:48:01
You want a cookie?
I made them myself.
:48:04
No, thanks.
:48:20
Well, why don't we
just wade in?
:48:24
No.
:48:28
I want to know
how this happened to you.
:48:31
Did you drop out of school?
:48:33
Were you smoking dope or what?
:48:35
Where was your family?
Where were your teachers?
:48:39
Well...
:48:42
my father was
a tableware salesman...
:48:46
silver plate stuff,
not real sterling.
:48:49
He went all over the country,
and I went with him.
:48:51
Lived in motels, went to
a different school every month.
:48:56
Most of the time
I didn't even know...
:48:57
what state of the union
I was in.
:49:01
I'd stay up late looking at
old westerns with John Wayne...
:49:05
or playing two-handed poker
with my father...
:49:07
or listening to people fighting
in the next room.
:49:13
And in the morning,
I'd eat a cold doughnut...
:49:16
and find a seat in the last row
of the classroom...
:49:18
and slide down on my tail bone
and just sleep.
:49:20
Somebody would say, "Hey, you!"
:49:23
I'd open up an eye,
and they'd say...
:49:27
"Where's the mouth
of the Mississippi?"
:49:29
And I'd scratch my head,
and they'd say, "Next!"
:49:32
And I'd go back to sleep.
:49:35
And when I woke up,
I'd be in a different school.
:49:42
That's how it went.
It just all went by me.
:49:45
I've been...
:49:48
a big dummy ever since.