:38:05
Okay. So they go to that cocktail party and...
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he gets stinko and falls flat on his face.
:38:09
He does not.
:38:10
By this time, he's crazy about that girl by then.
:38:13
He drinks tomato juice.
:38:14
Doesn't touch liquor for that whole week...
for two weeks, for six weeks.
:38:17
In love, huh?
:38:20
That's what's going to be hard to write.
:38:22
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about.
:38:25
It's so simple.
:38:27
You've got to catch it through details...
:38:29
like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin
of the rainspot in front of her house.
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The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's Pastoral.
:38:37
A letter scribbled on her office stationery...
:38:39
that you carry in your pocket
because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.
:38:44
Pour it, Nat!
:38:48
He thinks he's cured.
:38:51
If he could only get a job now,
they could be married and that's that.
:38:55
But it's not Nat. Not quite.
:38:57
Because one day, one terrible day.
:39:01
Yeah? Go on.
:39:04
You see, this girl's been writing to her people in Toledo.
:39:07
They want to meet the young man.
:39:09
So they come to New York.
They stay at the Hotel Manhattan.
:39:13
Their very first day, she's to introduce him to her parents.
:39:16
One o'clock. Lobby of the hotel...
:39:37
Just walked in for a simple haircut.
No, that wasn't enough, not for New York.
:39:39
They gave me a shampoo, scalp massage and a manicure.
:39:42
Thought they were going to tear my shoes off
and paint my toenails.
:39:46
I had a lovely morning.
:39:48
Just did a little window shopping.
Didn't want to get all tired out.
:39:51
On account of meeting that young man? Now, Mother.
:39:54
Who did you get a haircut for?
:39:57
- Wonder what's keeping Helen.
- She'll be here.
:39:59
- This Birnam fellow went to Cornell, didn't he?
- I believe so.