:24:03
- What did you say to her?
- I said you hadn't been in for two weeks.
:24:07
That's good. I can't let her see me.
Not now while I'm "off" like this.
:24:09
Why don't you cut it short?
:24:10
Don't talk like a child. You can't cut it short!
:24:13
You're on that merry-go-round
and you've got to ride it all the way...
:24:16
round and round...
:24:17
till the blasted music wears itself out
and the thing dies down and clunks to a stop.
:24:21
- Hey, how about you eatin' some of this?
- Take it away.
:24:24
You gotta eat somethin' sometime.
:24:26
Just give me another drink.
:24:29
Mr. Birnam, this is the mornin'.
:24:31
That's when you need it most, in the morning.
Haven't you learned that yet?
:24:34
At night, this stuff's a drink.
In the morning, it's medicine.
:24:38
Okay if I eat?
:24:39
A little to one side.
:24:45
Nat, are you ever scared when you wake up?
:24:47
So scared the sweat starts out of ya, huh?
:24:50
No, no you. With you it's simple.
:24:52
Your alarm clock goes off and you open your eye
and brush your teeth and read the Daily Mirror. That's all.
:24:57
Do you ever lie in you bed looking at the window?
:25:00
A little daylight's coming through,
and you start to wonder:
:25:03
is it getting lighter, is it getting darker?
:25:05
Is it dawn or dusk?
:25:07
That's a terrifying problem, Nat.
:25:09
Because if it's dawn, you're dead.
:25:12
The bars are closed and the liquor stores don't open
till nine o'clock, and you can't last till nine o'clock.
:25:17
Or it maybe Sunday. That's the worst.
:25:21
No liquor stores at all. And you guys wouldn't open a bar,
not until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat?
:25:25
Because we gotta go to church once in a while. That's why.
:25:29
Yeah, when a guy needs it most.
:25:32
What happened to those two quarts?
You polish them off last night?
:25:35
- What two quarts?
- The two bottles you had.
:25:39
That's right, I did have two bottles, didn't I?
:25:42
I hid one of them. I've still got it.
:25:44
I'm a capitalist, Nat!
:25:46
I've got untapped reserves. I'm rich!
:25:50
If you had enough money, you'd kill yourself in a month.
:25:53
Say, Nat, was there a gentleman here...
:25:54
Hello, Mr. Birnam. Didn't you go away for the weekend?
:25:57
Apparently not, Gloria.
:25:58
- Was there a gentleman here asking for me?
- Not to my knowledge there wasn't.