:56:02
You really made sense to me.
:56:06
I thought a lot.
:56:08
Those are human truths.
That's what it's all about.
:56:10
And that's what we deal with here.
:56:13
See the book you have, Thomas Wolfe?
:56:15
It's all about self-discovery,
the inner voyage.
:56:20
I like the end...
:56:23
...where Eugene's journey was really...
:56:26
...mystical, you know?
:56:28
It was almost like a pilgrimage.
:56:32
Almost like a cop-out, if you ask me.
:56:34
Though those were the facts of Wolfe's life.
:56:38
The novel is what you would call
a roman à clef.
:56:40
You know what that is?
:56:43
Sure.
:56:45
Well, nonetheless, you can't escape
your demons just by leaving home.
:56:49
Although writers do find new freedom
when they relocate abroad.
:56:52
Take Henry Miller.
Have you read his trilogy?
:56:55
Plexus, Nexus and Sexus?
:56:58
-You haven't read that?
-No.
:57:01
You're missing something.
:57:03
You know what?
I did read Tropic of Cancer.
:57:08
Just parts of it, though...
:57:09
...because I had to sneak it off
my parents' shelf, you know?
:57:14
His descriptions are pretty vivid,
I would say.
:57:18
In one of the novels, I don't recall which...
:57:20
...he describes an erection
as a piece of lead with wings on it.
:57:24
-I didn't read that part.
-Of course not. You're not allowed.
:57:27
Your parents don't want you
to achieve adulthood.
:57:30
They know the pitfalls of adulthood,
all that freedom.
:57:33
They know it only too well.
:57:36
Temptation to stray,
deflecting their guilt and anger onto you...
:57:39
...for a crime that's not even a crime,
for smoking grass.
:57:47
Wait a second.
:57:50
Where are you from?
:57:53
Where am I from?
:57:54
-Yeah.
-Where do you think I'm from?
:57:56
I don't know, but...
:57:58
If I told you, you going to get mad at me?