Suddenly, Last Summer
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:21:00
I can transfer her to Lions View.
She won't be as comfortable...

:21:04
I understand.
:21:05
But the important thing
is you, doctor.

:21:07
You'll be happy to know
that at this very minute...

:21:10
...my lawyers are working on the
Sebastian Venable Memorial Foundation...

:21:14
...to subsidize the work
of young people like yourself...

:21:18
...who are pushing out
the frontiers of art and science...

:21:21
...but have a financial problem.
:21:23
Mrs. Venable, loving your niece
as you do, you must know...

:21:27
...there's great risk
in this operation.

:21:30
When you enter the brain with a foreign
object, even a needle-thin knife...

:21:34
...in the hands
of the most skilled surgeon...

:21:38
...there still is
a great deal of risk.

:21:41
But it does pacify them,
I've read that.

:21:43
It quiets them down.
It makes them peaceful.

:21:47
- Yes, that it does do, but...
- But what?

:21:50
Well, it will be years before we know
if the benefits...

:21:54
...of the operation are lasting...
:21:57
...or maybe just passing
or perhaps...

:22:00
There's a strong possibility that
the patient will always be limited.

:22:04
Relieved of acute anxiety,
yes, but limited.

:22:07
But what a blessing to them, doctor,
to be just peaceful.

:22:13
To be just suddenly peaceful.
:22:16
After all that horror...
:22:19
...after those nightmares...
:22:21
...just to be able to lift up
their eyes to a sky...

:22:25
...not black with savage,
devouring birds.

:22:27
You said a sky filled
with savage, devouring birds?

:22:31
Did I?
:22:32
How odd. I hadn't thought
about all that in years.

:22:35
Now, why should I suddenly...?
:22:37
Yes, we saw those birds
one summer in the Pacific.

:22:42
You see, my son
Sebastian was looking for...

:22:46
- Looking for what?
- Rare, hungry birds.

:22:50
- That's not what you started to say.
- You're too quick for me.

:22:54
I was going to say my son
Sebastian was looking for God.

:22:58
I stopped myself.
I thought you'd think:


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