WEBVTT 00:00:16.219 --> 00:00:36.219 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:03:18.243 --> 00:03:20.432 Might want to read this one. 00:03:20.512 --> 00:03:22.300 Please tell me it's double-spaced. 00:03:22.380 --> 00:03:23.435 No such luck. 00:03:23.515 --> 00:03:24.769 Where did you get it? 00:03:24.849 --> 00:03:27.873 A woman named Aline Bernstein. The stage designer? 00:03:27.953 --> 00:03:30.229 The author is her protege. 00:03:30.755 --> 00:03:33.861 Every other publisher in town has already turned it down. 00:03:34.626 --> 00:03:36.695 - Is it any good? - Good? 00:03:37.462 --> 00:03:38.783 No. 00:03:38.863 --> 00:03:39.933 But it's unique. 00:03:42.667 --> 00:03:46.409 - A quick look. - Thanks, Max. I'm in your debt. 00:04:06.258 --> 00:04:10.035 602 to New Canaan, last call! 00:04:16.735 --> 00:04:20.046 - Good evening, Pete. - All aboard, Mr. Perkins. 00:04:56.508 --> 00:04:59.698 A stone, a leaf... 00:04:59.778 --> 00:05:01.485 an unfound door... 00:05:02.614 --> 00:05:06.271 of a stone, a leaf, a door. 00:05:06.351 --> 00:05:08.888 And of all the forgotten faces. 00:05:10.088 --> 00:05:12.510 Which of us has known his brother? 00:05:12.590 --> 00:05:15.947 Which of us has looked into his father's heart? 00:05:16.027 --> 00:05:19.551 Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? 00:05:19.631 --> 00:05:23.977 Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? 00:05:30.742 --> 00:05:35.600 Remembering, speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language... 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.770 the lost lane-end into heaven... 00:05:38.850 --> 00:05:43.008 a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. 00:05:43.088 --> 00:05:45.910 Where? When? 00:05:45.990 --> 00:05:47.812 O lost... 00:05:47.892 --> 00:05:50.348 and by the wind grieved... 00:05:50.428 --> 00:05:54.035 ghost, come back again. 00:06:01.406 --> 00:06:05.797 A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough... 00:06:05.877 --> 00:06:08.800 but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania... 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:11.903 and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont... 00:06:11.983 --> 00:06:14.839 over the proud coral cry of the cock... 00:06:14.919 --> 00:06:17.923 and the soft stone smile of an angel... 00:06:18.456 --> 00:06:21.079 is touched by that dark miracle of chance. 00:06:21.159 --> 00:06:23.648 Hello, Daddy! 00:06:23.728 --> 00:06:25.105 Hello, ducks. 00:06:25.730 --> 00:06:27.052 More rehearsal. 00:06:27.132 --> 00:06:28.620 He didn't even notice us. 00:06:28.700 --> 00:06:31.423 "Fear no more the heat o' the sun. 00:06:31.503 --> 00:06:34.143 "Nor the furious winter's rages. 00:06:34.406 --> 00:06:37.362 "Thou thy worldly task hast done. 00:06:37.442 --> 00:06:40.999 "Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.559 "Golden lads and girls..." 00:06:46.851 --> 00:06:49.741 Jimmy, I told you already. I don't like the movies. 00:06:49.821 --> 00:06:51.876 I read books. 00:06:51.956 --> 00:06:54.027 You're not listening to me. 00:06:56.828 --> 00:06:59.451 Subtract us into nakedness and night again... 00:06:59.531 --> 00:07:03.755 and you shall see begin in Crete 4, 000 years ago... 00:07:03.835 --> 00:07:06.825 the love that ended yesterday in Texas. 00:07:06.905 --> 00:07:09.394 Hello, Daddy. How do I look? 00:07:09.474 --> 00:07:11.663 - Just beautiful. - It's the prom next week. 00:07:11.743 --> 00:07:15.054 Already? You're so old and not married yet. 00:07:21.686 --> 00:07:25.759 O death in life that turns our men to stone! 00:07:26.658 --> 00:07:30.515 O change that levels down our gods! 00:07:30.595 --> 00:07:31.903 Hello, Mr. Perkins? 00:07:34.599 --> 00:07:36.521 Your father doesn't approve of my drama club. 00:07:36.601 --> 00:07:39.514 Daddy, why don't you want Mama to be an actress again? 00:07:39.838 --> 00:07:43.149 Because limelight is not becoming to a woman of your mother's years. 00:07:43.541 --> 00:07:46.988 - Oh, you rat! - Oh, boo! 00:07:47.712 --> 00:07:51.819 Oh, yes, you save the whirlwind life of glamour for yourself. 00:07:52.183 --> 00:07:54.572 Book signings and parties and the like... 00:07:54.652 --> 00:07:56.941 while we languish here in the wilderness. 00:07:57.021 --> 00:07:58.943 Do we live in the wilderness? How thrilling! 00:07:59.023 --> 00:08:00.229 We should get knives! 00:08:00.492 --> 00:08:03.200 Yes, we should! Guess who will be the head pirate? 00:08:05.129 --> 00:08:08.008 Cecil, did you ever pick up a girl before? 00:08:08.500 --> 00:08:10.555 - Did you? - No. 00:08:10.635 --> 00:08:12.239 Oh, goodness. 00:08:12.504 --> 00:08:15.059 You're the funniest person I've ever seen. 00:08:15.139 --> 00:08:17.061 Hold it. What's the matter, Cecil? 00:08:17.141 --> 00:08:18.163 I don't know. 00:08:18.243 --> 00:08:19.517 It stopped, Cecil! 00:08:21.513 --> 00:08:23.168 - Don't wait up. - Ten. 00:08:23.248 --> 00:08:25.194 - Eleven. - Ten. 00:08:25.583 --> 00:08:26.960 Swine. 00:08:29.187 --> 00:08:31.943 He had listened attentively to a sermon in chapel... 00:08:32.023 --> 00:08:35.146 by a sophomore with false whiskers. 00:08:35.226 --> 00:08:37.816 He had prepared studiously for an examination... 00:08:37.896 --> 00:08:40.718 on the contents of the college catalog. 00:08:40.798 --> 00:08:42.004 Ten. 00:08:49.841 --> 00:08:51.830 That's a very long paragraph. 00:08:51.910 --> 00:08:53.798 It started four pages ago. 00:08:53.878 --> 00:08:55.619 Poor Maxwell. 00:08:57.916 --> 00:08:59.671 You're too young to be in love. 00:08:59.751 --> 00:09:01.788 How old do you have to be? 00:09:02.954 --> 00:09:04.092 Forty. 00:09:05.557 --> 00:09:06.878 Or, I should say... 00:09:06.958 --> 00:09:08.179 he was like a man... 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:11.883 who stands upon a hill above the town he has left... 00:09:11.963 --> 00:09:15.687 yet does not say "The town is near," 00:09:15.767 --> 00:09:20.841 but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges. 00:09:21.306 --> 00:09:23.013 The end. 00:09:50.969 --> 00:09:53.313 Mighty books. 00:09:55.607 --> 00:09:57.382 Mighty books. 00:09:58.242 --> 00:09:59.898 - May I help you? - God damn. 00:09:59.978 --> 00:10:01.599 Look at all these books. 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:04.702 Do you ever stop to consider the pure man-sweat... 00:10:04.782 --> 00:10:06.704 that went into each and every line? 00:10:06.784 --> 00:10:10.357 Little testaments of faith, screamed out in the dark night... 00:10:10.622 --> 00:10:13.978 in the cold, dark night when the wind's blowing alpine... 00:10:14.058 --> 00:10:18.370 in the vain hope that someone will read and hear and understand. 00:10:18.630 --> 00:10:19.984 You must be Thomas Wolfe. 00:10:20.064 --> 00:10:21.907 Are all these your authors? 00:10:22.300 --> 00:10:23.802 Not Tolstoy. 00:10:28.873 --> 00:10:30.216 Mr. Perkins. 00:10:32.377 --> 00:10:34.232 Please, sit down. 00:10:34.312 --> 00:10:36.868 I wasn't even gonna come. 00:10:36.948 --> 00:10:39.704 Prefer to get my rejections in the mail. 00:10:39.784 --> 00:10:43.875 There's something surgically antiseptic about those familiar words... 00:10:43.955 --> 00:10:45.977 "We regret to inform you..." 00:10:46.057 --> 00:10:48.112 But I wanted to meet you... 00:10:48.192 --> 00:10:51.783 the man who first read Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald and said... 00:10:51.863 --> 00:10:54.719 "Yes! The world needs poets. 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:57.822 "My God! Someone publish this bastard... 00:10:57.902 --> 00:10:59.691 "'cause the world needs poets. 00:10:59.771 --> 00:11:00.943 "Or why even live?" 00:11:01.673 --> 00:11:03.983 So I'm looking at that man now. 00:11:05.677 --> 00:11:06.815 Well, congratulations... 00:11:08.079 --> 00:11:10.635 on finding one genius. Two, if you count Hemingway. 00:11:10.715 --> 00:11:12.370 As for this one... 00:11:12.450 --> 00:11:13.724 he'll persevere. 00:11:14.385 --> 00:11:18.697 You can't kill the deep roots by cutting off a few top branches. 00:11:18.823 --> 00:11:21.112 And the roots go deep, Mr. Perkins. 00:11:21.192 --> 00:11:24.730 And they are unassailable. 00:11:27.365 --> 00:11:30.403 Mr. Wolfe, we intend to publish your book. 00:11:34.772 --> 00:11:37.228 If that's acceptable to you. 00:11:37.308 --> 00:11:38.981 Now, I'd like to do some work with you. 00:11:39.410 --> 00:11:43.067 In its current state, O Lost is simply too long for one volume. 00:11:43.147 --> 00:11:45.703 I think you could afford to shape it a bit... 00:11:45.783 --> 00:11:47.939 cut off a few of the "top branches." 00:11:48.019 --> 00:11:49.191 Mr. Perkins. 00:11:50.388 --> 00:11:52.977 I know you're not fooling with me. You don't look the type. 00:11:53.057 --> 00:11:55.380 But my God, this is too much for me. 00:11:55.460 --> 00:11:58.182 You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. 00:11:58.262 --> 00:12:01.352 Every son-of-a-bitch publisher in New York hates my book. 00:12:01.432 --> 00:12:02.820 Mr. Wolfe, if you could sit down. 00:12:02.900 --> 00:12:03.988 - Tom. - Tom. 00:12:04.068 --> 00:12:05.103 Tom, please. 00:12:05.903 --> 00:12:06.973 Tom. 00:12:07.772 --> 00:12:09.961 I take it your book is autobiographical in nature. 00:12:10.041 --> 00:12:11.963 No other way to write, is there? 00:12:12.043 --> 00:12:14.332 Eugene Gant is me! 00:12:14.412 --> 00:12:17.035 And my mama is Eliza, and my papa is W.O. Gant. 00:12:17.115 --> 00:12:18.336 We'll get into all that. 00:12:18.416 --> 00:12:21.139 I know it's too long. I know it's too long. 00:12:21.219 --> 00:12:24.275 My lord, you don't know how I struggled to cut the gorgon down. 00:12:24.355 --> 00:12:26.310 You don't know how I fought with her. 00:12:26.390 --> 00:12:29.013 But I'll cut anything you say. 00:12:29.093 --> 00:12:30.868 You just give me the word. 00:12:32.230 --> 00:12:33.300 Tom... 00:12:34.432 --> 00:12:36.921 the book belongs to you. 00:12:37.001 --> 00:12:39.023 All I want to do is to bring your work to the public... 00:12:39.103 --> 00:12:41.049 in its best possible form. 00:12:41.773 --> 00:12:43.861 My job, my only job... 00:12:43.941 --> 00:12:46.251 is to put good books into the hands of readers. 00:12:47.445 --> 00:12:49.447 Thank you, Mr. Perkins. 00:12:50.281 --> 00:12:52.437 Now, Scribner's has agreed to give you... 00:12:52.517 --> 00:12:55.088 our standard advance against royalties. 00:12:57.555 --> 00:12:58.976 If this is satisfactory... 00:12:59.056 --> 00:13:02.196 we can proceed at whatever pace is comfortable for you. 00:13:06.464 --> 00:13:08.205 $500? 00:13:10.067 --> 00:13:13.514 No one ever thought my writing was worth a dime. 00:13:18.342 --> 00:13:20.913 Oh, lord! 00:13:22.280 --> 00:13:24.021 Do you mind if we start tomorrow? 00:13:25.183 --> 00:13:26.287 Of course. 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:30.465 I promise to work hard. 00:13:46.871 --> 00:13:49.977 Yeah! 00:13:52.910 --> 00:13:55.015 Oh, lord! 00:14:04.155 --> 00:14:05.543 I can barely... 00:14:05.623 --> 00:14:07.967 Oh, mighty. Oh, indeedy. 00:14:16.634 --> 00:14:20.241 "Mr. Wolfe, we intend to publish your book." 00:14:20.571 --> 00:14:21.879 No! 00:14:26.911 --> 00:14:28.015 Tom! 00:14:34.652 --> 00:14:38.142 Oh, my angel, thank you. Thank you. 00:14:38.222 --> 00:14:41.032 Thank you, my lover, my love. 00:14:50.902 --> 00:14:51.923 I'm so... 00:14:52.003 --> 00:14:55.109 I'm so happy for you. Oh! 00:15:00.544 --> 00:15:03.201 How much you figure we have to cut? 00:15:03.281 --> 00:15:06.660 I'm guessing around 300 pages. 00:15:07.151 --> 00:15:08.906 It's not the page count that's important. 00:15:08.986 --> 00:15:10.465 It's telling the story. 00:15:11.355 --> 00:15:14.199 There it is. Four years of my life. 00:15:17.995 --> 00:15:20.601 My heart bleeds to see any of it go. 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:25.245 But I guess it's die dog or eat the hatchet. 00:15:26.437 --> 00:15:29.008 You took the words right out of my mouth. 00:15:46.090 --> 00:15:48.646 The last few weeks working on the book... 00:15:48.726 --> 00:15:51.649 have been the most thunderingly thrilling... 00:15:51.729 --> 00:15:54.318 of my entire woebegone life. 00:15:54.398 --> 00:15:56.071 Glad I could amuse you. 00:15:58.069 --> 00:16:00.458 You spend your lifetime in the pages of books... 00:16:00.538 --> 00:16:02.126 as we do... 00:16:02.206 --> 00:16:05.129 and those characters emerge that speak to you deep... 00:16:05.209 --> 00:16:06.210 to the marrow. 00:16:06.644 --> 00:16:08.666 They are your mirrors. 00:16:08.746 --> 00:16:10.316 In my time... 00:16:10.681 --> 00:16:13.371 I aspired to Sydney Carton. 00:16:13.451 --> 00:16:15.072 Or Pierre... 00:16:15.152 --> 00:16:16.607 from the Tolstoy. 00:16:16.687 --> 00:16:20.635 But I know that's not who I am, much as I would have it so. 00:16:22.026 --> 00:16:24.048 We are not those characters we want to be. 00:16:24.128 --> 00:16:26.404 We're those characters we are. 00:16:27.631 --> 00:16:29.133 I'm Caliban. 00:16:33.204 --> 00:16:35.275 That island creature... 00:16:37.008 --> 00:16:41.081 monstrous and deformed. Caliban. 00:16:42.313 --> 00:16:44.168 So ugly. 00:16:44.248 --> 00:16:45.784 So alien. 00:16:48.419 --> 00:16:52.026 Hurt and shunned into poetry. 00:16:54.091 --> 00:16:57.800 What is Manhattan but an isle full of noises? 00:16:58.062 --> 00:17:04.206 "Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not?" 00:17:05.569 --> 00:17:07.810 "Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments... 00:17:08.072 --> 00:17:09.608 "will hum about mine ears... 00:17:11.075 --> 00:17:13.146 "and sometimes voices... 00:17:13.744 --> 00:17:17.335 "that, if I then had waked after long sleep... 00:17:17.415 --> 00:17:19.190 "will make me sleep again." 00:17:29.360 --> 00:17:32.739 I have a thought about the book, O Lost. 00:17:33.564 --> 00:17:35.703 I think we should discuss the title. 00:17:37.334 --> 00:17:40.781 I don't know that it truly captures the meat of your book. 00:17:41.605 --> 00:17:43.527 Here, imagine you're a reader. 00:17:43.607 --> 00:17:47.298 You're wandering through a bookstore and lots of books... 00:17:47.378 --> 00:17:51.622 and you see a book titled Trimalchio in West Egg... 00:17:52.850 --> 00:17:55.539 and you see one titled The Great Gatsby. 00:17:55.619 --> 00:17:57.775 Which are you going to pick up? 00:17:57.855 --> 00:17:59.232 Gatsby. 00:18:00.124 --> 00:18:03.105 That's why Scott changed his original title. 00:18:03.594 --> 00:18:06.131 He knew it needed a bit more meat. 00:18:09.233 --> 00:18:11.873 It's your book. Just give it a think. 00:18:15.106 --> 00:18:16.127 Here we are. 00:18:16.207 --> 00:18:17.515 My God, Max! 00:18:18.342 --> 00:18:19.787 It's a mansion. 00:18:22.146 --> 00:18:24.435 It is so nice to finally meet you, Mr. Wolfe. 00:18:24.515 --> 00:18:26.070 Max has told us so much. 00:18:26.150 --> 00:18:28.139 Tom! It's Tom. Please. 00:18:28.219 --> 00:18:30.460 And nice to meet you. Every man jack of you. 00:18:31.822 --> 00:18:34.078 Or "girl jack," I should say. 00:18:34.158 --> 00:18:37.715 Max has been circumspect about all these beautiful daughters. 00:18:37.795 --> 00:18:40.785 A bounteous sea of loveliness. 00:18:40.865 --> 00:18:43.311 Max tells us you're working on a new book. 00:18:43.767 --> 00:18:45.906 I'm nothing if not a big old octopus. 00:18:46.170 --> 00:18:47.547 An octopus. 00:18:48.272 --> 00:18:51.195 One arm still wrapped around O Lost... 00:18:51.275 --> 00:18:54.598 while another one sneaks over here through the briny deep... 00:18:54.678 --> 00:18:55.884 to write the new book. 00:18:56.413 --> 00:18:59.326 I guess you could say I'm... I'm tentacular. 00:19:00.518 --> 00:19:01.861 What's the new one about? 00:19:02.586 --> 00:19:04.497 It's about America. 00:19:06.423 --> 00:19:09.346 All of it. I'm trying to capture everything. 00:19:09.426 --> 00:19:11.415 Every city and village... 00:19:11.495 --> 00:19:14.718 and stone and leaf and man and child. 00:19:14.798 --> 00:19:18.422 And every farm and flower, every river. 00:19:18.502 --> 00:19:20.624 It's about the one acetylene torch... 00:19:20.704 --> 00:19:25.262 white, bright truth that burns in the heart of every man in this country. 00:19:25.342 --> 00:19:28.721 And that is the search for a true father. 00:19:29.847 --> 00:19:32.369 I don't mean biological father. 00:19:32.449 --> 00:19:34.224 I'm not talking about sperm. 00:19:34.318 --> 00:19:38.676 I mean, I search for the need of a father of our spirit. 00:19:38.756 --> 00:19:41.512 It's about every single thing that makes this country great. 00:19:41.592 --> 00:19:42.798 It's mammoth! 00:19:44.495 --> 00:19:45.633 Max says... 00:19:46.730 --> 00:19:49.787 the only ideas worth writing about are the big ideas. 00:19:49.867 --> 00:19:52.156 Big ideas, fewer words. 00:19:52.236 --> 00:19:53.824 You see, I'm lost without him. 00:19:53.904 --> 00:19:56.527 Aren't we all? You know I'm a writer, too? 00:19:56.607 --> 00:19:58.395 That so? 00:19:58.475 --> 00:19:59.613 Max didn't tell you? 00:20:00.244 --> 00:20:03.534 I've been working on a play for quite some time now. 00:20:03.614 --> 00:20:06.303 It's about Pauline, Napoleon's sister. 00:20:06.383 --> 00:20:08.556 Historical pageant, is it? 00:20:08.752 --> 00:20:11.442 Well, it's attempting to be more modern. 00:20:11.522 --> 00:20:12.676 I wrote a play once. 00:20:12.756 --> 00:20:15.713 It was not a happy experience. I can tell you that. 00:20:15.793 --> 00:20:18.637 I found it an anemic form... 00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:21.685 lacking the multi-colored cloak of prose. 00:20:21.765 --> 00:20:24.822 So I dumped the form and returned to my novels. 00:20:24.902 --> 00:20:26.657 Do you have a title for your new book? 00:20:26.737 --> 00:20:28.978 Your daddy and I have considered a bunch. 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:33.297 Right now we're thinking about Of Time and the River. 00:20:33.377 --> 00:20:37.951 "The River" 'cause that word just reminds me of my father. 00:20:39.516 --> 00:20:43.207 The river running away from his door and right back again. 00:20:43.287 --> 00:20:45.426 That sounds like quite a long book. 00:20:50.694 --> 00:20:52.850 Don't say that, Aline. 00:20:52.930 --> 00:20:55.274 I'll see you tomorrow. 00:20:56.267 --> 00:20:58.508 Keep yourself ready for me. 00:20:59.270 --> 00:21:02.274 Goodnight. Goodnight. 00:21:03.274 --> 00:21:05.276 This should do you nicely. 00:21:06.810 --> 00:21:08.949 I'll see you in the morning. 00:21:10.814 --> 00:21:11.952 Max. 00:21:14.852 --> 00:21:16.763 Thank you for tonight. 00:21:17.955 --> 00:21:20.744 I hope I didn't offend anyone. 00:21:20.824 --> 00:21:22.880 I so want your family to like me. 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:24.030 Don't worry. Of course not. 00:21:24.295 --> 00:21:26.297 I'm not a circus animal. 00:21:27.298 --> 00:21:30.254 See, I know I seem like a freak. 00:21:30.334 --> 00:21:31.655 Too loud... 00:21:31.735 --> 00:21:35.581 too grandiose, not quite real. 00:21:36.940 --> 00:21:38.395 That's who I am. 00:21:38.475 --> 00:21:41.265 That's how I got out of Asheville, by making noise. 00:21:41.345 --> 00:21:43.052 I thrashed my way out. 00:21:43.947 --> 00:21:47.861 But I feel things like a real person. 00:21:48.719 --> 00:21:49.823 So... 00:21:52.456 --> 00:21:56.513 from Caliban's heart, I say this. 00:21:56.593 --> 00:21:59.650 In all my life, well, till I met you... 00:21:59.730 --> 00:22:01.505 I never had a friend. 00:22:37.534 --> 00:22:40.424 If we nail down Ben's death today... 00:22:40.504 --> 00:22:43.713 then, hell, we're within hollering distance of the end. 00:22:44.508 --> 00:22:45.919 Aline! 00:22:47.511 --> 00:22:48.532 Max. 00:22:48.612 --> 00:22:52.903 Let me introduce you. This is Mrs. Bernstein. 00:22:52.983 --> 00:22:54.438 How do you do? 00:22:54.518 --> 00:22:55.826 Mr. Perkins. 00:22:56.387 --> 00:22:58.575 Tom has told me so much about you. 00:22:58.655 --> 00:23:01.912 She's the first person who told me my writing was worth anything. 00:23:01.992 --> 00:23:04.882 Hell, she's the whole reason for our book. 00:23:04.962 --> 00:23:06.583 I thank you for that. 00:23:06.663 --> 00:23:07.985 We were expected last night. 00:23:08.065 --> 00:23:09.135 Oh, I told you... 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:10.454 it was embarrassing for me. 00:23:10.534 --> 00:23:11.922 You know I hate those theatrical affairs. 00:23:12.002 --> 00:23:13.590 And you know I didn't want to go alone. 00:23:13.670 --> 00:23:14.758 If you'll excuse me. 00:23:14.838 --> 00:23:16.593 All those actors make me feel awkward. 00:23:16.673 --> 00:23:17.528 You know that! 00:23:17.608 --> 00:23:18.829 I told you I wasn't gonna come. 00:23:18.909 --> 00:23:22.721 We will continue this alone. 00:23:23.180 --> 00:23:24.625 I'll come by around 2:00. 00:23:24.815 --> 00:23:26.637 2:00. Perfect. Thanks. 00:23:26.717 --> 00:23:28.162 Come on. 00:23:28.419 --> 00:23:30.607 Good day, Mr. Perkins. 00:23:30.687 --> 00:23:31.875 You are so mad at me. 00:23:31.955 --> 00:23:33.798 No, I'm not. I'm not mad at you. 00:23:42.666 --> 00:23:43.838 There it is. 00:23:46.870 --> 00:23:49.817 This is our last chance before we go to the printer. 00:23:50.541 --> 00:23:52.452 So I'll ask you again. 00:23:52.976 --> 00:23:55.684 Have you thought about another title? 00:23:56.547 --> 00:23:57.668 You'll hate it. 00:23:57.748 --> 00:23:58.920 Try me. 00:24:34.184 --> 00:24:36.974 Now, I'm a Scribner's bestseller... 00:24:37.054 --> 00:24:40.778 I figured I deserve a little of the high life. 00:24:40.858 --> 00:24:41.912 Say it again, Max. 00:24:41.992 --> 00:24:44.598 15,000 copies this month. 00:24:45.796 --> 00:24:47.104 Aline, you hear that? 00:24:48.499 --> 00:24:50.954 Not even the economy of the entire country... 00:24:51.034 --> 00:24:54.091 crumbling around our ankles is hurting my book. 00:24:54.171 --> 00:24:56.960 Have you read Tom's book, Mrs. Bernstein? 00:24:57.040 --> 00:24:59.730 Yes, Mrs. Perkins, it's dedicated to me. 00:24:59.810 --> 00:25:03.467 I wouldn't have been able to do it without my sweet Jewess. 00:25:03.547 --> 00:25:05.602 She bought the paper and the pencils. 00:25:05.682 --> 00:25:07.137 - And paid for the typist. - That's enough. 00:25:07.217 --> 00:25:08.972 - That's enough. - She put a roof over my head... 00:25:09.052 --> 00:25:10.474 and food in my prodigious belly. 00:25:10.554 --> 00:25:12.109 Hell, y'all know how much I love to eat. 00:25:12.189 --> 00:25:14.077 You must be very proud of the book... 00:25:14.157 --> 00:25:16.513 to see all your faith rewarded. 00:25:16.593 --> 00:25:18.215 Our faith. 00:25:18.295 --> 00:25:20.851 It's our faith now, isn't it, Mr. Perkins? 00:25:20.931 --> 00:25:22.553 Tom couldn't have done it without you. 00:25:22.633 --> 00:25:24.169 That's not true. 00:25:24.902 --> 00:25:26.990 You needn't play at humble pie with me. 00:25:27.070 --> 00:25:30.608 Tom speaks of your contribution with such passion. 00:25:31.775 --> 00:25:34.064 He really can't seem to stop talking about you. 00:25:34.144 --> 00:25:36.733 "Max says this. Max says that." 00:25:36.813 --> 00:25:38.315 - Easy, girl. Easy, girl. - "Max, Max, Max." 00:25:38.582 --> 00:25:41.004 No, we should give Mr. Perkins all of the credit. 00:25:41.084 --> 00:25:42.673 I mean, after all, he is the genius... 00:25:42.753 --> 00:25:44.289 who made all of your dreams come true. 00:25:44.555 --> 00:25:47.544 He's the one who shaped that massive collection of words into a... 00:25:47.624 --> 00:25:51.048 into a marketable bestseller... 00:25:51.128 --> 00:25:54.017 putting it into the eager hands of readers everywhere. 00:25:54.097 --> 00:25:58.068 I mean, that is quite a triumph for Mr. Perkins, hmm? 00:26:00.737 --> 00:26:04.161 The work is Tom's. He deserves to enjoy it. 00:26:04.241 --> 00:26:05.762 Really? Is that what Tom deserves? 00:26:05.842 --> 00:26:06.897 Leave Max alone. 00:26:06.977 --> 00:26:09.199 I'm not speaking to you, I'm speaking to your elder. 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:11.935 You should learn to trust your elders. They know what's best. 00:26:12.015 --> 00:26:15.155 They should also behave in a manner appropriate to their years. 00:26:16.153 --> 00:26:17.996 You're Thomas Wolfe? 00:26:18.589 --> 00:26:21.545 I'm reading your book. It's a masterpiece. 00:26:21.625 --> 00:26:22.679 Is it, now? 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:24.329 Very much. 00:26:24.595 --> 00:26:27.050 Look, um, I have some friends who are dying to meet you. 00:26:27.130 --> 00:26:29.686 You don't mind if I steal him for a tick or two? 00:26:29.766 --> 00:26:31.889 - Of course you don't. - Oh, not at all. 00:26:31.969 --> 00:26:33.346 - After you. - Okay. I'm Willow. 00:26:33.604 --> 00:26:35.106 Nice to meet you. What a pleasure. 00:26:38.976 --> 00:26:39.930 Good evening. 00:26:40.010 --> 00:26:42.032 - This is Thomas Wolfe. - No, it's my pleasure. 00:26:42.112 --> 00:26:43.955 Good evening. Nice to meet you. 00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:12.282 You don't know what they're like, the state asylums. 00:27:13.010 --> 00:27:14.284 Grotesque. 00:27:15.679 --> 00:27:18.135 I don't have the words. There... 00:27:18.215 --> 00:27:21.071 There are no words in my lexicon. 00:27:21.151 --> 00:27:24.360 One word, no flourishes. Grotesque. 00:27:26.323 --> 00:27:29.736 The screaming is constant and so... 00:27:30.794 --> 00:27:32.705 desolate. 00:27:33.330 --> 00:27:35.810 They don't have enough toilets. 00:27:37.434 --> 00:27:40.691 I can't let Zelda stay in such a place. 00:27:40.771 --> 00:27:41.943 I know. 00:27:43.807 --> 00:27:46.344 But private asylums are expensive. 00:27:49.346 --> 00:27:52.190 I know Gatsby didn't make any money. 00:27:54.818 --> 00:27:56.740 But I'm up against it, Max. 00:27:56.820 --> 00:27:59.699 Scribner's can't give you any more advances. 00:28:02.926 --> 00:28:05.964 The Post won't even take any more of my stories. 00:28:08.198 --> 00:28:10.887 I guess I could go back to Hollywood and give that another try. 00:28:10.967 --> 00:28:12.889 I hope you don't do that. 00:28:12.969 --> 00:28:14.710 - Why? - You're a novelist. 00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:17.810 Not anymore. 00:28:20.243 --> 00:28:22.951 I should have died when I was 24. 00:28:24.815 --> 00:28:26.726 Right after This Side of Paradise. 00:28:29.352 --> 00:28:31.127 Did you get that book I sent you? 00:28:32.122 --> 00:28:33.210 Which? 00:28:33.290 --> 00:28:35.270 General Grant's memoirs. 00:28:35.726 --> 00:28:38.229 Do you know how he came to write them? 00:28:40.397 --> 00:28:42.240 This is interesting. 00:28:43.266 --> 00:28:46.907 He was dying of throat cancer... 00:28:48.138 --> 00:28:51.051 and he wanted to leave something behind for his family... 00:28:51.742 --> 00:28:54.780 so he started writing his autobiography. 00:28:56.780 --> 00:28:59.192 He worked every day for hours and hours. 00:29:00.016 --> 00:29:02.806 He was in great pain, anguish... 00:29:02.886 --> 00:29:05.799 but he just kept on writing. 00:29:07.023 --> 00:29:10.334 And in the end, he produced the most astounding book. 00:29:12.395 --> 00:29:14.136 So very beautiful. 00:29:17.934 --> 00:29:20.540 Just a little velvet to see you through. 00:29:30.814 --> 00:29:32.418 I'll write you a great book. 00:29:33.784 --> 00:29:34.854 I know. 00:30:18.094 --> 00:30:19.505 Mrs. Perkins. 00:30:20.997 --> 00:30:22.203 Mrs. Bernstein. 00:30:24.267 --> 00:30:25.405 Hello. 00:30:26.036 --> 00:30:27.413 You're designing this production? 00:30:28.505 --> 00:30:30.127 Yes. 00:30:30.207 --> 00:30:32.380 Me and all the Lost Boys. 00:30:34.611 --> 00:30:36.249 We know a few of them, don't we? 00:30:38.515 --> 00:30:40.537 You didn't know him when he was young. 00:30:40.617 --> 00:30:43.206 He was fresh out of Harvard... 00:30:43.286 --> 00:30:46.267 and he was all ready to carve up the world. 00:30:46.990 --> 00:30:49.446 He was unlike anyone I'd ever met. 00:30:49.526 --> 00:30:50.561 I understand. 00:30:51.228 --> 00:30:53.265 I don't think that you do. 00:30:53.964 --> 00:30:55.952 You see, my husband is a very kind man... 00:30:56.032 --> 00:30:58.603 but he's a man without color. 00:30:58.869 --> 00:31:02.578 He's a man of Wall Street and numbers. 00:31:04.007 --> 00:31:05.462 I don't understand numbers. 00:31:05.542 --> 00:31:07.931 You have children, Mrs. Bernstein? 00:31:08.011 --> 00:31:09.432 Yes. 00:31:09.512 --> 00:31:11.890 A daughter and a son. 00:31:13.149 --> 00:31:14.594 They're grown. 00:31:16.553 --> 00:31:19.075 I did a foolish thing when I fell in love with Tom... 00:31:19.155 --> 00:31:20.634 but I can't help how I feel. 00:31:20.891 --> 00:31:24.634 My heart was touched. 00:31:24.895 --> 00:31:26.449 At the very time in my life... 00:31:26.529 --> 00:31:28.351 when everything beautiful was falling away... 00:31:28.431 --> 00:31:31.321 and no one needed me, I met Tom. 00:31:31.401 --> 00:31:35.008 And Tom made me feel beautiful again. 00:31:38.074 --> 00:31:41.419 But I know now I've lost him to your husband. 00:31:44.648 --> 00:31:46.389 Mrs. Bernstein. 00:31:50.020 --> 00:31:54.377 My husband always wanted a son... 00:31:54.457 --> 00:31:57.314 more than anything in the world. 00:31:57.394 --> 00:32:01.251 We reached a point when we realized that wasn't going to happen. 00:32:01.331 --> 00:32:02.674 And then he met Tom. 00:32:04.601 --> 00:32:06.489 I can't let him go. 00:32:06.569 --> 00:32:09.072 Aline, go home to your family. 00:32:10.507 --> 00:32:13.681 They need you. Tom doesn't. 00:32:13.944 --> 00:32:18.222 Family, husband, dignity. 00:32:19.482 --> 00:32:22.122 I gave that all up for him. 00:32:31.194 --> 00:32:32.195 Tom. 00:32:32.629 --> 00:32:34.131 Come in. 00:32:36.666 --> 00:32:37.701 Tom? 00:32:38.368 --> 00:32:39.589 I have it. 00:32:39.669 --> 00:32:41.239 You have it? 00:32:42.105 --> 00:32:43.243 The new book. 00:32:46.042 --> 00:32:47.043 With you? 00:32:47.744 --> 00:32:49.087 Yes. 00:32:51.047 --> 00:32:52.526 Well, let's have it. 00:32:54.351 --> 00:32:56.228 Bring it in, guys. 00:32:58.388 --> 00:32:59.662 Put it down there. 00:33:03.393 --> 00:33:07.034 This is Of Time and the River? 00:33:13.136 --> 00:33:15.082 - Here you go. - Thank you, sir. 00:33:31.154 --> 00:33:32.326 Well done. 00:33:37.293 --> 00:33:38.715 Now, go home and get some sleep. 00:33:38.795 --> 00:33:40.706 - I need you... - Let me read it. 00:33:41.431 --> 00:33:44.412 Read it kindly. Please? 00:34:22.472 --> 00:34:26.716 If we work every day in the evening, when we won't be disturbed... 00:34:27.644 --> 00:34:29.351 we can do it. 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:31.668 - How long? - Nine months. 00:34:31.748 --> 00:34:33.737 If you work hard and if you resist... 00:34:33.817 --> 00:34:35.558 the temptation to add much more. 00:34:36.252 --> 00:34:37.856 I have to be able to add more. 00:34:38.121 --> 00:34:42.331 Tom, the book is 5,000 pages long. 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:43.629 Point taken. 00:34:46.863 --> 00:34:49.844 Now, to begin, on page one. 00:34:50.100 --> 00:34:52.255 Oh, lord. Page one? 00:34:52.335 --> 00:34:55.458 Now, look here, you've given 80 pages to Eugene... 00:34:55.538 --> 00:34:57.518 on the platform before the train arrives. 00:34:58.208 --> 00:35:01.781 That is, perhaps, gilding the lily a bit as to suspense? 00:35:02.178 --> 00:35:04.124 I mean, I'll only wait so long for a train. 00:35:06.249 --> 00:35:09.526 - Those three sections to me... - Here you are, Mr. Perkins. 00:35:12.255 --> 00:35:15.532 When he meets the girl, you've written this. 00:35:16.126 --> 00:35:18.748 "As Eugene's eyes became accustomed to the haze... 00:35:18.828 --> 00:35:22.318 "of the cigarettes and cigars swirling miasma-like... 00:35:22.398 --> 00:35:24.776 "he saw a woman, in serge... 00:35:25.535 --> 00:35:28.391 "and gloves that crept like living tendrils... 00:35:28.471 --> 00:35:30.760 "up her normally ivory arms... 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.630 "but now sun-kissed as a blush... 00:35:33.710 --> 00:35:36.884 "as the incarnadine discovery inside a conch shell... 00:35:37.147 --> 00:35:39.669 "seen for the first time by a bewildered zoologist... 00:35:39.749 --> 00:35:44.289 "as he is undone by its rosy, promising pinkness. 00:35:45.555 --> 00:35:47.296 "Those were her arms. 00:35:48.258 --> 00:35:50.513 "But it was her eyes that stopped his breath... 00:35:50.593 --> 00:35:53.183 "and made his heart leap up. 00:35:53.263 --> 00:35:54.901 "Blue they were. 00:35:55.165 --> 00:35:58.154 "Even through the swirling vapors of pompous Chesterfields... 00:35:58.234 --> 00:35:59.456 "and arrogant Lucky Strikes... 00:35:59.536 --> 00:36:04.508 "he saw her eyes were a blue beyond blue, like the ocean. 00:36:05.408 --> 00:36:07.581 "Blue beyond blue. 00:36:08.444 --> 00:36:11.201 "A blue he could swim into forever... 00:36:11.281 --> 00:36:15.195 "and never miss a fire-engine red or a cornstalk yellow. 00:36:16.452 --> 00:36:18.454 "Across the chasm of that room... 00:36:18.855 --> 00:36:20.926 "that blue, those eyes... 00:36:21.191 --> 00:36:24.647 "devoured him and looked past him and never saw him... 00:36:24.727 --> 00:36:28.300 "and never would, of that he was sure. 00:36:29.933 --> 00:36:30.968 "From that moment... 00:36:31.234 --> 00:36:32.622 "Eugene understood... 00:36:32.702 --> 00:36:36.226 "what the poets had been writing about these many years. 00:36:36.306 --> 00:36:40.652 "All the lost, wandering, lonely souls who were now his brothers. 00:36:41.911 --> 00:36:45.468 "He knew a love that would never be his. 00:36:45.548 --> 00:36:47.270 "So quickly did he fall for her... 00:36:47.350 --> 00:36:50.173 "that no one in the room even heard the sound. 00:36:50.253 --> 00:36:52.842 "The whoosh as he fell... 00:36:52.922 --> 00:36:55.596 "the clatter of his broken heart. 00:36:56.759 --> 00:36:59.449 "It was a sure silence... 00:36:59.529 --> 00:37:01.702 "but his life was shattered." 00:37:03.499 --> 00:37:04.910 End of chapter. 00:37:12.809 --> 00:37:14.550 You don't like it? 00:37:14.944 --> 00:37:16.548 You know I do. 00:37:17.914 --> 00:37:19.393 That's not the point. 00:37:21.351 --> 00:37:22.906 So he sees a girl... 00:37:22.986 --> 00:37:25.842 and he falls in love for the first time, yes? 00:37:25.922 --> 00:37:28.801 Does his mind go to deep-sea marine life? 00:37:29.659 --> 00:37:30.847 At that moment, yes. 00:37:30.927 --> 00:37:32.315 I don't believe it. 00:37:32.395 --> 00:37:35.285 I think you fell in love with the images, not the girl. 00:37:35.365 --> 00:37:38.655 So we cut the zoology and the cigar brands. 00:37:38.735 --> 00:37:40.523 - I'll do it. - And the ruminations on pink? 00:37:40.603 --> 00:37:41.824 No. No! 00:37:41.904 --> 00:37:44.761 The adjectives are true. He's a man who thinks that way. 00:37:44.841 --> 00:37:46.763 Pink is never just pink. 00:37:46.843 --> 00:37:51.467 It's a thousand other things, all profoundly important to him. 00:37:51.547 --> 00:37:55.972 All variations on his psychological state. 00:37:56.052 --> 00:37:59.509 Every image and the sound of every word matters. 00:37:59.589 --> 00:38:00.276 No, it doesn't. 00:38:00.356 --> 00:38:01.477 - They're vital! - Nonsense. 00:38:01.557 --> 00:38:03.346 - Vital! - You're losing the plot. 00:38:03.426 --> 00:38:04.847 He's falling in love. 00:38:04.927 --> 00:38:06.983 What was it like the first time you fell in love, Tom? 00:38:07.063 --> 00:38:10.420 Was it cornstalk yellow and pompous Chesterfields? 00:38:10.500 --> 00:38:11.688 It was a lightning bolt. 00:38:11.768 --> 00:38:14.715 And that's what it should be, a lightning bolt. 00:38:15.538 --> 00:38:17.381 Save all the thunder. 00:38:18.608 --> 00:38:19.882 I got you. 00:38:20.576 --> 00:38:21.850 I got you. 00:38:22.845 --> 00:38:24.051 Cut that. 00:38:24.314 --> 00:38:25.588 Cut that. 00:38:26.316 --> 00:38:28.404 All right. We cut the textile. 00:38:28.484 --> 00:38:29.405 "He saw a woman..." 00:38:29.485 --> 00:38:32.056 Cut. Cut. Cut. 00:38:32.322 --> 00:38:35.612 "But it was her eyes that stopped his breath in his throat... 00:38:35.692 --> 00:38:36.913 "that made his heart leap up." 00:38:36.993 --> 00:38:38.381 No, cut the Wordsworth. 00:38:38.461 --> 00:38:40.650 "It stopped his breath." 00:38:40.730 --> 00:38:42.107 - "Blue they were..." - Cut the marine life. 00:38:42.365 --> 00:38:44.345 - "A blue beyond blue, like the ocean." - Cliche. 00:38:44.867 --> 00:38:46.489 "A blue beyond blue like..." 00:38:46.569 --> 00:38:48.014 Like nothing but blue. 00:38:48.438 --> 00:38:50.994 "A blue he could swim into forever and never miss..." 00:38:51.074 --> 00:38:52.075 Mmm, cut this. 00:38:52.342 --> 00:38:53.630 Then pick up with... 00:38:53.710 --> 00:38:56.799 Had there ever been such blue? Had there ever been such eyes? 00:38:56.879 --> 00:38:59.035 - Don't need the rhetorical. - Why? 00:38:59.115 --> 00:39:00.890 It's not a lightning bolt. It's a digression. 00:39:02.352 --> 00:39:04.354 "A blue beyond..." No! 00:39:06.022 --> 00:39:07.433 Her eyes were blue. 00:39:07.757 --> 00:39:08.895 Better. 00:39:09.125 --> 00:39:10.380 And cut. 00:39:10.460 --> 00:39:12.982 He was worthless. She was everything. 00:39:13.062 --> 00:39:16.043 She was a girl across a room. That's enough. 00:39:16.799 --> 00:39:21.509 And so, cut "the lost, wandering souls..." 00:39:22.038 --> 00:39:23.426 Cut. 00:39:23.506 --> 00:39:25.762 "So quickly did he fall for her... 00:39:25.842 --> 00:39:28.531 "that no one in the room even heard the sound... 00:39:28.611 --> 00:39:30.600 "the whoosh as he fell, the clatter..." 00:39:30.680 --> 00:39:32.835 The whoosh, the clatter. Is that the point? 00:39:32.915 --> 00:39:34.804 Well, what did you hear when you fell in love? 00:39:34.884 --> 00:39:37.006 What did you hear? Clattering? 00:39:37.086 --> 00:39:40.743 The point is it was all happening inside him. 00:39:40.823 --> 00:39:41.978 His life changed. 00:39:42.058 --> 00:39:44.414 No one else in the room noticed anything. 00:39:44.494 --> 00:39:45.548 Then make that the point. 00:39:45.628 --> 00:39:47.801 I hate to see the words go! 00:39:48.631 --> 00:39:50.953 Maybe the larger question is this. 00:39:51.033 --> 00:39:53.856 In a book crowded with great rolling mountains of prose... 00:39:53.936 --> 00:39:56.610 how is this moment profoundly different? 00:39:57.573 --> 00:40:00.463 - Because it's simple. - Unadorned. 00:40:00.543 --> 00:40:01.631 Like lightning. 00:40:01.711 --> 00:40:06.102 Standing out in the black sky by its starkness. 00:40:06.182 --> 00:40:07.422 Exactly. 00:40:10.653 --> 00:40:11.859 God damn! 00:40:17.193 --> 00:40:18.581 All aboard! 00:40:18.661 --> 00:40:23.735 Track 12, Southwest trunk line now departing from Track 12. 00:40:26.869 --> 00:40:28.439 "Eugene saw a woman. 00:40:29.439 --> 00:40:31.077 "Her eyes were blue. 00:40:32.108 --> 00:40:34.764 "So quickly did he fall for her... 00:40:34.844 --> 00:40:38.519 "that no one in the room even heard the sound." 00:40:39.582 --> 00:40:42.688 Period. End of Chapter Four. 00:40:43.486 --> 00:40:45.625 Only 98 more to go! 00:40:46.088 --> 00:40:48.659 I love you, Max Perkins! 00:41:03.706 --> 00:41:05.561 ...with Francis and Eugene in Paris. 00:41:05.641 --> 00:41:07.930 Exactly! As if you're skipping across the Atlantic. 00:41:08.010 --> 00:41:11.150 "Matching Eugene's disorientation." 00:41:11.914 --> 00:41:15.037 He didn't know that she would never see him, that her love would never be his. 00:41:15.117 --> 00:41:16.172 How could he know that? 00:41:16.252 --> 00:41:17.663 - Hold on, he did. - How? 00:41:26.629 --> 00:41:30.520 "The subtle grapy bloom of dusk." 00:41:30.600 --> 00:41:34.957 Tom, we discussed a transition line. One line to bridge the cut. 00:41:35.037 --> 00:41:37.278 You've given me 50 new pages on the doctor. 00:41:37.540 --> 00:41:40.196 You've given me his whole life story and his father's whole life story. 00:41:40.276 --> 00:41:42.999 - I like the doctor. - Well, so do I. 00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:45.923 I adore the doctor. But by God, 50 pages? 00:41:54.624 --> 00:41:57.780 Some books are supposed to be long, you know? 00:41:57.860 --> 00:42:00.883 Thank Christ Tolstoy never met you. 00:42:00.963 --> 00:42:03.910 We'd have that great novel War and Nothing. 00:42:15.044 --> 00:42:17.133 To be a novelist, you have to select. 00:42:17.213 --> 00:42:18.935 You have to shape and sculpt. 00:42:19.015 --> 00:42:20.002 Why? 00:42:20.082 --> 00:42:23.039 Because we've been working for two years and the book is only 100 pages shorter. 00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:26.742 Five goddamn seconds of peace is all I ask! 00:42:26.822 --> 00:42:28.644 Can't you give me five goddamn seconds? 00:42:28.724 --> 00:42:30.046 God damn! 00:42:30.126 --> 00:42:34.233 It's the tip of the iceberg, Tom. You're giving me the full iceberg. 00:42:36.098 --> 00:42:38.237 So you're saying this is trash, this is trash... 00:42:40.970 --> 00:42:42.525 You knew this was gonna happen. 00:42:42.605 --> 00:42:46.162 Why are you playing all dewy-eyed ingenue? 00:42:46.242 --> 00:42:49.799 Because I did not imagine, even taking you at your absolute worst... 00:42:49.879 --> 00:42:51.586 you could be so selfish. 00:42:52.081 --> 00:42:54.136 I can't turn my back on the work. 00:42:54.216 --> 00:42:55.320 Aline! 00:42:55.585 --> 00:42:57.139 It's what I do. It's my job. 00:42:57.219 --> 00:42:58.808 And this is my job. 00:42:58.888 --> 00:43:01.878 When will you ever learn how much an opening night means to me? 00:43:01.958 --> 00:43:03.062 Is this all right? 00:43:04.727 --> 00:43:05.882 Yes, you look lovely. 00:43:05.962 --> 00:43:08.985 Could you please put the scarf on your downstage shoulder when you enter? 00:43:09.065 --> 00:43:10.052 Thank you. 00:43:10.132 --> 00:43:13.689 It's an important night for me. I need you here. 00:43:13.769 --> 00:43:16.058 I have to work tonight. 00:43:16.138 --> 00:43:20.162 You've been working every single night for the past two years. 00:43:20.242 --> 00:43:21.697 Do you have any idea what it's like... 00:43:21.777 --> 00:43:23.347 coming home to an empty apartment every night? 00:43:23.613 --> 00:43:26.068 Look, I'm not saying your work is not important. 00:43:26.148 --> 00:43:27.627 Of course you are! 00:43:28.017 --> 00:43:29.805 I ask for one night. 00:43:29.885 --> 00:43:35.077 One night of your precious time to be at my side and support me. 00:43:35.157 --> 00:43:37.364 You don't understand. You don't understand. 00:43:37.627 --> 00:43:40.883 We are at a moment of radical crisis with my book! 00:43:40.963 --> 00:43:42.151 Stop it. Stop it! 00:43:42.231 --> 00:43:43.369 I've never known you not to be at a point... 00:43:43.633 --> 00:43:46.722 of radical crisis about something. You really ought to be on the stage. 00:43:46.802 --> 00:43:48.024 Max says if we push through... 00:43:48.104 --> 00:43:51.847 There we go. "Max says! Max suggests! Max instructs!" 00:43:52.174 --> 00:43:54.263 He can have you every other day of the week... 00:43:54.343 --> 00:43:56.380 but I need you tonight. 00:43:56.646 --> 00:43:59.669 So, please, would you get off my set, go home... 00:43:59.749 --> 00:44:02.705 and put on your blue suit, and I will pick you up at 7:00. 00:44:02.785 --> 00:44:04.264 I won't be there. 00:44:10.226 --> 00:44:12.763 Make your choice, Tom. 00:44:15.331 --> 00:44:16.810 Right now. 00:44:19.702 --> 00:44:21.978 There's no call for this, honey. 00:44:24.707 --> 00:44:26.084 Right now. 00:44:36.318 --> 00:44:38.696 Look what you have done to me. 00:45:04.213 --> 00:45:05.901 He's under a lot of pressure. 00:45:05.981 --> 00:45:08.170 If we don't keep going now, I don't know what'll happen to him. 00:45:08.250 --> 00:45:09.305 You want the big hamper? 00:45:09.385 --> 00:45:10.728 And the thermoses. 00:45:12.855 --> 00:45:14.027 Thanks. 00:45:14.724 --> 00:45:16.846 You have to think what it's like for him. 00:45:16.926 --> 00:45:20.149 His first book comes out, everyone calls him a genius. 00:45:20.229 --> 00:45:22.952 Expectations on the second book are mighty big. 00:45:23.032 --> 00:45:25.087 He's scared. That's why he won't stop writing. 00:45:25.167 --> 00:45:26.922 Why don't you explain that to your daughters? 00:45:27.002 --> 00:45:28.424 - Louise. - They want their father back. 00:45:28.504 --> 00:45:30.926 It's my job. It's what I do. 00:45:31.006 --> 00:45:32.762 Every minute of every day? 00:45:32.842 --> 00:45:35.097 And if it takes years, it takes years. 00:45:35.177 --> 00:45:36.932 You're never going to get this time back. 00:45:37.012 --> 00:45:39.891 It's one damn vacation, for Christ's sake! 00:45:44.420 --> 00:45:47.526 Louise, a writer like Tom, I get one in a lifetime. 00:45:49.091 --> 00:45:52.368 You get your daughters for the same lifetime. 00:45:55.931 --> 00:45:57.274 I'm sorry. 00:46:01.771 --> 00:46:03.307 Wave to the girls. 00:46:04.874 --> 00:46:06.362 All right, ladies! 00:46:06.442 --> 00:46:09.116 Are you ready for our great adventure? 00:46:11.347 --> 00:46:12.917 Close your door, darling. 00:46:29.465 --> 00:46:33.089 You gotta stop worrying about Louise so much. 00:46:33.169 --> 00:46:34.546 They'll be back before you know it. 00:46:34.804 --> 00:46:36.340 Tom, where are we going? 00:46:37.072 --> 00:46:39.395 Ah, you'll see. 00:46:39.475 --> 00:46:41.853 We're supposed to be working. 00:46:43.212 --> 00:46:45.000 This is work. 00:46:45.080 --> 00:46:49.271 I decided you can never appreciate the music of my book... 00:46:49.351 --> 00:46:52.041 the tonality and cadence... 00:46:52.121 --> 00:46:56.345 without experiencing the dark rhythms... 00:46:56.425 --> 00:46:58.166 that inspire me. 00:47:30.025 --> 00:47:32.014 - Bourbon! In a big ol' tumbler. - You? 00:47:32.094 --> 00:47:34.250 Martini, please. Very dry. 00:47:34.330 --> 00:47:35.551 He'll have a bourbon. 00:47:35.631 --> 00:47:37.201 You got it. 00:47:41.871 --> 00:47:43.192 You hear it, Max? 00:47:43.272 --> 00:47:45.548 I don't care much for music. 00:47:48.010 --> 00:47:53.460 There's a savage indictment of your grim, puritan soul. 00:47:55.284 --> 00:47:57.039 Come on! 00:47:57.119 --> 00:47:59.292 There must be one song you like. 00:48:01.991 --> 00:48:04.232 Flow Gently, Sweet Afton. 00:48:06.295 --> 00:48:10.402 I'm partial to Flow Gently, Sweet Afton. 00:48:26.415 --> 00:48:27.655 You got it, sir. 00:48:32.021 --> 00:48:33.295 Two bourbons, gentlemen. 00:48:35.190 --> 00:48:40.469 The whole thing about jazz is that these fellas are artists. 00:48:43.999 --> 00:48:46.388 They interpret the song... 00:48:46.468 --> 00:48:50.678 letting the music pour on out, riff upon riff... 00:48:50.940 --> 00:48:52.510 just like I do with words. 00:48:53.475 --> 00:48:56.012 To hell with standard forms. 00:48:56.478 --> 00:49:00.202 To hell with Flaubert and Henry James. 00:49:00.282 --> 00:49:02.238 Be original. Hmm? 00:49:02.318 --> 00:49:04.491 Blaze new trails. 00:49:04.954 --> 00:49:06.956 That's the whole ugly gorilla. 00:49:07.356 --> 00:49:09.495 Ugly gorilla. Of course. 00:49:16.231 --> 00:49:17.266 There. 00:49:21.070 --> 00:49:23.107 That's Henry James for you. 00:49:24.373 --> 00:49:27.183 It's comfortable and familiar, isn't it? 00:49:43.225 --> 00:49:44.670 Uh-oh. 00:49:46.195 --> 00:49:47.503 What's that? 00:49:49.531 --> 00:49:53.638 Sounds like an ugly gorilla coming our way, don't it? 00:50:00.075 --> 00:50:01.213 That's Tom Wolfe! 00:50:13.389 --> 00:50:14.697 Feel it, Max! 00:50:24.566 --> 00:50:26.622 I see your feet moving. 00:50:26.702 --> 00:50:29.046 I see your knees moving. 00:50:35.144 --> 00:50:37.249 Come on, Max! Feel it! 00:50:41.250 --> 00:50:42.490 Nice. 00:51:02.237 --> 00:51:04.615 You see those two fine ladies over there? 00:51:05.340 --> 00:51:07.616 Subtle. Max, please, subtle. 00:51:08.310 --> 00:51:10.290 At the bar? 00:51:12.081 --> 00:51:14.536 Let's go over there, say hello. 00:51:14.616 --> 00:51:17.756 - Come on! Let's have some fun. - I can't. I can't. 00:51:18.220 --> 00:51:21.292 They're working girls, Max. It doesn't count. 00:51:22.624 --> 00:51:25.195 Yes, Tom, it does. 00:51:27.463 --> 00:51:29.101 - Well, you don't mind if I... - No. 00:51:43.112 --> 00:51:46.525 Hell, I never know when to stop, do I? 00:51:50.352 --> 00:51:51.640 - Three bourbons! - You got it. 00:51:51.720 --> 00:51:54.496 One, two, three. 00:51:55.891 --> 00:51:58.132 And you, too. 00:51:59.294 --> 00:52:01.365 I saw you looking at me. 00:52:04.466 --> 00:52:07.413 Don't worry, I ain't gonna leave you out. 00:52:12.808 --> 00:52:16.198 I'm gonna want the both of you. All right? 00:52:16.278 --> 00:52:17.621 Let's have a drink. 00:52:43.205 --> 00:52:44.860 I'll tell you one thing, my friend. 00:52:44.940 --> 00:52:46.829 You wouldn't do this to Hemingway. 00:52:46.909 --> 00:52:48.911 You wouldn't do this to Fitzgerald... 00:52:49.178 --> 00:52:51.700 not to your two goddamn sacred cows! 00:52:51.780 --> 00:52:54.369 Every word they write is golden genius! 00:52:54.449 --> 00:52:55.337 Stop it! 00:52:55.417 --> 00:52:57.954 I bring you stuff wrenched right from my guts... 00:52:58.220 --> 00:52:59.575 and you tell me it doesn't fit. 00:52:59.655 --> 00:53:01.566 That's enough. Go home. 00:53:01.857 --> 00:53:02.927 What? 00:53:03.192 --> 00:53:05.481 Go home. Go to sleep. 00:53:05.561 --> 00:53:08.337 No. No, no. 00:53:08.664 --> 00:53:09.852 I'm sorry. 00:53:09.932 --> 00:53:14.323 Please, don't make me go home. Let me come home with you. 00:53:14.403 --> 00:53:16.258 We... We can still make the 9:02. 00:53:16.338 --> 00:53:18.393 No, I'm exhausted and you're drunk. 00:53:18.473 --> 00:53:20.395 - We'll pick up tomorrow. - No. 00:53:20.475 --> 00:53:21.419 You heard him, Tom. 00:53:23.579 --> 00:53:24.853 Come home. 00:53:26.615 --> 00:53:28.504 I'll pay for the taxi. 00:53:28.584 --> 00:53:30.962 What the hell are you doing here? 00:53:31.220 --> 00:53:34.394 I can make you dinner. I'll pay for that, too. 00:53:34.489 --> 00:53:36.992 Get out of here. I'm working. 00:53:37.693 --> 00:53:41.550 Mr. Perkins has informed you you're not working anymore tonight... 00:53:41.630 --> 00:53:43.485 so come on, come with me. 00:53:43.565 --> 00:53:44.586 Mrs. Bernstein... 00:53:44.666 --> 00:53:46.555 Don't touch me! For heaven's sake. 00:53:46.635 --> 00:53:49.639 - You stay there. - Jesus, Aline! 00:53:50.706 --> 00:53:52.515 - Come. - Aline. 00:53:54.376 --> 00:53:56.413 You don't want to see me? 00:53:57.546 --> 00:53:58.800 Fine! 00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:00.291 Fine! 00:54:01.516 --> 00:54:03.939 You will never have to see me again. 00:54:04.019 --> 00:54:05.362 Aline. 00:54:06.722 --> 00:54:07.928 What are you doing? 00:54:09.591 --> 00:54:10.695 What the hell are you doing? 00:54:11.727 --> 00:54:13.448 - Aline! - No! 00:54:13.528 --> 00:54:15.384 - Stop it. - No! 00:54:15.464 --> 00:54:16.785 - Spit 'em! - No! 00:54:16.865 --> 00:54:17.953 Spit 'em! 00:54:18.033 --> 00:54:19.721 - No. - You spit 'em out. 00:54:19.801 --> 00:54:20.923 Spit 'em out. 00:54:21.003 --> 00:54:23.677 Spit 'em out! You spit it out. 00:54:25.907 --> 00:54:29.498 Stop now, Aline. My love. 00:54:29.578 --> 00:54:32.401 My love, my angel. Stop now. 00:54:32.481 --> 00:54:36.271 All right. All right. All right. 00:54:36.351 --> 00:54:38.024 Show me your strength, darling. 00:54:38.287 --> 00:54:39.857 Look at me. Look at me! 00:54:40.422 --> 00:54:41.977 Show me your strength. 00:54:42.057 --> 00:54:44.479 Come on. Come on. 00:54:44.559 --> 00:54:49.351 All right. Come on. Come on. That's it. 00:54:49.431 --> 00:54:51.707 All right. All right. 00:54:52.734 --> 00:54:54.372 Mr. Perkins... 00:54:57.039 --> 00:54:59.761 I know things such as this don't happen here... 00:54:59.841 --> 00:55:01.997 on the fifth floor. I apologize. 00:55:02.077 --> 00:55:05.467 That's not necessary. If you'll excuse me. 00:55:05.547 --> 00:55:07.002 Wait up, wait up. I'll be right there. 00:55:07.082 --> 00:55:08.060 No, Tom, really! 00:55:08.317 --> 00:55:10.024 Just give me a second. 00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:13.842 I'll see you at home. All right. 00:55:13.922 --> 00:55:15.401 All right. 00:55:28.737 --> 00:55:31.360 You were right about the cut. 00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:33.750 Sorry about being such a bear. 00:55:36.345 --> 00:55:39.534 Don't you think you should go with Mrs. Bernstein? 00:55:39.614 --> 00:55:43.084 Hell, she was just being theatrical. 00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:46.675 All right, so we forget about the cut. 00:55:46.755 --> 00:55:49.861 Let's go on to Eugene in London. 00:55:50.892 --> 00:55:54.416 "He thought of the huge smoky web of London with the same joy... 00:55:54.496 --> 00:55:57.452 "of the suave potent ale he could get in one place there... 00:55:57.532 --> 00:56:00.035 "of its squares and ancient courts..." 00:56:07.542 --> 00:56:08.664 Daddy! 00:56:08.744 --> 00:56:10.690 Daddy! 00:56:17.552 --> 00:56:18.573 Hurry up. 00:56:18.653 --> 00:56:20.030 - Hi, Daddy. - Hello, duck. 00:56:21.790 --> 00:56:24.046 Daddy, I caught a rainbow trout. Nine inches! 00:56:24.126 --> 00:56:26.037 You go help your sisters. 00:56:30.899 --> 00:56:33.539 You would not believe the amount... 00:56:35.670 --> 00:56:37.013 Maxwell, please. 00:57:21.450 --> 00:57:22.520 Tom. 00:57:24.619 --> 00:57:25.859 Tom! 00:57:28.490 --> 00:57:29.764 It's done. 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:32.781 Done? 00:57:32.861 --> 00:57:34.465 Stop writing. 00:57:35.897 --> 00:57:38.787 Gather all your papers and bring them in tomorrow. 00:57:38.867 --> 00:57:40.505 Can you do that? 00:57:40.969 --> 00:57:42.657 Can you do that? 00:57:42.737 --> 00:57:43.807 Yes. 00:57:46.141 --> 00:57:50.749 We finish editing this month. We go to press in April. 00:57:52.614 --> 00:57:54.491 We publish in October. 00:57:55.984 --> 00:57:58.897 Look at me and say yes. 00:58:04.826 --> 00:58:05.896 Yes. 00:58:49.804 --> 00:58:51.613 Shoot. 00:58:57.712 --> 00:58:59.714 I think I'll go rambling. 00:59:00.115 --> 00:59:01.685 Maybe Europe. 00:59:02.684 --> 00:59:06.894 Don't want to be around when the reviews come out. 00:59:10.725 --> 00:59:11.829 What? 00:59:14.062 --> 00:59:16.685 There's one paragraph I have to add to the book. 00:59:16.765 --> 00:59:18.053 - By God! - I have to add it. 00:59:18.133 --> 00:59:19.821 If you start adding paragraphs, we're sunk. 00:59:19.901 --> 00:59:22.724 One paragraph will lead to two and then we'll be here for another year. 00:59:22.804 --> 00:59:24.681 Shall I read it to you? 00:59:24.973 --> 00:59:26.975 It goes at the very front. 00:59:31.680 --> 00:59:38.256 "This book is dedicated to Maxwell Evarts Perkins. 00:59:40.121 --> 00:59:43.261 "A brave and honest man... 00:59:45.160 --> 00:59:47.333 "who stuck to the writer of this book... 00:59:47.596 --> 00:59:52.136 "through times of bitter hopelessness. 00:59:54.002 --> 00:59:55.724 "The author hopes... 00:59:55.804 --> 01:00:00.048 "this book will prove worthy of him." 01:00:05.180 --> 01:00:06.250 I wish you wouldn't. 01:00:08.617 --> 01:00:11.154 - Why? - Editors should be anonymous. 01:00:13.121 --> 01:00:14.759 More than that... 01:00:16.291 --> 01:00:18.146 there's always the fear... 01:00:18.226 --> 01:00:20.001 that I deformed your book. 01:00:22.697 --> 01:00:24.619 Who's to say it wasn't the way it was meant to be... 01:00:24.699 --> 01:00:26.770 when you first brought it in? 01:00:27.936 --> 01:00:29.813 War and Peace. 01:00:30.772 --> 01:00:31.826 Not just War. 01:00:31.906 --> 01:00:33.295 Max. 01:00:33.375 --> 01:00:36.686 That's what we editors lose sleep over, you know? 01:00:37.846 --> 01:00:40.258 Are we really making books better? 01:00:46.655 --> 01:00:48.657 Or just making them different? 01:01:07.676 --> 01:01:08.984 Morning, Mr. Perkins. 01:01:44.846 --> 01:01:48.403 Miss Wyckoff, where would we find Mr. Wolfe at the moment? 01:01:48.483 --> 01:01:49.928 He's in Paris, sir. 01:01:57.225 --> 01:02:00.749 "Magnificent reviews. Full of praise. 01:02:00.829 --> 01:02:04.470 "Congratulations, you've done it again. Max." 01:02:08.737 --> 01:02:12.480 "I can face blunt fact better than damnable incertitude. 01:02:12.741 --> 01:02:17.198 "Give me the damn straight plain truth right now, damn you! 01:02:17.278 --> 01:02:18.416 "Tom." 01:02:21.182 --> 01:02:24.205 "Talked of everywhere as a truly important book. 01:02:24.285 --> 01:02:26.941 "All comparisons with greatest writers. 01:02:27.021 --> 01:02:28.796 "Even James Joyce." 01:02:32.927 --> 01:02:35.931 "Hell, Joyce wishes he was so good." 01:02:37.265 --> 01:02:40.088 "Had to rush out five editions of the book. 01:02:40.168 --> 01:02:42.257 "Thirty thousand copies. 01:02:42.337 --> 01:02:44.793 "Never seen a book so talked about. 01:02:44.873 --> 01:02:48.047 "They're calling you a genius again, God help you. 01:02:48.409 --> 01:02:51.185 "Come home soon. Max." 01:03:05.226 --> 01:03:06.830 Mrs. Bernstein. 01:03:08.429 --> 01:03:09.965 Mr. Perkins. 01:03:13.334 --> 01:03:14.355 What can I do for you? 01:03:14.435 --> 01:03:17.348 It's rather what can I do for you, Mr. Perkins. 01:03:18.206 --> 01:03:21.949 I couldn't help noticing Tom dedicated his new book to you. 01:03:22.210 --> 01:03:25.867 He dedicated his first book to me, you will recall. 01:03:25.947 --> 01:03:27.168 It was a lovely sentiment... 01:03:27.248 --> 01:03:31.993 but what he was actually saying was, "Thank you and goodbye." 01:03:32.954 --> 01:03:34.956 I had served my purpose. 01:03:35.890 --> 01:03:38.413 And now, you have served yours. 01:03:38.493 --> 01:03:40.048 "Thank you and goodbye, Mr. Perkins." 01:03:40.128 --> 01:03:41.607 With respect, Mrs. Bernstein... 01:03:41.863 --> 01:03:44.219 you haven't the slightest notion of my relationship with Tom. 01:03:44.299 --> 01:03:46.154 - And in view of that... - He makes you do things... 01:03:46.234 --> 01:03:48.339 you never thought you'd do. He liberates you. 01:03:51.306 --> 01:03:54.362 And just when you have come to depend upon that... 01:03:54.442 --> 01:03:56.217 he will leave you. 01:03:57.345 --> 01:04:00.121 And you will never feel so alive again. 01:04:01.316 --> 01:04:05.093 I'm sorry, Mrs. Bernstein. I know this has been hard on you. 01:04:07.121 --> 01:04:08.476 Whatever pain he's caused you... 01:04:08.556 --> 01:04:10.044 I can only hope he didn't mean it. 01:04:10.124 --> 01:04:11.980 Can you give me his address in Europe? 01:04:12.060 --> 01:04:13.047 He asked me not to. 01:04:13.127 --> 01:04:15.016 Can you tell me when he's coming home? 01:04:15.096 --> 01:04:16.851 I don't think so. 01:04:16.931 --> 01:04:18.239 So... 01:04:19.534 --> 01:04:21.411 I don't exist anymore. 01:04:26.541 --> 01:04:29.545 I've been edited. 01:04:40.088 --> 01:04:43.578 I haven't quite decided who I'm going to shoot yet. 01:04:43.658 --> 01:04:45.079 Tom... 01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:46.399 myself... 01:04:49.163 --> 01:04:50.471 or you. 01:04:52.166 --> 01:04:53.645 Have you a suggestion? 01:04:56.971 --> 01:05:00.094 Suicide seems a bit extreme. 01:05:00.174 --> 01:05:01.563 And killing Tom won't help much. 01:05:01.643 --> 01:05:04.249 So I suppose that leaves me. 01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:06.659 I suppose it does. 01:05:15.423 --> 01:05:18.165 You're overwriting the scene, Mrs. Bernstein. 01:05:38.112 --> 01:05:40.251 We shall see, Mr. Perkins. 01:05:50.558 --> 01:05:54.349 I am very sorry for what's going to happen to you. 01:05:54.429 --> 01:05:55.999 Truly, I am. 01:05:56.731 --> 01:05:58.586 Enjoy the time with Tom while you have it... 01:05:58.666 --> 01:06:01.977 because after him... 01:06:03.604 --> 01:06:05.606 there is a great hush. 01:06:19.654 --> 01:06:21.565 Hey, good to see you. 01:06:28.262 --> 01:06:29.297 Max! 01:06:29.998 --> 01:06:31.068 Tom! 01:06:37.538 --> 01:06:39.560 Wonderful to see you, Tom. 01:06:39.640 --> 01:06:42.330 But we need to talk. I have a taxi waiting. 01:06:42.410 --> 01:06:44.432 Heck, no! Taxi can take my luggage. 01:06:44.512 --> 01:06:48.269 No taxis or trains or buses or automation. 01:06:48.349 --> 01:06:49.570 I have to ambulate. 01:06:49.650 --> 01:06:52.307 I have to feel my country again. 01:06:52.387 --> 01:06:53.764 - You go ahead. - Thank you, sir. 01:06:54.022 --> 01:06:55.710 You don't know how much I missed you. 01:06:55.790 --> 01:06:58.737 Oh, I missed you too, Tom, but this is important. 01:06:59.093 --> 01:07:01.616 Aline came to the office and she has a gun. 01:07:01.696 --> 01:07:03.232 An actual gun. 01:07:04.232 --> 01:07:05.153 Hell with her. 01:07:05.233 --> 01:07:06.287 I've been away so long... 01:07:06.367 --> 01:07:10.191 we have to celebrate my return to the greatest of nations... 01:07:10.271 --> 01:07:11.492 with all things American. 01:07:11.572 --> 01:07:15.096 I have to eat some wieners and, and walk the city... 01:07:15.176 --> 01:07:17.520 and drink us some serious liquor. 01:07:19.447 --> 01:07:22.203 I mean, can one man do it? 01:07:22.283 --> 01:07:24.456 Write his whole life story fairly? 01:07:24.552 --> 01:07:26.574 Honestly? Like Proust... 01:07:26.654 --> 01:07:27.792 without all the upholstery. 01:07:28.056 --> 01:07:29.364 Well, sure. 01:07:29.724 --> 01:07:32.447 Now, Of Time and the River stopped when I met Aline. 01:07:32.527 --> 01:07:33.801 I'll have to write about that next. 01:07:34.062 --> 01:07:36.250 - She won't like it. - She'll love it! 01:07:36.330 --> 01:07:38.606 It'll make her immortal. 01:07:42.303 --> 01:07:44.749 Oh, Max, look at this. 01:07:45.306 --> 01:07:47.752 What's happening to our country, Max? 01:07:51.612 --> 01:07:54.535 - It's so frivolous. - What? 01:07:54.615 --> 01:07:57.271 What I do. Writing books. 01:07:57.351 --> 01:07:59.140 These folks will never read. 01:07:59.220 --> 01:08:02.410 Telling my life story like it's important to them. 01:08:02.490 --> 01:08:04.663 These people are starving. 01:08:10.098 --> 01:08:11.634 Hey, come with me. 01:08:14.102 --> 01:08:15.103 Come on. 01:08:24.579 --> 01:08:26.267 You have got to be kidding me. 01:08:26.347 --> 01:08:27.849 It'll be worth it, I promise. 01:08:28.483 --> 01:08:30.121 Have I ever lied to you? 01:08:37.458 --> 01:08:39.514 This would fall under the general category... 01:08:39.594 --> 01:08:40.715 of breaking and entering. 01:08:40.795 --> 01:08:43.241 Let's have an adventure. 01:08:53.241 --> 01:08:54.345 Damn! 01:08:55.476 --> 01:08:57.285 I don't believe it. 01:08:57.578 --> 01:08:58.886 I don't believe it. 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:14.540 Why on earth are we here? 01:09:15.363 --> 01:09:18.810 This is where I first lived when I came to New York. 01:09:19.300 --> 01:09:22.509 This is where I wrote Look Homeward, Angel. 01:09:29.944 --> 01:09:33.517 I would come here every twilight... 01:09:35.650 --> 01:09:37.459 and look at the city... 01:09:38.419 --> 01:09:41.442 and dream of what my life might be... 01:09:41.522 --> 01:09:43.365 till the stars came out. 01:09:45.259 --> 01:09:46.897 The stars in the sky. 01:09:48.329 --> 01:09:50.468 The lights in the buildings. 01:09:52.867 --> 01:09:55.211 All those lights. 01:10:00.208 --> 01:10:04.213 All the power of life. 01:10:06.747 --> 01:10:08.784 You're not frivolous, Tom. 01:10:11.752 --> 01:10:14.408 I think back in the caveman days... 01:10:14.488 --> 01:10:19.335 our ancestors would huddle around the fire at night... 01:10:20.628 --> 01:10:24.576 and wolves would be howling in the dark, just beyond the light. 01:10:25.366 --> 01:10:27.778 And one person would start talking. 01:10:29.770 --> 01:10:31.772 And he would tell a story... 01:10:33.241 --> 01:10:35.778 so we wouldn't be so scared in the dark. 01:11:27.295 --> 01:11:30.284 I guess I'll have to look at the proofs when I get back. 01:11:30.364 --> 01:11:31.900 Is that all right? 01:11:34.302 --> 01:11:35.856 How long? 01:11:35.936 --> 01:11:39.293 Well, if I don't get shot, a couple of months. 01:11:39.373 --> 01:11:43.764 I'm telling you, Spain is where the action's going to be. 01:11:43.844 --> 01:11:45.433 You've already done a bullfighting book. 01:11:45.513 --> 01:11:47.568 Nah, it's not bullfighting this time. 01:11:47.648 --> 01:11:49.770 World has gone beyond that, I'm afraid. 01:11:49.850 --> 01:11:51.739 It's war that's coming. 01:11:51.819 --> 01:11:53.374 And you need to be there? 01:11:53.454 --> 01:11:55.910 Well, I need to be somewhere. 01:11:55.990 --> 01:11:58.546 I need to feel the old lucha por la vida, you know? 01:11:58.626 --> 01:12:01.607 The struggle for life. What else is there? 01:12:02.563 --> 01:12:04.652 Hoist her up, boys. We want to take a photograph. 01:12:04.732 --> 01:12:06.678 All right, you heard him. 01:12:11.472 --> 01:12:12.576 So... 01:12:13.974 --> 01:12:16.664 how's the muse from greater Asheville doing? 01:12:16.744 --> 01:12:19.600 He's writing a new book, God help me. 01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:21.802 Did you read Of Time and the River? 01:12:21.882 --> 01:12:23.904 Crap. 01:12:23.984 --> 01:12:26.774 The boy has serious delusions of importance. 01:12:26.854 --> 01:12:28.976 And he's been mouthing off to the press too much. 01:12:29.056 --> 01:12:32.513 Tell him to shut the hell up and stick to his pencil. 01:12:32.593 --> 01:12:34.649 Well, you know Tom. He's exuberant. 01:12:34.729 --> 01:12:36.951 Bullshit. He's starting to believe what they say about him. 01:12:37.031 --> 01:12:38.786 Same thing that happened to Fitzgerald. 01:12:38.866 --> 01:12:41.422 Gets to hear he's the great man of letters so many times... 01:12:41.502 --> 01:12:42.823 he starts to believe it. 01:12:42.903 --> 01:12:45.110 Then he's got to live up to it and then he stops writing. 01:12:45.373 --> 01:12:47.695 Tom has to write. It's in his blood. 01:12:47.775 --> 01:12:50.765 Well, they said the same thing about Scott five years ago. 01:12:50.845 --> 01:12:53.434 Most elegant writer I ever knew. 01:12:53.514 --> 01:12:54.635 Now the poor son of a bitch... 01:12:54.715 --> 01:12:57.662 can't string five words together to save his own life. 01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:02.443 You know Tom will leave you soon. 01:13:02.523 --> 01:13:04.025 I don't think so. 01:13:04.859 --> 01:13:07.515 You don't think those bastards at Harper's and Macmillan... 01:13:07.595 --> 01:13:10.098 aren't pouring poison in his ear already? 01:13:11.132 --> 01:13:12.820 Tom won't listen. 01:13:12.900 --> 01:13:14.955 You saw the dedication in Time and the River. 01:13:15.035 --> 01:13:16.537 Yeah, I did. 01:13:17.671 --> 01:13:19.708 A bit like something on a tombstone. 01:13:20.508 --> 01:13:23.431 Come on, let's take a photo with your catch. 01:13:23.511 --> 01:13:25.491 I'll get him mounted and send him to you. 01:13:34.955 --> 01:13:38.612 Our daughter's going gangbusters at Vassar. She's... 01:13:38.692 --> 01:13:41.482 She seems to have developed an affection for drama. 01:13:41.562 --> 01:13:43.599 She might even be an actress. 01:13:44.532 --> 01:13:46.020 She wants to talk to you about it, Louise. 01:13:46.100 --> 01:13:47.738 Oh, I would love to. 01:13:50.104 --> 01:13:52.448 - That must be Tom. - I'll get it. 01:13:54.809 --> 01:13:57.517 It's Tom, honey. He's come to see you. 01:13:59.780 --> 01:14:02.818 Come on, Maxwell! Let me in, now. 01:14:04.185 --> 01:14:06.073 - Tom, easy. - Where is Scott? 01:14:06.153 --> 01:14:07.742 You might have waited to start drinking. 01:14:07.822 --> 01:14:09.443 I... I have to see Scott. 01:14:09.523 --> 01:14:10.678 Tom. 01:14:10.758 --> 01:14:12.847 - Scott. Scott! - Tom! Look at me. 01:14:12.927 --> 01:14:14.949 Zelda's just out of the hospital and she's not well... 01:14:15.029 --> 01:14:16.517 so for God's sake, don't start in. 01:14:16.597 --> 01:14:19.168 Listen to you. I'm not some rude mechanical. 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:23.057 - Scott! You old bastard. - Tom! 01:14:23.137 --> 01:14:25.793 I tried to tell that to Max. I mean... 01:14:25.873 --> 01:14:27.995 Tell me, Scott. Does... 01:14:28.075 --> 01:14:30.965 Does he... does he make you take a lot out? 01:14:31.045 --> 01:14:32.547 He doesn't make me do anything. 01:14:34.081 --> 01:14:38.496 Well, does he advise you to take a lot out? 01:14:39.787 --> 01:14:41.528 We're different writers, Tom. 01:14:42.623 --> 01:14:43.931 How's that? 01:14:44.892 --> 01:14:46.633 I don't write such long books. 01:14:49.630 --> 01:14:50.951 - Don't or can't? - Tom! 01:14:51.031 --> 01:14:52.486 Just say it, Scotty. 01:14:52.566 --> 01:14:54.688 There's no shame in writing short... 01:14:54.768 --> 01:14:58.692 though I think you've taken it a bit too far. 01:14:58.772 --> 01:15:00.961 I mean, come on. 01:15:01.041 --> 01:15:03.248 Are you gonna write another novel? 01:15:06.013 --> 01:15:08.202 Max, I hear you finally went fishing with Ernest. 01:15:08.282 --> 01:15:10.262 Yes, in the wilds of darkest Key West. 01:15:10.518 --> 01:15:11.806 - Don't ignore me. - That's enough. 01:15:11.886 --> 01:15:15.231 Don't pretend I'm not here. Jesus Christ! 01:15:15.589 --> 01:15:20.114 I know goddamn well you ain't written a word in years. 01:15:20.194 --> 01:15:22.650 Don't blame me for that. 01:15:22.730 --> 01:15:24.801 - Come on, get up! - What? What? Why? 01:15:24.899 --> 01:15:26.720 - You're leaving. - Where are we going? 01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:28.923 - Get out. - Why? 01:15:29.003 --> 01:15:30.724 It's all right, my sweetheart. It's all right. 01:15:30.804 --> 01:15:32.977 Stay calm. It's all right. 01:15:35.743 --> 01:15:38.098 You should tell him to put her away somewhere... 01:15:38.178 --> 01:15:39.589 and get back to work. 01:15:40.314 --> 01:15:43.003 He... He's probably past it now. 01:15:43.083 --> 01:15:44.289 Couldn't make a whole book... 01:15:44.552 --> 01:15:47.965 but he's still got some talent around the edges. 01:15:48.789 --> 01:15:51.745 Faded grandeur, I suppose you'd call it. 01:15:51.825 --> 01:15:53.614 Or he'd call it. But that... 01:15:53.694 --> 01:15:55.230 Would you shut up? 01:15:57.298 --> 01:15:58.619 It amazes me, still... 01:15:58.699 --> 01:16:01.121 after all these years, how cruel you can be. 01:16:01.201 --> 01:16:02.756 I... I'm only being honest. 01:16:02.836 --> 01:16:06.760 Did you ever once try to imagine how it is for Scott? 01:16:06.840 --> 01:16:08.596 Why... Why would I? 01:16:08.676 --> 01:16:10.986 How many words did you write today? 01:16:11.979 --> 01:16:15.258 - What? - How many words did you write today? 01:16:17.918 --> 01:16:21.108 - Maybe 5,000. - Scott wrote maybe 100. 01:16:21.188 --> 01:16:23.878 If today was a good day. If today was a great day. 01:16:23.958 --> 01:16:25.913 And he needs to write as much as you do. 01:16:25.993 --> 01:16:27.615 He fights over every word. 01:16:27.695 --> 01:16:29.216 Then, he should fight more. 01:16:29.296 --> 01:16:31.118 His wife is going mad! 01:16:31.198 --> 01:16:32.887 Nobody cares about what he writes... 01:16:32.967 --> 01:16:34.188 or even remembers him anymore. 01:16:34.268 --> 01:16:35.890 Can you imagine what that's like? 01:16:35.970 --> 01:16:38.592 Don't blame me for his weakness. 01:16:38.672 --> 01:16:40.743 It hurts me to see you so cruel. 01:16:41.942 --> 01:16:44.131 So I've disappointed you yet again. 01:16:44.211 --> 01:16:45.781 Yes, very much. 01:16:46.280 --> 01:16:48.569 Well, I'm sorry I'm not decent enough... 01:16:48.649 --> 01:16:51.238 for your fine dinner parties and your fine friends. 01:16:51.318 --> 01:16:54.208 But before you drag me out to the woodshed... 01:16:54.288 --> 01:16:56.710 I think you ought to look at who's giving the lesson. 01:16:56.790 --> 01:16:58.360 Am I supposed to grow up like you? 01:16:58.626 --> 01:17:01.232 No, Tom, but you're supposed to grow up. 01:17:01.895 --> 01:17:03.272 How dare you? 01:17:04.765 --> 01:17:07.888 You, of all people. You, of all goddamn people! 01:17:07.968 --> 01:17:09.413 You're nothing but a coward! 01:17:09.970 --> 01:17:11.959 Stuck in that sterile little office. 01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:14.762 Every beautiful thing in you stunted. 01:17:14.842 --> 01:17:19.166 You don't have the first idea what it is to be alive! 01:17:19.246 --> 01:17:20.834 You don't know what it is to wake up... 01:17:20.914 --> 01:17:24.305 and grab hold of life every day and fight with it. 01:17:24.385 --> 01:17:26.974 You're just so goddamn scared to live. 01:17:27.054 --> 01:17:29.091 There are other ways to live! 01:17:30.057 --> 01:17:32.970 There's loving your children and seeing them grow up right. 01:17:33.927 --> 01:17:35.668 There's providing for your family. 01:17:36.030 --> 01:17:39.053 There's doing work that's important and giving to other people. 01:17:39.133 --> 01:17:40.955 - That's enough. - No, I've taken your abuse... 01:17:41.035 --> 01:17:42.723 'cause I told myself you were worth it... 01:17:42.803 --> 01:17:43.958 that the work was worth it. 01:17:44.038 --> 01:17:46.126 But God help anyone who loves you, Tom. 01:17:46.206 --> 01:17:47.328 Because for all your talk... 01:17:47.408 --> 01:17:49.229 and all your millions of beautiful words... 01:17:49.309 --> 01:17:53.200 you haven't the slightest idea of what it means to be alive... 01:17:53.280 --> 01:17:56.352 to look into another person's eyes and ache for him. 01:17:58.786 --> 01:18:00.732 I hope someday you will. 01:18:01.055 --> 01:18:04.366 And then maybe all your words will be worth five of Scott's. 01:18:24.812 --> 01:18:27.034 Max thinks he created me. You know that? 01:18:27.114 --> 01:18:28.702 Like Pygmalion. 01:18:28.782 --> 01:18:33.140 He thinks... He thinks he found this ugly lump of Carolina clay... 01:18:33.220 --> 01:18:35.894 and molded it into me. 01:18:37.157 --> 01:18:40.314 They say I don't even write my own books. They say I can't write my own books. 01:18:40.394 --> 01:18:43.150 It's all because of Max and his brilliant editing. 01:18:43.230 --> 01:18:44.785 I hear it everywhere I go. 01:18:44.865 --> 01:18:46.720 Wouldn't I be lost without Max? 01:18:46.800 --> 01:18:50.509 What would I do without the great Maxwell Perkins? 01:18:52.773 --> 01:18:54.377 So he finally stood up to you. 01:18:56.410 --> 01:18:57.753 Good for him. 01:18:58.946 --> 01:19:01.402 You wouldn't believe how much the folks at Harper's... 01:19:01.482 --> 01:19:03.086 offered me for my new book. 01:19:04.952 --> 01:19:05.862 There it is. 01:19:07.421 --> 01:19:09.810 I told them no. 01:19:09.890 --> 01:19:11.233 You told them maybe. 01:19:11.859 --> 01:19:13.896 You tell everyone maybe. 01:19:16.964 --> 01:19:19.035 And now you're going to tell them yes. 01:19:24.772 --> 01:19:27.184 Hey, I'm thinking of taking a trip. 01:19:28.041 --> 01:19:29.063 A vacation, like. 01:19:29.143 --> 01:19:31.832 Buying an old car and just driving off. 01:19:31.912 --> 01:19:33.550 Maybe see California. 01:19:34.448 --> 01:19:37.054 All those sun-kissed locales. 01:19:41.054 --> 01:19:42.499 Why don't you come? 01:19:43.023 --> 01:19:44.297 I mean it. 01:19:45.025 --> 01:19:48.182 Let's hit the road and have some fun again. 01:19:48.262 --> 01:19:49.917 You and me. 01:19:49.997 --> 01:19:51.806 Like it used to be. 01:19:52.332 --> 01:19:56.007 You and me... 01:19:58.806 --> 01:20:03.551 No one else in the world even exists. 01:20:06.380 --> 01:20:09.054 We're in our own private cathedral. 01:20:14.421 --> 01:20:17.368 Doesn't that sound like a momentous journey? 01:20:19.359 --> 01:20:21.532 You need to spend time alone. 01:20:26.099 --> 01:20:27.488 I'm a writer. 01:20:27.568 --> 01:20:29.570 All I do is spend time alone. 01:20:29.837 --> 01:20:31.458 No, you spend time with your characters. 01:20:31.538 --> 01:20:33.142 You've never been alone. 01:20:34.308 --> 01:20:36.130 First you had your family, then you had me... 01:20:36.210 --> 01:20:37.498 then you had Max. 01:20:37.578 --> 01:20:40.286 You need to spend time alone. 01:20:41.615 --> 01:20:44.528 You need to look at how you move through your life. 01:20:46.186 --> 01:20:48.188 You hurt me. 01:20:49.389 --> 01:20:53.030 You're going to hurt Max. You shouldn't hurt anyone else. 01:20:55.629 --> 01:20:59.019 Human beings aren't fiction. 01:20:59.099 --> 01:21:01.989 You have no idea what I had to go through... 01:21:02.069 --> 01:21:04.140 to get to where I am now. 01:21:06.006 --> 01:21:07.610 So I can look at you... 01:21:09.142 --> 01:21:10.280 and feel... 01:21:11.311 --> 01:21:13.257 nothing. 01:21:25.993 --> 01:21:27.631 You know the way out. 01:21:58.058 --> 01:22:00.937 The last time I saw my father... 01:22:03.297 --> 01:22:05.586 I was standing at a train window... 01:22:05.666 --> 01:22:07.942 when I went north to college. 01:22:10.704 --> 01:22:13.150 He just got smaller and smaller... 01:22:14.708 --> 01:22:16.449 as we pulled away... 01:22:19.613 --> 01:22:22.184 until I couldn't see him anymore. 01:22:28.588 --> 01:22:33.037 That train carried me to my life. 01:22:34.962 --> 01:22:37.442 Beyond the hills and over the rivers. 01:22:40.233 --> 01:22:42.304 And always, the rivers run. 01:22:50.243 --> 01:22:52.746 Sometimes they flow away from my father... 01:22:53.013 --> 01:22:56.517 and sometimes they flow back to his door. 01:23:02.990 --> 01:23:05.493 I have to prove I can do it by myself. 01:23:08.495 --> 01:23:10.099 Then prove it. 01:24:09.723 --> 01:24:10.677 Scott. 01:24:10.757 --> 01:24:14.748 I know it was a while ago but I'm sorry. 01:24:14.828 --> 01:24:16.083 I was a damn brute. 01:24:16.163 --> 01:24:18.251 I wouldn't blame you if you slammed the door in my face. 01:24:18.331 --> 01:24:19.653 You don't know how sorry I am... 01:24:19.733 --> 01:24:22.723 for talking to you and Zelda like that. 01:24:22.803 --> 01:24:25.325 Please, say you forgive me. 01:24:25.405 --> 01:24:28.249 Believe it or not, I've been drunk myself once or twice. 01:24:31.211 --> 01:24:32.485 Thank you. 01:24:37.317 --> 01:24:40.073 I'm still a bit of a washout as a screenwriter. 01:24:40.153 --> 01:24:42.509 I just can't make the grade as a hack. 01:24:42.589 --> 01:24:46.628 Even that requires a certain practiced excellence. 01:24:48.095 --> 01:24:50.517 I'm mighty glad to see you, Scott. 01:24:50.597 --> 01:24:52.668 I've been rambling around for months now. 01:24:53.533 --> 01:24:56.707 Haven't had anybody to talk to about work. 01:24:57.504 --> 01:24:59.359 Ah. Work. 01:24:59.439 --> 01:25:01.061 I mean, who better to talk to? 01:25:01.141 --> 01:25:03.644 The man who created something immortal. 01:25:04.244 --> 01:25:08.402 More and more, I trouble myself with that. 01:25:08.482 --> 01:25:09.893 "The legacy." 01:25:10.484 --> 01:25:14.775 Will anyone care about Thomas Wolfe in 100 years? Ten years? 01:25:14.855 --> 01:25:18.645 When I was young, I asked myself that question every day. 01:25:18.725 --> 01:25:21.604 Now, I ask myself, "Can I write one good sentence?" 01:25:22.863 --> 01:25:27.120 How can you say that? Don't you want to be remembered? 01:25:27.200 --> 01:25:29.256 This Side of Paradise was just put out of print... 01:25:29.336 --> 01:25:31.191 for the first time in 18 years. 01:25:31.271 --> 01:25:34.394 - Gatsby will go next. - That'll never happen. 01:25:34.474 --> 01:25:36.886 You know how much I made in royalties on Gatsby last year? 01:25:38.278 --> 01:25:40.700 Two dollars and 13 cents. 01:25:40.780 --> 01:25:42.259 But I don't mind. I'm working now. 01:25:48.522 --> 01:25:50.343 My next-door neighbor is a radio actress. 01:25:50.423 --> 01:25:54.633 She periodically rehearses her screams and laughter. 01:25:55.328 --> 01:25:56.568 That's a little disquieting. 01:25:57.164 --> 01:25:59.371 Oh, the laughing's worse. Trust me. 01:25:59.799 --> 01:26:02.837 - You spoken to Max lately? - Oh, don't talk about Max. 01:26:04.437 --> 01:26:05.415 Why not, Tom? 01:26:07.574 --> 01:26:10.384 I know he's your friend, but you have no idea. 01:26:10.911 --> 01:26:12.532 He crippled me. 01:26:12.612 --> 01:26:14.367 He deformed my work. 01:26:14.447 --> 01:26:15.502 He as much admitted it. 01:26:15.582 --> 01:26:18.672 And then he tried to take all the credit for my success. 01:26:18.752 --> 01:26:21.341 He did no such thing. Do you know how much you hurt him? 01:26:21.421 --> 01:26:22.809 We hurt each other. 01:26:22.889 --> 01:26:24.377 Don't be glib with me, Tom. 01:26:24.457 --> 01:26:26.580 You don't know what he did to me. 01:26:26.660 --> 01:26:27.798 What he did to you? 01:26:28.595 --> 01:26:30.817 What did he do? He made all your dreams come true. 01:26:30.897 --> 01:26:32.819 He gave you a career, a life! 01:26:32.899 --> 01:26:36.256 There. The Scribner party line. I expected more from you. 01:26:36.336 --> 01:26:39.793 That decent man believed in you when nobody else would. 01:26:39.873 --> 01:26:42.362 He poured all his hopes and dreams into you. 01:26:42.442 --> 01:26:45.946 All the things he would never do, all the books he would never write. 01:26:46.213 --> 01:26:48.835 And now you repay him with ugly accusations and brutality. 01:26:48.915 --> 01:26:50.724 You ought to be ashamed of yourself! 01:26:53.320 --> 01:26:55.542 That man has a genius for friendship... 01:26:55.622 --> 01:26:57.811 and you've squandered it. 01:26:57.891 --> 01:26:58.912 There will come a day... 01:26:58.992 --> 01:27:01.581 when you're not the success you are now. 01:27:01.661 --> 01:27:04.232 It's a long road then, believe me. 01:27:04.664 --> 01:27:09.010 Why hurt the one man who will walk on that road with you? 01:27:24.017 --> 01:27:25.639 Daddy? 01:27:25.719 --> 01:27:26.907 Hello, puppet. 01:27:26.987 --> 01:27:28.989 Why doesn't Tom come around anymore? 01:27:34.294 --> 01:27:35.432 Oh, Nancy. 01:27:37.030 --> 01:27:39.567 Tom needs some time for himself. 01:27:40.000 --> 01:27:41.741 Is he coming back? 01:27:42.669 --> 01:27:44.324 I don't think so. 01:27:44.404 --> 01:27:45.725 See, Tom's the kind of fellow... 01:27:45.805 --> 01:27:48.695 who needs to make his own way through life. 01:27:48.775 --> 01:27:50.880 - Is he mad at us? - No, honey. 01:27:52.012 --> 01:27:54.014 No, sometimes people just go away. 01:27:55.649 --> 01:27:58.471 They have to grow up, leave home. 01:27:58.551 --> 01:28:00.307 It'll happen to you, too. 01:28:00.387 --> 01:28:02.492 Poor Daddy. I miss him, too. 01:28:08.561 --> 01:28:10.632 Tell you what. Get me his book. 01:28:21.708 --> 01:28:25.679 "A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough... 01:28:27.047 --> 01:28:30.470 "but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania... 01:28:30.550 --> 01:28:33.006 "and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont... 01:28:33.086 --> 01:28:36.509 "over the proud coral cry of the cock... 01:28:36.589 --> 01:28:39.346 "and the soft stone smile of an angel... 01:28:39.426 --> 01:28:43.883 "is touched by that dark miracle of chance... 01:28:43.963 --> 01:28:47.069 "Which makes new magic in a dusty world. 01:28:47.334 --> 01:28:50.611 "Each moment is the fruit of40, 000 years. 01:28:51.471 --> 01:28:54.928 "The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death... 01:28:55.008 --> 01:28:57.887 "and every moment is a window on all time. 01:28:59.079 --> 01:29:02.502 "And like a man who is perishing in the polar night... 01:29:02.582 --> 01:29:05.495 "he thought of the rich meadows of his youth... 01:29:06.052 --> 01:29:08.375 "the corn... 01:29:08.455 --> 01:29:09.695 "the plum tree... 01:29:10.857 --> 01:29:13.580 "and ripe grain. 01:29:13.660 --> 01:29:15.037 "Why here? 01:29:16.529 --> 01:29:17.599 "O lost!" 01:29:49.863 --> 01:29:51.551 Mr. Perkins, you have a call. 01:29:51.631 --> 01:29:53.702 From Tom's mother. 01:29:56.836 --> 01:29:58.406 Mrs. Wolfe? 01:30:00.673 --> 01:30:02.949 Who even heard of such a thing? 01:30:03.810 --> 01:30:05.812 Tuberculosis of the brain. 01:30:06.946 --> 01:30:08.892 Doesn't even seem real. 01:30:10.517 --> 01:30:14.158 To be brought low by such a strange and sudden thing? 01:30:14.421 --> 01:30:16.697 They're doing everything they can. 01:30:17.991 --> 01:30:19.902 Who would credit it? 01:30:20.193 --> 01:30:21.981 Who would credit it, now? 01:30:22.061 --> 01:30:23.516 What's that? 01:30:23.596 --> 01:30:26.475 That he should end up here, of all places. 01:30:28.835 --> 01:30:33.126 When Tom collapsed out west they brought him back here for the surgery. 01:30:33.206 --> 01:30:36.881 Best place for it, they said. Right here in Baltimore. 01:30:40.447 --> 01:30:43.087 His father died in this very hospital... 01:30:44.117 --> 01:30:45.960 just along the hall. 01:30:47.120 --> 01:30:49.999 It's like Tom's whole life is leading him... 01:30:50.957 --> 01:30:53.460 like a river, back to his father. 01:30:56.162 --> 01:30:58.870 The surgeon said his brain was filled with tumors. 01:30:59.566 --> 01:31:01.136 A myriad of tumors. 01:31:02.635 --> 01:31:04.774 That's the word he used... 01:31:05.472 --> 01:31:06.849 "Myriad." 01:31:08.575 --> 01:31:10.851 I think Tom would like that. 01:31:11.544 --> 01:31:13.933 There's nothing they can do, you see. 01:31:14.013 --> 01:31:16.892 The doctor said it was a matter of weeks. 01:31:18.485 --> 01:31:21.193 Might regain consciousness, most likely not. 01:31:23.623 --> 01:31:25.712 No, you stay with Nancy. 01:31:25.792 --> 01:31:28.932 You should, you know, prepare her. 01:31:32.532 --> 01:31:34.739 She always loved Tom the most. 01:31:37.871 --> 01:31:41.284 The plural of "myriad" is "myriads", by the way. 01:32:11.204 --> 01:32:12.615 Mr. Wolfe? 01:32:13.640 --> 01:32:15.028 Pencil. 01:32:15.108 --> 01:32:17.764 Oh, no, Mr. Wolfe, I'm sorry, you just lie still. 01:32:17.844 --> 01:32:18.865 I'll get the doctor. 01:32:18.945 --> 01:32:21.619 Pencil. 01:34:52.398 --> 01:34:54.344 Afternoon, Mr. Perkins. 01:34:54.767 --> 01:34:56.269 Afternoon, James. 01:36:02.201 --> 01:36:03.544 Dear Max... 01:36:04.504 --> 01:36:06.211 I've got a hunch. 01:36:06.839 --> 01:36:09.479 And I wanted to write these words to you. 01:36:10.777 --> 01:36:14.367 I've made a long voyage and been to a strange country... 01:36:14.447 --> 01:36:18.004 and I've seen the dark man very close. 01:36:18.084 --> 01:36:21.156 And I don't think I was too much afraid of him. 01:36:22.855 --> 01:36:25.301 But I want most desperately to live. 01:36:26.859 --> 01:36:28.532 I want to see you again. 01:36:28.795 --> 01:36:32.151 For there is such impossible anguish and regret... 01:36:32.231 --> 01:36:35.121 for all I can never say to you... 01:36:35.201 --> 01:36:37.374 for all the work I have to do. 01:36:38.471 --> 01:36:41.918 I feel as if a great window has been opened on life. 01:36:42.441 --> 01:36:44.864 And if I come through this... 01:36:44.944 --> 01:36:47.433 I hope to God I am a better man... 01:36:47.513 --> 01:36:49.459 and can live up to you. 01:36:50.817 --> 01:36:52.438 But most of all... 01:36:52.518 --> 01:36:55.499 I wanted to tell you, no matter what happens... 01:36:56.022 --> 01:36:58.144 I shall always feel about you... 01:36:58.224 --> 01:37:00.279 the way I did that November day... 01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:02.396 when you met me at the boat... 01:37:03.429 --> 01:37:05.818 and we went on top of the building... 01:37:05.898 --> 01:37:11.246 and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life were below. 01:37:12.572 --> 01:37:14.210 Yours always... 01:37:15.041 --> 01:37:16.349 Tom. 01:37:16.373 --> 01:37:36.373 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.