:54:00
You are afraid to have direct,
honest contact with anything!
:54:05
Because of your rigid standards
of morality...
:54:08
you want your behavior to be
as perfect as your music.
:54:11
Every slip is a fall, a catastrophe,
resulting in irreparable contamination.
:54:15
- I am contaminated...
- lf only you were!
:54:17
To be in debt to one's own senses...
:54:19
for a condition
which is irredeemably corrupt and sick.
:54:23
What joy for an artist!
:54:30
Think what a dry
and arid thing good health is.
:54:34
Especially if it's of the soul
no less than the body.
:54:38
I have to find my balance somehow.
:54:41
How unfortunate that art is so indifferent
to personal morality...
:54:45
otherwise you would be supreme,
unreachable, inimitable.
:54:53
Tell me, do you know what lies
at the bottom of the mainstream?
:54:59
Mediocrity.
:55:13
You are leaving us tomorrow, sir?
:55:15
Yes, tomorrow.
Unforeseen circumstances.
:55:20
- An unexpected obligation.
- I understand, sir.
:55:25
I have to return to Munich.
:55:27
I heard the news this morning.
It's unavoidable.
:55:33
Also, I'm not very well and...
:55:37
- this climate is...
- Yes, sir.
:55:40
...most trying for my health.
- I understand, sir.
:55:43
Will you have my luggage
sent on tomorrow, and any letters?
:55:47
Of course, sir.
:55:49
And have my bill made out immediately.
:55:52
As you wish, Mr. Aschenbach.
The bill of Mr. Aschenbach, immediately.
:55:56
- Thank you.
- I will have it right down.
:55:59
Yes, thank you.