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Lesser, I know
you're in there.
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I heard the tippity
tap of your typewriter.
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You know I have nothing but the
greatest respect for writers.
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I want you should finish your
book, win the Nobel Prize.
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Levenspiel.
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Have mercy, Lesser.
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I can't work with you
making that fucking racket.
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Lesser, let me in.
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You're as pale as a
dead fish, Lesser.
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What kind of life is this?
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I don't understand
how you can stay
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in this lousy flat all day.
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Lesser, please move out.
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So I can break up this
rotten building that
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weighs like a hunch on my back.
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I can't leave in
the middle of my book.
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If I did, it would take me six
months to get back to work.
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You don't know what
you're asking, Levenspiel.
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Lesser, every other tenant
has settled for a $400 buyout.
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You, I offer $1,000
cash and you look at me
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like I have a social disease.
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Outside of your $72 monthly
rent, which only half
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pays for the oil you use,
I have no other income
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coming in from this place.
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So if you are really a
man, Lesser, a human being,
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please understand my situation.
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Levenspiel, I'm listening.
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I've worked hard.
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I'm going to finish soon.
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Just please, have
some patience with me.
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My last book, for reasons I
won't go into, was a bomb.
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I need to redeem
myself in my own eyes.
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Once I hit it
right, the book will
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be off my chest and your
bag and I'll leave overnight
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and I'll go away.
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For Christ sakes, you're
eating up my writing time.
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Let me work in peace.
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Just go.
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Go.
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Fuck your book.
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Mark my words,
Lesser, in this world,
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it's the heart that counts.
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Hey, man, don't you see
me writing on my book?
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I'm sorry.
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I'm a writer myself.
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I live alone in this
building, alone on this floor.
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I'm writing a book myself.
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Baby, it's a long,
hard, lonely life.
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But dig this.
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From now on, I'll be here
writing on my book daily.
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You mean, Levenspiel
is letting you?
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And which cat is that?
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He owns the building.
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Haven't you met?
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Didn't he tell you
you could work here?
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Look man, I ain't
interested in no Jew landlord.
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I was just looking for a place
to finish writing my book,
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and hey, I ended up here.
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What sort of
writing do you do,
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if you don't mind me asking?
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Now that's a
personal question.
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And what I'm writing is
my personal business.
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All I meant was
out of curiosity,
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are you writing fiction,
prose, short stories, what?
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It might be fiction, but
nonetheless, it's real.
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Nobody said it wasn't Harry,
Harry Lesser is my name.
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Willie Spearmint.
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Well, sorry for
the interruption.
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I better be getting back to
my own book, my third novel.
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It was a surprise to find
somebody else up here typing.
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I thought for a second
I was going crazy.
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I had gotten used to being
the only man on the island.
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Sorry again.
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I hate interruptions myself.
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If you need anything,
I'm generally
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free in the late afternoon,
like you know, 5:00, 5:30.
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You know what?
Make it sixish.
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Say, man, can I leave
this here until the morning?
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I don't want nobody to
steal it out of my office.
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I've been hiding in the closet,
but that ain't like hiding,
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if you can dig what I'm saying.
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Are you through for the day?
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What's it to you?
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Nothing.
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I just thought I'd ask.
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I work from like 8:00 to
12:00, four solid hours,
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and then I'm out.
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Huh.
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Man, I tell you, this
writing stuff is no joke.
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How long you go for?
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About six hours a
day, sometimes more.
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What about your manuscript?
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You could leave it here.
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Needless to say, I would
respect your privacy.
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No, sir.
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This stays with Papa.
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I understand.
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About what time will you
be coming for the machine?
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Like 8:00 or 9:00.
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But if I miss a day,
don't even sweat it.
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I'm up by then.
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Except Sundays.
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Sundays, I'm flipping my girl.
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I envy you that.
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No need, man. there's
meat all around.
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The women I meet generally
want to get married.
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Stay away from that type.
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Lesser, is it cool if I leave
typewrite under the table right
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here?
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Man, oh, man, Lesser, this
is a groovy apartment.
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I made some money on a movie
sale about eight years ago.
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I took it all in
deferred payments.
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I've done fine till now.
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Shit, Lesser.
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If I had that kind of bread,
I'd be King of Shit Mountain.
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What are you going to
do when it's all gone?
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Well, it's almost
all gone now.
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But my book will be
finished by the summer.
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The advance on that should
carry me another two,
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three years to the next one.
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It take you that
long to write a book?
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Three years?
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Longer.
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I'm a slow writer.
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Baby, you better to put
the pedal to the metal.
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Berlioz.
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Shoot me.
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Careful with those.
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Those are pretty expensive.
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What's this girl to you?
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Oh, she's real.
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She talks to me.
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Talking ain't telling.
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Are you an expert on
the black experience?
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I'm an expert at writing.
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Good because I hate all that
black like me bull shit.
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White folks trying to tell me
what it's like to be black.
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Nice crib, Lesser.
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We going to have to
throw a party in here.
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Not this week, maybe next.
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Say, baby, let's just
have a good time tonight.
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I don't need you to be
fronting down like that.
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Come on, girl, stop
being so uptight.
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Put a smile on your face.
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You're too beautiful for that.
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Say, Lesser, what's
happening, baby?
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Come on, Linda, come on.
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How you doing this evening?
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Willie's white chick.
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Say, Lesser, I would
have brought more people,
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but it's cold as fuck outside.
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And you know, black people don't
do well in those conditions.
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Say, Lesser, man, what is
this shit you're listening to?
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That's, that's my music.
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I've got some
righteousness here for you.
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Not that watered down
shit you're used to.
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Hm.
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You know, I only live a
few blocks away on Court
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and Fourth.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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It's OK, Don't
worry about it, Harry.
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I like you just fine.
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You smell white.
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What does while smell like?
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No smell at all.
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Say, Lesser, have a seat, man.
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Come take a hit of this.
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It's part Lebanese hashish.
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Don't smell it, boy,
suck it in your gut.
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Hey, give me that.
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What's your book about?
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Love, I guess.
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It's about this guy who
writes because he was
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never really told the truth.
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Now he's dying to.
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What's yours about, Willie?
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Shit, me.
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How's it coming?
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Smooth.
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How's yours?
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Slow.
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Shit, I'm going to win the
fucking Nobel Peace Prize.
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They're going to give me
$1 million in cash, baby.
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After me, Willie.
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I'm writing my best book.
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It's a small
masterpiece, this book.
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This book is gonna, it's
gonna grant me immortality.
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Harry Lesser.
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I'll be remembered.
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Pile on the shit,
man, pile it on.
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Pile on the coals till
you see the smoke.
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You can have that
immortality shit.
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Me, I'm going to
shovel up the bread.
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It's only money, Willie.
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That's all I want.
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Fuck everything else.
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No.
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Art's the glory.
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Art is the glory, Willie.
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Only a schmuck thinks otherwise.
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Say, Lesser, don't bug
me with that Jew word.
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I know what you're
thinking about.
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Don't think I don't.
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My book will be dynamite.
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And I'm going to drop it on
the first white prick I see.
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Fuck off.
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I'm Willie's girl.
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Sorry.
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Do you bite your nails?
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Yes.
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My real name is
Belinski, not Bill
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and I've been Willie's
girl for two years.
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Anything else you want to know?
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What's your book about, Lesser?
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Love.
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What do you know about love?
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Say, Lesser, man, cool it.
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Don't go pulling
that ape shit on me.
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Say, Lesser, thanks for the
good time tonight, baby.
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We groove on art.
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You my man, my favorite man.
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We going to be real tight, baby.
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Say, Lesser, let me pull
your coat about something, man.
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Willie, I know.
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I'm so sorry last night.
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It was the hashish.
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I was stoned.
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I wasn't myself.
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I'm sorry.
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I was thinking I could leave
my manuscript here tonight.
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Sure.
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Sure.
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Don't worry about
anybody reading it.
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You have my word on that.
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Look, I'm asking
you to read it.
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I sat in my office today,
reading over my book,
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I got a funny feeling I fell
off track some fucking where.
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I don't know why, where,
or when all I know
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is that my vision
got blurred up.
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You need some
distance, Willie.
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Just walk away from
it for a minute.
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00:24:10,536 --> 00:24:13,408
Man, I tried that
bullshit already.
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00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:15,192
You could save me a lot of
worry and a lot of trouble
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if you tell me
where I went wrong.
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You want me to
read your manuscript?
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Nobody else I know has
two novels published.
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00:24:23,897 --> 00:24:26,552
I will if you
really want me to.
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00:24:26,595 --> 00:24:28,336
Now, would I be asking
you, if I didn't want you to?
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Willie.
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I'm ready to talk about
it whenever you are.
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I thank you, Lesser,
for reading it.
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Drink?
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00:25:56,076 --> 00:25:57,817
Let's cut the preliminary
bullshit, Lesser,
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and get right down to it.
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00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:03,562
Look, Willie, you asked
me to read your book.
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If you think you're going
to be uptight by what
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00:26:05,128 --> 00:26:07,566
I say, then maybe we ought
to call it off right now.
259
00:26:07,609 --> 00:26:11,091
I am uptight, man,
because that's my nature, as
260
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well as my personal privilege.
261
00:26:12,832 --> 00:26:14,877
Well, I got my own
nature to consider
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00:26:14,921 --> 00:26:16,836
and it likes to live in peace.
263
00:26:16,879 --> 00:26:18,751
All I'm saying is that if we
can't have a reasonable talk,
264
00:26:18,794 --> 00:26:21,014
then let's just forget it.
265
00:26:21,057 --> 00:26:22,755
I've been on my book for
years, and finally want
266
00:26:22,798 --> 00:26:23,973
to get it done.
267
00:26:24,017 --> 00:26:26,976
And for that I need
peace and quiet.
268
00:26:27,020 --> 00:26:30,371
That's why I like it up here,
no serious disturbances.
269
00:26:30,414 --> 00:26:32,199
Instead of preaching
to me, Lesser,
270
00:26:32,242 --> 00:26:35,419
need to get off your white
ass and speak your true peace.
271
00:26:35,463 --> 00:26:37,160
I don't want you to
bullshit with me,
272
00:26:37,204 --> 00:26:40,120
nor do I want to argue with you.
273
00:26:40,163 --> 00:26:40,947
I heartily agree.
274
00:26:45,255 --> 00:26:48,128
Willie, what can I tell you?
275
00:26:48,171 --> 00:26:50,913
I mean, what can I say
to a man who has seen
276
00:26:50,957 --> 00:26:53,829
the things that you have seen?
277
00:26:53,873 --> 00:26:58,486
First off, there's no
question that you're a writer.
278
00:26:58,529 --> 00:27:02,577
Both parts of the book, the
autobiography and the story,
279
00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:06,276
both strong and moving.
280
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,844
I especially like
the last story.
281
00:27:08,888 --> 00:27:10,716
I write for black
freedom, the one
282
00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:17,897
about Efram, Harry, and
the white girl, stunning.
283
00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:23,598
Whatever the writing lacks,
there's obviously a talent
284
00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:24,904
at work here.
285
00:27:24,947 --> 00:27:26,601
Oh come on now, Lesser.
286
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:28,124
Who are you talking to?
287
00:27:28,168 --> 00:27:30,083
You ain't telling me nothing.
288
00:27:30,126 --> 00:27:31,954
Get down to the cold
shit truth of it all.
289
00:27:37,394 --> 00:27:40,702
OK, Willie.
290
00:27:40,746 --> 00:27:44,663
The truth is, the book is
good, but it could be better.
291
00:27:44,706 --> 00:27:46,316
I told you that myself.
292
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:48,449
Now tell me what I
really asked you,
293
00:27:48,492 --> 00:27:51,626
where did I steer off track?
294
00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:56,196
Um, I would say that
the form of the whole
295
00:27:56,239 --> 00:27:58,285
really isn't sufficient.
296
00:27:58,328 --> 00:28:00,766
There's a flawed
quality which you
297
00:28:00,809 --> 00:28:04,683
call blurred that gives it
that shifting effect that
298
00:28:04,726 --> 00:28:06,336
seems to bother you.
299
00:28:06,380 --> 00:28:09,296
Lesser, I'm going to show
you how completely full of shit
300
00:28:09,339 --> 00:28:12,516
you are in what you just said.
301
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,738
First off, the way you
classify my work, dead wrong.
302
00:28:16,782 --> 00:28:19,088
The part you call
autobiography, made up.
303
00:28:19,132 --> 00:28:21,090
I made that shit up.
It's pure fiction.
304
00:28:21,134 --> 00:28:22,918
I made it up as I
was going along.
305
00:28:22,962 --> 00:28:25,399
The guy narrating,
that ain't me.
306
00:28:25,442 --> 00:28:28,141
Shit, I was born in
Harlem, 129th Street
307
00:28:28,184 --> 00:28:31,057
and I moved to Bed-Stuy with my
moms when I was six years old.
308
00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:34,060
The closest I've been down South
is swimming at Coney Island.
309
00:28:34,103 --> 00:28:36,105
I never lived in
Detroit, Michigan,
310
00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:39,239
despite my father did for three
years working at a shitty job
311
00:28:39,282 --> 00:28:40,893
cleaning out toilets.
312
00:28:40,936 --> 00:28:43,765
On the other hand, the four
short stories that I wrote,
313
00:28:43,809 --> 00:28:45,245
that shit was real.
314
00:28:45,288 --> 00:28:47,638
It's about brothers like
me that live a hard life.
315
00:28:47,682 --> 00:28:49,379
They've got to deal with
redneck motherfuckers
316
00:28:49,423 --> 00:28:50,946
like yourself every day.
317
00:28:50,990 --> 00:28:53,253
That's the only autobiography
this book had to bring.
318
00:28:53,296 --> 00:28:55,168
That's it, end of story.
319
00:28:55,211 --> 00:28:58,737
Well, the book has the
tone of an autobiography.
320
00:28:58,780 --> 00:29:00,477
But even if it's pure
fiction, the point
321
00:29:00,521 --> 00:29:02,915
is something's not
coming off right
322
00:29:02,958 --> 00:29:05,439
or you wouldn't have
asked me to read it.
323
00:29:05,482 --> 00:29:08,790
Lesser, how can you be so
fucking sure about what you say
324
00:29:08,834 --> 00:29:10,792
if my book turns out to
be two different things
325
00:29:10,836 --> 00:29:12,315
than you thought.
326
00:29:12,359 --> 00:29:14,448
In any case, we both
agree it needs more work.
327
00:29:14,491 --> 00:29:15,754
Work?
328
00:29:15,797 --> 00:29:17,451
I worked my ass off
to the flat bone.
329
00:29:17,494 --> 00:29:19,496
I worked past misery, man.
330
00:29:19,540 --> 00:29:21,063
This is my fourth draft.
331
00:29:21,107 --> 00:29:22,195
How many more I got to do?
332
00:29:22,238 --> 00:29:23,457
Maybe try one more.
333
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:25,111
Fuck that!
334
00:29:25,154 --> 00:29:27,853
Listen, Willie, I've got to
get back to my own book now.
335
00:29:27,896 --> 00:29:30,333
Hey look, man, don't
give me that grief shit.
336
00:29:30,377 --> 00:29:31,421
I know how you feel, Willie.
337
00:29:31,465 --> 00:29:32,945
I've been in your shoes.
338
00:29:32,988 --> 00:29:36,122
Ain't no white motherfucker
been in my shoes.
339
00:29:36,165 --> 00:29:37,732
This book is about a black man.
340
00:29:37,776 --> 00:29:39,429
White fiction is
completely different.
341
00:29:39,473 --> 00:29:40,996
You don't understand this shit.
342
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,217
You can't turn the black
experience into literature
343
00:29:44,260 --> 00:29:45,784
just by writing it down.
344
00:29:45,827 --> 00:29:47,263
Black fiction ain't white.
345
00:29:47,307 --> 00:29:48,308
It can't be.
346
00:29:48,351 --> 00:29:49,178
We feel different.
347
00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:50,179
We write different.
348
00:29:50,223 --> 00:29:51,354
Our chemistry is different.
349
00:29:51,398 --> 00:29:53,008
Dig.
350
00:29:53,052 --> 00:29:54,793
I write for the souls of all
the black people crying out,
351
00:29:54,836 --> 00:29:56,795
we ain't going to be slaves
in this motherfucking country
352
00:29:56,838 --> 00:29:58,535
no more.
353
00:29:58,579 --> 00:30:00,407
We ain't going to deal with you
redneck motherfuckers no more.
354
00:30:00,450 --> 00:30:02,278
You wouldn't understand
that though, Lesser,
355
00:30:02,322 --> 00:30:04,367
because your brain is white.
356
00:30:04,411 --> 00:30:06,674
Willie, a million
black men can have
357
00:30:06,717 --> 00:30:08,371
the same appalling experience.
358
00:30:08,415 --> 00:30:11,940
It takes one unique
man to write it down.
359
00:30:11,984 --> 00:30:13,289
Then it's not a black thing.
360
00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:14,682
It's not a white thing.
361
00:30:14,725 --> 00:30:17,337
It's a human thing.
362
00:30:17,380 --> 00:30:19,600
It's your job to make
it my experience.
363
00:30:19,643 --> 00:30:20,862
That's what a
writer does, Willie.
364
00:30:20,906 --> 00:30:22,516
That's what a writer does.
365
00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:23,822
Being human ain't shit.
366
00:30:23,865 --> 00:30:25,780
It ain't never nothing for us.
367
00:30:25,824 --> 00:30:28,391
Willie, why don't you just
find yourself a publisher
368
00:30:28,435 --> 00:30:29,871
and let them read it, OK?
369
00:30:29,915 --> 00:30:31,307
Let them read it.
370
00:30:31,351 --> 00:30:32,352
Them red head motherfuckers
don't want to hear
371
00:30:32,395 --> 00:30:33,309
what my book has to say.
372
00:30:33,353 --> 00:30:35,181
They scared of it.
373
00:30:35,224 --> 00:30:37,879
What a fool, what a black
ass fool I was letting
374
00:30:37,923 --> 00:30:39,315
you read my fucking book.
375
00:32:07,795 --> 00:32:09,710
Willie.
376
00:32:09,753 --> 00:32:10,624
Where you been?
377
00:32:18,849 --> 00:32:21,069
I was worried about you, Willie.
378
00:32:21,113 --> 00:32:23,463
Call me Bill, Lesser.
379
00:32:23,506 --> 00:32:26,509
My writing name is my
real one from now on.
380
00:32:26,553 --> 00:32:27,336
Bill Speer.
381
00:32:30,557 --> 00:32:33,908
OK, Bill it is then.
382
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,301
Lesser, I want
to say something
383
00:32:35,344 --> 00:32:37,216
going back to that rap
we had the other day.
384
00:32:37,259 --> 00:32:38,304
Won't take but a minute.
385
00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:45,398
What is it, Willie.
386
00:32:45,441 --> 00:32:49,663
I'm sorry, Bill.
387
00:32:49,706 --> 00:32:51,708
I went by the library
by my girl's house
388
00:32:51,752 --> 00:32:56,235
and checked out your books,
both of them, I might add,
389
00:32:56,278 --> 00:33:01,066
the second book gives off a
bad smell, but the first one
390
00:33:01,109 --> 00:33:04,069
you wrote, classic.
391
00:33:04,112 --> 00:33:06,114
It's the truth.
392
00:33:06,158 --> 00:33:08,029
Irene said I be
talking to myself.
393
00:33:08,073 --> 00:33:09,726
Wasn't expecting nothing
like that from you, Lesser,
394
00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:10,640
such a square like yourself.
395
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,081
Well, thanks anyway, Bill.
396
00:33:16,124 --> 00:33:18,257
But there was one thing.
397
00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:19,998
What?
398
00:33:20,041 --> 00:33:24,132
The sister in the book, the
chick, to me, she wasn't black
399
00:33:24,176 --> 00:33:26,700
but I liked her attitude
and I wouldn't mind
400
00:33:26,743 --> 00:33:29,224
laying some pipe in her pants.
401
00:33:29,268 --> 00:33:31,922
At least she was real
enough to want to fuck.
402
00:33:31,966 --> 00:33:34,403
Yeah, she was real,
but not like anybody
403
00:33:34,447 --> 00:33:38,407
I know, leastways nobody black.
404
00:33:38,451 --> 00:33:42,542
But I will admit,
it got me thinking.
405
00:33:42,585 --> 00:33:45,980
After reading your
book, , both of them
406
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:48,069
I understand what
you was talking
407
00:33:48,113 --> 00:33:49,027
about with that form shit.
408
00:33:52,987 --> 00:33:55,076
What's the matter,
man, you all right?
409
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,427
I just got a lot
of stuff on my mind.
410
00:33:58,471 --> 00:34:00,212
But you see what I mean.
411
00:34:00,255 --> 00:34:03,041
Because I don't want to become
some half-assed white writer
412
00:34:03,084 --> 00:34:04,477
or some black writer
who writes what
413
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,305
the white man
tells him to write.
414
00:34:06,348 --> 00:34:07,871
I got to write from the heart.
415
00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:09,569
I mean we're different
from you, Lesser.
416
00:34:09,612 --> 00:34:10,439
We write different.
417
00:34:10,483 --> 00:34:11,353
We feel different.
418
00:34:11,397 --> 00:34:13,094
We are different.
419
00:34:13,138 --> 00:34:16,402
What I want to do is take what
you know add on to what I know,
420
00:34:16,445 --> 00:34:19,187
put them both together
and write black art
421
00:34:19,231 --> 00:34:21,189
as a black man should.
422
00:34:21,233 --> 00:34:23,539
And if I got to learn from
you or any other white man,
423
00:34:23,583 --> 00:34:24,584
then so be it.
424
00:34:24,627 --> 00:34:25,846
That's what it's going to be.
425
00:34:25,889 --> 00:34:27,326
That's what the
purpose is all about.
426
00:34:27,369 --> 00:34:29,545
So I want you to take
everything that I gave you
427
00:34:29,589 --> 00:34:31,547
and throw it away.
428
00:34:31,591 --> 00:34:33,332
I got some new shit.
429
00:34:33,375 --> 00:34:36,987
Got this story I'm working on
where this kid and his mom,
430
00:34:37,031 --> 00:34:38,989
they just go out and
kill white people all day
431
00:34:39,033 --> 00:34:41,122
in the South Yeah.
432
00:34:41,166 --> 00:34:48,564
I'm thinking about calling it,
Kill Whitey, A Revenge Story.
433
00:34:48,608 --> 00:34:49,826
But check this out, Les.
434
00:34:49,870 --> 00:34:52,133
Here's what I want
you to do for me,
435
00:34:52,177 --> 00:34:55,963
and I wouldn't be asking this if
we both wasn't writers, tell me
436
00:34:56,006 --> 00:35:00,272
how can I write the same
things, the same ideas,
437
00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:02,839
but only better.
438
00:35:02,883 --> 00:35:05,277
I don't know if that's
such a good idea considering
439
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,324
how things went the other day.
440
00:35:09,368 --> 00:35:12,153
Well, baby, if you don't
want to read what I show you,
441
00:35:12,197 --> 00:35:13,415
fuck your white ass.
442
00:35:19,595 --> 00:35:21,684
Who's the gorilla in
old timers old flat?
443
00:35:21,728 --> 00:35:22,946
Friend of yours?
444
00:35:22,990 --> 00:35:24,687
Which gorilla do
you have in mind?
445
00:35:24,731 --> 00:35:27,168
Don't get cute
with me, Lesser.
446
00:35:27,212 --> 00:35:30,389
I found a typewriter on the
table in the living room, also
447
00:35:30,432 --> 00:35:32,913
an apple, less a few bites.
448
00:35:32,956 --> 00:35:36,177
And a piss-smelling mattress
in the middle of the floor.
449
00:35:36,221 --> 00:35:37,004
Where's he hiding?
450
00:35:43,619 --> 00:35:44,794
I'll take your word for it.
451
00:35:44,838 --> 00:35:46,622
Who is this son of a bitch.
452
00:35:46,666 --> 00:35:47,623
I don't know.
453
00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:48,711
He comes and goes.
454
00:35:48,755 --> 00:35:51,149
Well, he's some
kind of writer,
455
00:35:51,192 --> 00:35:52,411
because I read
some of the rolled
456
00:35:52,454 --> 00:35:54,674
up paper balls he
throws on the floor,
457
00:35:54,717 --> 00:35:57,459
one begins with a small
little boy in Harlem.
458
00:35:57,503 --> 00:35:58,939
Who is he?
Colored?
459
00:35:58,982 --> 00:36:00,549
I don't know.
460
00:36:00,593 --> 00:36:04,074
Well, you tell him whoever
he is, that he's trespassing
461
00:36:04,118 --> 00:36:05,554
and I'm going to throw
him out on his ass.
462
00:36:05,598 --> 00:36:07,861
You're trespassing
on my writing time.
463
00:36:07,904 --> 00:36:10,211
Hey.
464
00:36:10,255 --> 00:36:11,343
So how's the work coming along?
465
00:36:11,386 --> 00:36:12,605
On and off.
466
00:36:12,648 --> 00:36:14,259
Too many interruptions.
467
00:36:14,302 --> 00:36:18,915
Let me ask you, would you
take 1,500 if I made the offer?
468
00:36:18,959 --> 00:36:19,786
I'd take it.
469
00:36:19,829 --> 00:36:20,874
It's pure gold.
470
00:36:20,917 --> 00:36:22,092
I'll keep it in mind.
471
00:36:22,136 --> 00:36:23,485
I'm riding as fast as I can.
472
00:36:23,529 --> 00:36:25,270
You rush, you distort.
473
00:36:25,313 --> 00:36:26,532
That your final offer?
474
00:36:26,575 --> 00:36:28,229
Final once removed.
475
00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:31,493
What's final I
seek, I can't find.
476
00:36:31,537 --> 00:36:34,017
Tell that nigger I'm
coming back with a cop.
477
00:36:34,061 --> 00:36:34,801
Tell him yourself.
478
00:37:00,609 --> 00:37:02,481
I went to get a typewriter.
479
00:37:02,524 --> 00:37:03,351
Who took my stuff?
480
00:37:03,395 --> 00:37:04,526
Les, did you?
481
00:37:04,570 --> 00:37:06,006
Levenspiel found your setup.
482
00:37:06,049 --> 00:37:07,529
Went to get a cop.
483
00:37:07,573 --> 00:37:08,487
What the fuck for?
484
00:37:08,530 --> 00:37:09,662
What harm am I doing him?
485
00:37:09,705 --> 00:37:10,706
Trespassing.
486
00:37:10,750 --> 00:37:12,317
In this shit hole?
487
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:13,579
He had one writer to get
rid of and now he's got two
488
00:37:13,622 --> 00:37:15,450
and you don't pay rent.
489
00:37:15,494 --> 00:37:16,930
Jew slum lord bastard.
490
00:37:16,973 --> 00:37:18,932
Cut out the Jew stuff, Willie.
491
00:37:18,975 --> 00:37:20,107
Bill is my name, Lesser.
492
00:37:20,150 --> 00:37:22,544
OK, Bill, cut
out the Jew stuff.
493
00:37:24,111 --> 00:37:25,025
Shit.
494
00:37:25,068 --> 00:37:25,939
In the bathroom.
495
00:37:29,464 --> 00:37:30,248
Police.
496
00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:38,865
What's your business?
497
00:37:38,908 --> 00:37:40,867
Our business is legal, Lesser.
498
00:37:40,910 --> 00:37:42,912
We broke up your friend's
furniture in the apartment
499
00:37:42,956 --> 00:37:45,088
in which he was trespassing.
500
00:37:45,132 --> 00:37:47,613
But I know you were in
possession of his typewriter.
501
00:37:47,656 --> 00:37:49,789
That I already saw.
502
00:37:49,832 --> 00:37:51,573
I hope you're
proud of yourself.
503
00:37:51,617 --> 00:37:53,314
What are my rights?
504
00:37:53,358 --> 00:37:56,012
Not that a landlord has
many in this fakakta city.
505
00:37:56,056 --> 00:37:57,362
They're my rights.
506
00:37:57,405 --> 00:37:59,451
I don't owe you any
apologies, Lesser.
507
00:37:59,494 --> 00:38:02,062
I'm about to search every
apartment in this building,
508
00:38:02,105 --> 00:38:05,283
and if we don't find your
black friend anywhere else,
509
00:38:05,326 --> 00:38:07,633
I'll know that you're
hiding him here.
510
00:38:07,676 --> 00:38:09,330
Bring a search warrant
if you want to get it.
511
00:38:09,374 --> 00:38:10,157
We will.
512
00:38:35,574 --> 00:38:37,315
What are your plans, Willie?
513
00:38:37,358 --> 00:38:39,708
Don't got no fucking plans.
514
00:38:39,752 --> 00:38:41,144
Look at this shit.
515
00:38:41,188 --> 00:38:42,494
Me and my girl just got
in a fucking argument
516
00:38:42,537 --> 00:38:43,538
the other night.
517
00:38:43,582 --> 00:38:44,974
I can't go back to her place.
518
00:38:45,018 --> 00:38:46,019
God damn.
519
00:38:51,764 --> 00:38:57,204
Listen, you can work
in my kitchen tomorrow.
520
00:38:57,247 --> 00:38:58,771
Of if it makes you
feel claustrophobic,
521
00:38:58,814 --> 00:39:01,295
we can move the table
into the living room.
522
00:39:01,339 --> 00:39:04,080
In a couple of days, we'll
find you a new place.
523
00:39:19,792 --> 00:39:21,837
I know a second hand
store on Third Avenue.
524
00:39:21,881 --> 00:39:24,492
We can pick a few things there.
525
00:39:24,536 --> 00:39:25,928
Listen, man, I
ain't got no bread.
526
00:39:25,972 --> 00:39:27,582
It's what me and Irene
keep on arguing about.
527
00:39:27,626 --> 00:39:30,716
She wants me to get a gig.
528
00:39:30,759 --> 00:39:32,544
Well, don't worry about it.
529
00:39:32,587 --> 00:39:35,503
I still have a few
dollars in the bank.
530
00:39:35,547 --> 00:39:38,245
My man.
531
00:39:38,288 --> 00:39:39,246
You all right, Lesser.
532
00:40:18,851 --> 00:40:20,592
Right on, Lesser, right on.
533
00:42:01,867 --> 00:42:02,607
I know the artist.
534
00:42:06,132 --> 00:42:07,350
His name was Lazar Cohen.
535
00:42:10,397 --> 00:42:11,572
I knew the woman too.
536
00:42:11,616 --> 00:42:13,574
She was his girlfriend
at the time.
537
00:42:13,618 --> 00:42:18,100
He worked on it for many
years and then gave up.
538
00:42:18,144 --> 00:42:21,539
He never thought
he got it right.
539
00:42:21,582 --> 00:42:23,845
His friends persuaded him
to release it for sale,
540
00:42:23,889 --> 00:42:27,153
but didn't do him any good.
541
00:42:29,808 --> 00:42:32,550
He's dead.
542
00:42:32,593 --> 00:42:34,595
He hit a truck with his
motorcycle on Hudson Street.
543
00:42:46,128 --> 00:42:49,349
Is Willie a good writer?
544
00:42:49,392 --> 00:42:51,525
I mean will he be?
545
00:42:51,569 --> 00:42:53,962
Well, he could be
if he stays with it.
546
00:42:54,006 --> 00:42:57,270
There's no half-assed
way to be a good writer.
547
00:42:57,313 --> 00:42:58,793
There's nothing
half-assed about Willie.
548
00:43:02,449 --> 00:43:05,365
You know, you really hurt him
what he said about his book.
549
00:43:05,408 --> 00:43:07,367
I didn't mean to.
550
00:43:07,410 --> 00:43:11,850
Well, you said you
didn't think much of it.
551
00:43:11,893 --> 00:43:14,635
I liked the stories
better than The Life.
552
00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:16,681
They are a lot more original.
553
00:43:16,724 --> 00:43:19,727
But it isn't just
autobiographical.
554
00:43:19,771 --> 00:43:21,294
Willie came to Harlem
from Georgia when he was
555
00:43:21,337 --> 00:43:23,209
16 with his mom and kid sister.
556
00:43:23,252 --> 00:43:26,255
I thought it was Mississippi.
557
00:43:26,299 --> 00:43:28,301
Changes his birthplace every
time he talks about it.
558
00:43:28,344 --> 00:43:29,563
There's a lot of
stuff he just really
559
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:32,131
doesn't like to remember.
560
00:43:32,174 --> 00:43:33,523
Did he really do
a stretch in prison?
561
00:43:33,567 --> 00:43:34,350
Two years.
562
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:41,836
But most of it's made up.
563
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:43,708
Willie's a very imaginative.
564
00:43:43,751 --> 00:43:46,928
He enjoys being imaginative.
565
00:43:46,972 --> 00:43:49,191
You should hear when he gets
to talking about himself.
566
00:43:49,235 --> 00:43:52,542
That's the tone I'd like
to see in his next book.
567
00:43:52,586 --> 00:43:55,371
What do you think of it so far?
568
00:43:55,415 --> 00:44:00,550
I think if he stays with it
seriously, it ought to be good.
569
00:44:00,594 --> 00:44:03,162
How seriously?
570
00:44:03,205 --> 00:44:04,816
You have to break your
balls to be a good writer?
571
00:44:08,994 --> 00:44:12,998
Everything WITH you is so
fucking serious, Lesser.
572
00:44:13,041 --> 00:44:13,781
When do you laugh?
573
00:44:18,568 --> 00:44:23,356
I laugh when I write, which
is what I should be doing now.
574
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:30,711
You know, I read your
novel, the first one.
575
00:44:30,755 --> 00:44:32,104
It was good.
576
00:44:32,147 --> 00:44:34,541
It was much better than
I thought it would be.
577
00:44:34,584 --> 00:44:37,805
The girl in it, she reminded me
of myself actually, when I was
578
00:44:37,849 --> 00:44:42,070
her age, very fucked up girl.
579
00:44:42,114 --> 00:44:43,506
What do you mean?
580
00:44:43,550 --> 00:44:45,291
Well, I had just quit
college and I thought
581
00:44:45,334 --> 00:44:47,032
I wanted to be an actress.
582
00:44:47,075 --> 00:44:50,600
But really I was just looking
for a way to skip being myself.
583
00:44:50,644 --> 00:44:52,907
A lot of this came
out in therapy.
584
00:44:52,951 --> 00:44:54,561
Anyway, I was fucked up kid.
585
00:44:54,604 --> 00:44:56,955
I was having a rough time.
586
00:44:56,998 --> 00:44:59,174
And then I met Willie.
587
00:44:59,218 --> 00:45:02,003
At first we got
along really badly.
588
00:45:02,047 --> 00:45:04,266
But then things got better.
589
00:45:04,310 --> 00:45:05,093
And he moved in with me.
590
00:45:07,835 --> 00:45:10,620
How do you and
Willie stand as of now?
591
00:45:10,664 --> 00:45:13,275
What do you mean?
592
00:45:13,319 --> 00:45:17,627
You seem to be together,
but you seem to be apart.
593
00:45:17,671 --> 00:45:22,545
Yeah, that's a good
description of us.
594
00:45:22,589 --> 00:45:25,548
Do you love him?
595
00:45:25,592 --> 00:45:28,987
Why do you want to know?
596
00:45:29,030 --> 00:45:30,379
Cause we're sitting here.
597
00:45:37,909 --> 00:45:39,475
I think if Willie
loved me, we would
598
00:45:39,519 --> 00:45:40,738
probably be married by now.
599
00:45:43,436 --> 00:45:45,525
But outside of his
love for black people,
600
00:45:45,568 --> 00:45:49,616
I don't think he loves
anything except his work.
601
00:45:49,659 --> 00:45:52,967
We talk an awful lot
about race and color.
602
00:45:53,011 --> 00:45:54,926
One thing about
loving a black man,
603
00:45:54,969 --> 00:45:57,363
there's times when you
feel black yourself.
604
00:46:00,496 --> 00:46:02,890
Yeah.
605
00:46:02,934 --> 00:46:07,677
Well, maybe you should
find yourself another.
606
00:46:07,721 --> 00:46:09,505
I gotta get back to work.
607
00:46:26,740 --> 00:46:28,350
Hey, Lesser,
where you been, man?
608
00:46:28,394 --> 00:46:29,308
You holding me up.
609
00:46:29,351 --> 00:46:30,135
I've been looking for you.
610
00:46:30,178 --> 00:46:31,963
I just went for a walk.
611
00:46:32,006 --> 00:46:34,139
I went up town to a museum.
612
00:46:34,182 --> 00:46:37,055
I left a note on your desk.
613
00:46:37,098 --> 00:46:38,839
Man, I can't rap
to you right now.
614
00:46:38,883 --> 00:46:41,973
It's the weekend, I
gotta see my girl.
615
00:46:42,016 --> 00:46:42,800
I'll see you Monday.
616
00:47:28,933 --> 00:47:32,458
Lesser, man for Christ
sakes, cross over.
617
00:47:32,501 --> 00:47:34,590
I got some soul people
over here with me.
618
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,041
Say, man, we having a shing-ding
at Mary's house tonight.
619
00:47:50,084 --> 00:47:52,695
How'd you like to come along?
620
00:47:52,739 --> 00:47:54,001
Yeah, sure.
621
00:47:54,045 --> 00:47:55,176
- Well, join the train.
- Oh, no, no, no.
622
00:47:55,220 --> 00:47:57,004
Hold up, man.
Hold up.
623
00:47:57,048 --> 00:47:59,615
What's up with this?
624
00:47:59,659 --> 00:48:01,748
He's a fucking good writer.
625
00:48:01,791 --> 00:48:02,575
Join the train.
626
00:48:11,584 --> 00:48:13,499
Hi.
627
00:48:13,542 --> 00:48:15,414
Good to see you.
628
00:48:15,457 --> 00:48:17,198
Thought you might come by.
629
00:48:17,242 --> 00:48:21,986
Seeing as you live so
close and everything.
630
00:48:33,388 --> 00:48:35,869
I'm really glad you came.
631
00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:37,610
I'm glad I came too.
632
00:48:37,653 --> 00:48:39,177
I was happy to see you.
633
00:48:43,616 --> 00:48:46,619
Listen, I have the
key to a friend's
634
00:48:46,662 --> 00:48:49,665
apartment across the hall.
635
00:48:49,709 --> 00:48:51,841
As soon as everybody
gets a little higher,
636
00:48:51,885 --> 00:48:52,886
I'm going in there.
637
00:48:56,890 --> 00:49:02,069
You should come too, if
you're in the mood to.
638
00:49:02,113 --> 00:49:04,942
Only give me about
10 minutes so no one
639
00:49:04,985 --> 00:49:07,292
sees us get up walk
right out of here,
640
00:49:07,335 --> 00:49:11,035
one right after the other.
641
00:49:11,078 --> 00:49:12,514
Sam might take offense.
642
00:49:42,762 --> 00:49:43,806
Mary?
643
00:49:43,850 --> 00:49:44,633
In here.
644
00:49:54,730 --> 00:49:57,777
I hope you don't mind me
getting undressed first.
645
00:49:57,820 --> 00:50:00,432
Just thought I'd be a
little warmer under here.
646
00:50:19,842 --> 00:50:21,931
My god, you're lovely.
647
00:50:21,975 --> 00:50:23,672
You've never been with
a black woman before.
648
00:50:27,241 --> 00:50:28,721
No.
649
00:50:28,764 --> 00:50:30,462
Don't make too much of it.
650
00:50:30,505 --> 00:50:31,550
Now, come on.
651
00:50:34,857 --> 00:50:35,641
Get into bed with me.
652
00:50:56,444 --> 00:50:57,228
Salaam alaykum.
653
00:51:01,797 --> 00:51:05,497
If you think you're
white, you're wrong.
654
00:51:05,540 --> 00:51:07,803
You're really black.
655
00:51:07,847 --> 00:51:10,806
All white people are.
656
00:51:10,850 --> 00:51:14,027
But the blacks are
the true whites.
657
00:51:20,555 --> 00:51:23,471
Lesser, get your pale
face ass over here.
658
00:51:26,474 --> 00:51:31,088
Chum, we going to
play a little game,
659
00:51:31,131 --> 00:51:35,004
a game of nothing
but naked words.
660
00:51:35,048 --> 00:51:38,051
You throw yours on me,
I throw mines on you.
661
00:51:38,095 --> 00:51:40,793
The one that cries momma loses.
662
00:51:40,836 --> 00:51:43,361
And we shit on them, you dig?
663
00:51:43,404 --> 00:51:44,536
What's the point of that?
664
00:51:44,579 --> 00:51:47,408
The point is the point.
665
00:51:47,452 --> 00:51:49,715
I thought we
were friends, Bill.
666
00:51:49,758 --> 00:51:51,673
You've got no friends here.
667
00:51:51,717 --> 00:51:53,110
Suppose I don't play.
668
00:51:53,153 --> 00:51:55,068
You gonna fuck back,
you gonna face black.
669
00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:57,070
Off this motherfucker.
670
00:51:57,114 --> 00:51:59,203
Lesser, I'm going
to go easy on you.
671
00:51:59,246 --> 00:52:01,553
So you can join in on the fun.
672
00:52:01,596 --> 00:52:03,424
Now I'm not going to go
on your mom or your sister
673
00:52:03,468 --> 00:52:07,515
like we normally do, but,
get down to the tough shit
674
00:52:07,559 --> 00:52:10,170
funk of it, special for you.
675
00:52:10,214 --> 00:52:15,175
Lesser, you think you're so hot.
676
00:52:15,219 --> 00:52:16,655
You've got the
look of a shit pot.
677
00:52:19,484 --> 00:52:20,528
Now raise me on that.
678
00:52:23,314 --> 00:52:28,493
Oh, and if you don't, you might
have to play a different game.
679
00:52:28,536 --> 00:52:30,582
Poker.
680
00:52:30,625 --> 00:52:34,977
Motherfucker, have you
lost your nuts down the can?
681
00:52:35,021 --> 00:52:37,806
OK.
682
00:52:37,850 --> 00:52:40,418
OK, Willie, Bill.
683
00:52:40,461 --> 00:52:44,422
Bill, your mouth is
a place of excrement.
684
00:52:47,773 --> 00:52:51,994
Lesser, you a mammy
rammer, shit for brains,
685
00:52:52,038 --> 00:52:53,822
no good, red neck motherfucker.
686
00:52:53,866 --> 00:52:54,649
Oh.
687
00:52:57,435 --> 00:52:59,567
What good is a
contest of imprecation?
688
00:52:59,611 --> 00:53:01,743
All this does is
raise bad feelings.
689
00:53:01,787 --> 00:53:04,268
Would you listen to
this soft bull shit.
690
00:53:04,311 --> 00:53:06,574
Sam, Sam, Sam.
691
00:53:06,618 --> 00:53:08,489
This honky belongs to me.
692
00:53:08,533 --> 00:53:09,447
Chill out.
693
00:53:09,490 --> 00:53:11,318
This is my guest.
694
00:53:11,362 --> 00:53:14,756
Willie, baby, can we go home?
695
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:15,931
Go.
696
00:53:15,975 --> 00:53:17,498
Go, git.
697
00:53:17,542 --> 00:53:20,197
Can't you come with me?
698
00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:22,634
Irene, go fuck yourself.
699
00:53:22,677 --> 00:53:27,073
Well, if I could, what are
you going to do for kicks?
700
00:53:27,116 --> 00:53:28,857
Yeah, whatever, bitch.
701
00:53:28,901 --> 00:53:33,166
Now, Lesser, I called you a two
bit, good for nothing, redneck,
702
00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:34,341
motherfucker.
703
00:53:34,385 --> 00:53:35,777
Now aren't you going
to answer back?
704
00:53:35,821 --> 00:53:37,910
If you have to do this,
why don't you write it?
705
00:53:37,953 --> 00:53:39,390
I thought you were a writer.
706
00:53:39,433 --> 00:53:42,219
Look, motherfucker,
don't tell me how to write.
707
00:53:42,262 --> 00:53:44,569
I don't need no Jew
motherfuckers trying to tell me
708
00:53:44,612 --> 00:53:46,005
how and what to write.
709
00:53:46,048 --> 00:53:48,007
If you have some sort
of complaint with me,
710
00:53:48,050 --> 00:53:49,617
why don't you say it directly?
711
00:53:49,661 --> 00:53:51,402
If what you have to say
is none of your business
712
00:53:51,445 --> 00:53:53,273
in the first place,
then let Sam say it.
713
00:53:53,317 --> 00:53:56,102
I told you not to let
this redneck shit eater come
714
00:53:56,145 --> 00:53:59,410
along here in the first place.
715
00:53:59,453 --> 00:54:01,194
How much more of a
motherfucking coward
716
00:54:01,238 --> 00:54:02,500
are you going to be?
717
00:54:02,543 --> 00:54:06,286
Just answer the
question that I laid down.
718
00:54:06,330 --> 00:54:08,419
OK, Bill, OK.
719
00:54:08,462 --> 00:54:10,943
I could call you a filthy prick.
720
00:54:17,428 --> 00:54:18,472
I withdraw that.
721
00:54:18,516 --> 00:54:19,517
No you're not, motherfucker.
722
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,258
You ain't withdrawing nothing.
723
00:54:21,301 --> 00:54:22,694
That's the rules to this shit.
724
00:54:22,737 --> 00:54:24,652
Now the reason why
you want to withdraw
725
00:54:24,696 --> 00:54:27,699
is because you really want to
call me a filthy nigger prick,
726
00:54:27,742 --> 00:54:30,005
but you ain't got the
balls to say it, do you?
727
00:54:30,049 --> 00:54:31,268
I didn't say that word.
728
00:54:34,358 --> 00:54:37,186
I didn't say that.
729
00:54:37,230 --> 00:54:39,232
I thought of that because
I knew that that's
730
00:54:39,276 --> 00:54:41,365
what you wanted to hear.
731
00:54:41,408 --> 00:54:43,628
Yeah, fine and dandy.
732
00:54:43,671 --> 00:54:45,586
Now I will call you
a motherfucking,
733
00:54:45,630 --> 00:54:48,110
redneck, Jew,
shit-eating, dick-sucking,
734
00:54:48,154 --> 00:54:49,808
dyke-faced motherfucker.
735
00:54:59,818 --> 00:55:03,038
I get the message, Bill.
736
00:55:03,082 --> 00:55:05,563
I get the message.
737
00:55:05,606 --> 00:55:09,349
And I concede the game.
738
00:55:09,393 --> 00:55:10,307
That's my last word.
739
00:55:19,577 --> 00:55:22,144
Say, brothers, let
the white spook exit.
740
00:55:25,713 --> 00:55:27,236
Get the fuck out
of here, Lesser.
741
00:55:35,636 --> 00:55:37,943
Damn, Lesser, I
didn't get shit done.
742
00:55:37,986 --> 00:55:39,423
Not one fucking sentence.
743
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:48,345
I tell you, I'm hung
over like a motherfucker.
744
00:55:59,268 --> 00:56:02,663
I want you to know, Lesser, that
I saved your ass last night.
745
00:56:02,707 --> 00:56:04,361
Saved whose ass?
746
00:56:04,404 --> 00:56:06,145
Sam wanted the brothers
to beat up on you
747
00:56:06,188 --> 00:56:07,929
for putting meat to his girl.
748
00:56:07,973 --> 00:56:10,628
But I cooled them
out with that game.
749
00:56:10,671 --> 00:56:13,761
In that case, thanks.
750
00:56:13,805 --> 00:56:14,936
I'm grateful
751
00:56:14,980 --> 00:56:17,635
You sure as shit
don't look it.
752
00:56:17,678 --> 00:56:19,593
Trust me.
753
00:56:19,637 --> 00:56:20,768
I just wanted
you to know that.
754
00:56:53,497 --> 00:56:57,501
Listen, Torvald, I have
heard when a wife abandons
755
00:56:57,544 --> 00:56:59,633
her husband's house
as I'm doing now,
756
00:56:59,677 --> 00:57:02,810
he's legally free from all
obligations towards her.
757
00:57:02,854 --> 00:57:05,073
In any case I set you
free from any obligation.
758
00:57:05,117 --> 00:57:07,380
You're not to feel yourself
bound to me in the slightest
759
00:57:07,424 --> 00:57:10,557
way, any more than I shall.
760
00:57:10,601 --> 00:57:12,124
There must be perfect
freedom on both sides.
761
00:57:16,128 --> 00:57:17,999
Here is your ring back.
762
00:57:18,043 --> 00:57:18,783
Give me mine.
763
00:57:21,873 --> 00:57:22,743
All over.
764
00:57:26,486 --> 00:57:31,360
Moira, shall you never
think of me again?
765
00:57:31,404 --> 00:57:34,451
I know I shall often think
of you and the children
766
00:57:34,494 --> 00:57:35,277
and this house.
767
00:58:08,615 --> 00:58:09,442
Irene.
768
00:58:12,706 --> 00:58:15,666
Irene, it's Lesser.
769
00:58:15,709 --> 00:58:16,493
What are you doing here?
770
00:58:23,761 --> 00:58:25,153
I came to tell you
I love you, Irene.
771
00:58:27,895 --> 00:58:30,855
I thought you'd want to know.
772
00:58:30,898 --> 00:58:33,858
I thought you liked Mary.
773
00:58:33,901 --> 00:58:36,251
I slept with her
for want of you.
774
00:58:40,386 --> 00:58:44,869
You're in love with me because
I'm Willie's Jewish white girl.
775
00:58:44,912 --> 00:58:47,262
You'd try to save me from
a life of poverty and crime
776
00:58:47,306 --> 00:58:50,178
with a black man, an ex-con.
777
00:58:50,222 --> 00:58:55,749
My love professes
no more than love.
778
00:58:55,793 --> 00:58:58,622
I love you.
779
00:58:58,665 --> 00:58:59,971
I want you.
780
00:59:03,322 --> 00:59:06,020
What kind of want?
781
00:59:06,064 --> 00:59:08,457
A long want.
782
00:59:08,501 --> 00:59:09,981
Say it plainly.
783
00:59:10,024 --> 00:59:13,680
I'm not very subtle.
784
00:59:13,724 --> 00:59:15,813
I want to marry you
after I finish my book.
785
00:59:21,558 --> 00:59:22,515
You're both alike.
786
00:59:30,741 --> 00:59:31,568
My feet are cold.
787
00:59:34,614 --> 00:59:35,963
Let's go upstairs.
788
01:00:00,684 --> 01:00:02,816
Take off your coat.
789
01:00:02,860 --> 01:00:06,080
Why a black Jesus?
790
01:00:06,124 --> 01:00:09,823
Well, Willie won't let me
hang any pictures of whites.
791
01:00:09,867 --> 01:00:12,521
And I won't hang
pictures of flowers.
792
01:00:12,565 --> 01:00:15,002
I like real flowers.
793
01:00:15,046 --> 01:00:17,918
But why Jesus?
794
01:00:17,962 --> 01:00:20,617
Rather than H. Rap Brown?
795
01:00:20,660 --> 01:00:23,881
Is there a black Moses?
796
01:00:23,924 --> 01:00:24,708
Believe in God.
797
01:00:32,324 --> 01:00:33,412
I'm afraid of
what we;re doing,
798
01:00:33,455 --> 01:00:35,849
even though I want to do it.
799
01:00:35,893 --> 01:00:38,199
You worried about Willie.
800
01:00:38,243 --> 01:00:39,070
And myself.
801
01:00:43,988 --> 01:00:46,338
I'm also really
afraid of getting
802
01:00:46,381 --> 01:00:47,426
involved with another writer.
803
01:00:56,435 --> 01:00:57,784
I love you, Irene.
804
01:01:23,114 --> 01:01:27,161
Would you consider
moving to San Francisco?
805
01:01:27,205 --> 01:01:29,424
Sure.
806
01:01:29,468 --> 01:01:30,948
After I finish my book.
807
01:01:33,907 --> 01:01:36,736
I made up my mind.
808
01:01:36,780 --> 01:01:39,304
I'm giving up acting.
809
01:01:39,347 --> 01:01:42,133
I'm not a natural.
810
01:01:42,176 --> 01:01:44,788
This is my last play.
811
01:01:44,831 --> 01:01:46,528
I'm fed up with my life here.
812
01:01:46,572 --> 01:01:48,008
I'm fed up with New York.
813
01:01:48,052 --> 01:01:50,837
Yeah.
814
01:01:50,881 --> 01:01:52,317
OK.
815
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:57,670
So, could we say,
three, four, maybe
816
01:01:57,714 --> 01:01:58,932
five months at the latest.
817
01:01:58,976 --> 01:01:59,759
Sure.
818
01:02:08,376 --> 01:02:09,160
Just worried about Willie.
819
01:02:15,340 --> 01:02:16,645
What do you mean?
820
01:02:16,689 --> 01:02:18,386
He doesn't really
have anybody and I've
821
01:02:18,430 --> 01:02:22,434
been pretty much supporting
him since he moved in with me.
822
01:02:22,477 --> 01:02:24,044
He has very little
to live on as it is
823
01:02:24,088 --> 01:02:26,351
and I just, I don't
want him to go back
824
01:02:26,394 --> 01:02:28,919
to running numbers, dealing.
825
01:02:28,962 --> 01:02:30,572
He'll get a job.
826
01:02:30,616 --> 01:02:33,880
I worked plenty of shitty
jobs writing my first book.
827
01:02:33,924 --> 01:02:36,100
And I still had time to write.
828
01:02:36,143 --> 01:02:38,537
Yeah, but any job he got
would pay him half as much
829
01:02:38,580 --> 01:02:41,279
as what you earned and make
him work twice as hard.
830
01:02:41,322 --> 01:02:42,671
I worked my ass off.
831
01:02:49,113 --> 01:02:50,418
I know we're not,
but I just feel
832
01:02:50,462 --> 01:02:51,811
like we're a couple
of whities giving
833
01:02:51,855 --> 01:02:53,813
some nigger a kick in the ass.
834
01:02:53,857 --> 01:02:54,727
Come on.
835
01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:58,470
I don't feel that way.
836
01:02:58,513 --> 01:03:04,432
All this amounts to is two
people, you and Willie finally
837
01:03:04,476 --> 01:03:06,783
agreeing to end an affair.
838
01:03:06,826 --> 01:03:09,133
That's all.
839
01:03:09,176 --> 01:03:12,005
Forget about that whitey thing.
840
01:03:29,327 --> 01:03:30,850
Hello?
841
01:03:30,894 --> 01:03:32,286
Irene, I won't be
coming around this Friday.
842
01:03:32,330 --> 01:03:33,853
This chapter's giving
me a hard time right now
843
01:03:33,897 --> 01:03:34,723
and I've got to stay on.
844
01:03:38,162 --> 01:03:40,338
I'm sorry to hear that.
845
01:03:40,381 --> 01:03:42,862
I will be around
in about a week or two.
846
01:03:42,906 --> 01:03:45,560
You know, I'm telling you, I
can think a whole lot of things
847
01:03:45,604 --> 01:03:49,303
I want to do to you right now.
848
01:03:49,347 --> 01:03:51,697
Well, don't depend on it.
849
01:03:51,740 --> 01:03:54,874
Don't think I'm not
thinking about you, baby.
850
01:03:54,918 --> 01:03:56,658
All right.
I'll see you later.
851
01:04:05,537 --> 01:04:07,887
How are we going to tell him?
852
01:04:07,931 --> 01:04:08,714
What do you mean?
853
01:04:11,412 --> 01:04:12,152
You know what.
854
01:04:15,155 --> 01:04:20,030
Either you tell
him, or I tell him.
855
01:04:20,073 --> 01:04:21,161
Or we tell him together.
856
01:04:24,034 --> 01:04:27,820
Can't we just let
it die naturally?
857
01:04:27,864 --> 01:04:29,778
I'd like better if
Willie tells himself
858
01:04:29,822 --> 01:04:31,868
and then he tells me it's over.
859
01:04:34,783 --> 01:04:37,395
But if it comes to actually
having to tell him,
860
01:04:37,438 --> 01:04:39,701
I'd like to do it myself.
861
01:04:39,745 --> 01:04:42,313
The sooner, the better.
862
01:04:42,356 --> 01:04:44,010
I'll be knocking on
your door next Friday
863
01:04:44,054 --> 01:04:45,098
expecting to sleep with you.
864
01:04:47,971 --> 01:04:49,059
Sex isn't the important thing.
865
01:04:59,286 --> 01:05:00,853
How's every little
thing, Lesser.
866
01:05:00,897 --> 01:05:02,550
I keep knocking at
your fucking door,
867
01:05:02,594 --> 01:05:04,596
but nobody gets up to open it.
868
01:05:04,639 --> 01:05:06,815
You hiding on me?
You find a girl?
869
01:05:09,514 --> 01:05:12,952
I've been getting
out more lately.
870
01:05:12,996 --> 01:05:17,043
My book is moving and so am I.
871
01:05:17,087 --> 01:05:22,092
So you got past your
rough, swampy place, huh?
872
01:05:22,135 --> 01:05:23,310
Yeah that's right.
873
01:05:23,354 --> 01:05:25,573
Mines keeps jamming me up.
874
01:05:25,617 --> 01:05:27,793
Every morning when I wake
up, I see that big fucking
875
01:05:27,836 --> 01:05:30,578
typewriter machine staring at
me like a mother fucking eagle.
876
01:05:37,194 --> 01:05:39,761
None but the brave
deserve the fair.
877
01:05:39,805 --> 01:05:41,633
Say what?
878
01:05:41,676 --> 01:05:43,156
It's a poem.
879
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:45,593
Black or white?
880
01:05:45,637 --> 01:05:49,032
John Dryden, Englishman.
881
01:05:49,075 --> 01:05:51,121
Yeah, right on.
882
01:05:51,164 --> 01:05:52,992
I will read it.
883
01:05:53,036 --> 01:05:55,386
Anyway, why I came up
here is I want you take
884
01:05:55,429 --> 01:05:57,301
a look at this new chapter.
885
01:05:57,344 --> 01:05:59,781
The mother in it is
giving me trouble.
886
01:05:59,825 --> 01:06:02,001
Can't seem to get
her to die right.
887
01:06:02,045 --> 01:06:04,569
I done wrote it like 20
times, and now thinks she's
888
01:06:04,612 --> 01:06:07,615
expiring like she ought to be.
889
01:06:07,659 --> 01:06:09,835
How do you feel
about it yourself?
890
01:06:09,878 --> 01:06:12,142
If I really knew,
I wouldn't ask you.
891
01:06:12,185 --> 01:06:13,708
Honest to God, I wouldn't.
892
01:06:13,752 --> 01:06:15,275
But, Lesser, if you could
give it a read for me
893
01:06:15,319 --> 01:06:19,627
today, we can rap about
it for about a half hour.
894
01:06:19,671 --> 01:06:24,110
Every good book is
written in uncertainty.
895
01:06:24,154 --> 01:06:25,155
I'll take a look at it.
896
01:06:25,198 --> 01:06:26,765
Thanks, Lesser.
897
01:06:26,808 --> 01:06:28,941
It would be a real relief,
especially to help me get
898
01:06:28,985 --> 01:06:30,943
this part of the book finished.
899
01:06:30,987 --> 01:06:32,771
I haven't seen my
girl in about a month.
900
01:06:32,814 --> 01:06:34,642
And I got blue balls.
901
01:06:34,686 --> 01:06:36,122
I really need to spend
some time with her.
902
01:06:36,166 --> 01:06:37,863
Can you dig what I'm saying?
903
01:06:37,906 --> 01:06:42,172
She pesterfies me, but mm,
mm, mm, what a sweet lay.
904
01:06:46,437 --> 01:06:48,308
Do you love her?
905
01:06:48,352 --> 01:06:50,571
Man, that's my business.
906
01:06:50,615 --> 01:06:52,791
And if I get to see her,
depends on that chapter
907
01:06:52,834 --> 01:06:54,271
you have over there.
908
01:06:54,314 --> 01:06:56,882
Now if you tell me I got
it right or halfway right,
909
01:06:56,925 --> 01:06:59,145
then I get to fuck off
my weekend with her.
910
01:06:59,189 --> 01:07:01,234
But if you think it
needs a little more work,
911
01:07:01,278 --> 01:07:04,846
and I agree with you, then I
have to bang it out some more.
912
01:07:04,890 --> 01:07:06,370
So take a look at it and
tell me what you think.
913
01:07:28,522 --> 01:07:31,438
How did it go?
914
01:07:31,482 --> 01:07:32,961
I am so over it.
915
01:07:43,146 --> 01:07:46,801
Willie gave me his book today.
916
01:07:46,845 --> 01:07:48,194
I can't do this.
917
01:07:48,238 --> 01:07:51,110
I can't.
918
01:07:51,154 --> 01:07:53,286
We gotta tell him something.
919
01:07:53,330 --> 01:07:54,287
I know, I know.
920
01:07:54,331 --> 01:07:56,681
He came by the house today.
921
01:07:56,724 --> 01:07:57,638
What?
922
01:07:57,682 --> 01:08:00,119
What?
923
01:08:00,163 --> 01:08:01,599
Relax, Harry.
924
01:08:01,642 --> 01:08:03,035
He just took a shower and
he changed his underwear
925
01:08:03,079 --> 01:08:04,645
and then he left.
926
01:08:04,689 --> 01:08:06,212
He was gone before I was
even out of the bathroom.
927
01:08:10,521 --> 01:08:11,783
All he cares about is his book.
928
01:08:14,525 --> 01:08:15,961
You gotta trust me on this one.
929
01:08:22,228 --> 01:08:23,099
I trust you.
930
01:08:26,232 --> 01:08:27,059
Let me tell him.
931
01:08:40,377 --> 01:08:44,032
Bill, Bill, I
read your chapter.
932
01:08:46,731 --> 01:08:48,167
Speak your peace, Lesser.
933
01:08:48,211 --> 01:08:51,692
Bill, I really don't
think we ought to fool
934
01:08:51,736 --> 01:08:53,303
around with your book anymore.
935
01:08:53,346 --> 01:08:55,435
At this stage, whatever you
think you're doing right,
936
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,524
you ought to go on doing.
937
01:08:57,568 --> 01:08:59,874
You are a gifted writer.
938
01:08:59,918 --> 01:09:00,745
Ultimately it's your book.
939
01:09:06,185 --> 01:09:09,754
All I want to know,
what I really need to know
940
01:09:09,797 --> 01:09:12,322
is, did I get the boy
and the mama right?
941
01:09:12,365 --> 01:09:13,801
Are they for real, man?
942
01:09:13,845 --> 01:09:16,717
And don't bullshit me on that?
943
01:09:16,761 --> 01:09:20,852
For the first couple of
pages, up to the mother's death.
944
01:09:20,895 --> 01:09:22,854
Then after that, Bill, the
stream of consciousness,
945
01:09:22,897 --> 01:09:26,205
it just doesn't work.
946
01:09:26,249 --> 01:09:29,556
You trying to fuck with
my mind and confuse me, man?
947
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:30,862
Huh?
948
01:09:30,905 --> 01:09:32,559
You trying to kill
off my natural right
949
01:09:32,603 --> 01:09:34,648
by pretending you interested
in my fucking form of it all?
950
01:09:34,692 --> 01:09:37,434
Knowing you are afraid of
what my book has to say?
951
01:09:37,477 --> 01:09:39,914
Which is, backs have to
murder you white motherfuckers
952
01:09:39,958 --> 01:09:41,481
for crippling our lives.
953
01:09:41,525 --> 01:09:43,570
Get your ass up my
mother fucking spot.
954
01:09:43,614 --> 01:09:45,659
Can't believe I was
believing in you.
955
01:09:45,703 --> 01:09:49,359
Get your Jew ass out
of motherfucking pad.
956
01:09:49,402 --> 01:09:50,186
Fucker.
957
01:10:19,519 --> 01:10:24,524
Bill, there's more to
it than I told you, Bill.
958
01:10:24,568 --> 01:10:28,093
Say, man, I'm quitting
this writing thing.
959
01:10:28,136 --> 01:10:29,486
It's no fault of yours.
960
01:10:29,529 --> 01:10:32,271
I decided it ain't
no gig for me.
961
01:10:32,315 --> 01:10:35,970
I got to get off my broke ass
and get to the true action.
962
01:10:36,014 --> 01:10:38,408
Get out there with my
brothers in the struggle.
963
01:10:38,451 --> 01:10:41,193
Writing is action.
964
01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:43,369
Don't give up on that, Bill.
965
01:10:43,413 --> 01:10:45,719
Action is my action.
966
01:10:49,593 --> 01:10:52,857
Forget what I said and
write the way you have to.
967
01:10:56,730 --> 01:10:58,732
What was you going to say when
you first came in here, Lesser?
968
01:11:06,697 --> 01:11:12,833
Listen, after
I finish my book,
969
01:11:12,877 --> 01:11:15,793
Irene and I are getting married.
970
01:11:15,836 --> 01:11:18,099
We're in love, Bill.
971
01:11:18,143 --> 01:11:19,797
We figured you wouldn't
care one way or the other
972
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:23,191
because you had more or
less broken up with her.
973
01:11:24,671 --> 01:11:25,933
You said so to both of us.
974
01:11:32,375 --> 01:11:33,637
I wish I told you this before.
975
01:11:45,605 --> 01:11:46,345
That was my girl.
976
01:11:50,741 --> 01:11:52,438
I taught her
everything she know.
977
01:11:58,139 --> 01:12:02,187
She ain't even know how to
fuck until I taught her.
978
01:12:03,144 --> 01:12:03,928
Fucker!
979
01:12:12,023 --> 01:12:12,980
What are you doing?
980
01:12:13,894 --> 01:12:14,939
Fuck you!
981
01:12:14,982 --> 01:12:16,027
No!
982
01:12:16,070 --> 01:12:16,854
Ah!
983
01:12:29,388 --> 01:12:31,825
I'll teach you, motherfucker.
984
01:12:31,869 --> 01:12:33,479
Dirty sons of bitches!
985
01:12:33,523 --> 01:12:35,916
I'll get a court
order, god damn it.
986
01:12:44,316 --> 01:12:47,928
My god, Lesser, look what
you've done to yourself.
987
01:12:47,972 --> 01:12:50,540
You're your own worst enemy.
988
01:12:50,583 --> 01:12:54,413
Bringing a half naked
nigger into this house?
989
01:12:54,457 --> 01:12:57,373
You don't take my
advice and move out,
990
01:12:57,416 --> 01:12:58,722
you'll wake up one
morning playing
991
01:12:58,765 --> 01:12:59,810
a tambourine in your grave.
992
01:13:17,131 --> 01:13:17,958
Yes.
993
01:13:18,002 --> 01:13:19,133
Irene.
994
01:13:23,486 --> 01:13:25,096
I begged you to
let me tell him.
995
01:13:25,139 --> 01:13:27,446
Why didn't you at least tell
me that you were going to?
996
01:13:27,490 --> 01:13:28,578
There was no chance.
997
01:13:28,621 --> 01:13:30,797
It just came up suddenly.
998
01:13:30,841 --> 01:13:32,669
Oh, shit there was no chance.
999
01:13:32,712 --> 01:13:34,192
You had to tell him.
1000
01:13:34,235 --> 01:13:35,846
It's your profession to
tell everybody everything.
1001
01:13:35,889 --> 01:13:36,716
You couldn't wait.
1002
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:37,630
I waited.
1003
01:13:37,674 --> 01:13:39,458
I wait.
1004
01:13:39,502 --> 01:13:40,981
I waited too damn long
for you to tell him.
1005
01:13:41,025 --> 01:13:42,766
You're crazy if you think
he was about to leave you.
1006
01:13:42,809 --> 01:13:44,550
It would have gone on
like this for years.
1007
01:13:44,594 --> 01:13:45,464
I had to tell him something.
1008
01:13:45,508 --> 01:13:47,031
I know him.
1009
01:13:47,074 --> 01:13:48,641
I know Willie wasn't
happy with me anymore.
1010
01:13:48,685 --> 01:13:49,990
I know him.
1011
01:13:50,034 --> 01:13:52,471
Who are you concerned
about, him or me?
1012
01:13:52,515 --> 01:13:53,777
I told you that I love you.
1013
01:13:53,820 --> 01:13:55,213
I'm concerned about Willie.
1014
01:13:55,256 --> 01:13:58,085
He tried to throw me
out a fucking window!
1015
01:13:58,129 --> 01:14:02,002
Would you fucking get that!
1016
01:14:07,921 --> 01:14:09,880
He called me all
these filthy names
1017
01:14:09,923 --> 01:14:14,798
and then he told me he couldn't
stand the sight of me anymore.
1018
01:14:17,583 --> 01:14:22,240
It's exactly the opposite
of what I'd hoped.
1019
01:14:22,283 --> 01:14:24,721
I hoped he's still
feel affection for me
1020
01:14:24,764 --> 01:14:25,548
when we broke up.
1021
01:14:28,551 --> 01:14:30,422
And that he'd remember
the good times.
1022
01:14:33,860 --> 01:14:36,515
I just wish you'd
let me tell him.
1023
01:14:36,559 --> 01:14:37,342
I wish you had.
1024
01:14:46,873 --> 01:14:48,484
Harry, I'm frightened for you.
1025
01:14:51,617 --> 01:14:52,531
Me?
1026
01:14:52,575 --> 01:14:54,098
Why?
1027
01:14:54,141 --> 01:14:55,186
Because they could easily
get at you in that creepy,
1028
01:14:55,229 --> 01:14:56,666
empty tenement.
1029
01:14:56,709 --> 01:14:58,363
You know, Willie's friends
are very loyal to him.
1030
01:14:58,406 --> 01:15:00,496
They could hide in the
stairs or in the hall.
1031
01:15:00,539 --> 01:15:01,671
They couldn't do that here.
1032
01:15:01,714 --> 01:15:03,237
The elevator man
would call the cops.
1033
01:15:03,281 --> 01:15:05,283
Why don't you just come
and stay here with me
1034
01:15:05,326 --> 01:15:06,893
for a little while?
1035
01:15:06,937 --> 01:15:10,288
Anybody who's out to get
me can get me, elevator man
1036
01:15:10,331 --> 01:15:12,377
or no elevator man.
1037
01:15:12,420 --> 01:15:14,510
How are you going to live
in the same building with him?
1038
01:15:14,553 --> 01:15:15,554
No, he's was
not going to stay.
1039
01:15:15,598 --> 01:15:17,208
He's not going to stay there.
1040
01:15:17,251 --> 01:15:19,993
There's no way because the
landlord on this place again.
1041
01:15:20,037 --> 01:15:21,778
So he--
1042
01:15:21,821 --> 01:15:24,041
Harry, let's just get married.
1043
01:15:26,739 --> 01:15:28,480
We could just move
to another city
1044
01:15:28,524 --> 01:15:29,786
or a different neighborhood.
1045
01:15:35,792 --> 01:15:37,141
That's what we'll do.
1046
01:15:40,666 --> 01:15:42,189
As soon as I finish my book.
1047
01:18:37,582 --> 01:18:38,322
No!
1048
01:21:10,691 --> 01:21:13,781
That's impossible, Harry.
1049
01:21:13,825 --> 01:21:16,523
Irene, I can do this.
1050
01:21:16,567 --> 01:21:18,177
This has happened
to other people.
1051
01:21:18,221 --> 01:21:21,877
I mean, I'm not the first writer
that this has happened to.
1052
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:24,531
TE Lawrence left his
entire manuscript of "Seven
1053
01:21:24,575 --> 01:21:26,620
Pillars Of Wisdom" on a train.
1054
01:21:26,664 --> 01:21:29,493
Carlyle accidentally chucked
all of his "French Revolution"
1055
01:21:29,536 --> 01:21:31,364
into John Stewart
Mill's fireplace.
1056
01:21:31,408 --> 01:21:34,846
I mean, I can do this, Irene.
1057
01:21:34,890 --> 01:21:36,152
I know, I know I can.
1058
01:21:36,195 --> 01:21:38,937
Listen I remember
most of what I wrote.
1059
01:21:38,981 --> 01:21:39,851
I do.
1060
01:21:39,895 --> 01:21:41,809
I can do this.
1061
01:21:41,853 --> 01:21:44,247
How long is it going to take?
1062
01:21:44,290 --> 01:21:46,902
Six months at the most.
1063
01:21:50,209 --> 01:21:51,950
What about San Francisco?
1064
01:21:51,994 --> 01:21:56,912
Irene, Irene, I'm,
I'm a creature of habit.
1065
01:21:56,955 --> 01:22:00,480
I need to finish the
book where I started it.
1066
01:22:00,524 --> 01:22:04,876
I thought you wanted more from
your life than your writing.
1067
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:06,791
That's what you told me the
first thing we slept together.
1068
01:22:06,834 --> 01:22:09,620
I do.
1069
01:22:09,663 --> 01:22:11,970
And I love you.
1070
01:22:12,014 --> 01:22:17,845
But for the time being, my
first priority is my book.
1071
01:22:17,889 --> 01:22:20,283
You know, Harry,
all you do all day
1072
01:22:20,326 --> 01:22:21,893
is sit on your ass writing.
1073
01:22:21,937 --> 01:22:23,416
And all you do all day
when you come over here
1074
01:22:23,460 --> 01:22:25,201
is sit on your ass reading.
1075
01:22:25,244 --> 01:22:27,768
Why you just save time all
around and go fuck your book.
1076
01:22:37,778 --> 01:22:39,998
Lesser, I found
out I'm a sick man.
1077
01:22:40,042 --> 01:22:41,521
My doctor gave me a warning.
1078
01:22:41,565 --> 01:22:44,394
I've given up cigars
but it doesn't help.
1079
01:22:44,437 --> 01:22:49,138
$10,000 is my
absolute top offer.
1080
01:22:49,181 --> 01:22:52,315
I've received in the mail a
bid a money group, an offer
1081
01:22:52,358 --> 01:22:55,971
to take over this property
for high rise construction.
1082
01:22:56,014 --> 01:22:57,450
I am considering that offer.
1083
01:23:26,784 --> 01:23:27,654
I know.
1084
01:23:27,698 --> 01:23:30,309
I know.
1085
01:23:30,353 --> 01:23:32,268
It was a little cold
of me to send a letter,
1086
01:23:32,311 --> 01:23:35,010
but it's not easy to
reach you since you
1087
01:23:35,053 --> 01:23:36,054
turned your phone off.
1088
01:23:36,098 --> 01:23:40,406
And I couldn't wait any longer.
1089
01:23:40,450 --> 01:23:42,234
I've waited long enough.
1090
01:23:42,278 --> 01:23:43,148
Irene.
1091
01:23:43,192 --> 01:23:46,282
Harry, don't bother.
1092
01:23:46,325 --> 01:23:49,850
I'm going to San
Francisco without you.
1093
01:23:52,636 --> 01:23:55,073
You're free to
finish your book now.
1094
01:23:55,117 --> 01:23:56,640
Irene, just wait for me.
1095
01:23:56,683 --> 01:24:00,687
I've waited long enough
and I've waited once before.
1096
01:24:00,731 --> 01:24:01,645
I'm through waiting.
1097
01:24:04,909 --> 01:24:08,043
You know, I've always been
attracted to these characters
1098
01:24:08,086 --> 01:24:11,089
like you and Willie who are more
deeply involved with their work
1099
01:24:11,133 --> 01:24:11,916
than with me.
1100
01:24:16,312 --> 01:24:22,100
Maybe that's what I wanted then,
but that isn't what I want now,
1101
01:24:22,144 --> 01:24:23,362
Harry.
1102
01:24:23,406 --> 01:24:24,146
I want a family.
1103
01:24:27,714 --> 01:24:28,802
Irene, you deserve that.
1104
01:24:32,806 --> 01:24:36,810
What bourgeois
shit I've become.
1105
01:24:36,854 --> 01:24:42,164
Irene, Irene, I love you.
1106
01:24:42,207 --> 01:24:44,601
I love you.
1107
01:24:44,644 --> 01:24:48,518
I want to marry you.
1108
01:24:48,561 --> 01:24:52,565
You're already married,
Harry, to your fucking book.
1109
01:24:56,961 --> 01:24:59,790
No book is as
important as you are.
1110
01:24:59,833 --> 01:25:01,879
I know that.
1111
01:25:01,922 --> 01:25:05,622
I know that.
1112
01:25:05,665 --> 01:25:08,146
That's such bullshit.
1113
01:25:08,190 --> 01:25:12,846
It's you and your book forever,
till death do you part.
1114
01:25:12,890 --> 01:25:14,239
If it's not this one,
then it's the next.
1115
01:25:30,951 --> 01:25:32,257
I gotta go.
1116
01:25:35,347 --> 01:25:36,609
Good luck, Harry.
1117
01:29:52,909 --> 01:29:53,649
Lesser!
1118
01:29:59,785 --> 01:30:00,612
Lesser!
1119
01:30:01,874 --> 01:30:03,659
Lesser!
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