:55:02
What's that, ma'am?
:55:04
What your mother wanted
for you-- college.
:55:08
- What makes you say that?
- This does, your sto.
:55:11
Glenn, have you any idea how good
this is? How much promise it shows?
:55:18
Do you really mean that?
I mean, you yourself said
the grammar and spelling...
:55:23
- was pretty bad.
- Spelling and grammar--
that can be taught...
:55:27
but this has something
that can't be taught.
:55:31
It has such beauty and power and
excitement! It jumps right off the page!
:55:37
All you need is discipline,
formal education.
:55:44
No matter how or what,
you've got to go to college.
:55:47
It's not that easy. It takes money
to go to college. You know that.
:55:50
There's such things
as scholarships.
:55:54
Look, what I'll do--
Let me make a suggestion.
:55:56
Take this home and rewrite it,
polish it up a bit.
:56:01
Then I'll show it to a friend
at the state university. He'll take it--
:56:04
- Let a lot of people read it,
strangers?
- Of course. Sooner or--
:56:09
I didn't write that
for anybody else to read,just you.
:56:11
You and me.
:56:14
Then you wanna be an errand boy
all your life?
:56:18
Or slop hogs on some farm?
:56:22
You told me you wanted
to be a writer, now be one!
:56:25
Suppose you're wrong.
Suppose they start laughing at me again.
:56:29
You take that chance.
Where are your guts, Glenn?
:56:32
- I'm an ignorant count boy, remember?
- Oh, stop boasting!
:56:37
All of a sudden all that stuff about
my being a writer, going to college.
:56:41
- What are you ting to do to me?
- To wake you up, open your eyes.
:56:46
Is that what the parole board told you
to do? You were supposed to help me...
:56:51
not rile me up like a muddy creek...
:56:53
take my life and twist it
into something you want.
:56:56
Not me, ma'am, not me.
:56:59
It seems to me
you're overstepping.