:42:02
Well...
:42:05
If you finished it, people might get to like it.
:42:08
You could even have a hit.
:42:13
They wouldn't let me.
:42:15
Who?
:42:19
They. Or whoever it is
that gives out the breaks.
:42:22
What's your name for it?
Lady Luck? The Fates? Destiny?
:42:28
Oh.
:42:33
They've been having their innings
for as long as I can remember.
:42:38
You know what a glove man is?
:42:40
I'm a glove man.
:42:41
You shag flies in a hot sun all your life
but you never go to bat.
:42:47
Like, right off they said, "No parents?
Make him an offer, he'll be all right."
:42:54
"Education? Grammar school's enough.
:42:58
"Send him out to work."
:43:00
So I cooperate.
:43:02
And then they come up
with a nice big depression, a fat one.
:43:06
But I fooled them, I went out and got a job.
Six years later.
:43:10
14 dollars a week,
I collected exactly two pay cheques
:43:14
and then they come up with a war.
:43:17
"Greetings, my boy.
You too can be a private."
:43:24
Don't laugh, it was serious.
:43:27
This was my big chance.
I was ready to be a hero, a dead one even.
:43:32
You know, lots of crowds, bands playing,
me in a flag-draped coffin.
:43:37
Ha! Did I get it?
:43:39
No.
:43:40
All they figured for me
was a little grape juice in the leg.
:43:44
Not quite enough to be a hero.
:43:46
Lots of guys got shot
so it'd just hurt a little bit.
:43:49
Eight or nine years later,
your leg gets a little stiff when it rains.
:43:53
That's my good leg, my pedal foot,
that I play the piano with.
:43:57
There's more. You wanna hear more?