:43:01
to help somehow ease the suffering.
:43:04
Maybe it's personal pain.
:43:07
At any rate, I don't believe
:43:09
good work is possible without it.
:43:11
Hmm.
:43:13
Well, me, I just enjoy
making things up.
:43:17
Yes, sir. Escape.
:43:20
It's when I can't write
and escape myself,
:43:23
that I want to rip my head off
:43:25
and run screaming through the street
:43:27
with my balls
in a fruit picker's pail.
:43:30
Hmm.
:43:31
This will sometimes help.
:43:33
That doesn't help anything, Bill.
:43:35
I've never found that
to help my writing.
:43:37
Your writing?
:43:39
Son, have you ever heard
the story of Solomon's mammy?
:43:42
Barton, you should read this.
:43:44
I think it's Bill's finest,
:43:46
or among his finest, anyway.
:43:47
So now I'm supposed to roll over
:43:49
and get my belly scratched?
:43:51
Bill.
:43:52
Look, uh...
:43:53
maybe it's none of my business,
:43:55
but don't you think
a man with your talent...
:43:57
your first obligation
is to your gift?
:43:59
Shouldn't you be doing
whatever you have to
:44:02
to work again?
:44:03
What would that be?
:44:04
I don't know.
:44:06
But with that drink,
:44:07
you're cutting yourself
off from your gift
:44:09
and your fellow man
:44:10
and everything your art is about.
:44:12
Oh, no, son.
:44:14
I'm building a levee...
:44:15
gulp by gulp,
brick by brick...
:44:18
Putting up a levee
:44:19
to keep that raging river of manure
:44:22
from lapping at my door.
:44:23
Maybe you better, too, Barton,
:44:24
before you get buried
under his manure.
:44:27
My honey pretends
to be impatient with me,
:44:29
but she'll put up with anything.
:44:31
Not anything, Bill.
:44:32
Don't test me.
:44:33
You're lucky she puts up with you
as much as she does.
:44:37
Maybe to a schoolboy's eyes.
:44:39
People who know about
the human heart, though,
:44:41
maybe they'd say,
"Bill over here,
:44:43
he gives his honey love,
:44:44
and she pays him back with pity,
:44:47
the basest coin there is."
:44:48
Pøestaò, Bille.
:44:50
"Pryè jsou ty dny,"
:44:52
"kdy mé srdce bylo mladé a veselé"
:44:56
"Pryè jsou mí pøátelé"
:44:59
"z bavlnìných polí"