:18:00
God, how do I go about this?
:18:03
I understand
you just separated from your wife.
:18:06
I left her a dozen times.
:18:09
She left me a dozen times.
:18:12
We stayed through a process of attrition.
Obviously, sadomasochistic dependency.
:18:18
My home is hell.
:18:20
We've got a 23-year-old boy.
I threw him out of the house last year.
:18:25
A shaggy-haired Maoist.
:18:28
I don't know where he is.
:18:31
Presumably, building bombs in basements
as an expression of universal brotherhood.
:18:37
I've got a 17-year-old daughter
who's had two abortions in two years...
:18:42
got arrested last week at a rock festival,
for pushing drugs.
:18:46
They let her go.
:18:50
The typical affluent American family.
:18:55
I don't mean to be facile about this.
:19:00
I blame myself
for those two useless young people.
:19:03
I never exercised parental authority.
I'm no good at that.
:19:08
Oh, God, I'm no good at this, either.
:19:11
Let's just forget the whole thing.
I'm sorry I bothered you.
:19:14
How serious are your suicidal speculations?
:19:20
I amuse myself with different ways
of killing myself that don't look like suicide.
:19:24
I wouldn't want to do my family
out of the insurance.
:19:27
Digitalis will give you an arrhythmia.
:19:31
A good toxologist would find traces.
:19:34
Potassium's much better.
60 milli-equivalent. Instantaneous.
:19:38
Then you're stuck
with how to get rid of the hypodermic.
:19:41
Forty milli-equivalent.
Gives you time to dispose of the evidence.
:19:45
You seem to have given
considerable thought to the matter.
:19:49
You ought to know that a man
who talks about it all the time never does it.
:19:53
I don't know. I see a man exhausted...
:19:56
emotionally drained, riddled with guilt...