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(Newsreel-style music playing)
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MAN: Tell the truth.
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Chain the devil.
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NARRATOR: In the battle
between good and evil,
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the devil's territory is growing.
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Home again, home again, chickity-chee.
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- (Door closing)
- Thomas?
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- Yes?
- This is Star.
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Star's gonna be staying
with us for a few days.
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Oh, no, don't worry.
I don't mind you. Come in.
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She says she's an atheist.
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Only God's an atheist.
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And when sin and seduction are set free...
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- Get off!
- (Laughing)
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Get... away! Evil woman!
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I know this game.
(Snarling)
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She's a nymphomaniac.
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That's just another way she's unfortunate.
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(Dramatic music swelling)
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It was the filthy, dirty,
criminal slut who stole my gun.
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- Oh, Thomas don't you...
- You believe me, don't you, Mom?
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- (All arguing)
- THOMAS: You believe me Shut up!
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SHERIFF: Fleas come with the dog.
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- (Gunshot)
- (Woman screaming)
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NARRATOR: Mystery, thrills.
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Scandal
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with today's most electric stars.
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(Music crescendos)
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(Pages flapping)
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FLANNERY (Narrating):
The sky was underpinned
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with long silver streaks
that looked like scaffolding.
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(Typing on typewriter)
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And behind it were thousands of stars
still moving slowly,
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as if they were about
some vast construction work
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that involved the whole
order of the universe
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and would take all of time to complete.
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(Typewriter dinging, carriage returning)
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But no one was paying
any attention to the sky.
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(Woman inhaling and exhaling)
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(Grunting)
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(Thudding)
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Damn.
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(Woman whimpering inside car)
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(Whimpering)
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The world was made for the dead.
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(Woman whimpering and gasping)
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(Typewriter keys clacking)
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(Typewriter dinging)
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(Typewriter keys clacking)
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Think of all the dead that are there,
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so many more dead than there are living.
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And the dead are dead
much longer than the living
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are alive.
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(Typewriter keys clacking)
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And they don't seem to mind.
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(Typing)
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- (Gunshot)
- (Thudding)
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(Sighing)
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(Door thudding)
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(Traffic sounds outside)
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(Horn honking)
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(Church bell tolling)
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FLANNERY: Dear God,
I am so discouraged about my work.
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I want to write a novel.
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A good novel.
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I want to do this for a good feeling
and for a bad one.
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The bad one is uppermost.
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Please, help me get down
under things, where you are.
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WOMAN (Whispering): Obadiah Elihue.
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MAN: Obadiah, Obadiah, Obadiah Elihue.
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Obadiah Elihue.
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What, Obadiah Elihue?
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Obadiah Elihue.
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O... Obadiah Elihue.
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(Chuckling)
What does that name mean?
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Servant of God.
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Miss O'Connor, I...
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I respect you, so I'm gonna be honest.
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Sometimes, I feel like you're
trying to stick pins in your readers.
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I don't think you need to make them suffer
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in order to introduce them
to the unusual way your mind works.
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It feels a little like you're
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trying to pick a fight with your reader,
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when all they ever did was
open the front cover of your book.
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I'm also not sure
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if all the rewriting that
you're doing is helping.
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(Chuckling)
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I mean, I only say that because the book,
as it was on the whole, is very strong.
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I'm wondering if you want
to get into some specifics.
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I'm amenable to criticism.
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Okay.
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Well, these are just
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some of our initial thoughts
and reservations about your book so far.
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You can take it home with you.
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I do think... an outline
would be useful at this point,
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just to give us a sense of
what the final chapters will look like.
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(Lighter clicking)
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I'm amenable to criticism, but only
within the sphere of what I'm trying to do.
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All right, the real question is,
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do you want me to be specific
and work with you
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the way that I work with
all the writers on the payroll,
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or do you prefer to go it alone?
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Think about it.
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Take some time, and
I'll follow up with Miss McKee.
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Um...
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it was really, really nice
to meet you in person, Miss O'Connor.
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- Uh...
- Safe travels.
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- Thank you.
- Take care.
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(Inhaling and exhaling)
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Oh, you're back.
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Before I go,
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I think my position on the novel
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and on your criticism should be made plain.
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I don't outline.
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I... I have to write to
discover what I'm doing,
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and I don't know so well what I think
until I see what I say.
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Then I have to say it over again.
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I feel that whatever
virtues the novel may have
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are very much connected
with the limitations you mentioned.
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To develop at all as a writer,
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I... I think I have to
develop in my own way.
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I will not be persuaded to do otherwise.
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The objections you raised suggest that you
would like to rescue the book at this point,
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and train it into a conventional novel.
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But I'm not writing a conventional novel.
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Wise Blood, when finished,
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will be hopefully less angular,
but just as odd, if not odder,
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than the nine chapters you have now.
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So, the question is...
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Is Rinehart interested in publishing
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a new kind of novel?
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FLANNERY: He says to me, "Miss O'Connor,
you seem like a straight shooter,
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"but I'm disturbed by the hardening
of the arteries of your cooperative sense.
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"It is most unbecoming
in a woman writer so young."
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- A straight shooter?
- Yes.
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(Laughing)
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You know, I think I'd rather throw myself
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in front of the Dixie Limited
than write an outline.
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MAN: I know.
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If they don't think
I'm worth giving more money to
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and just leaving alone,
then they should let me go.
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MAN: He is an idiot.
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(Laughing)
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FLANNERY: I don't know.
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He and I came up with the expression
that I was "prematurely arrogant."
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I had to supply him with the phrase.
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Of course. That's good.
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It's edit-proof.
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If he has any sense, he'll publish it.
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Thanks, Cal.
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I try to turn the other cheek,
but my tongue is always in it.
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I do need that advance, though.
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I need cigarettes.
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Oh, all right.
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Will you get me a New York Times, please?
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Two of 'em.
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- CAL: Two?
- Two.
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(Spitting)
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- (Crow cawing)
- (Spitting)
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FLANNERY (Narrating):
The tramp swung both his whole
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and his short arm up slowly
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so that they indicated an expanse of sky,
and his figure formed a crooked cross.
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(Door hinge squeaking)
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(Crow cawing)
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(Door closing)
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Although the old woman
lived in this desolate spot
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with only her daughter, Lucynell,
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and had never seen
the one-armed man before,
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she could tell, even from a distance,
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he was a tramp and no one to be afraid of.
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I'd pay a fortune
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to live in a spot as pretty as this one.
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I'll bet that sunset...
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is something to see.
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Happens every evening.
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(Chuckling)
Yeah.
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Well...
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You ladies drive?
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Oh, that car ain't run in years.
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Well, nothing's like it used to be.
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World is almost rotten.
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Where are you from, mister?
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Well...
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Well, I could tell you anything.
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I could tell you that I'm Tom T. Shiftlet
from Tarwater, Tennessee,
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but how would you know I ain't lying, hmm?
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I could be Aaron Sparks from...
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Singleton, Georgia. You don't know.
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I don't know nothing about you.
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(Birds chirping, crow cawing)
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Maybe... the best I can tell you
is that I'm a man.
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Well, not a whole man, but...
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but what is a man, you know?
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Well, you could hang around here,
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work.
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I'll pay you in food,
you don't mind sleeping in the car yonder.
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(Train horn in distance)
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The monks of old slept in their coffins.
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They wasn't as advanced as we are.
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(Laughing)
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Yeah.
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(Laughing)
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CAL: Oh, hey, I... I
have something for you.
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- Oh?
- Mm-hmm. Here it is.
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What is this?
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This is courtesy of Bob Giroux at Harcourt.
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I showed him your story
in the Partisan Review.
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His exact quote was, "That young
Catholic writer is an astonishing talent."
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He wants to meet you.
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- Thanks, Cal.
- Mm-hmm.
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Hey, we can go together.
You... you're back next week?
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I'll be back, if it wasn't for my mother,
I'd never see Georgia ever again.
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MAN OVER INTERCOM:
Now boarding on Track 7,
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- Crescent Line to New Orleans, now boarding.
- Oh.
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I should come down and visit it sometime.
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You would return with the curled hair.
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(Train signal bell dinging)
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- Cal.
- Oh.
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You are an angel.
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I don't want to be an angel...
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though my relations with them
have improved over time.
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You speak with them?
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When I was in Catholic school,
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I had what the Freudians
would call anti-angel aggression.
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I would seclude myself
in a locked room every so often,
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and ball up my fist,
and whirl around in circles
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knocking out my guardian angel.
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At least trying to dirty
up his feathers a little.
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Well, haven't they suffered enough?
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I don't know what angels are,
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but I know what they are not.
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And what they are not
is a great comfort to me.
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I love you, Flannery.
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Well, that's not a proposal.
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You know me, I have...
I have a lot of eggs to fry.
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You let me know when
you're done with breakfast, then.
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(Train horn blowing)
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FLANNERY (Narrating): Speaking with
Lucynell was like speaking with a dog
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who has been trained to say a few words,
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but once addressed, becomes overcome
with inadequacy and forgets them.
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That's a bird.
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Bird.
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Yeah.
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(Stumbling over pail)
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(Chickens squawking)
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CONDUCTOR ON INTERCOM:
Now arriving, station stop.
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Wilmington, Delaware. Wilmington, Delaware.
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(Paper crinkling)
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(Train horn blowing)
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LUCYNELL: Bird.
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Bird!
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Teach her to say something else.
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LUCYNELL (In distance): Bird.
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What you want her to say next?
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LUCYNELL: Bird.
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Teach her to say...
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"sugar pie."
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LUCYNELL: Bird.
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Bird.
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Sugar pie.
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LUCYNELL (Voice echoing): Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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00:17:42,938 --> 00:17:45,274
(Crow cawing)
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Bird.
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00:17:51,947 --> 00:17:53,198
Bird.
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00:17:54,241 --> 00:17:55,450
Bird.
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Bird.
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Bird.
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(Train horn blowing)
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(Train rumbling)
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LUCYNELL: Bird. Bird.
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That'll be $3.50.
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Sugar pie.
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LUCYNELL (Voice echoing): Bird.
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Yeah okay. We got three dollars...
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00:18:36,033 --> 00:18:38,201
Well, that didn't satisfy me none.
280
00:18:38,285 --> 00:18:41,830
That was just something a woman in
an office did, paperwork and blood tests.
281
00:18:41,913 --> 00:18:43,540
Well, it satisfied the law.
282
00:18:43,624 --> 00:18:45,709
Well, you can cut my heart out.
283
00:18:45,792 --> 00:18:48,670
You can look at my heart,
and you wouldn't know a thing about me.
284
00:18:48,754 --> 00:18:51,298
Well, just look how pretty Lucynell looks.
285
00:18:51,381 --> 00:18:53,800
She looks like a baby doll.
286
00:18:53,884 --> 00:18:55,135
Hey, listen.
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You got a prize.
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00:19:00,057 --> 00:19:02,142
What do they know about my blood, huh?
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I mean, what...
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00:19:03,769 --> 00:19:05,020
hey.
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00:19:05,812 --> 00:19:10,233
Now, I ain't never been parted with her
for more than two days before.
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00:19:10,317 --> 00:19:11,610
Mm-hmm.
293
00:19:12,027 --> 00:19:17,616
So, I wouldn't let no man have her but you,
'cause I've seen you. You do right.
294
00:19:19,201 --> 00:19:22,454
All right. I'll see you in
a couple of days, okay?
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- Okay.
- (Engine starting)
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Bye-bye, sugar baby.
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- Bye-bye.
- All right, bye.
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Take care of her.
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Take care of my car! You hear?
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(Horn honking)
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00:19:36,093 --> 00:19:38,845
("Come Softly To Me"
by The Fleetwoods playing)
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00:19:45,811 --> 00:19:48,230
The life you save may be your own.
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00:19:49,481 --> 00:19:52,859
♪ Come softly, darling ♪
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♪ Come softly ♪
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00:19:54,486 --> 00:19:58,365
Your mama thinks $17.50
is enough for two days.
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(Laughing)
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It takes money.
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00:20:02,202 --> 00:20:04,037
You got me, girl?
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I said...
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00:20:05,580 --> 00:20:07,290
you know, some people...
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00:20:07,374 --> 00:20:10,502
some people, they'll do anything
anyhow these days.
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00:20:10,585 --> 00:20:12,754
The way I think,
I wouldn't marry me a woman
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00:20:12,838 --> 00:20:15,882
if I couldn't take her on a trip
like she was somebody.
314
00:20:15,966 --> 00:20:17,134
You know?
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00:20:18,218 --> 00:20:22,305
I mean, you know, take her to a hotel,
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00:20:22,389 --> 00:20:23,432
treat her.
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00:20:24,641 --> 00:20:27,769
♪ I love, I love you so ♪
318
00:20:27,853 --> 00:20:29,354
Hey, stop it. Hey!
319
00:20:29,438 --> 00:20:31,940
I wouldn't marry the Duchess of Windsor
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00:20:32,023 --> 00:20:33,900
if I couldn't take her on a trip,
321
00:20:33,984 --> 00:20:37,821
and get her to, like, a hotel,
and get her something nice to eat.
322
00:20:39,656 --> 00:20:42,576
(Tires squealing)
God damn it. Stop! See, I almost crashed.
323
00:20:45,704 --> 00:20:46,747
God!
324
00:20:47,956 --> 00:20:50,542
I'm sorry. You hungry?
325
00:20:50,625 --> 00:20:54,171
You want to get something to eat, huh?
How about that?
326
00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:57,966
(Train horn blowing)
327
00:20:59,551 --> 00:21:01,344
(Breathing unsteadily)
328
00:21:06,892 --> 00:21:08,018
Can I help you?
329
00:21:08,101 --> 00:21:12,731
Can I get, uh, two plates
of ham and grits, please, sir?
330
00:21:12,814 --> 00:21:13,899
Coming right up.
331
00:21:15,275 --> 00:21:17,611
(Train horn blowing in the distance)
332
00:21:24,493 --> 00:21:27,329
(Jingling change)
333
00:21:33,251 --> 00:21:34,377
Hey.
334
00:21:42,302 --> 00:21:45,847
Hey. Yeah. Can I... Just one.
335
00:21:45,931 --> 00:21:49,351
I'll pay for it now. Just give it to
her when she wakes up, okay?
336
00:21:49,434 --> 00:21:51,061
She looks like an angel of God.
337
00:21:51,144 --> 00:21:52,854
No. She's a hitcher.
338
00:21:52,938 --> 00:21:54,689
No time, gotta make Tuscaloosa.
339
00:21:56,858 --> 00:21:59,236
CAL: Thought leads to action, right?
340
00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:01,530
What if I could write a poem about a skunk?
341
00:22:03,824 --> 00:22:05,992
A skunk named Frederick
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00:22:06,076 --> 00:22:09,746
who smells like a
strawberry malted milkshake.
343
00:22:09,830 --> 00:22:10,872
(Shiflet sighing)
344
00:22:11,414 --> 00:22:13,500
(Car starting)
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00:22:13,583 --> 00:22:15,961
CAL: But I wrote this poem
346
00:22:16,044 --> 00:22:18,630
so honestly,
347
00:22:18,713 --> 00:22:25,387
and I imagine this possibility of Frank,
the sweet-scented skunk, so thoroughly
348
00:22:25,470 --> 00:22:27,573
that people saw each and every
black and white creature
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00:22:27,597 --> 00:22:30,684
slinking around their farmyards
in some new, caring way.
350
00:22:33,395 --> 00:22:36,565
They weren't afraid. They wondered...
351
00:22:36,648 --> 00:22:38,233
"Is that Frank?"
352
00:22:40,735 --> 00:22:45,323
And could their newfound
interest and curiosity
353
00:22:45,407 --> 00:22:50,203
positively impact all those
slinking, stinky skunks? I think so.
354
00:22:50,287 --> 00:22:51,621
(Train signal bell dinging)
355
00:22:51,705 --> 00:22:53,290
(Train horn blowing)
356
00:22:53,373 --> 00:22:57,210
CONDUCTOR: Station stop, next stop
is Milledgeville, Georgia.
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00:22:57,294 --> 00:23:00,255
CAL: And if imagination impacts reality,
358
00:23:00,338 --> 00:23:03,216
then isn't faith where those rivers meet?
359
00:23:09,848 --> 00:23:10,891
(Train horn sounds)
360
00:23:13,226 --> 00:23:15,312
Ah! Mary Flannery!
361
00:23:22,444 --> 00:23:23,570
Hey, sweetheart.
362
00:23:24,738 --> 00:23:26,072
Well, let me help you with that.
363
00:23:26,156 --> 00:23:27,716
No. I'll take my typewriter, thank you.
364
00:23:27,741 --> 00:23:30,118
- You can take my trunk.
- Well, let me take something.
365
00:23:30,201 --> 00:23:32,203
- Thank you.
- All right. Are you all right?
366
00:23:36,958 --> 00:23:38,627
Think Milledgeville has improved?
367
00:23:38,710 --> 00:23:39,920
It's still here.
368
00:23:41,421 --> 00:23:44,299
Well, two of the stores have new fronts.
369
00:23:47,677 --> 00:23:49,262
Aunt Katie's sleeping in the car,
370
00:23:49,346 --> 00:23:51,782
so let's keep our voices down
when we get up there, all right?
371
00:23:51,806 --> 00:23:53,767
What's Dutchess doing sleeping in the car?
372
00:23:55,810 --> 00:23:58,021
Well, you know,
373
00:23:58,104 --> 00:24:00,815
I don't like to come
all the way out here by myself.
374
00:24:01,858 --> 00:24:06,821
No, there are...
more of them now than there are of us.
375
00:24:10,325 --> 00:24:12,118
I'm taking you to
Dr. Block on the way home.
376
00:24:12,202 --> 00:24:13,536
I'm not going to Dr. Block.
377
00:24:13,620 --> 00:24:16,790
He will take a personal interest in you.
378
00:24:16,873 --> 00:24:19,626
None of those doctors up there'll
take a personal interest in you.
379
00:24:19,709 --> 00:24:21,729
I don't want anyone
taking a personal interest in me.
380
00:24:21,753 --> 00:24:22,813
- I want to go home.
- What in the world?
381
00:24:22,837 --> 00:24:26,132
Mary Flannery,
what are you a hobo? What is this?
382
00:24:28,385 --> 00:24:30,637
We need to get you a proper Yankee coat.
383
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,305
I know what the temperature is,
384
00:24:32,389 --> 00:24:33,866
and I'm old enough to
pick out my own coat...
385
00:24:33,890 --> 00:24:37,978
I know you don't feel well,
but let's try and have a nicer disposition.
386
00:24:38,061 --> 00:24:39,980
There's no need to wake up Sissy.
387
00:24:40,063 --> 00:24:41,106
(Train horn blows)
388
00:24:41,773 --> 00:24:44,859
REPORTER ON RADIO: Many governors
on both sides of the Mason and Dixon line
389
00:24:44,943 --> 00:24:49,739
have talked of the need for unity
on the issue of civil rights.
390
00:24:49,823 --> 00:24:53,785
It's suggested that the Stevens-Russell
team might provide the proper balance...
391
00:24:53,868 --> 00:24:57,872
Oh, Mary Flannery. Hey, sweetheart.
392
00:24:57,956 --> 00:24:59,124
Look at you.
393
00:24:59,207 --> 00:25:00,559
...governors here are making large
394
00:25:00,583 --> 00:25:03,003
and enthusiastic noises
for General Eisenhower.
395
00:25:03,086 --> 00:25:05,797
Oh, you don't look very well.
396
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,132
Regina, she looks sick.
397
00:25:07,215 --> 00:25:09,050
I know. I'm taking her to Dr. Block.
398
00:25:09,134 --> 00:25:10,427
I'm not going to Dr. Block.
399
00:25:10,510 --> 00:25:12,887
REGINA: She has chills and that rash.
400
00:25:12,971 --> 00:25:15,324
REPORTER: ...would switch
to the general on the second ballot.
401
00:25:15,348 --> 00:25:18,393
REGINA: She says her arms are too heavy
to lift up to reach the typewriter.
402
00:25:18,476 --> 00:25:23,106
REPORTER: ...the governors we already
talked to or where the switches might come.
403
00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:24,607
You, uh...
404
00:25:24,691 --> 00:25:27,736
You've been writing
any cute stories lately?
405
00:25:27,819 --> 00:25:29,779
No.
406
00:25:29,863 --> 00:25:32,574
Oh, you must be writing something.
407
00:25:32,657 --> 00:25:35,201
I read that last one you sent your mama.
408
00:25:35,285 --> 00:25:37,162
FLANNERY: And?
409
00:25:37,245 --> 00:25:41,458
I... I must admit, you know,
it wasn't for me. (Chuckling)
410
00:25:41,541 --> 00:25:44,627
Left kind of a... a bad taste in my mouth.
411
00:25:44,711 --> 00:25:46,463
Well, you weren't supposed to eat it.
412
00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:48,858
- Oh, don't be coy.
- REGINA: Oh, come on.
413
00:25:48,882 --> 00:25:50,508
Tell us what you're working on.
414
00:25:52,135 --> 00:25:54,095
I'm writing a novel.
415
00:25:54,179 --> 00:25:56,139
It's called Wise Blood.
416
00:25:56,222 --> 00:26:00,060
It's about an atheist who sleeps with a
prostitute, and then starts his own religion called
417
00:26:00,143 --> 00:26:01,978
The Church of Christ Without Christ.
418
00:26:03,897 --> 00:26:06,217
I'm thinking at the end,
he might scratch out his own eyes.
419
00:26:10,278 --> 00:26:13,823
A church without Christ?
420
00:26:13,907 --> 00:26:15,742
Like most of the ones I know.
421
00:26:15,825 --> 00:26:18,870
Well, you can write
about nice people this time.
422
00:26:18,953 --> 00:26:23,500
Maybe you'll be another Margaret Mitchell.
423
00:26:23,583 --> 00:26:26,461
We need another good book
like Gone with the Wind.
424
00:26:26,544 --> 00:26:30,090
Put the war in it.
That always makes a long book.
425
00:26:30,173 --> 00:26:33,093
AUNT KATIE: I love... that... movie.
426
00:26:33,176 --> 00:26:34,094
(Chuckling)
427
00:26:34,177 --> 00:26:36,221
That colored gal that played Mammy,
428
00:26:36,304 --> 00:26:39,390
oh, she just tickles me.
429
00:26:39,474 --> 00:26:41,267
(Both laughing)
430
00:26:41,351 --> 00:26:44,229
It's so nice to see a respectable Negress.
431
00:26:44,312 --> 00:26:46,439
REGINA: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
432
00:26:46,523 --> 00:26:50,527
AUNT KATIE: "Ashley, Ashley.
What ever will I do?"
433
00:26:52,028 --> 00:26:54,614
FLANNERY (Narrating): Sometimes,
Ruby Turpin occupied herself
434
00:26:54,697 --> 00:26:57,700
by naming the classes of people.
435
00:26:57,784 --> 00:27:00,161
On the bottom of the heap
were most colored people.
436
00:27:00,245 --> 00:27:01,913
Not all, but most of them.
437
00:27:03,373 --> 00:27:07,168
Then, next to them, not above,
just away from, were the white trash.
438
00:27:08,419 --> 00:27:12,173
Then, above them were the homeowners,
and above them, the home and landowners,
439
00:27:12,257 --> 00:27:15,635
to which she and her
husband, Claud, belonged.
440
00:27:15,718 --> 00:27:18,054
Above she and Claud
were people with a lot of money,
441
00:27:18,138 --> 00:27:21,432
and much bigger houses and much more land.
442
00:27:22,225 --> 00:27:26,146
But here, the complexity of it
would begin to bear in on Ruby.
443
00:27:26,229 --> 00:27:27,981
For some of the people with a lot of money
444
00:27:28,064 --> 00:27:30,817
were common, and ought
to be below she and Claud.
445
00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:35,071
And some of the people who had good blood
had lost their money and had to rent.
446
00:27:35,155 --> 00:27:39,284
And then, there were some colored people
who owned their homes and land as well.
447
00:27:40,410 --> 00:27:43,538
Sit down.
You know you can't stand on that leg.
448
00:27:43,621 --> 00:27:45,623
He has an ulcer on his leg.
449
00:27:47,292 --> 00:27:50,336
(Gasping) My! How did you do that?
450
00:27:50,420 --> 00:27:51,921
RUBY: A cow kicked him.
451
00:27:52,005 --> 00:27:53,882
Oh, goodness.
452
00:27:53,965 --> 00:27:56,092
NURSE: The doctor will
see you now, Mr. Mulligan.
453
00:27:56,176 --> 00:27:58,386
(Coughing)
454
00:28:00,513 --> 00:28:02,491
FLANNERY (Narrating):
Usually, by the time she had fallen asleep,
455
00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:07,228
all the classes of people were
moiling and roiling around in her head.
456
00:28:07,312 --> 00:28:10,899
And she would dream they were
all crammed in together in a boxcar,
457
00:28:10,982 --> 00:28:13,651
being ridden off to be put in a gas oven.
458
00:28:14,485 --> 00:28:16,154
Ooh, Lord.
459
00:28:17,030 --> 00:28:18,489
(Sighing)
460
00:28:18,573 --> 00:28:20,241
I wish I could reduce.
461
00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:23,369
Oh, you aren't fat.
462
00:28:23,453 --> 00:28:25,580
RUBY: Oooh, I am, too.
463
00:28:25,663 --> 00:28:28,166
Oh, Claud, he... he
can eat all he wants to.
464
00:28:28,249 --> 00:28:32,128
He never weighs more than 175 pounds.
But me? I just...
465
00:28:32,212 --> 00:28:35,131
I look at something good to eat,
and I gain weight.
466
00:28:36,716 --> 00:28:40,178
You... You can eat all you
want to, can't you, Claud, hmm?
467
00:28:41,429 --> 00:28:44,682
Well, as long as you have
such a good disposition,
468
00:28:44,766 --> 00:28:48,478
I don't think it makes a bit of difference
what size you are.
469
00:28:48,561 --> 00:28:49,812
You just...
470
00:28:49,896 --> 00:28:53,316
You just can't beat a good disposition.
471
00:28:57,528 --> 00:28:59,906
You must be in college,
472
00:28:59,989 --> 00:29:02,325
reading a book there.
473
00:29:02,408 --> 00:29:04,702
Lady asked you a question, Mary Grace.
474
00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:05,995
I have ears.
475
00:29:08,665 --> 00:29:11,334
ANNOUNCER ON RADIO:
As we start to pray...
476
00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:13,419
It's wonderful weather, isn't it?
477
00:29:13,503 --> 00:29:17,924
Oh, well, it's good weather for cotton,
if you can get the Negroes to pick it.
478
00:29:18,007 --> 00:29:20,802
But they don't want to pick cotton anymore.
479
00:29:20,885 --> 00:29:23,572
But you can't get the white folks to
pick it, and now you can't get the Negroes,
480
00:29:23,596 --> 00:29:26,224
'cause they got to be right up there
with the white folk.
481
00:29:26,307 --> 00:29:30,937
They ought to send them all back to Africa.
That's where they come from in the first place.
482
00:29:33,314 --> 00:29:35,358
Heap of things worse than a Negro.
483
00:29:37,735 --> 00:29:40,363
It's all kinds of them.
Like all kinds of us.
484
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,575
Hmm! Yes, indeed.
485
00:29:44,659 --> 00:29:47,662
A heap of things worse.
486
00:29:47,745 --> 00:29:49,831
(Inhaling and exhaling)
487
00:29:51,582 --> 00:29:52,583
Hmm.
488
00:29:52,667 --> 00:29:53,835
MAN: Ruby.
489
00:29:53,918 --> 00:29:55,128
Hmm.
490
00:30:01,592 --> 00:30:03,219
Ruby.
491
00:30:03,303 --> 00:30:05,763
(Sheep bleating)
492
00:30:05,847 --> 00:30:06,889
Ruby.
493
00:30:08,308 --> 00:30:11,436
You will be reborn.
494
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:16,190
But there are only two spaces
available for you on Earth.
495
00:30:16,274 --> 00:30:19,819
You can either be a nigger or white trash.
496
00:30:22,488 --> 00:30:23,531
No.
497
00:30:25,158 --> 00:30:26,743
Please, Jesus...
498
00:30:26,826 --> 00:30:29,162
please, just let me be myself.
499
00:30:30,997 --> 00:30:33,791
Or let me wait until there's
another place available.
500
00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:35,293
- No.
- (Sheep bleating)
501
00:30:35,376 --> 00:30:39,505
You have to go right now,
and I have only those two spaces,
502
00:30:39,589 --> 00:30:41,215
so make up your mind.
503
00:30:42,383 --> 00:30:43,676
Oh...
504
00:30:46,971 --> 00:30:52,143
Well, make me a Negro then,
but... but not a trashy one.
505
00:30:52,226 --> 00:30:54,437
Make me a...
506
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,814
a neat, clean,
507
00:30:56,898 --> 00:30:59,525
respectable Negro woman.
508
00:30:59,609 --> 00:31:01,736
Myself...
509
00:31:01,819 --> 00:31:03,029
but Black.
510
00:31:09,911 --> 00:31:12,538
(Ethereal ringing)
511
00:31:16,918 --> 00:31:21,214
Did you hear that the Mexicans
want to translate the Bible into Spanish?
512
00:31:21,297 --> 00:31:22,673
(Wheels on toy clicking)
513
00:31:22,757 --> 00:31:28,179
I think the worst thing in the world
is an ungrateful person.
514
00:31:28,262 --> 00:31:29,347
Hmm.
515
00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:32,517
To have everything and not appreciate it.
516
00:31:34,018 --> 00:31:39,399
I know a girl whose parents
would give her anything,
517
00:31:39,482 --> 00:31:44,612
who's getting a good education,
who wears the best clothes,
518
00:31:44,695 --> 00:31:49,158
but who never has
a kind word to say to anyone.
519
00:31:51,494 --> 00:31:55,623
It never hurt anyone to smile.
520
00:31:55,706 --> 00:32:00,586
It just... It just makes you feel better.
Just all over.
521
00:32:00,670 --> 00:32:02,130
Of course.
522
00:32:02,213 --> 00:32:05,258
But there are some people
you can't tell anything to.
523
00:32:05,341 --> 00:32:09,387
Well, if it's one thing
I am, it's grateful.
524
00:32:09,470 --> 00:32:14,600
When I think of...
who all I could have been beside myself,
525
00:32:14,684 --> 00:32:16,686
and what all I got,
526
00:32:16,769 --> 00:32:21,649
a little bit of everything
and a good disposition besides,
527
00:32:21,732 --> 00:32:23,276
I just...
528
00:32:23,359 --> 00:32:25,862
I just want to shout,
"Oh, thank you, Jesus."
529
00:32:25,945 --> 00:32:31,617
Thank you. Thank you, Jesus,
for making everything the way it is."
530
00:32:31,701 --> 00:32:32,928
("Battle Hymn of the Republic" playing)
531
00:32:32,952 --> 00:32:34,829
Oh, thank you, Jesus, thank you.
532
00:32:35,830 --> 00:32:37,832
(Screaming)
533
00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:40,835
(Whimpering)
534
00:32:42,420 --> 00:32:45,631
(Stammering)
What you got to say to me?
535
00:32:45,715 --> 00:32:49,844
Go back to hell where
you came from, you old warthog!
536
00:32:49,927 --> 00:32:52,263
DOCTOR: Nurse! Call the ambulance!
537
00:32:53,556 --> 00:32:55,016
(Squealing)
538
00:33:00,980 --> 00:33:04,108
FLANNERY (Narrating):
A visionary light settled in her eyes.
539
00:33:04,192 --> 00:33:07,236
She could see souls rumbling into heaven.
540
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,782
There were whole companies of white trash
and Black folks in white robes,
541
00:33:11,866 --> 00:33:16,204
battalions of freaks and lunatics
shouting and leaping like frogs,
542
00:33:16,287 --> 00:33:19,332
all clean for the first time.
543
00:33:19,415 --> 00:33:23,002
She could see by their
shocked and altered faces
544
00:33:23,085 --> 00:33:26,255
that even their virtues
were being burned away.
545
00:33:28,382 --> 00:33:29,300
(Pigs snorting)
546
00:33:29,383 --> 00:33:31,636
Sooey. Pig, pig.
547
00:33:32,637 --> 00:33:34,263
(Rooster crowing)
548
00:33:45,816 --> 00:33:47,735
FLANNERY: Dear Cal,
549
00:33:47,818 --> 00:33:51,989
I left New York, 24 years old,
and arrived back in Georgia 107.
550
00:33:52,865 --> 00:33:56,327
My bones feel made of charcoal,
and the fever continues to cook 'em.
551
00:33:57,745 --> 00:34:01,749
I aim to get back to New York soon,
but my mama is none too favorable
552
00:34:01,832 --> 00:34:05,670
towards any kind of travel
for me at the moment.
553
00:34:05,753 --> 00:34:08,965
But don't worry, I won't be here long.
554
00:34:09,048 --> 00:34:11,259
Everybody around here thinks
the height of Bohemianism
555
00:34:11,342 --> 00:34:13,594
is wearing slacks out of the house.
556
00:34:13,678 --> 00:34:15,221
(Ducks quacking)
557
00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:19,684
When I get up there,
maybe you'll be ready for lunch.
558
00:34:22,103 --> 00:34:26,190
WOMAN: Oh, y'all should see our
new preacher singing his sermons.
559
00:34:26,274 --> 00:34:28,442
He puts a chair out on the platform
560
00:34:28,526 --> 00:34:32,947
and he'll call out for some biblical
character to come out and testify.
561
00:34:33,030 --> 00:34:36,534
He'll say, "Paul, will you
come out and testify?"
562
00:34:36,617 --> 00:34:39,870
And he'll wait for Paul to sit down,
and then he starts to sing:
563
00:34:39,954 --> 00:34:41,622
♪ Rock of Ages ♪
564
00:34:41,706 --> 00:34:43,833
You know, I think I may have
something in the kitchen
565
00:34:43,916 --> 00:34:45,918
that'll settle Carramae's stomach,
566
00:34:46,002 --> 00:34:48,254
and you know,
I need to speak with Mary Flannery
567
00:34:48,337 --> 00:34:50,423
alone for a minute,
so why don't you run on home?
568
00:34:50,506 --> 00:34:52,226
- I'll call you when I need you.
- Oh, okay.
569
00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:55,136
REGINA: Okay? Thank you so very much.
Thank you.
570
00:34:57,388 --> 00:34:58,639
Ugh.
571
00:34:58,723 --> 00:35:01,017
You suppose they imagined
that the Apostle Paul
572
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,060
is really coming down to sit in that chair?
573
00:35:03,144 --> 00:35:04,770
(Laughing)
574
00:35:04,854 --> 00:35:07,023
I have no idea what they imagined.
575
00:35:07,106 --> 00:35:09,859
DUCHESS: (Laughing) Look at this.
576
00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:15,615
Dr. Wells gave an educational meeting
at the college the other day,
577
00:35:15,698 --> 00:35:21,746
and two Negroes... teachers or
superintendents or something, they attended.
578
00:35:21,829 --> 00:35:23,080
How'd that go?
579
00:35:23,164 --> 00:35:25,207
Well, everybody's losing their minds.
580
00:35:25,291 --> 00:35:27,793
They burned a cross
on Dr. Wells's side lawn.
581
00:35:27,877 --> 00:35:30,379
- You think that's funny?
- (Laughing)
582
00:35:30,463 --> 00:35:35,635
Well, it was too damp out for a fiery
cross, so they set up a portable one.
583
00:35:35,718 --> 00:35:39,555
It was lit up with red electric bulbs.
(Laughing)
584
00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:42,808
All these people couldn't have
gone past the fourth grade.
585
00:35:42,892 --> 00:35:45,478
Nice to know they're so interested
in education all of a sudden.
586
00:35:46,812 --> 00:35:50,191
Mary Flannery, sit... sit.
Please stay for a minute, please.
587
00:35:50,274 --> 00:35:51,776
No, I... I need to be working.
588
00:35:54,904 --> 00:35:56,280
You need to rest.
589
00:35:58,491 --> 00:36:00,576
And to get your strength.
590
00:36:00,660 --> 00:36:03,245
I think I'm strong enough to type, Regina.
591
00:36:03,329 --> 00:36:04,747
Well, that is not...
592
00:36:06,290 --> 00:36:09,251
what the doctor says.
593
00:36:09,335 --> 00:36:15,174
And... Dr. Block is coming out
here this morning to speak with us.
594
00:36:15,257 --> 00:36:17,551
FLANNERY: What's this?
595
00:36:17,635 --> 00:36:19,053
What's this for?
596
00:36:22,848 --> 00:36:24,350
Is this for me?
597
00:36:28,896 --> 00:36:29,980
(Door opening)
598
00:36:30,064 --> 00:36:32,692
WOMAN: Regina.
599
00:36:32,775 --> 00:36:36,320
Chancey says the cow that's got the
bad quarter's gonna have to see the vet.
600
00:36:36,404 --> 00:36:39,156
Oh, all right, okay.
Well, then, come on, now. Let's go.
601
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:41,450
Oh, if there's one thing
I don't like, it's needles.
602
00:36:41,534 --> 00:36:43,894
- REGINA: We'll be right back.
- WOMAN: I've always said it.
603
00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:47,123
- This is enormous.
- (Door closing)
604
00:36:47,206 --> 00:36:48,999
It looks like it's for a farm animal.
605
00:36:50,042 --> 00:36:52,253
I think I'd rather have arthritis.
606
00:37:00,428 --> 00:37:03,139
Mary Flannery.
607
00:37:03,222 --> 00:37:05,641
You don't have arthritis.
608
00:37:06,851 --> 00:37:08,352
You have lupus.
609
00:37:10,146 --> 00:37:12,314
Now, you're an adult now.
610
00:37:13,774 --> 00:37:17,236
And you need to know...
611
00:37:17,319 --> 00:37:20,781
your mama, she didn't want you to worry.
612
00:37:20,865 --> 00:37:24,785
You were already weak,
and she just thought it would...
613
00:37:26,912 --> 00:37:28,914
She doesn't want you to think
614
00:37:28,998 --> 00:37:30,458
that there isn't any hope.
615
00:37:33,878 --> 00:37:36,213
Because it's not like
when your daddy had it.
616
00:37:37,339 --> 00:37:39,049
See, nowadays,
617
00:37:39,133 --> 00:37:42,970
nowadays, doctors
don't let young people die.
618
00:37:43,053 --> 00:37:45,139
They give 'em some of these new medicines.
619
00:37:47,224 --> 00:37:48,517
People don't die...
620
00:37:50,227 --> 00:37:51,687
like they used to.
621
00:37:54,815 --> 00:37:58,110
Well, that's not good news...
622
00:37:59,612 --> 00:38:02,448
but I can't thank you
enough for telling me.
623
00:38:02,531 --> 00:38:06,327
I thought I had lupus,
and I thought I was going crazy.
624
00:38:06,410 --> 00:38:08,662
I'd a lot rather be sick than crazy.
625
00:38:10,164 --> 00:38:12,249
But don't tell Regina that you told me,
626
00:38:12,333 --> 00:38:16,378
because if you do,
she'll never tell you anything ever again.
627
00:38:16,462 --> 00:38:19,507
And I might like to know something else
about myself sometime.
628
00:38:19,590 --> 00:38:20,925
Okay?
629
00:38:24,762 --> 00:38:25,846
Thank you.
630
00:39:00,881 --> 00:39:02,049
(Knocking on door)
631
00:39:02,132 --> 00:39:03,843
I'm working.
632
00:39:03,926 --> 00:39:06,220
I told you not to enter my room
when I'm working.
633
00:39:08,180 --> 00:39:10,266
I know that,
634
00:39:10,349 --> 00:39:13,811
but you need to come on down now,
when you're ready.
635
00:39:13,894 --> 00:39:15,896
Rinehart rejected my novel.
636
00:39:18,607 --> 00:39:21,902
I'm sure that's very disappointing,
but the doctor's downstairs now.
637
00:39:21,986 --> 00:39:23,404
How long have you known?
638
00:39:25,114 --> 00:39:26,198
Known what?
639
00:39:28,033 --> 00:39:30,828
I look just like Daddy.
640
00:39:30,911 --> 00:39:32,246
No, you don't.
641
00:39:34,665 --> 00:39:36,292
You go talk to the doctor.
642
00:39:36,375 --> 00:39:38,878
I don't need one. I need a priest.
643
00:39:42,006 --> 00:39:43,257
(Sighing)
644
00:39:48,512 --> 00:39:49,847
(Door closing)
645
00:39:49,930 --> 00:39:52,808
(Clock ticking)
646
00:39:52,892 --> 00:39:54,977
(Rooster crowing in distance)
647
00:39:57,980 --> 00:40:00,691
(Clock chiming)
648
00:40:07,698 --> 00:40:10,784
FLANNERY: The reality of death
has come upon me.
649
00:40:12,953 --> 00:40:15,456
And a consciousness of the power of God
650
00:40:15,539 --> 00:40:19,168
has broken my complacency
like a bullet in the side.
651
00:40:22,671 --> 00:40:24,173
(Thudding)
652
00:40:25,382 --> 00:40:27,760
A sense of the dramatic,
653
00:40:27,843 --> 00:40:31,931
of the tragic, of the infinite,
has descended, filling me with grief.
654
00:40:32,264 --> 00:40:33,891
(Church bell tolling)
655
00:40:33,974 --> 00:40:35,768
But even more than grief...
656
00:40:37,227 --> 00:40:38,687
wonder.
657
00:40:45,694 --> 00:40:47,655
- (Typewriter keys clacking)
- (Train passing)
658
00:40:59,750 --> 00:41:01,335
FLANNERY: "Dear Regina,
659
00:41:01,418 --> 00:41:03,671
I have good news.
660
00:41:03,754 --> 00:41:07,424
They tell me I've won
the Rinehart-Iowa Fiction Award.
661
00:41:07,508 --> 00:41:10,344
It means $750 from
a respected New York publisher
662
00:41:10,427 --> 00:41:14,473
and gives them an option to
publish the novel, if I can ever finish it.
663
00:41:14,556 --> 00:41:17,017
I hope you and Duchess are well.
664
00:41:17,101 --> 00:41:19,561
Don't let the new yard man
demoralize the ducks.
665
00:41:19,645 --> 00:41:20,980
Love, MF."
666
00:41:22,606 --> 00:41:28,028
"P.S. Please restrain yourself
from sending me any more aprons.
667
00:41:28,112 --> 00:41:31,073
I know it will be hard, but please."
668
00:41:33,993 --> 00:41:36,954
MAN: All right, Flannery,
the room is yours.
669
00:41:50,259 --> 00:41:52,469
This story's called Parker's Back.
670
00:42:01,228 --> 00:42:04,398
Sarah Ruth was plain plain.
671
00:42:04,481 --> 00:42:08,110
The skin on her face was thin
and drawn tight as the skin on an onion.
672
00:42:08,193 --> 00:42:11,822
And her eyes were gray and sharp
like the points of two ice picks.
673
00:42:11,905 --> 00:42:14,199
MAN: Come on. God...
674
00:42:14,283 --> 00:42:16,035
Damn it! God damn it to hell.
675
00:42:16,118 --> 00:42:18,412
- Hey.
- MAN: Jesus Christ.
676
00:42:18,495 --> 00:42:21,081
- We don't talk no filth here.
- MAN: Huh?
677
00:42:21,165 --> 00:42:22,624
We don't talk no filth here.
678
00:42:22,708 --> 00:42:24,668
MAN: Oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay.
679
00:42:24,752 --> 00:42:26,211
Hey, hey.
680
00:42:26,295 --> 00:42:28,797
I just... It's my hand. I hurt my hand.
681
00:42:28,881 --> 00:42:30,174
I think it's broken.
682
00:42:31,341 --> 00:42:32,593
Let me see.
683
00:42:34,928 --> 00:42:35,929
Your hand's fine.
684
00:42:36,013 --> 00:42:37,014
Well, I'm cured.
685
00:42:37,097 --> 00:42:40,309
Oh! Okay.
686
00:42:40,392 --> 00:42:42,770
All right. Be careful
with me now, all right?
687
00:42:42,853 --> 00:42:45,105
I'm a Navy man.
I've been all around the world.
688
00:42:45,189 --> 00:42:47,524
I could teach you a
thing or two, all right?
689
00:42:47,608 --> 00:42:50,611
This right here, got this in Cape Horn.
690
00:42:51,653 --> 00:42:55,407
Got this one in Burma. I got this
one here when I was 15 years old.
691
00:42:55,491 --> 00:42:57,868
Don't tell me. I don't like it.
I ain't got any use for it.
692
00:42:57,951 --> 00:43:00,496
- It's idolatry.
- Hold on a second.
693
00:43:00,579 --> 00:43:02,140
You ought to see the ones you can't see.
694
00:43:02,164 --> 00:43:04,792
All that there is nothing better than
what a fool Indian would do.
695
00:43:04,875 --> 00:43:06,543
Vanity. Vanity of vanities.
696
00:43:06,627 --> 00:43:07,628
Hold on a second.
697
00:43:07,711 --> 00:43:09,272
You must like one of these
a bit more than the rest.
698
00:43:09,296 --> 00:43:11,799
I mean, take a good look at this here.
699
00:43:11,882 --> 00:43:13,342
Chicken ain't so bad.
700
00:43:14,384 --> 00:43:15,594
A chicken?
701
00:43:15,677 --> 00:43:17,554
Girly, this is an eagle.
702
00:43:17,638 --> 00:43:19,365
What kind of fool a would
put a chicken on himself?
703
00:43:19,389 --> 00:43:21,269
Well, what kind of a
fool would have any of it?
704
00:43:26,855 --> 00:43:28,857
You saved?
705
00:43:28,941 --> 00:43:29,983
MAN: Saved?
706
00:43:32,111 --> 00:43:34,071
I don't really know
what I would need saving from.
707
00:43:35,572 --> 00:43:38,492
Would a kiss from you
take care of that, though?
708
00:43:38,575 --> 00:43:39,493
What's your name?
709
00:43:39,576 --> 00:43:41,328
Parker.
710
00:43:41,411 --> 00:43:43,497
O.E. Parker.
711
00:43:43,580 --> 00:43:45,791
What's the "O.E." stand for?
712
00:43:45,874 --> 00:43:48,544
Never mind that. What's your name?
713
00:43:48,627 --> 00:43:51,147
I'll tell you if you tell me
what them letters are the short of.
714
00:43:52,756 --> 00:43:56,343
Nah, nah, I can't do that.
You'll just go blabbing it all around town.
715
00:43:57,845 --> 00:43:58,846
I won't.
716
00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:01,807
I swear.
717
00:44:01,890 --> 00:44:03,100
Swear to God.
718
00:44:05,269 --> 00:44:06,436
All right.
719
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,649
All right. I will then.
720
00:44:10,732 --> 00:44:13,277
That's a secret now.
You can't tell anybody, all right?
721
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:14,611
Come here close.
722
00:44:15,696 --> 00:44:17,573
My name...
723
00:44:17,656 --> 00:44:21,994
is Obadiah Elihue Parker.
724
00:44:23,287 --> 00:44:24,830
Means "servant of God."
725
00:44:28,292 --> 00:44:29,293
PARKER: Hey!
726
00:44:30,627 --> 00:44:32,212
You kids want some apples?
727
00:44:32,296 --> 00:44:33,547
- KIDS: Yeah!
- PARKER: Come on.
728
00:44:34,631 --> 00:44:36,925
Now, I think I'll come by tomorrow.
729
00:44:38,135 --> 00:44:40,137
I'll bring you some blackberries.
730
00:44:40,220 --> 00:44:41,346
How about that?
731
00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:44,766
- Dive in, everybody. Come on.
- (Kids cheering)
732
00:44:46,977 --> 00:44:48,097
SARAH RUTH: Say "thank you."
733
00:44:48,145 --> 00:44:49,813
KIDS: Thank you!
734
00:44:49,897 --> 00:44:51,332
FLANNERY (Narrating):
It was as if a blind boy
735
00:44:51,356 --> 00:44:53,901
had been turned so gently
in a different direction
736
00:44:53,984 --> 00:44:57,112
that he did not know
his destination had been changed.
737
00:45:06,955 --> 00:45:08,749
Parker, no. Not till I'm married.
738
00:45:08,832 --> 00:45:11,668
- Oh, come on.
- Parker, no!
739
00:45:11,752 --> 00:45:13,378
What, are you, one of them Suffragettes?
740
00:45:15,255 --> 00:45:16,924
A lesbian?
(Chuckling)
741
00:45:17,007 --> 00:45:19,051
I don't divide people
up into boys and girls.
742
00:45:19,134 --> 00:45:22,596
I divide them up by
irritating and less irritating.
743
00:45:24,598 --> 00:45:25,766
Oh.
744
00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:31,104
Well... which am I?
745
00:45:31,188 --> 00:45:34,233
Mm-hmm. There's my answer. Less irritating.
746
00:45:34,316 --> 00:45:35,442
(Chuckling)
747
00:45:37,986 --> 00:45:41,490
Parker, wait, no. No, really.
Not till I'm married, Parker.
748
00:45:41,573 --> 00:45:43,575
- Parker, Parker, Parker!
- Ow, ow!
749
00:45:44,701 --> 00:45:46,261
- Not till we're married! No!
- Come on!
750
00:45:46,286 --> 00:45:47,579
Parker!
751
00:45:52,709 --> 00:45:54,336
Not till we're married, okay?
752
00:45:56,421 --> 00:45:57,547
Ah.
753
00:45:57,631 --> 00:46:00,592
(Giggling)
754
00:46:01,677 --> 00:46:06,265
SARAH RUTH: Lo, this is the man
that made not God his strength,
755
00:46:06,348 --> 00:46:08,228
but trusted in the
abundance of his richness...
756
00:46:08,267 --> 00:46:11,228
- (Both laughing)
- and the strength in himself.
757
00:46:11,311 --> 00:46:14,606
FLANNERY (Narrating): Sometimes, Parker
supposed she married him to save him.
758
00:46:14,690 --> 00:46:16,316
At other times, he had the impression
759
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,903
she actually liked all the things
she said she despised.
760
00:46:19,987 --> 00:46:22,406
He could account for
her one way or another.
761
00:46:22,489 --> 00:46:24,700
It was himself he didn't understand.
762
00:46:24,783 --> 00:46:29,288
But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
763
00:46:29,371 --> 00:46:32,541
I trust in the mercy of
God forever and ever.
764
00:46:34,876 --> 00:46:38,964
At the judgment of God, Jesus is gonna ask
you what you've been doing all your life
765
00:46:39,047 --> 00:46:41,091
'sides drawing pictures all over yourself.
766
00:46:42,509 --> 00:46:44,970
Girly, you ain't fooling nobody.
767
00:46:45,053 --> 00:46:47,532
You're just worried that big hefty
blonde woman I've been working for
768
00:46:47,556 --> 00:46:51,059
is going to come around one day
and say, "Hey, Mr. Parker,
769
00:46:51,143 --> 00:46:53,186
why don't you and me
just go take off together?"
770
00:46:53,270 --> 00:46:56,148
Now, you are tempting sin.
771
00:46:56,231 --> 00:46:57,274
(Sighing)
772
00:46:57,816 --> 00:47:01,111
You should have seen her the first
time she seen me with my shirt off.
773
00:47:01,194 --> 00:47:02,321
She looked at me and said,
774
00:47:02,404 --> 00:47:06,491
"Why, Mr. Parker,
you are a regular old panorama."
775
00:47:06,575 --> 00:47:09,953
Now, at the judgment of God,
you'll have to answer for that too.
776
00:47:10,037 --> 00:47:11,121
Vanity.
777
00:47:11,204 --> 00:47:14,249
See, I'm thinking I'm going to put
a Bible verse right here on my back
778
00:47:14,333 --> 00:47:15,917
so you have something better to read.
779
00:47:16,001 --> 00:47:17,919
(Groaning)
780
00:47:18,003 --> 00:47:21,882
Now, ain't I...
781
00:47:21,965 --> 00:47:26,345
already got myself a real fire.
782
00:47:27,387 --> 00:47:29,348
Yeah, but I want you looking at me.
783
00:47:39,191 --> 00:47:40,400
PARKER: Oh!
784
00:47:40,484 --> 00:47:41,568
All right.
785
00:47:41,651 --> 00:47:44,404
(Both grunting)
786
00:47:44,488 --> 00:47:46,031
Lift up.
787
00:47:46,448 --> 00:47:48,116
(Parker laughing)
788
00:47:49,951 --> 00:47:51,620
(Sighing)
789
00:47:53,830 --> 00:47:56,150
FLANNERY (Narrating): Parker understood
why he married her.
790
00:47:56,208 --> 00:47:58,543
He couldn't have her any other way.
791
00:47:58,627 --> 00:48:01,880
But he couldn't understand
why he stayed with her now.
792
00:48:01,963 --> 00:48:03,673
She would be pregnant soon,
793
00:48:03,757 --> 00:48:06,134
and pregnant women
were not his favorite kind.
794
00:48:08,053 --> 00:48:12,307
He thought of his own head as a switchbox
where he controlled from.
795
00:48:12,391 --> 00:48:16,645
But with her, he could only
imagine the outside in.
796
00:48:16,728 --> 00:48:21,608
The whole black world in her head, big
enough to include the sky and the planets.
797
00:48:21,691 --> 00:48:22,691
Shut your mouth.
798
00:48:22,734 --> 00:48:24,087
FLANNERY: Whatever had been or would be.
799
00:48:24,111 --> 00:48:26,872
I wanna show you something
and then I don't want to hear another word.
800
00:48:29,157 --> 00:48:32,369
FLANNERY: When he closed his eyes,
he could see some type of star.
801
00:48:32,452 --> 00:48:35,038
The kind of star on a Christmas card.
802
00:48:35,122 --> 00:48:37,749
But he couldn't hold the
star steady in his mind.
803
00:48:37,833 --> 00:48:40,585
He felt as if he were blocked
at the entrance of something,
804
00:48:40,669 --> 00:48:44,548
or as if he was at the beginning of
something that didn't have a beginning.
805
00:48:44,631 --> 00:48:49,094
He saw the star moving farther
and farther away into darkness, until
806
00:48:49,177 --> 00:48:52,556
he realized Sarah Ruth
was the pinpoint of light.
807
00:48:52,639 --> 00:48:54,391
(Crashing)
808
00:48:54,474 --> 00:48:57,310
A ferocious thud
propelled him into the air.
809
00:48:57,394 --> 00:48:59,938
He landed on his back
while the tractor crashed sideways
810
00:49:00,021 --> 00:49:02,274
and the tree burst into flames.
811
00:49:02,357 --> 00:49:05,652
He could feel the hot breath
of the burning tree on his face.
812
00:49:05,735 --> 00:49:09,531
If he had known how to cross himself,
he would have done it.
813
00:49:09,614 --> 00:49:11,324
(Tree cracking)
814
00:49:11,408 --> 00:49:13,743
Hey! Hey, open up!
815
00:49:15,829 --> 00:49:16,829
God.
816
00:49:16,872 --> 00:49:19,249
FLANNERY: Parker longed
miserably for Sarah Ruth.
817
00:49:19,332 --> 00:49:23,795
Her sharp tongue and ice pick eyes were
the only comfort he could bring to mind.
818
00:49:24,754 --> 00:49:27,215
She can't say she don't
like the looks of God.
819
00:49:27,299 --> 00:49:28,550
(Needle buzzing)
820
00:49:28,633 --> 00:49:30,510
(Laughing)
821
00:49:30,594 --> 00:49:32,345
(Billiard balls clack)
822
00:49:34,806 --> 00:49:37,267
FLANNERY: Then, a calm descended on him,
823
00:49:37,350 --> 00:49:40,145
as nerve-shattering
as if the long, barn-like room
824
00:49:40,228 --> 00:49:43,398
were a ship from which Jonah
had been cast into the sea.
825
00:49:48,612 --> 00:49:52,365
It was as if he were himself,
but a stranger to himself,
826
00:49:52,449 --> 00:49:54,826
driving into a new country,
827
00:49:54,910 --> 00:49:56,912
though everything he saw was familiar.
828
00:49:57,204 --> 00:50:01,166
That blonde woman was here
and she ain't as hefty as you said.
829
00:50:01,249 --> 00:50:03,144
You're gonna have to pay every penny
on that tractor you busted.
830
00:50:03,168 --> 00:50:04,753
She don't keep the insurance on it.
831
00:50:04,836 --> 00:50:06,397
What you doing wasting
electricity in the daylight?
832
00:50:06,421 --> 00:50:08,673
- I ain't got to look at you.
- Shut your mouth!
833
00:50:08,757 --> 00:50:10,800
You ain't gonna have
none of me this morning.
834
00:50:10,884 --> 00:50:12,886
Look at me, all right? Look at me.
835
00:50:12,969 --> 00:50:14,429
I want to show you something, okay?
836
00:50:14,513 --> 00:50:16,532
I wanna show you something
and then I don't want to hear another word.
837
00:50:16,556 --> 00:50:18,433
- Not another word.
- Don't touch me.
838
00:50:19,809 --> 00:50:22,395
I should've known you was off
putting more trash...
839
00:50:22,479 --> 00:50:23,939
Well, just look at it, all right?
840
00:50:24,022 --> 00:50:25,565
- Just look at it.
- I done looked.
841
00:50:25,649 --> 00:50:27,150
PARKER: Don't you know who that is?
842
00:50:27,234 --> 00:50:28,777
Look! Don't you know who that is?
843
00:50:28,860 --> 00:50:30,111
Who is it? Ain't nobody I know.
844
00:50:30,195 --> 00:50:32,030
It's Him, all right? It's... It's Him!
845
00:50:32,113 --> 00:50:35,200
- Him who?
- Him! It's... It's God.
846
00:50:35,283 --> 00:50:37,619
Just look at it for a second.
847
00:50:37,702 --> 00:50:40,288
Just look. Huh?
848
00:50:40,747 --> 00:50:43,041
FLANNERY (Narrating):
He felt as though under her gaze,
849
00:50:43,124 --> 00:50:46,044
he was as transparent as the wing of a fly.
850
00:50:46,127 --> 00:50:47,879
God?
851
00:50:47,963 --> 00:50:50,298
God don't look like that.
852
00:50:52,342 --> 00:50:54,636
What you mean?
853
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:56,364
How do you know?
You don't know what God look.
854
00:50:56,388 --> 00:50:57,490
You ain't never seen him before.
855
00:50:57,514 --> 00:51:00,100
He don't look. He's a spirit.
856
00:51:00,183 --> 00:51:01,768
No man shall see his face.
857
00:51:01,851 --> 00:51:03,436
Come on. This is just a picture of him.
858
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:04,896
No! Parker, no!
859
00:51:04,980 --> 00:51:06,398
This is just a picture of him.
860
00:51:06,481 --> 00:51:08,608
No! No! That's idolatry, Parker. Parker!
861
00:51:08,692 --> 00:51:10,318
(Clattering)
862
00:51:15,407 --> 00:51:19,411
PARKER: Stop! Stop! Ah!
863
00:51:19,494 --> 00:51:23,123
Idolatry! Parker!
864
00:51:23,206 --> 00:51:24,708
Idolatry!
865
00:51:26,126 --> 00:51:28,128
FLANNERY: 'Idolatry!' Sarah Ruth screamed.
866
00:51:31,423 --> 00:51:33,216
Still gripping the broom,
867
00:51:33,300 --> 00:51:37,429
she looked toward the pecan tree
and her eyes hardened still more.
868
00:51:37,512 --> 00:51:42,058
There he was,
who called himself Obadiah Elihue...
869
00:51:43,059 --> 00:51:45,020
crying like a baby.
870
00:51:45,103 --> 00:51:47,063
(Crying)
871
00:51:51,067 --> 00:51:52,902
(Rustling pages)
872
00:52:00,410 --> 00:52:02,370
- The thing I struggle with is...
- Hey, Walter...
873
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,709
There won't be any critical
dissecting this afternoon.
874
00:52:09,878 --> 00:52:11,588
Workshop's over for the day.
875
00:52:41,076 --> 00:52:45,246
FLANNERY: Creativity
is nature manifest in us.
876
00:52:48,583 --> 00:52:50,710
It is you inside us rising.
877
00:52:55,340 --> 00:52:57,092
Writing is dead without you.
878
00:52:59,552 --> 00:53:01,721
Oh, Lord, please rise in me.
879
00:53:03,682 --> 00:53:05,809
Make this dead desire living.
880
00:53:08,103 --> 00:53:10,522
You are the slim crescent moon that I see,
881
00:53:10,605 --> 00:53:15,777
and myself is the earth's shadow
that keeps me from seeing all the moon.
882
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,867
Help me feel that I will
give up every earthly thing for this.
883
00:53:22,951 --> 00:53:24,828
Every earthly thing for this.
884
00:53:24,911 --> 00:53:27,014
- I do not mean becoming a nun...
- Hey. Who are you talking to?
885
00:53:27,038 --> 00:53:27,956
- (Glass shattering)
- Oh, God.
886
00:53:28,039 --> 00:53:29,582
Oh!
887
00:53:29,666 --> 00:53:33,378
- It's Cal. It's you.
- I didn't... I'm sorry.
888
00:53:33,461 --> 00:53:35,255
No. I'm...
889
00:53:35,338 --> 00:53:37,507
I'm scared to death.
890
00:53:37,590 --> 00:53:38,943
- I should be working.
- (Music and voices inside)
891
00:53:38,967 --> 00:53:40,677
You know, I don't even like parties.
892
00:53:41,678 --> 00:53:44,678
I think whoever invented the cocktail party
ought to be drawn and quartered.
893
00:53:46,683 --> 00:53:49,227
And I think my ankles
are soaked in Beefeater.
894
00:53:49,310 --> 00:53:53,148
Well, uh, I can get you some vermouth,
and they'll be... they'll be perfect.
895
00:53:53,231 --> 00:53:58,778
No, really, I... I came to pay my respects
to you, and in some way I've done that.
896
00:53:58,862 --> 00:54:00,029
And I think I should go home.
897
00:54:00,113 --> 00:54:02,073
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
898
00:54:02,157 --> 00:54:05,827
Please stay. Please. Please stay. Yeah.
899
00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:07,680
- I won't be any good in there.
- CAL: I need...
900
00:54:07,704 --> 00:54:09,748
I need your help. Uh,
901
00:54:09,831 --> 00:54:14,085
I'm finding this party
to be so... so trying.
902
00:54:14,169 --> 00:54:21,342
If you are here, I could be assured of
at least one conversation that isn't sordid
903
00:54:21,426 --> 00:54:28,808
or gossipy,
or about some abstract aesthetic theory.
904
00:54:28,892 --> 00:54:31,728
Well, that's high praise, Cal.
905
00:54:31,811 --> 00:54:33,146
It's true.
906
00:54:37,192 --> 00:54:38,818
You got any food in there?
907
00:54:38,902 --> 00:54:40,612
Yes.
908
00:54:40,695 --> 00:54:43,072
Chicken a la king.
909
00:54:43,156 --> 00:54:45,033
Well, then maybe for a minute then.
910
00:54:46,451 --> 00:54:48,328
It's just that I hadn't eaten all day.
911
00:54:51,039 --> 00:54:52,207
Thank you.
912
00:54:58,379 --> 00:55:01,132
Your story...
913
00:55:01,216 --> 00:55:02,675
Parker's Back.
914
00:55:06,095 --> 00:55:07,347
It's good.
915
00:55:07,430 --> 00:55:09,933
(Dog barking)
916
00:55:10,016 --> 00:55:11,267
Thank you.
917
00:55:17,106 --> 00:55:18,107
I...
918
00:55:22,195 --> 00:55:25,698
canonize... you...
919
00:55:30,119 --> 00:55:32,956
Saint Flannery.
920
00:55:43,716 --> 00:55:45,260
- Take a swig.
- Oh.
921
00:55:45,343 --> 00:55:47,220
WOMAN: Ah, there you are.
922
00:55:47,303 --> 00:55:50,849
Of course, your party
filled with adoring students,
923
00:55:50,932 --> 00:55:53,226
and you vanish.
924
00:55:53,309 --> 00:55:55,353
I don't even know half
of those people, Cal.
925
00:55:57,939 --> 00:56:01,985
Elizabeth, Flannery. Flannery, Elizabeth.
926
00:56:02,068 --> 00:56:06,114
Hi. I... I've read your
book. I liked it right much.
927
00:56:06,197 --> 00:56:07,282
I was very impressed.
928
00:56:08,283 --> 00:56:10,910
Oh, thank you.
929
00:56:14,497 --> 00:56:17,917
Welcome to Cal's party.
930
00:56:19,210 --> 00:56:21,170
He's very important.
931
00:56:21,254 --> 00:56:22,714
He's won a Pulitzer.
932
00:56:25,592 --> 00:56:26,759
Uh...
933
00:56:31,097 --> 00:56:32,932
- Come on.
- (Ping-pong balls clack)
934
00:56:33,016 --> 00:56:37,562
♪ What a rare mood I'm in ♪
935
00:56:37,645 --> 00:56:42,984
♪ Why, it's almost like being in love ♪
936
00:56:43,067 --> 00:56:44,193
When I was seven years old,
937
00:56:44,277 --> 00:56:46,046
my daddy and I had a chicken
that walked backwards.
938
00:56:46,070 --> 00:56:48,948
♪ There's a smile on my face... ♪
939
00:56:49,032 --> 00:56:52,452
Pathé News came all the way to Georgia
to make a newsreel of it.
940
00:56:52,535 --> 00:56:54,579
I was in it, too.
941
00:56:54,662 --> 00:56:59,626
I was only there to assist the chicken,
but it was the high point of my life.
942
00:56:59,709 --> 00:57:01,628
Everything since has been anticlimax.
943
00:57:01,711 --> 00:57:03,630
- (Laughing)
- Oh.
944
00:57:04,631 --> 00:57:05,715
ELIZABETH: Is she good?
945
00:57:05,798 --> 00:57:08,051
She's the most promising
writer in the class.
946
00:57:09,344 --> 00:57:12,013
Ouch, Walter, he said
that right in front of you.
947
00:57:13,389 --> 00:57:15,099
(Clearing throat)
948
00:57:15,183 --> 00:57:16,643
Congrats on winning the Rinehart.
949
00:57:16,726 --> 00:57:18,478
- Oh, you won that?
- Oh, sorry.
950
00:57:18,561 --> 00:57:20,897
- Definitely beating you now.
- Here.
951
00:57:20,980 --> 00:57:22,273
Thanks.
952
00:57:22,357 --> 00:57:24,734
Can I give you some advice though?
953
00:57:24,817 --> 00:57:26,194
You should use the word "Negro."
954
00:57:26,277 --> 00:57:27,987
- Ready?
- Instead of that other word.
955
00:57:31,950 --> 00:57:34,720
The people I'm writing about would
never dream of using any other word.
956
00:57:34,744 --> 00:57:36,871
MAN: Just a friendly warning.
957
00:57:36,955 --> 00:57:39,165
And I prefer not to tidy up reality.
958
00:57:39,248 --> 00:57:40,041
I'm not tidying up reality.
959
00:57:40,124 --> 00:57:41,518
What you're talking about is propaganda,
960
00:57:41,542 --> 00:57:44,587
and propaganda even on the side
of the angels only makes it worse.
961
00:57:44,671 --> 00:57:47,066
The truth doesn't change
according to your ability to stomach it.
962
00:57:47,090 --> 00:57:48,091
OPPONENT: Guys?
963
00:57:50,009 --> 00:57:53,012
Hey. I was just trying to be nice to you.
964
00:58:02,897 --> 00:58:04,941
OPPONENT: Well, I guess you're up.
965
00:58:05,024 --> 00:58:06,025
Ready?
966
00:58:07,735 --> 00:58:09,737
WALTER: So, my question is,
967
00:58:09,821 --> 00:58:14,534
do Christians, do Catholics,
do whoever, pick... pick one,
968
00:58:14,617 --> 00:58:18,121
believe that they're actually eating Jesus?
969
00:58:18,204 --> 00:58:19,372
- Like cannibals.
- (Laughing)
970
00:58:19,455 --> 00:58:20,790
Walter!
971
00:58:20,873 --> 00:58:21,791
I'm just saying.
972
00:58:21,874 --> 00:58:25,920
And if so, then how can you
stand on a moral high ground?
973
00:58:26,004 --> 00:58:29,966
Well, Walter, the question
seems to be, to me,
974
00:58:30,049 --> 00:58:34,303
whether a person believes that
we are created in God's image,
975
00:58:34,387 --> 00:58:37,682
or whether he believes that
we create God in our own.
976
00:58:37,765 --> 00:58:39,183
Hmm?
977
00:58:39,267 --> 00:58:42,395
Now, I don't know the answer,
but I do remember, as a child,
978
00:58:42,478 --> 00:58:45,606
when I would stand in
line to receive the Host,
979
00:58:45,690 --> 00:58:48,609
I always thought of it as the Holy Ghost.
980
00:58:48,693 --> 00:58:50,111
GUEST: That's beautiful.
981
00:58:50,194 --> 00:58:53,197
He seemed like the most
portable person of the Trinity.
982
00:58:53,281 --> 00:59:00,538
Now, I think of the Eucharist
as a lovely, expressive symbol...
983
00:59:01,664 --> 00:59:03,291
The synecdoche of God.
984
00:59:03,374 --> 00:59:05,334
If it's a symbol, then to hell with it.
985
00:59:07,545 --> 00:59:11,090
Uh, it's a lot harder to believe
than not to believe.
986
00:59:15,136 --> 00:59:18,014
What people don't understand
987
00:59:18,097 --> 00:59:20,600
is how much religion costs.
988
00:59:20,683 --> 00:59:25,354
They think that faith is
a... big electric blanket,
989
00:59:25,438 --> 00:59:26,898
when really, it's the cross.
990
00:59:30,777 --> 00:59:34,072
("I Got Loaded" by
Peppermint Harris playing)
991
00:59:34,155 --> 00:59:37,700
♪ Dropped into a tavern ♪
992
00:59:37,784 --> 00:59:39,827
♪ Saw some friends of mine ♪
993
00:59:41,079 --> 00:59:44,040
♪ The party was gettin' underway ♪
994
00:59:44,123 --> 00:59:46,417
♪ And the truth was really flyin' ♪
995
00:59:46,501 --> 00:59:49,921
♪ And I got loaded ♪
996
00:59:50,004 --> 00:59:52,548
- ♪ I got loaded ♪
- (Cat meowing)
997
00:59:52,632 --> 00:59:54,467
CAL: There are many who say
998
00:59:54,550 --> 00:59:57,011
that a dog has its day,
999
00:59:57,095 --> 01:00:00,515
and a cat has a number of lives.
1000
01:00:00,598 --> 01:00:04,310
There are others who
think that a lobster is pink
1001
01:00:04,393 --> 01:00:08,856
and that bees never work in their hives.
1002
01:00:08,940 --> 01:00:10,108
Drink.
1003
01:00:15,321 --> 01:00:17,740
♪ I got loaded ♪
1004
01:00:17,824 --> 01:00:19,304
- (Women exclaiming)
- (Glasses clink)
1005
01:00:21,702 --> 01:00:22,995
(Giggling)
1006
01:00:28,668 --> 01:00:29,377
(Cat meowing)
1007
01:00:29,460 --> 01:00:31,379
ELIZABETH: Your eyes had no bottom.
1008
01:00:31,462 --> 01:00:32,713
They can see more.
1009
01:00:33,548 --> 01:00:35,675
- MAN: I did not lie.
- WOMAN: You lied.
1010
01:00:35,758 --> 01:00:38,386
- I didn't lie.
- You lied.
1011
01:00:39,428 --> 01:00:41,389
MAN: You have your truth, I have mine.
1012
01:00:41,472 --> 01:00:42,890
WOMAN: There is only one truth.
1013
01:00:42,974 --> 01:00:44,642
MAN: In that there is no truth.
1014
01:00:46,018 --> 01:00:47,061
(Door slamming)
1015
01:00:50,773 --> 01:00:52,773
FLANNERY: All my thoughts
are so far away from God,
1016
01:00:52,817 --> 01:00:54,610
He may as well not have made me.
1017
01:01:00,408 --> 01:01:03,327
♪ Hmm... ♪
1018
01:01:07,498 --> 01:01:09,250
(Chickens clucking)
1019
01:01:09,333 --> 01:01:11,043
(Rooster crowing)
1020
01:01:12,128 --> 01:01:17,049
♪ Hmm... ♪
1021
01:01:18,217 --> 01:01:20,595
♪ Hmm ♪
1022
01:01:22,346 --> 01:01:32,345
♪
1023
01:01:44,035 --> 01:01:46,054
NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER: Here's
Mary O'Connor, of Savannah, Georgia,
1024
01:01:46,078 --> 01:01:49,999
holding the only chicken in the world
that actually walks backwards.
1025
01:01:50,082 --> 01:01:52,084
When she advances, she retreats,
1026
01:01:52,168 --> 01:01:54,295
to go forward, she goes back.
1027
01:01:54,378 --> 01:01:56,589
When she looks ahead, she's going astern,
1028
01:01:56,672 --> 01:01:59,634
and when she arrives, she's really leaving.
1029
01:01:59,717 --> 01:02:03,346
- (Breathing heavily)
- (Church bell tolling)
1030
01:02:06,182 --> 01:02:11,145
(Choir singing in Latin)
1031
01:02:21,572 --> 01:02:25,534
(Singing in Latin continues)
1032
01:02:41,092 --> 01:02:43,469
FLANNERY: Dear God, please,
1033
01:02:43,552 --> 01:02:47,306
help me to eliminate my picky,
fishbone way of doing things.
1034
01:02:49,183 --> 01:02:51,686
I can never seem to escape myself
unless I'm writing,
1035
01:02:51,769 --> 01:02:55,106
and, strangely, I'm never more
myself than when I'm writing.
1036
01:02:56,315 --> 01:02:59,277
Is there no way for me
to disappear into something bigger?
1037
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:01,654
REGINA: Don't slouch. Thank you.
1038
01:03:03,447 --> 01:03:05,032
FLANNERY: I don't want to die.
1039
01:03:07,618 --> 01:03:09,537
Please, give me one good story.
1040
01:03:12,164 --> 01:03:14,041
Let me be your typewriter.
1041
01:03:14,125 --> 01:03:15,960
(Typewriter keys clacking)
1042
01:03:21,424 --> 01:03:22,466
(Typewriter dinging)
1043
01:03:22,550 --> 01:03:27,680
We only live once. And by... by
paying just a little bit more for it,
1044
01:03:27,763 --> 01:03:30,224
I, at least, I won't meet myself
coming and going.
1045
01:03:31,642 --> 01:03:34,202
I mean, this hat looked much better on me
than any of the others.
1046
01:03:34,270 --> 01:03:36,814
And when I bought it,
I said, "Take this thing back.
1047
01:03:36,897 --> 01:03:38,357
I won't have it on my head."
1048
01:03:38,441 --> 01:03:42,862
And the lady person said,
"Now, wait till you try it on." So I did,
1049
01:03:42,945 --> 01:03:47,366
and she said,
"Now, you do something for that hat,
1050
01:03:47,450 --> 01:03:50,786
and that hat, it does something for you."
1051
01:03:50,870 --> 01:03:54,248
She said, "With that hat,
you won't miss yourself coming and going."
1052
01:03:54,332 --> 01:03:55,041
(Passersby chatting)
1053
01:03:55,124 --> 01:03:56,500
I like it, Mother.
1054
01:03:59,545 --> 01:04:02,631
With the way the world is,
it's a wonder we can enjoy anything.
1055
01:04:04,050 --> 01:04:05,801
I tell you, the bottom rail is on top.
1056
01:04:05,885 --> 01:04:06,635
Let's skip it.
1057
01:04:06,719 --> 01:04:10,931
You know, I remember this
old darky who was my nurse,
1058
01:04:11,015 --> 01:04:13,184
Caroline, there was no better
person in the world.
1059
01:04:13,267 --> 01:04:15,561
For God's sakes, Mother,
please come off the subject.
1060
01:04:18,606 --> 01:04:21,484
(Choir singing in Latin)
1061
01:04:22,902 --> 01:04:25,905
Why must you always dress
like this when we go into town?
1062
01:04:25,988 --> 01:04:27,281
You look like a gangster.
1063
01:04:27,365 --> 01:04:28,908
Nobody cares what I look like.
1064
01:04:28,991 --> 01:04:30,242
I care.
1065
01:04:33,287 --> 01:04:36,248
I can be gracious to
anybody. I know who I am.
1066
01:04:36,332 --> 01:04:38,209
Nobody gives a damn
about your graciousness,
1067
01:04:38,292 --> 01:04:40,503
and you haven't the foggiest idea
of who you are.
1068
01:04:40,586 --> 01:04:44,924
I most certainly do know who I am,
and if you don't, I'm ashamed of you.
1069
01:04:45,007 --> 01:04:46,675
Oh, hell.
1070
01:04:46,759 --> 01:04:50,346
(Choir singing in Latin)
1071
01:04:51,472 --> 01:04:53,182
MOTHER: Your grandfather
1072
01:04:53,265 --> 01:04:57,561
was the former governor of this state.
Your grandmother was a Godhigh.
1073
01:04:57,645 --> 01:04:59,563
And your great-grandfather,
1074
01:04:59,647 --> 01:05:01,982
he owned a plantation and 200 slaves.
1075
01:05:04,110 --> 01:05:08,697
Luckily, people are not allowed
to be bought and sold anymore.
1076
01:05:08,781 --> 01:05:10,574
Except when they
dress it up like a wedding.
1077
01:05:10,658 --> 01:05:12,368
Hmm.
1078
01:05:12,451 --> 01:05:14,161
What would you know about a wedding?
1079
01:05:14,245 --> 01:05:15,496
(Chuckles)
1080
01:05:18,541 --> 01:05:19,959
Colby, come on, baby.
1081
01:05:24,213 --> 01:05:26,132
Be still, be still. Come on.
1082
01:05:30,594 --> 01:05:34,432
(Choir singing in Latin)
1083
01:05:36,058 --> 01:05:43,065
♪
1084
01:06:11,635 --> 01:06:14,680
Ooh, isn't he cute?
1085
01:06:23,063 --> 01:06:25,483
Peek-a-boo.
1086
01:06:25,566 --> 01:06:28,736
(Laughing)
Oh, I think he likes me.
1087
01:06:28,819 --> 01:06:30,613
BLACK WOMAN: Stop all this mess.
1088
01:06:30,696 --> 01:06:32,823
Quit this foolishness, sit up straight.
1089
01:06:32,907 --> 01:06:34,867
Sit up straight. Sit up.
1090
01:06:39,955 --> 01:06:41,624
(Coins jingling)
1091
01:06:45,336 --> 01:06:47,755
MOTHER: I want to give that boy a nickel.
1092
01:06:47,838 --> 01:06:49,215
- JULIAN: No.
- Uh-huh.
1093
01:06:49,298 --> 01:06:50,966
Mother, Mother, he won't like it.
1094
01:06:51,050 --> 01:06:52,850
MOTHER: Oh, I can't
find nothing but a penny.
1095
01:06:52,885 --> 01:06:53,802
JULIAN: Don't do that.
1096
01:06:53,886 --> 01:06:56,013
MOTHER: Oh, but it looks like shiny new.
1097
01:06:56,096 --> 01:06:57,532
- JULIAN: Put your purse away...
- MOTHER: Little boy?
1098
01:06:57,556 --> 01:06:58,891
MOTHER: Hey-hey, woo-hoo!
1099
01:06:58,974 --> 01:07:03,103
Little boy, look, I got a bright new penny.
1100
01:07:03,187 --> 01:07:08,067
I got a nice shiny penny just for you.
1101
01:07:08,776 --> 01:07:11,570
Uh-huh. Ooh, got it? There you go.
1102
01:07:11,654 --> 01:07:13,989
He don't take... nobody's pennies!
1103
01:07:14,073 --> 01:07:16,158
- (Shouting)
- Nobody's.
1104
01:07:20,829 --> 01:07:21,829
This...
1105
01:07:21,872 --> 01:07:23,499
(Penny clatters on sidewalk)
1106
01:07:44,645 --> 01:07:46,605
(Crow cawing)
1107
01:07:46,689 --> 01:07:48,732
That's why I told you not to do that.
1108
01:07:50,609 --> 01:07:55,614
In the future, please spare me any more
moral lectures on the race problem.
1109
01:07:55,698 --> 01:07:59,785
I... I will no longer allow you
to confine my friendships
1110
01:07:59,868 --> 01:08:01,078
based on matters of race.
1111
01:08:01,161 --> 01:08:02,037
(Crying)
I want to go home.
1112
01:08:02,121 --> 01:08:05,040
Oh, what? You think that was
just one uppity Negro woman?
1113
01:08:05,124 --> 01:08:06,000
It wasn't.
1114
01:08:06,083 --> 01:08:09,003
That was all colored
people telling you that
1115
01:08:09,086 --> 01:08:11,380
they won't take your
condescending pennies anymore.
1116
01:08:12,881 --> 01:08:16,385
Don't act like
it's the end of the world, 'cause it ain't.
1117
01:08:16,468 --> 01:08:19,680
We are going to your reducing class
'cause you are fat.
1118
01:08:19,763 --> 01:08:21,473
- (Crying)
- Fat, Mama!
1119
01:08:22,766 --> 01:08:23,475
I need to go.
1120
01:08:23,559 --> 01:08:26,478
- Mama, come on!
- I wanna go home.
1121
01:08:26,562 --> 01:08:28,230
(Crows cawing)
1122
01:08:28,314 --> 01:08:32,192
JULIAN: Mother, where are you going?
1123
01:08:35,654 --> 01:08:38,198
Mother, I'm not walking any further.
1124
01:08:38,282 --> 01:08:40,576
- (Crows cawing)
- Going home.
1125
01:08:40,659 --> 01:08:41,827
Mother!
1126
01:08:44,288 --> 01:08:47,166
Tell Grandpa to come get me!
1127
01:08:51,170 --> 01:08:52,630
Tell...
1128
01:08:52,713 --> 01:08:54,965
Tell Caroline.
1129
01:08:56,550 --> 01:08:59,386
Tell Caroline to come get me.
1130
01:09:07,770 --> 01:09:09,313
JULIAN: What?
1131
01:09:09,396 --> 01:09:14,568
Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama. Mama. I'm sorry.
1132
01:09:14,652 --> 01:09:15,986
I'm sorry. I'll take you home.
1133
01:09:16,070 --> 01:09:17,988
Mama, I'll take you.
1134
01:09:18,072 --> 01:09:21,659
Mama. Mama, I'm sorry.
1135
01:09:24,453 --> 01:09:25,663
JULIAN: Help me!
1136
01:09:34,380 --> 01:09:35,631
Well?
1137
01:09:37,591 --> 01:09:39,301
Uh, well...
1138
01:09:46,183 --> 01:09:47,601
I...
1139
01:09:47,685 --> 01:09:49,770
I don't understand...
1140
01:09:52,231 --> 01:09:55,734
why you don't wanna write something
that people would like to read.
1141
01:09:58,737 --> 01:10:01,573
I mean, it's not exactly
Harper's BAZAAR now, is it?
1142
01:10:03,409 --> 01:10:05,661
Harper's BAZAAR?
1143
01:10:05,744 --> 01:10:07,413
But do...
1144
01:10:07,496 --> 01:10:11,542
Do you really think you're
using the talent God gave you,
1145
01:10:11,625 --> 01:10:14,712
if you don't write something that a lot...
1146
01:10:14,795 --> 01:10:16,588
a lot of people like?
1147
01:10:18,048 --> 01:10:20,050
That is a literary magazine.
1148
01:10:22,302 --> 01:10:23,679
Do they pay?
1149
01:10:23,762 --> 01:10:25,931
Yes, they pay.
1150
01:10:26,014 --> 01:10:27,474
They don't pay a lot.
1151
01:10:28,976 --> 01:10:33,021
But those are the kinds of magazines
that help establish a writer's reputation.
1152
01:10:34,648 --> 01:10:36,775
Well, reputations don't buy groceries.
1153
01:10:39,528 --> 01:10:41,530
I'm thinking of ordering me a peacock.
1154
01:10:42,823 --> 01:10:45,242
- A peacock?
- Mm.
1155
01:10:46,285 --> 01:10:48,370
Don't those things eat flowers?
1156
01:10:48,454 --> 01:10:50,497
No, they eat Startena,
like the rest of 'em.
1157
01:10:51,790 --> 01:10:53,125
I... I don't know.
1158
01:10:54,418 --> 01:10:57,296
I'll need a new hobby
if I'm gonna be a decoration around here.
1159
01:11:05,971 --> 01:11:08,390
You know,
1160
01:11:08,474 --> 01:11:11,518
you might want to consider
being a little more friendly.
1161
01:11:14,646 --> 01:11:16,440
I'm not gonna let you die.
1162
01:11:20,652 --> 01:11:21,653
Hmm?
1163
01:11:32,498 --> 01:11:34,583
(Rooster crowing)
1164
01:11:46,845 --> 01:11:48,680
(Chickens clucking)
1165
01:11:48,764 --> 01:11:54,853
FLANNERY: Dear Cal, I'm making out fine,
in spite of any conflicting stories.
1166
01:11:54,937 --> 01:11:57,022
Me and the novel are stuck
in the Georgia wilderness
1167
01:11:57,105 --> 01:11:59,817
at my bird sanctuary for a few months,
1168
01:11:59,900 --> 01:12:03,111
waiting to see how much of an invalid
I'm going to get to be.
1169
01:12:05,197 --> 01:12:09,368
In a sense, sickness is a place more
instructive than a long trip to Europe.
1170
01:12:11,995 --> 01:12:15,082
I'm writing and revising the novel,
but it's so bad at present
1171
01:12:15,165 --> 01:12:18,293
that I'm writing a lot of short stories
as to not have to look at it.
1172
01:12:19,795 --> 01:12:24,883
I'm getting up a collection that I plan
on calling A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
1173
01:12:27,052 --> 01:12:29,221
If you make any trips,
1174
01:12:29,304 --> 01:12:31,598
I hope you will include Milledgeville.
1175
01:12:36,937 --> 01:12:39,982
(Crutches thudding against stairs)
1176
01:12:50,075 --> 01:12:54,371
Learning to walk on these crutches,
I feel like a large, stiff, anthropoid ape
1177
01:12:54,454 --> 01:12:57,124
who has no cause to be thinking
about St. Thomas or Aristotle
1178
01:12:57,207 --> 01:12:59,007
and instead should be
thinking about bananas.
1179
01:12:59,042 --> 01:13:01,461
Oh, baby.
(Chuckling)
1180
01:13:01,545 --> 01:13:05,007
You'll be walking on 'em
just as good as new in no time.
1181
01:13:05,090 --> 01:13:06,967
You'll get used to 'em.
1182
01:13:07,050 --> 01:13:10,220
Hey, did I ever tell you about that time
1183
01:13:10,304 --> 01:13:13,390
that my little pony, Patina,
reared up and hit me in the head?
1184
01:13:13,473 --> 01:13:15,433
- Did I ever tell you that?
- Maybe once or twice.
1185
01:13:15,475 --> 01:13:18,854
Well, I was out lunging her... oh, okay.
I was out lunging her one day...
1186
01:13:18,937 --> 01:13:21,899
FLANNERY: Lord, I do not want
to be lonely all my life.
1187
01:13:21,982 --> 01:13:23,668
Well, she'd had
enough of it. Just had...
1188
01:13:23,692 --> 01:13:26,904
FLANNERY: People only make me lonelier
by reminding me of you.
1189
01:13:26,987 --> 01:13:29,531
...reared up on me,
smacked me in the forehead,
1190
01:13:29,615 --> 01:13:33,911
left a hoof print on my
forehead for 37 days.
1191
01:13:33,994 --> 01:13:37,456
You should have seen your grandmother.
She came flying out of the kitchen door.
1192
01:13:37,539 --> 01:13:40,709
"That pony's gonna kill you.
That pony's gonna kill you."
1193
01:13:42,753 --> 01:13:45,088
FLANNERY: I'm reading Mr. Kafka,
1194
01:13:45,172 --> 01:13:48,258
and I'm understanding more
about his problem of grace.
1195
01:13:51,428 --> 01:13:53,138
God's love is always available.
1196
01:13:53,221 --> 01:13:54,348
(Exhaling sharply)
1197
01:13:55,307 --> 01:13:58,268
And the more we suffer,
the closer you come.
1198
01:14:00,395 --> 01:14:02,689
(Crickets chirping)
1199
01:14:02,773 --> 01:14:06,526
But it is still so difficult
to want to suffer.
1200
01:14:11,907 --> 01:14:14,284
Lord, please grant me grace...
1201
01:14:14,368 --> 01:14:16,662
(Thunder rumbling)
1202
01:14:16,745 --> 01:14:18,538
and please, if possible...
1203
01:14:18,622 --> 01:14:20,165
(Grunting)
1204
01:14:20,248 --> 01:14:22,876
don't make it as painful
as it was for Mr. Kafka.
1205
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,170
(Thunder rumbling outside)
1206
01:14:25,253 --> 01:14:27,631
(Grunting)
1207
01:14:29,633 --> 01:14:32,219
(Thudding, clattering)
1208
01:14:34,179 --> 01:14:35,472
(Shouting)
1209
01:14:35,555 --> 01:14:37,099
REGINA: Oh, my God. Mary Flannery!
1210
01:14:37,766 --> 01:14:39,643
Oh, my God. No. Do not move.
1211
01:14:39,726 --> 01:14:41,895
Do not... I'm calling the doctor.
1212
01:14:41,979 --> 01:14:44,147
I'm not climbing those stairs anymore.
1213
01:14:45,232 --> 01:14:47,943
(Crying)
1214
01:14:59,955 --> 01:15:03,959
MAN: Mary Flannery? Mary Flannery?
1215
01:15:04,042 --> 01:15:05,836
Ah, there she is.
1216
01:15:05,919 --> 01:15:07,379
(Glasses clinking)
1217
01:15:07,462 --> 01:15:09,214
Forgive me for waking you up.
1218
01:15:10,716 --> 01:15:11,758
Father Flynn?
1219
01:15:13,468 --> 01:15:15,804
Are you... are you here
to give me Extreme Unction?
1220
01:15:15,887 --> 01:15:17,597
No, no, no.
1221
01:15:17,681 --> 01:15:20,058
Regina requested a visitation.
1222
01:15:20,142 --> 01:15:22,144
FLANNERY: Oh. Thank you.
1223
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:28,066
Regina, I'd like to speak
to the father alone, please.
1224
01:15:41,246 --> 01:15:42,914
(Wincing)
1225
01:15:42,998 --> 01:15:45,751
(Breathing raggedly)
1226
01:15:47,252 --> 01:15:48,503
Thank you for coming.
1227
01:15:48,587 --> 01:15:50,881
Happy to do it. Happy to do it.
1228
01:15:50,964 --> 01:15:52,174
How do you feel?
1229
01:15:52,257 --> 01:15:54,634
I feel awful.
1230
01:15:54,718 --> 01:15:57,971
The cortisone shots make me
think night and day, and then,
1231
01:15:58,055 --> 01:15:59,848
the blood transfusions knock me out again.
1232
01:15:59,931 --> 01:16:03,852
- Cortisone?
- I feel awful. I feel like I got no blood.
1233
01:16:05,395 --> 01:16:07,522
Ah, you've got enough for a Southern girl.
1234
01:16:07,606 --> 01:16:10,400
Confession and communion will sort you out.
1235
01:16:10,484 --> 01:16:12,402
(Rain falling outside)
1236
01:16:12,486 --> 01:16:15,864
Father, I'm afraid.
1237
01:16:18,116 --> 01:16:19,326
Afraid of what?
1238
01:16:21,411 --> 01:16:24,748
You'll be the pallbearer at my funeral
like you were for my father,
1239
01:16:24,831 --> 01:16:27,334
or worse, I'll be stuck
here for the rest of my life.
1240
01:16:27,417 --> 01:16:30,921
I wasn't a pallbearer.
I conducted the mass.
1241
01:16:31,004 --> 01:16:33,507
I'm sorry, Father. I thought...
1242
01:16:35,258 --> 01:16:40,347
Now, I want you to read these.
That'll sort you out.
1243
01:16:45,727 --> 01:16:48,105
"Preserve the Lily of Innocence."
1244
01:16:49,689 --> 01:16:51,566
Have you read Joyce?
1245
01:16:51,650 --> 01:16:55,195
- Who?
- James Joyce.
1246
01:16:55,278 --> 01:16:56,196
Haven't met him.
1247
01:16:56,279 --> 01:16:58,573
No, he's a great writer.
1248
01:16:58,657 --> 01:17:00,075
It... him.
1249
01:17:00,158 --> 01:17:03,370
Yes, he's banned in Ireland, of course.
1250
01:17:07,457 --> 01:17:09,751
Are you a... a writer, yourself?
1251
01:17:13,547 --> 01:17:14,923
I want to be.
1252
01:17:16,633 --> 01:17:20,887
Well, you'll never learn to be good
at anything without prayer.
1253
01:17:20,971 --> 01:17:23,807
You can't love Jesus
if you don't talk to him.
1254
01:17:23,890 --> 01:17:25,475
I do talk to him.
1255
01:17:25,559 --> 01:17:27,227
(Thunder sounding in distance)
1256
01:17:27,310 --> 01:17:28,979
I try every day.
1257
01:17:30,772 --> 01:17:33,984
I say, "Oh, God, please,"
and "I must," and "please, please."
1258
01:17:34,067 --> 01:17:36,695
But I don't know him,
because I'm in the way.
1259
01:17:38,446 --> 01:17:42,450
I long for grace. I see it.
1260
01:17:42,534 --> 01:17:46,079
I know it's there, but I can't touch it.
1261
01:17:46,163 --> 01:17:51,042
My faith rises and falls in me
like the tide of an invisible sea.
1262
01:17:51,126 --> 01:17:52,836
It's torment.
1263
01:17:52,919 --> 01:17:58,508
But then I think that might be the process
by which faith can be deepened.
1264
01:17:58,592 --> 01:18:02,470
Maybe God finds us in the darkness
and not in the light.
1265
01:18:02,554 --> 01:18:04,274
Maybe faith is a little more like marriage,
1266
01:18:04,347 --> 01:18:06,284
that when you get into it,
you find it is the beginning
1267
01:18:06,308 --> 01:18:08,018
and not the end of how to make love work.
1268
01:18:08,101 --> 01:18:10,312
But I don't know anything about marriage.
1269
01:18:10,395 --> 01:18:11,688
(Breathing deeply)
1270
01:18:11,771 --> 01:18:13,451
FLANNERY: I spend my days injecting myself
1271
01:18:13,481 --> 01:18:15,859
with the pituitary glands
of poor, slaughtered pigs.
1272
01:18:15,942 --> 01:18:19,654
And I do know
1273
01:18:19,738 --> 01:18:23,116
that mystery isn't gradually evaporating.
1274
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:25,202
It grows with more knowledge.
1275
01:18:26,453 --> 01:18:28,288
Right?
1276
01:18:28,371 --> 01:18:31,249
Today's Christians,
like my mother, for example,
1277
01:18:31,333 --> 01:18:33,835
operate by the slide rule.
1278
01:18:33,919 --> 01:18:36,671
And the church for them
is a poor man's insurance company,
1279
01:18:36,755 --> 01:18:37,631
the Elks Club.
1280
01:18:37,714 --> 01:18:39,507
(Sniffling)
1281
01:18:39,591 --> 01:18:43,303
FLANNERY: But I don't want it to be fear
which keeps me in the church.
1282
01:18:43,386 --> 01:18:46,514
I don't want to be a coward,
staying with Him because I fear hell.
1283
01:18:46,598 --> 01:18:49,809
Though hell seems a great deal more
feasible than my weak mind in heaven.
1284
01:18:49,893 --> 01:18:54,314
No doubt because hell
is a more earthly-seeming thing.
1285
01:18:54,397 --> 01:18:57,525
If we could accurately map heaven,
some of our up-and-coming scientists
1286
01:18:57,609 --> 01:18:59,545
would begin drawing blueprints
for its improvement,
1287
01:18:59,569 --> 01:19:03,365
and the bourgeois would sell guides
ten cents a copy to all over 65.
1288
01:19:05,617 --> 01:19:07,285
I don't mean to be clever.
1289
01:19:11,081 --> 01:19:14,542
Although I do mean to be clever.
1290
01:19:14,626 --> 01:19:16,962
And I want you to think so.
1291
01:19:17,045 --> 01:19:19,631
What I pray for is ridiculous.
1292
01:19:19,714 --> 01:19:21,299
My demands are absurd.
1293
01:19:21,383 --> 01:19:24,427
I want to be a mystic, but I am cheese.
1294
01:19:24,511 --> 01:19:26,596
I am the moth who would be king.
1295
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,431
Shh, shh, shh.
1296
01:19:31,476 --> 01:19:36,398
(Whispering in Latin)
1297
01:19:36,481 --> 01:19:37,649
Amen.
1298
01:19:39,943 --> 01:19:43,446
You don't need to see
grace. It's always here.
1299
01:19:43,530 --> 01:19:45,031
(Flannery sniffling)
1300
01:19:45,115 --> 01:19:49,452
FATHER: You resist it
because grace changes us,
1301
01:19:49,536 --> 01:19:51,788
and change is bloody painful.
1302
01:19:52,789 --> 01:19:56,751
This notion that grace is healing
1303
01:19:56,835 --> 01:19:59,587
omits that, before it heals,
1304
01:19:59,671 --> 01:20:03,466
it cuts with a sword
that Christ said He came to bring.
1305
01:20:07,304 --> 01:20:09,723
The way to gladness
begins with a hard blow.
1306
01:20:11,057 --> 01:20:14,185
Joy is sorrow overcome.
1307
01:20:19,566 --> 01:20:21,818
- Father?
- Yes?
1308
01:20:21,901 --> 01:20:23,611
How can I be a good Catholic?
1309
01:20:28,533 --> 01:20:32,370
Give alms, Mary Flannery. Serve others.
1310
01:20:32,454 --> 01:20:40,128
A full heart, enriched by honest service,
love, sacrifice, and courage.
1311
01:20:41,963 --> 01:20:43,006
(Crying)
1312
01:20:43,089 --> 01:20:45,467
You mean like charity.
1313
01:20:45,550 --> 01:20:48,803
I fear the only thing
I'll ever be able to do is write.
1314
01:20:48,887 --> 01:20:52,349
- Then write.
- But my writing is scandalous.
1315
01:20:54,184 --> 01:20:56,269
Can it still serve God?
1316
01:20:56,353 --> 01:21:00,899
People are always imagining themselves
to be scandalized by one thing or another.
1317
01:21:02,692 --> 01:21:04,778
Banning choice is your disease.
1318
01:21:06,988 --> 01:21:09,532
Is your writing honest?
Is your conscience clear?
1319
01:21:11,159 --> 01:21:13,078
Then the rest is God's business.
1320
01:21:15,955 --> 01:21:18,833
In the end, it's all straw.
1321
01:21:18,917 --> 01:21:22,754
♪
1322
01:21:22,837 --> 01:21:27,342
I suppose I can take being sick if I have
the strength to write a little each day.
1323
01:21:27,425 --> 01:21:28,468
FATHER: Hm.
1324
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:35,725
With God's help,
you can even see it all as a blessing.
1325
01:21:38,645 --> 01:21:43,441
Now, should we try at a proper confession?
1326
01:21:43,525 --> 01:21:44,526
Hmm?
1327
01:21:47,028 --> 01:21:49,030
(Speaking Latin)
1328
01:21:51,074 --> 01:21:55,286
(Typewriter clicking)
1329
01:21:55,370 --> 01:21:56,788
(Typing)
1330
01:21:56,871 --> 01:22:01,418
MRS. FREEMAN: Oh, y'all should see
our new preacher singing his sermon.
1331
01:22:01,501 --> 01:22:03,628
He puts a chair out on the platform,
1332
01:22:03,711 --> 01:22:08,341
and he'll call out for some biblical
character to come up and testify.
1333
01:22:08,425 --> 01:22:10,093
MRS. HOPEWELL: Mm-hm.
1334
01:22:10,176 --> 01:22:14,973
MRS. FREEMAN: I'm gonna go
start on those bulbs and check on Carramae.
1335
01:22:15,056 --> 01:22:18,101
She's thrown up four times after supper.
1336
01:22:18,184 --> 01:22:19,477
The Idiot?
1337
01:22:21,271 --> 01:22:23,857
You would get something called Idiot.
1338
01:22:25,650 --> 01:22:27,777
(Laughing)
What's it about?
1339
01:22:27,861 --> 01:22:29,112
An idiot.
1340
01:22:31,948 --> 01:22:33,741
(Knocking)
1341
01:22:33,825 --> 01:22:34,825
Mrs. Cedars?
1342
01:22:34,868 --> 01:22:36,494
(Chickens clucking)
1343
01:22:37,954 --> 01:22:39,664
- (Knocking)
- Mrs. Cedars?
1344
01:22:39,747 --> 01:22:42,333
(Footsteps approaching)
1345
01:22:42,417 --> 01:22:44,377
Good morning, Mrs. Cedars.
1346
01:22:44,461 --> 01:22:47,046
(Scoffing)
I'm Mrs. Hopewell.
1347
01:22:47,130 --> 01:22:50,592
Oh! I... I... Well, I saw it said
The Cedars on the mailbox,
1348
01:22:50,675 --> 01:22:52,385
so I thought you was Mrs. Cedars.
1349
01:22:52,469 --> 01:22:54,345
- Hm.
- Mrs. Hopewell.
1350
01:22:54,429 --> 01:22:55,680
I hope you are well.
1351
01:22:55,763 --> 01:22:57,616
FLANNERY: I've come
to speak to you of serious things.
1352
01:22:57,640 --> 01:22:59,517
Lady, I've come to speak of serious things.
1353
01:22:59,601 --> 01:23:01,394
(Typewriter dinging)
1354
01:23:01,478 --> 01:23:03,521
(Ducks quacking)
1355
01:23:06,149 --> 01:23:07,942
How may I help you?
1356
01:23:08,026 --> 01:23:10,111
Mrs. Hopewell,
you believe in the Christian service?
1357
01:23:11,821 --> 01:23:13,656
Oh, yes.
1358
01:23:13,740 --> 01:23:15,575
And you're a good woman.
1359
01:23:15,658 --> 01:23:17,327
- Friends have told me.
- Mm.
1360
01:23:17,410 --> 01:23:19,570
FLANNERY: What are you selling?
- What are you selling?
1361
01:23:20,580 --> 01:23:21,623
MAN: Bibles.
1362
01:23:22,916 --> 01:23:25,460
And you have a beautiful home.
1363
01:23:25,543 --> 01:23:28,922
But I see you have no
family bible in your parlor.
1364
01:23:29,005 --> 01:23:31,799
"Well, you might as well put
those bibles up. I don't want any."
1365
01:23:31,883 --> 01:23:35,970
I don't want to buy a bible,
and... and I smell my dinner burning.
1366
01:23:36,054 --> 01:23:37,847
MAN: Well, lady, I'll tell you the truth.
1367
01:23:37,931 --> 01:23:39,349
I'm just a country boy.
1368
01:23:39,432 --> 01:23:44,270
Oh, well, I think good country people
are the salt of the earth.
1369
01:23:44,354 --> 01:23:48,024
Well, I think there aren't enough
good country people in the world.
1370
01:23:48,107 --> 01:23:51,194
It... that's what I think's wrong with it.
1371
01:23:54,405 --> 01:23:56,115
I didn't introduce myself.
1372
01:23:57,659 --> 01:23:58,743
(Sighing)
1373
01:24:01,621 --> 01:24:05,833
I'm Manley Pointer, from out
in the country around Willohobie.
1374
01:24:05,917 --> 01:24:08,628
Not even from a place,
just from near a place.
1375
01:24:12,090 --> 01:24:13,424
I need to see to my dinner.
1376
01:24:13,508 --> 01:24:14,717
MANLEY: Of course.
1377
01:24:18,805 --> 01:24:21,140
Get rid of the salt of
the earth and let's eat.
1378
01:24:22,684 --> 01:24:25,144
I can't be rude to anybody.
1379
01:24:28,940 --> 01:24:30,400
(Sighing)
1380
01:24:30,483 --> 01:24:32,485
(Chickens clucking)
1381
01:24:39,576 --> 01:24:45,081
I heard some farms
are breeding chickens without wings.
1382
01:24:45,164 --> 01:24:46,749
That way we get more white meat.
1383
01:24:46,833 --> 01:24:47,500
MANLEY: Mm.
1384
01:24:47,584 --> 01:24:49,752
It's a whole society of wingless chickens.
1385
01:24:49,836 --> 01:24:51,713
That's why Nietzsche says God is dead.
1386
01:24:54,007 --> 01:24:56,884
- Joy, here, is a writer.
- Mm.
1387
01:24:56,968 --> 01:24:59,762
Yeah. She spends all day long
up in her room writing.
1388
01:24:59,846 --> 01:25:02,223
- Mm.
- Lord knows what.
1389
01:25:06,519 --> 01:25:10,648
She looks like a writer.
It must come easy for you.
1390
01:25:12,150 --> 01:25:14,485
It's like giving birth to a piano sideways.
1391
01:25:14,569 --> 01:25:17,071
(Laughing)
1392
01:25:21,951 --> 01:25:24,162
FLANNERY (Narrating): Bible salesman
with a bad heart.
1393
01:25:24,245 --> 01:25:25,955
Strange, I could seduce him quite easily,
1394
01:25:26,039 --> 01:25:28,291
but then I'd have to
reckon with his remorse.
1395
01:25:30,084 --> 01:25:32,795
(Water pump squeaking)
1396
01:25:37,592 --> 01:25:39,052
(Chickens clucking)
1397
01:25:46,225 --> 01:25:48,025
You ever ate a chicken
that was two days old?
1398
01:25:50,063 --> 01:25:51,147
JOY: Yes.
1399
01:25:52,065 --> 01:25:55,485
It must have been mighty small!
(Laughing)
1400
01:26:01,366 --> 01:26:05,286
- How old are you?
- Seventeen.
1401
01:26:13,169 --> 01:26:14,569
MANLEY: I see you got a wooden leg.
1402
01:26:18,383 --> 01:26:19,926
What's your name?
1403
01:26:20,009 --> 01:26:21,344
Hulga.
1404
01:26:21,427 --> 01:26:24,681
Hulga. Hulga.
1405
01:26:24,764 --> 01:26:26,057
Hulga.
1406
01:26:28,810 --> 01:26:31,396
I ain't never heard
of anybody named Hulga before.
1407
01:26:33,147 --> 01:26:35,608
My mama named me Joy.
1408
01:26:35,692 --> 01:26:38,486
I changed it to Hulga
when I went away to school.
1409
01:26:40,863 --> 01:26:43,550
FLANNERY (Narrating): Her mind,
clear and detached and ironic anyway,
1410
01:26:43,574 --> 01:26:48,579
was regarding him from a great distance
with amusement, with pity.
1411
01:26:52,083 --> 01:26:53,710
I like girls that wear glasses.
1412
01:26:55,628 --> 01:26:56,879
I think a lot.
1413
01:26:58,089 --> 01:27:02,552
I'm not like one of these people that serious
thoughts don't ever enter their heads.
1414
01:27:02,635 --> 01:27:04,178
Because I may die, Hulga.
1415
01:27:05,722 --> 01:27:07,724
HULGA: You and I have the same condition.
1416
01:27:08,725 --> 01:27:10,268
I may die too.
1417
01:27:13,688 --> 01:27:16,274
Listen, don't you think some
people are just meant to meet
1418
01:27:16,357 --> 01:27:18,776
on account of what they
got in common and all?
1419
01:27:18,860 --> 01:27:20,319
(Hulga scoffing)
1420
01:27:20,403 --> 01:27:22,280
Like they both think
serious thoughts and all?
1421
01:27:25,199 --> 01:27:27,326
I don't work Saturday.
1422
01:27:27,410 --> 01:27:29,370
Couldn't we go on a picnic?
1423
01:27:29,454 --> 01:27:31,831
Say yes, Hulga. Say yes.
1424
01:27:33,416 --> 01:27:34,667
Please?
1425
01:27:37,628 --> 01:27:40,047
FLANNERY: She decided
for the first time in her life,
1426
01:27:40,131 --> 01:27:42,592
she was face to face with real innocence.
1427
01:27:47,054 --> 01:27:48,639
I guess God takes care of you.
1428
01:27:48,723 --> 01:27:50,308
No, I don't believe in God.
1429
01:27:52,727 --> 01:27:55,062
(Birds singing)
1430
01:27:55,146 --> 01:27:56,272
No?
1431
01:27:58,232 --> 01:28:00,359
That's very unusual for a girl.
1432
01:28:00,443 --> 01:28:02,153
(Crow cawing)
1433
01:28:16,709 --> 01:28:19,229
FLANNERY: She had never been kissed before
and she was pleased to discover
1434
01:28:19,253 --> 01:28:21,714
that it was an unexceptional experience,
1435
01:28:21,798 --> 01:28:24,425
and all a matter of the mind's control.
1436
01:28:24,509 --> 01:28:27,595
Some people might enjoy drain water
if they were told it was vodka.
1437
01:28:31,224 --> 01:28:35,102
- (Horses neighing)
- (Cows mooing)
1438
01:28:36,354 --> 01:28:38,147
(Manley chuckles)
1439
01:28:41,108 --> 01:28:42,461
HULGA: Well, come on if you're coming!
1440
01:28:42,485 --> 01:28:44,028
Okay, I'm coming.
(Laughing)
1441
01:28:45,238 --> 01:28:46,447
I love you.
1442
01:28:49,075 --> 01:28:51,452
I love you.
1443
01:28:51,536 --> 01:28:53,412
I said it, now, you gotta say it.
1444
01:28:54,580 --> 01:28:57,041
I don't have illusions.
1445
01:28:57,124 --> 01:29:00,419
I'm one of those people
who see through to nothing.
1446
01:29:02,672 --> 01:29:05,258
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, but do you love me or don't you?
1447
01:29:05,341 --> 01:29:07,760
You poor baby. I mean...
1448
01:29:08,761 --> 01:29:09,761
(Laughing)
1449
01:29:09,804 --> 01:29:12,765
makes sense you don't understand.
1450
01:29:12,849 --> 01:29:16,018
We are all damned.
1451
01:29:16,102 --> 01:29:20,606
But some of us have
taken off our blindfolds
1452
01:29:20,690 --> 01:29:25,486
and see that there is nothing to see.
1453
01:29:27,029 --> 01:29:28,656
It's a kind of salvation.
1454
01:29:28,739 --> 01:29:33,452
Okay, okay, okay,
but do you love me or don't you?
1455
01:29:34,537 --> 01:29:36,914
I'm a great deal older than you,
1456
01:29:36,998 --> 01:29:38,791
and I have a number of degrees.
1457
01:29:42,295 --> 01:29:43,880
I don't care.
1458
01:29:43,963 --> 01:29:45,649
I don't care a thing about all you've done.
1459
01:29:45,673 --> 01:29:48,050
I just want to know if
you love me or don't you.
1460
01:29:49,385 --> 01:29:52,179
(Sighing)
Yes.
1461
01:29:52,263 --> 01:29:54,265
(Wind blowing)
1462
01:29:59,437 --> 01:30:01,731
Okay, okay, okay, then prove it.
1463
01:30:03,399 --> 01:30:04,442
Okay.
1464
01:30:06,068 --> 01:30:07,170
Show me where your wooden leg joins on.
1465
01:30:07,194 --> 01:30:09,238
- No.
- Show me where your wooden leg joins on.
1466
01:30:10,531 --> 01:30:11,657
No.
1467
01:30:11,741 --> 01:30:15,119
FLANNERY (Narrating): She was as sensitive
about her leg as a peacock about his tail.
1468
01:30:15,202 --> 01:30:17,079
No one ever touched it but her.
1469
01:30:17,163 --> 01:30:20,124
She took care of it
as someone else would his soul.
1470
01:30:23,753 --> 01:30:25,087
(Laughing nervously)
1471
01:30:31,427 --> 01:30:32,762
All right.
1472
01:30:49,862 --> 01:30:53,449
FLANNERY (Narrating): She was thinking
that she would run away with him.
1473
01:30:53,532 --> 01:30:57,370
And that every night,
he would take the leg off,
1474
01:30:57,453 --> 01:30:59,246
and every morning put it back on again.
1475
01:31:05,127 --> 01:31:07,380
(Horse neigh echoing)
1476
01:31:07,463 --> 01:31:09,507
(Breathing deeply)
1477
01:31:09,590 --> 01:31:11,634
Now, will you let me
show you how to put it back on?
1478
01:31:11,717 --> 01:31:13,636
Oh, come on, now. You got me instead.
1479
01:31:13,719 --> 01:31:15,179
(Laughing)
1480
01:31:15,262 --> 01:31:17,556
- Just give me my leg.
- Wait.
1481
01:31:17,640 --> 01:31:19,392
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
1482
01:31:19,475 --> 01:31:20,768
(Laughing)
1483
01:31:24,981 --> 01:31:26,399
(Latches clicking)
1484
01:31:34,782 --> 01:31:35,866
Take a swig.
1485
01:31:35,950 --> 01:31:38,244
Um, uh...
1486
01:31:40,037 --> 01:31:42,415
I thought you were just
good country people.
1487
01:31:42,498 --> 01:31:44,875
Yeah, but it ain't held me back none.
1488
01:31:44,959 --> 01:31:48,421
Come on, now,
I'm as good as you any day in the week.
1489
01:31:48,504 --> 01:31:50,381
I know.
1490
01:31:50,464 --> 01:31:51,757
So give me my leg.
1491
01:31:51,841 --> 01:31:53,217
Oh, come on, now.
1492
01:31:53,300 --> 01:31:56,154
FLANNERY (Narrating): Without her leg,
she felt entirely dependent on him.
1493
01:31:56,178 --> 01:31:58,115
Her brain seemed to have
stopped thinking altogether
1494
01:31:58,139 --> 01:32:01,434
and to be about some other function
that it was not entirely good at...
1495
01:32:01,517 --> 01:32:02,727
Not very good at.
1496
01:32:02,810 --> 01:32:04,979
Without her leg, she seemed
entirely dependent on him.
1497
01:32:05,062 --> 01:32:06,248
MANLEY: What's the matter
with you all of a sudden?
1498
01:32:06,272 --> 01:32:08,524
And... Yes.
1499
01:32:08,607 --> 01:32:10,943
And I thought you were a Christian.
1500
01:32:11,027 --> 01:32:13,946
A fine Christian.
1501
01:32:14,030 --> 01:32:16,032
I hope you don't think
I believe in that crap.
1502
01:32:18,868 --> 01:32:23,581
Listen, I may sell bibles, but I know which
end is up, and I wasn't born yesterday.
1503
01:32:23,664 --> 01:32:25,166
And I know where I'm going.
1504
01:32:27,334 --> 01:32:29,170
Hey. Give me my leg!
1505
01:32:32,590 --> 01:32:33,674
Please.
1506
01:32:47,271 --> 01:32:48,481
(Gasping)
1507
01:32:49,607 --> 01:32:51,734
(Horses neighing)
1508
01:33:00,993 --> 01:33:02,912
I've gotten a lot of interesting things.
1509
01:33:04,663 --> 01:33:06,916
One time I got a woman's
glass eye this way.
1510
01:33:07,958 --> 01:33:09,668
(Horses neighing)
1511
01:33:09,752 --> 01:33:12,792
And you needn't to think you'll catch me
'cause Pointer ain't really my name.
1512
01:33:12,838 --> 01:33:16,258
I use a different name at every house
I call at and don't stay nowhere long.
1513
01:33:20,763 --> 01:33:23,140
And I'll tell you another thing, Hulga,
you ain't so smart!
1514
01:33:27,269 --> 01:33:28,437
Come on.
1515
01:33:28,521 --> 01:33:30,773
I been believing in nothing
ever since I was born.
1516
01:33:32,024 --> 01:33:33,776
(Typewriter keys clicking)
1517
01:33:33,859 --> 01:33:38,197
FLANNERY (Narrating):
What's more comic and terrible
1518
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:43,494
than an angular, intellectual woman
1519
01:33:43,577 --> 01:33:46,622
approaching God inch by inch...
1520
01:33:46,705 --> 01:33:49,208
(Typewriter clicking)
1521
01:33:49,291 --> 01:33:50,835
with grinding teeth?
1522
01:33:58,884 --> 01:34:01,011
(Crows cawing)
1523
01:34:01,095 --> 01:34:02,847
(Sighing deeply)
1524
01:34:12,982 --> 01:34:14,859
(Train whistle in distance)
1525
01:34:21,031 --> 01:34:24,160
(Train signal bell dinging)
1526
01:34:24,243 --> 01:34:28,998
CAL: Dear Flannery,
you must feel better soon.
1527
01:34:31,625 --> 01:34:35,045
I miss you, and I hope your health is safe.
1528
01:34:37,631 --> 01:34:41,677
I've been reading that
Thomas Merton book I gave you.
1529
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:43,429
I hope you are too.
1530
01:34:44,805 --> 01:34:46,724
Listen to this.
1531
01:34:46,807 --> 01:34:51,687
"At the center of our being is a point or
a spark which belongs entirely to God."
1532
01:34:54,648 --> 01:34:56,442
"It is like a pure diamond...
1533
01:34:57,860 --> 01:35:02,031
blazing with the
invisible light of heaven."
1534
01:35:11,165 --> 01:35:12,750
(Conductor blows whistle)
1535
01:35:12,833 --> 01:35:15,294
CAL: "It is in everybody.
1536
01:35:15,377 --> 01:35:18,964
And if we could see it,
we would see these billion points of light
1537
01:35:19,048 --> 01:35:24,887
coming together in the face and blaze
of a sun that would make all the darkness
1538
01:35:24,970 --> 01:35:28,307
and cruelty of life vanish.
1539
01:35:28,390 --> 01:35:29,850
Completely."
1540
01:35:30,935 --> 01:35:33,437
(Peacocks cooing)
1541
01:35:38,359 --> 01:35:44,406
CAL: "I have no program for this seeing.
It is only given, but the gate of heaven...
1542
01:35:44,490 --> 01:35:45,741
is everywhere."
1543
01:35:45,824 --> 01:35:47,243
(Peacocks cooing)
1544
01:35:49,036 --> 01:35:54,416
CAL: I wish I could come and visit, but I won't
be making it down there to see you anytime soon,
1545
01:35:54,500 --> 01:35:56,877
as Elizabeth and I are getting married.
1546
01:35:58,754 --> 01:36:08,681
♪
1547
01:36:08,764 --> 01:36:09,890
(Sighing)
1548
01:36:09,974 --> 01:36:13,769
(Geese squawking overhead)
1549
01:36:13,852 --> 01:36:23,851
♪
1550
01:36:38,961 --> 01:36:43,924
FLANNERY: In the very depths of our
imagination, springs forward our reality.
1551
01:36:45,634 --> 01:36:48,053
I sense you have implanted in me,
1552
01:36:48,137 --> 01:36:52,975
in all of us, a desire
irresistible, hallowing,
1553
01:36:53,058 --> 01:36:58,522
which makes us cry out, believer
and unbeliever alike, 'Make us want.'
1554
01:37:04,278 --> 01:37:06,071
(Footsteps approaching)
1555
01:37:10,617 --> 01:37:11,785
Knock-knock.
1556
01:37:15,748 --> 01:37:17,333
You didn't come down for breakfast.
1557
01:37:17,416 --> 01:37:19,209
'Cause it tastes like a horse blanket.
1558
01:37:21,045 --> 01:37:22,212
Yeah.
1559
01:37:24,423 --> 01:37:25,924
Well...
(Sighing)
1560
01:37:27,509 --> 01:37:29,970
Hopefully soon you'll be
able to have salt again.
1561
01:37:31,263 --> 01:37:34,558
Or milk, or eggs, or
cheese, or anything I like.
1562
01:37:36,268 --> 01:37:38,687
The treatment is worse than the disease.
1563
01:37:40,064 --> 01:37:41,398
You gotta eat.
1564
01:37:42,775 --> 01:37:43,859
Have you tried it?
1565
01:37:45,277 --> 01:37:47,946
Have I tried... Lord,
no. I wouldn't eat that.
1566
01:37:49,281 --> 01:37:52,368
Nothing but plain oats.
Tastes like a horse blanket.
1567
01:37:52,451 --> 01:37:54,119
(Laughing)
1568
01:37:57,706 --> 01:38:00,501
REGINA: Oh, and I saw your peacock
having his breakfast this morning.
1569
01:38:00,584 --> 01:38:03,295
You were right about him eating Startena.
1570
01:38:03,379 --> 01:38:05,631
He also eats everything else.
1571
01:38:05,714 --> 01:38:09,718
No, he got every single one
of my Herbert Hoover roses.
1572
01:38:09,802 --> 01:38:12,554
And when he's not eating 'em,
he's sitting on top of 'em.
1573
01:38:13,931 --> 01:38:16,016
Well, what good is he?
1574
01:38:16,100 --> 01:38:18,685
He hasn't even put up his tail feathers.
1575
01:38:18,769 --> 01:38:21,063
- Now, what ails him?
- Nothing ails him.
1576
01:38:21,146 --> 01:38:22,856
He'll put it up. You just have to wait.
1577
01:38:23,732 --> 01:38:25,943
REGINA: Mm.
1578
01:38:26,026 --> 01:38:29,405
I just have to get a wire fence
around my flowers.
1579
01:38:36,161 --> 01:38:37,413
Eat.
1580
01:38:42,167 --> 01:38:44,461
(Breathing deeply)
1581
01:38:44,545 --> 01:38:46,046
Oh.
(Sighing)
1582
01:38:48,507 --> 01:38:51,093
It's nice you got this
view while you're writing.
1583
01:38:53,512 --> 01:38:54,596
Hmm.
1584
01:38:57,850 --> 01:38:59,309
I bet it helps.
1585
01:39:02,563 --> 01:39:03,814
Thank you, Mama.
1586
01:39:10,446 --> 01:39:12,656
(Footsteps receding)
1587
01:39:18,954 --> 01:39:20,706
(Grunting)
1588
01:39:35,012 --> 01:39:39,975
(Grunting)
1589
01:39:53,155 --> 01:39:57,576
- (Table scraping)
- (Grunting)
1590
01:39:59,995 --> 01:40:02,873
(Panting)
1591
01:40:11,715 --> 01:40:13,717
(Chair scraping)
1592
01:40:21,225 --> 01:40:24,436
FLANNERY: I used to have the notion
that the life of my writing
1593
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:28,190
depended on my staying away.
1594
01:40:28,273 --> 01:40:34,404
I would certainly have persisted in that delusion
had I not gotten very ill and had to come home.
1595
01:40:35,781 --> 01:40:38,367
I thought it'd be the
ending of any creation...
1596
01:40:40,827 --> 01:40:42,162
any writing,
1597
01:40:43,455 --> 01:40:45,290
any work for me.
1598
01:40:46,750 --> 01:40:49,044
Now, I see it as only the beginning.
1599
01:40:54,216 --> 01:40:57,052
Everything that rises must converge.
1600
01:41:02,057 --> 01:41:12,056
♪
1601
01:41:31,003 --> 01:41:35,215
♪ To Canaan's land, I'm on my way ♪
1602
01:41:35,299 --> 01:41:39,469
♪ Where the soul of man never dies ♪
1603
01:41:39,553 --> 01:41:43,807
♪ My darkest night will turn to day ♪
1604
01:41:43,890 --> 01:41:48,228
♪ Where the soul of man never dies ♪
1605
01:41:48,312 --> 01:41:52,482
♪ Dear friends there'll
be no sad farewells ♪
1606
01:41:52,566 --> 01:41:56,987
♪ There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes ♪
1607
01:41:57,070 --> 01:42:01,283
♪ Where all is love, and peace, and joy ♪
1608
01:42:01,366 --> 01:42:05,495
♪ And the soul of man never dies ♪
1609
01:42:05,579 --> 01:42:10,125
♪ The rose is blooming there for me ♪
1610
01:42:10,208 --> 01:42:14,296
♪ Where the soul of man never dies ♪
1611
01:42:14,379 --> 01:42:18,550
♪ And I will spend eternity ♪
1612
01:42:18,634 --> 01:42:23,013
♪ Where the soul of man never dies ♪
1613
01:42:23,096 --> 01:42:27,351
♪ Dear friends there'll
be no sad farewells ♪
1614
01:42:27,434 --> 01:42:31,730
♪ There'll be no tear-dimmed eyes ♪
1615
01:42:31,813 --> 01:42:36,109
♪ Where all is love, and peace, and joy ♪
1616
01:42:36,193 --> 01:42:39,821
♪ And the soul of man never dies ♪
1617
01:42:42,908 --> 01:42:52,907
♪
1618
01:43:24,449 --> 01:43:28,078
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1619
01:43:28,161 --> 01:43:30,205
♪ Lord ♪
1620
01:43:30,288 --> 01:43:31,998
♪ Lord ♪
(Rhythmic clapping)
1621
01:43:32,082 --> 01:43:35,752
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1622
01:43:35,836 --> 01:43:39,715
♪ Lord, Lord ♪
1623
01:43:39,798 --> 01:43:43,635
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1624
01:43:43,719 --> 01:43:47,514
♪ Lord, Lord ♪
1625
01:43:47,597 --> 01:43:51,476
♪ Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪
1626
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:54,813
♪ Lord, Lord ♪
1627
01:43:54,896 --> 01:43:56,898
(Birds singing)
1628
01:43:59,860 --> 01:44:09,859
♪