philosophical conclusions
and still having an influence immutable morality about youth.
Without Viagra,
I would not be doing something which does not have the slightest meaning.
Something that I dislike
and potentially disastrous for all involved.
And where did you find This horrible woman?
- We're closing. - I just need two minutes.
- He said we're closing. "Two minutes, I promise.
Quick. Thank you.
- Can not you wait until tomorrow? - No.
My sister's birthday.
Good. Thank you.
Hi, Phil.
You're saying, Mr. Starr, what the that the president was lying?
When you are under oath, there is a sacred obligation
when it is due to God, to tell the truth
and you say, "With the help of God." This is a very serious matter.
- Is the car in trouble? - You always are.
Do you want a ride?
Where do I leave you?
"On Nckerson's estate." - the dairy farm.
"Do you mind if I smoke?" - No, go ahead.
Two lesbians touch the business.
They give me a room in I exchange the milk.
"Do you work in the mail and on the farm?" - And in college.
Faunia Farley. Cleaning service.
That's what it says on my badge.
You like to keep busy, do not you?
"The enemy of thought".
Who said that?
- Thank you for the ride. - Here.
Do you want to enter?
Now?
- I do not come near a woman ... - Ever since his wife died.
I know.
Listening,
Let's make one thing clear.
If you are looking for compassion,
came to the wrong place. I
I'm not in the mood for compassion.
Forgets.
- Thank you for the ride. - It's all right. Take care.
Hi.
There is nothing personal, but
You have to leave.
What da
I do not want to wake up in the morning. and see you here. Therefore,
as I said, no nothing personal
It's all right.
God!
Will I see you again?
I'm easy to find.
- What's this? - The question :
I'll come back to see you?
What are you thinking about?
- That you're going to ruin everything. - I will not, no.
Yes.
Leave me alone. Do not try get into my head.
Why do we have to talk?
It's all right. It's all right, Let's do it your way.
"I was thinking I was a raven." "A crow?" Why a raven?
Your turn.
"I wondered how to make love ..." - Climbing.
Right, like fucking an old man.
It's perfect.
There are no surprises.
How to be unemployed?
solitary. Like you, I guess.
My turn.
Taking out an old car, it seems you have no assets.
No book, no photo ...
"The enemy of thought".
It's fine.
The story of my life. What you want
It's all right.
I grew up with lots of goods.
My father was rich. Very rich.
Full of employees.
He had everything he could imagine.
- You do not believe me? - I believe.
So my parents divorced, and my mother remarried.
The problem is that the new husband He did not take his hands from me.
His specialty: Litter history. "Honey, I'll read you a story."
Before I knew it, He stuck his fingers in me.
- You do not have to tell me this. - You asked for it.
I told my mother. She does not believed No one believed.
When I was 14, she tried to eat me. I ran away and went to Flrida.
I did everything a little.
I know l . A girl like me
take it all.
No goods, easy to travel.
How sweet.
"Did you hear anything?" - What? I heard nothing.
- What's it? What...? - No, no.
But what...?
- Les. - Who? Les?
Damn it!
My ex-husband.
He keeps chasing me. I can sense it, it's out.
I'll find a way in him. I was a great boxer.
Listen me. I'm not joking.
He's crazy. He was in Vietnam. He participated in two missions.
He beat me.
Once, it hit so much, who stayed two days in a coma.
- There is no one outside. - You killed in Vietnam, Mr. Farley?
PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW Did I kill someone?
Did not they send me there? To kill Vietnamese?
They told me that value of everything. Therefore,
I did what I needed.
Look, let's leave one. clear thing of beginning.
I've never hurt her. Right?
Never.
And I never hurt the children. It was all a lie.
That blue-blooded bitch
did not ask rich parents or a penny to help children.
She never called anyone, just for herself.
I should not have let her leave with the children. She...
Are you sure I can smoke?
She waited until I went to rehabilitation. It was where I wanted to be.
to take the children.
She used everything against me to take the children away.
She did not have the right to steal my children.
And now she's fucking with that old Jew.
I should have killed her before.
Here's cool.
Sorry, madame, but it's forbidden. smoking in the restaurant.
- Excuse me. - Thank you.
- Sorry about that. - It's all right.
Almost all restaurants They are forbidding smoking.
Is it good for you here?
Clear.
Coleman? I do not know That's a good idea.
It's all right. It's a good restaurant. Specialized in fish and ...
- Sorry for the delay. - Hi.
Nathan, this is Faunia. This one my friend, Nathan Zuckerman.
- Hi. - Nathan, the writer.
A good writer. What prize? You almost won?
It does not matter. I've been teaching Coleman playing gin rummy.
- Teaching me? - You're full of surprises, are not you?
Are you okay?
- I just wanted you to meet him. - Good...
Coleman told me enough of you.
Really? Do not tell me said nothing of you.
What he said? What are you doing with the cleaning girl?
"Why are you doing this to me?" - This what?
Why are you doing this? You know Very well what you're doing.
Do you want somebody to talk to? Have a good time. I'm leaving.
I'm sorry, Nathan.
Coleman. - Right.
Did you really fall? of category, No ?
Dean of college, professor of Classical History.
You just know who it was.
"What did you say about me?" - Nathan, my friend. Yes, my friend.
I told him that I am you little wretch?
You can not bear to have sex with anyone who does not can lead to a fancy restaurant.
Let's get this over with.
Let's end, end now.
You do not understand, do not you?
I can not.
I simply can not.
Let's go.
Erase this drug of light!
Les. Do not worry, I called the police.
Get there soon.
I know how to take care of him, okay? We just have to wait.
What are you doing?
- You can not go outside. He's crazy. - I am too.
Hey, Farley! What do you want?
Get out, you murderous slut!
"Did she tell you?" - What?
That sucked a guy while were your children in a fire?
"Did he tell you that?" - If you get close, I'll break you.
- Go away! "Put that down, or I'll yank you!"
With my wife who is fucking I want to talk to her.
Les!
Hi, baby.
- Hi darling. - Go home. Come on.
It's okay, I'll take care ... Come on, you go home.
Are you listening?
- I had to call the police. - Always call. Yes I want to talk
his murderous career.
Come on, sweetie, we got time. Why do you have sex with this old man?
Stay away from her.
Come on, let's go for a ride. I promise I'll bring you back.
Damn them. Let's go.
- No. - They know me. You will not do anything.
- Come on, Les. It arrives - I'll bring you back, I swear.
- I do not want to talk. - Come on, get your hands off me!
Wretches!
This is the payment for what I did in Vietnam. What do I get for saving?
my country drug! I went through all that
and I'm going home to a cow. kill me treat me like crap!
Please, enough of this!
Enough!
You wanted to know by that I have no assets.
This was all that left over from my children.
This.
It was an accident, and he knows it.
He knows the truth.
It had a heater ...
what...
I fell over and the place ...
caught fire.
I
I can not decide What to do with them.
I do not know. Shall I stay with them?
Burial?
I do not know.
What are you looking at?
Is it too much poverty for you?
Get away from here.
Come on, go. You do not want to be a part of it.
No!
Do not stay.
Please, go away.
I can not ...
Please, go away.
Go away!
"We know that a woman exploits mistreated at half her age. "
- This is very outrageous. - There's more. I know who wrote it.
- Who? - Delphine Roux.
Professor of Language and Literature. I hired you. I hired everyone.
- Why did she send you this? - Yeah, I know? You're my lawyer.
Send him a letter. Make her stop.
She's going to deny that ... Her letter. A test would confirm.
Coleman, listen, forget the letter. What are you gonna do with Lester Farley?
I'll ask for a ban.
- A court order. I know l . "Do you have any idea where you're going?"
Do you want me to barge two legal battles.
One against one correspondent ghost, another against a lunatic.
I arrange a writing specialist and a bulletproof vest.
But what you will not have is missing while you are involved with it:
A life without scandals. There, she's HIV negative?
Have you been tested?
Do you use a condom? And if you do not use protection, does it use?
How do you know if she does not want to use you? to make up for all that you have lost?
I will have to represent you in a process of paternity?
Give up the girl, Achilles.
I took your Introductory course European Literature for many years.
Give it up, and your problems will disappear.
Faunia Farley is not your category and no. of your world.
You looked good to her world last night.
The truth is that
it is not worth it.
Achilles using Viagra. What sense is there in that?
Ah, Nelson ...
- Sorry, is it over yet? - J .
Nelson, you are. a master with words.
And full of desd m for every problem that he never had to face.
- Listen, I just ... - No, listen to you.
I never want to hear it again this is his smug voice,
nor see this your convinced face and with air of superiority.
Coleman! Use the left!
Coleman! Coleman! - Punch! Punch! Finish him!
- That's right! - In between! In between!
Let's go! Good good good!
That's right. Finish him. Finish him.
It arrives It arrives
- Next week, West Point. - Oh, doctor, he's heavier.
But slow. You can with him with one arm.
In addition, the faculty member Pitt will be there. Friend of mine
I want him to watch you fight.
- For what? - For what?
When he sees you fight and I tell them what your notes are,
I'm sure he will will offer a scholarship.
I can not go to Pitt! My father I want you to go to Howard.
-Your father owns tica? - It was.
Lost business in the Depression.
Look, Coleman, just fight. for the subject to see, that's all.
"Then we'll see what happens." - It's all right.
One more thing.
When you meet Pitt's guy, Do not say you're black, right?
- Not to say? - Do not touch the subject.
You're not one thing. nor another. S "Silky" Silk.
- He will not know? "How will he know?"
the best student at East Orange High and you're with Dr. Chizner.
You'll think you're Jewish.
- You're late! - I know.
- Walter came in with a license. "Hide this for me, will you?"
Sorry for the delay. Hi, Mom.
- Walt. Cole.
- How are you? - Good.
- They said he'd be a class orator. - It's true.
With the highest average in notes, who else would they choose?
Yes, we are very proud of Coleman.
"Can you tell me how you were?" - How did I go?
Today in the boxing ring.
I am asking whether he won or lost.
"Did you tell him?" - Answer my question.
Won.
How many fights have you won?
- Eleven. "And how many did you lose?"
- None. - Right now.
When you think of become professional?
- Dad, I do not think so ... - Do not mess with me, Walter.
I asked you a question, boy.
The doctor said i can get a scholarship.
Maybe in Pitt.
I'll go to Howard, like Walter. And then, if you choose to become a doctor,
can not hurt your hands in boxing, right?
You know what I'd say in this Moment if it was your father?
- You're my father. - I'm not so sure.
I was thinking that Dr. Chizner was your father.
He's my tech, that's all.
He teaches me how to fight. You're my father.
If I were your father, Do you know what I would tell you now?
I'd say, "You won today. How nice.
Now you can retire the gloves without defeats. "
Remove gloves.
Now give me leave. I do not want to miss the train.
Boy!
- Yes sir? - The fish has passed the point.
I'm sorry. I will take care Right now, sir.
"Cowards die miscellaneous times before his death.
The brave ones feel the taste of death once.
Of all the wonders I've heard ...
Which sounds weird Let man be afraid,
since death It is a necessary end.
He will come when he comes. "
Clarence Silk knew well these words of the J lio C sar hand. "
He was a man of great intellect,
unshakable courage and high honor.
But above all, he was devoted to his family.
His wife, Dorothy,
their children, Walter and Coleman
and his pride and joy, the young Ernestine. Clarence Silk
was the best man which I have already known.
Coleman?
Do you have a plant? Tonight?
It's better this way. At least for me.
I've never met him before.
Never ever.
I never had any idea of that he had to put up with,
day after day
I do not think he wanted to. that you knew, dear.
- I saw no reason for it. - The question is,
if you're black, no matter how much you know.
"You will work in the restaurant wagon." - He worked
so you did not need to work l . Coleman,
No need to worry.
With the life insurance of your father and his school history,
we can do with to enter Howard.
Walt told me like l in Howard.
He said that always They speak of the black people.
About "us, the black people".
I'm not a political person, I do not know who this "us" is.
Who do you think ?
- I know who I am. - You need to be proud.
- of his race. - What about me?
What about simply feel proud to be me?
It's my life. Or I do not have right to express an opinion on this issue?
I'm not smart enough. to discuss with you.
So, do not argue. We will not argue.
I love you, but I do not ask me to go there.
Coleman, you barely turned 18.
What are you going to do?
Sit down.
It's with your form of enlistment?
I am.
RA A
WHITE
Welcome to the Navy, boy.
What did the lawyer say? Did you care more about Lester?
- So ... - Do not talk to Farley. I take care of him.
You told me yourself. Lester Farley is a psycho
already hospitalized veterans psychiatry 2 times.
Tell me. What would have happened if the police had not appeared?
Farley does not just go disappear from the face of the Earth.
That will happen again, and, when repeated,
- You may not be so lucky. - AND?
"I'm going to throw it at the wolves, period?" "I do not think of her, I think of you.
She's expecting this. For her, sex and betrayal are synonymous.
Every mistake a man makes usually has a sexual motive.
The things that restore you they may also have to destroy.
I know that. And I'll tell you, I do not care the least.
These things do not come from grace. See what's happening.
You're saying that you got her pregnant, she had an abortion and tried to kill herself.
What else are you saying, Nathan?
Do not look at me like that, I know that lie. I'm your friend, remember?
So act like a friend! Stop judging me and judging her!
Jesus Christ!
What do you want me to say?
I just want you to recognize that you are there is something important between us.
Something that deserves respect.
I think you were right. It's just a good thing.
- You'll get mad too. Coleman! Coleman!
It's all right.
I admit she does not My first love.
I admit she does not my greatest love.
But, for sure, She's my last love.
- Does not that count? - Is it enough to risk being killed?
I'm not afraid to die, Nathan.
It was not I who fled to a hut in the woods to hide me.
Dance for me.
A dance for me.
Of course, why not?
Why not?
Do not fall in love by me, Coleman.
We are just a man and a woman in a room, here and now.
Nothing else matters.
Do not ruin everything.
It's more than sex.
No. , No.
You just forgot what is sex
Forgot it?
Dance for me. Let's go.
You're too young for me.
I need a man much more old man that you. Some one
with at least 100 years.
Do you know someone in a Wheelchair?
I will do
everything you want
How many times
Have you heard a woman? say that for real
I'll see you, Coleman. And you want to know what I see?
I see anger.
And I see shame.
- I see everything. - Do not say it.
"Do you think you keep secrets from me?" - Never know.
Thanks.
You can take care of the box. registrar, Mr. Wilson?
Right. Thank you very much.
Can I help you?
I'm looking for the "3rd Concert for Piano "by Rachmaninoff. The ...
- The Horowitz recording? - Yes, this one.
This way.
Did you study at East Orange High School?
- I studied. - I thought I knew you.
I'm Charley Hamilton's cousin.
- I have not seen him in a long time. How are you? - It's okay.
- Looks like you're getting married. - How nice.
"Now Rachmaninoff, please." - Your girlfriend?
Yes. Yes, . Look,
maybe I should go back Another time to talk.
- Right? - It's all right. Take it.
This works better. than the Rachmaninoff.
Dance for me.
It must have been the dance.
sexiest
already danced by a girl of Fergus Falls in the history of the world.
I love you.
I love you I love you, I love you.
I love you I love you.
I want to pass My life with you.
What are you doing on Sunday?
- Anything. Why? - On Sunday
Let's take the train. to New Jersey
To have dinner with my mother.
- It's all right. - It's all right?
Liked it.
I hope she likes me.
- I hope you like the chocolates. - The chocolates are great.
- I'll buy flowers. There is a bench ... - The chocolates are good.
You'll look good too.
I was handing out a newspaper on this street.
There I hit my bike on Mr. Harris's porch.
- Which one? - That one.
My father made me pay for the bugs. the bicycle and the porch.
I'm afraid.
I love you. You know that, do not you?
I love you too.
Hi.
Sorry for being late.
Mom, this is Steena Paulsson. Steena,
- This is my mother. - That's lovely. Please come in.
Fergus Falls is a beautiful city.
It is very unusual because we have a lake and a river very close to each other.
My father owns
from a small tools and sawmill l .
He's disorganized. He cuts himself and do not even bother to wash.
Icelanders are hard.
I did not even know they were called when I was little.
My mother is Danish. She is the opposite.
Put the table for dinner. Saturday at five o'clock the day before.
I think I found myself trapped between two extremes. Therefore,
I decided to go to college, away. of their reach, so to speak.
"That's why I came to New York." - I'd love to meet the Midwest.
Would not you like to meet, Coleman?
New York. Final destination: Penn Station. New York.
Steena?
Honey, we're almost there.
Honey.
I can not do this, Coleman.
I love you
but I can not.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Saint Nicholas Arena.
In our first fight of the night, of East Orange, New Jersey,
weighing 73 kg,
Coleman "Silky" Silk.
With a 5-victory cartel and no defeat.
From Rochester, New York, weighing 76.5 kg,
Sugar "Pete" Cunningham! Poster of six victories.
Do not punish him too much, okay? We make the ticket worth it.
Dance three, four rounds, and then enter it all.
Move the p s!
Good! Let's go!
Lift the punch! Let's go!
Move yourself! Move yourself!
Come on, get your gloves on! Lift the gloves!
Hey, boy. Hey!
I asked to assert the ticket. I could have held it until the fourth round.
I weigh 73 kg and he, 76.5 kg.
He wants me to let him hit me. in the head to give a show?
I will not do that for any blacks.
Beautiful, no?
I have to go.
Stay tonight.
No. I never stay.
Yes this time.
Hi good morning.
Do you want breakfast? It has eggs and ham.
Please sit.
Do you want coffee?
No milk, right?
Here it is.
It seems that Monica Lewinsky you can not get a job in NY.
I would cut the chat
I do not even know if she not get a job.
This Monica calls my back. Does it hurt to milk the cows?
She calls if I have to clean the other l mer shit in the mail?
Do you think that you lost your job? about to retire horribly?
No. I hate having to tell you but no
Have your stepfather stick your finger in her vagina that is horrible.
Having your husband come around with a pipe and hit you in the head
How horrible!
Have Your Two Children Choke and dying how horrible!
Do not come to me any more with that chat.
I should not have stayed.
It was a mistake. A big mistake.
Even the sluts know that. They know.
Men do not pay to sleep with they. They pay to fuck and fuck.
Hi.
Hi, Prince.
Yes it's me.
Remember me, do not you remember? Faunia.
Forgotten me? I wanted to see you, but I could not.
Hi. I will not see you there. three months, four months.
Prince missed you. He ran-away one day. The other birds attacked him.
They almost killed him. He does not have the right voice.
Because it was created by humans.
You were close to people. like us all our lives.
A crow that does not knows how to be a raven.
The first time I tried, It had been a month since their death.
I got all dressed up. Even my mother would be proud.
Did you know I called her? I called.
I called to say that my children were dead. "M e,
"Faunia." Twenty years.
No calls for twenty years.
She said:
"I do not know anyone with this name. "And he hung up.
Slut
I remember the gin, Valium.
So the rat poison was bitter.
Da , I put it inside the pudding.
It was good.
Why did they have to break the door?
Ah, what's up?
As the nurse said afterwards: "There was no heartbeat.
Not when they came for the first time.
Even I could not do right, no?
You and I ...
We were made for each other.
Marry me.
I think I've committed a mistake this morning.
Faunia Farley. Cleaning Service.
Yes ... I'm doing what I know.
Where were you?
"I was beginning to worry. - I went for a walk. I went to the movies.
Listening...
I'm sorry. Everything that said and everything I did ...
You were right.
- What happened to me is nothing. - No.
You lost everything. Lost your wife, lost his job.
They took their lives because of a idiot word. This is nothing.
Perhaps. But I think we can not. measure our sorrows.
I brought you this. Thread.
It's the thread store.
They are jelly.
Look, if you do not want me here,
If you want me to leave, I understand because ...
I'll understand I will not blame you.
"Why are you smiling?" - I'm happy to see you.
Me too. I'm happy, too.
Come here.
There is one thing What I need to tell you.
It seemed impossible to me
Someone alive as Coleman could to die in what the police called
of "bizarre accident".
The more I thought, the more felt that Coleman and Faunia
could not have died without the presence nearby
by Lester Farley and of his truck.
"What time did you get in the car?" - Before the sun rises.
"Why did you get in the truck?" - To get him.
- Pick who? - The Jewish teacher.
- Why'd you get him? - Because I had to get it.
Were you going to kill him?
Yes, he was going to kill us all. The plan was this.
"So you planned it all?" - I did not plan anything.
"But did you know what you were doing?" - I knew.
"But you did not plan?" - No.
"You thought you were back in Vietnam?" - There's nothing from Vietnam.
You were thinking of your children? Was it a reckoning?
It was not reckoning.
"Did you try to take revenge for the accident?" - No. It was no revenge.
- Were you depressed? - No. I was not depressed.
- Angry? "No anger.
But he threw the truck into them. - I did not kill them.
I did not kill them.
They killed themselves.
- What do you think? - I checked with the police.
No slippage on site accident or collision.
I think... Lester Farley is delirious.
Completely delirious.
My name is Herbert Keble.
And I am among those who
they did not get up to defend Coleman
when he was accused of racism.
"Coleman, I can not. support him this time. "
That's what I said, to my perennial shame.
I should have pronounced to say at the time
What I want to say now?
in the presence of their former colleagues,
that the alleged misconduct
never occurred.
Coleman Silk and his wife, Iris,
were betrayed by moral stupidity
of a community censuring and coercive.
And I was part of it. this community.
We all do.
Mrs. Keble.
My name is Nathan Zuckerman. I was Coleman's friend.
"I found your husband's speech-" - I'm not Mrs. Keble.
EAST ORANGE SPEAKER HIGH SCHOOL IN 1944
Do you?
I'm a sister of Coleman Silk.
Iris. Beautiful name. And when will the wedding be?
Fourteen of June.
Did you tell her?
When will you tell?
Are you thinking of bringing her? here for dinner
I told her that My parents are dead.
Dead?
Do not you have a brother? Do not you have a sister?
Is not Ernestine? Is not Walter?
I do not want to be Coleman Silk, the black teacher of Classical History.
And that's how it always will be, Mom. You know
Yeah, I know.
Funny, I never thought of you being black or white.
Golden. You were my golden son.
Look, Mommy,
I still...
I still do not know how will be things.
Do you have children?
Yes, I suppose so.
You will not leave it. Let them see me, will they?
My grandchildren.
"M e," you will tell me, "sit on the 11:15 p.m.
I'm going to spend with my kids. dressed in their best clothes. "
This will be my gift of anniversary in 5 years.
And you know I'll be there.
But you will not
to risk having children?
The suspense will be unbearable.
And if they are not born Are you as white as you?
You will not have to give explanations
You will accuse her of adultery with a black?
I need to go now, Mom.
Coleman,
You think like a prisoner.
You are snowy white. and thinks like a slave.
Killer.
- The bell? - I answer.
Do not ever arrive close to mom.
- Walt ... - Do not call, do not write, nothing.
I never want to see it again this white face of yours
And your mother obeyed Walter?
All the men of the family, from my father to the younger ones,
They are very determined.
Yes, she obeyed. But I do not.
I was trying to talk to him. there were 2 days. It was his birthday.
The day after he died.
I do not blame Walter. He only was trying to protect Mommy.
And he succeeded in that?
Just before she died, she was delirious.
She kept saying, "Nurse,
Take me to the train. I have a sick baby at home. "
And Walter is still alive?
Yes.
We are from a family of teachers. Mr Zuckerman.
I wish my parents had known that
Walter was the first person of color to be superintendent of school in New Jersey.
I think you can say what a generation I am. For I still speak "of color" and "Black".
Do you know why your brother asked college resignation
I heard he went accused of racism.
What an incredible thing, no?
For using a single word.
It seems that from what I heard today, It's worth everything these days.
People are getting increasingly dumb
but with more opinions.
You know what's sad, Mr. Zuckerman? Nowadays, it's hard to imagine
that somebody would do what coleman thought he had to.
Build a lifetime around a lie.
He could end the accusations of racism logo de sa da,
if only he had told the truth.
But that was the only thing which he could not do.
Do you think he told anyone
Perhaps. Perhaps for a person.
Been talking to Ernestine that I decided to write this book.
Not the book Coleman asked me to write, but one that he himself could not have written.
Your mother's story and his father,
by Walter and Ernestine,
by Steena Paulsson
and Faunia ...
And finally, there was one more thing which I had to do.
Face the person who will surely was responsible for my friend's death.
Beautiful place.
Calm down.
As long as I keep it in secret.
I know him now.
- You're the writer, are not you? - Myself.
- Are you lucky? - Not much.
What do you think when the fish Are not you biting the bait?
I was thinking that if I had a son, would be fishing here with me.
That's what I thought when did you arrive
- Have children? - No.
No married
My marriage was cursed.
After returning from Vietnam I suffered from traumatic disorders.
I was driving the car for hours.
Friends feared dying in a car accident
Have you had a car accident?
I do not know anything about that.
"You still have post-traumatic disorders. - I like solitude.
What do you think I'm doing here?
- Did you have a car accident? - I've never had a car accident. Did not you hear?
What kind of books Do you write?
I write about people like you.
About their problems.
Do you live on Dumouchel property? In the shack next to the lake.
Say the name of one of your books.
"The Human Stain".
Is it for sale?
I'm not done yet.
I started fishing on the ice after my wife abandon me.
We just need warm clothes
and the right equipment.
Same as this one.
We drilled a hole in the ice. This goes through anything.
Then we put a line with his favorite bait inside.
The fish is attracted by any even in the dark.
And it's very dark down there.
If I had a child,
the little Les, my son,
I think I'd be saying it all. this for him, and not for you.
- It's cold in here. - It is.
I'd better go. "Now you know how to fish in the snow, do not you?"
- You can put it in your book. - I will.
Also know where it is my secret place
Now you know everything, No. , Mr. Zuckerman?
But you will not tell, will you?
Hey!
The book, send me one.
It will come by mail.