:13:00
and though
I wish I had the time...
:13:02
this was not
a previously scheduled meeting.
:13:03
You think I'm nothing.
:13:05
I have an appointment
with a realtor and my wife.
:13:07
- You think I'm stupid.
- No, I certainly do not.
:13:10
- You said it. You did.
- When? No, I never did.
:13:12
Or never would say that
to a student.
:13:15
You said,
"What can that mean?"
:13:17
"What can that mean?"
:13:20
What did that mean to you?
:13:21
That I'm stupid
and I'll never learn.
:13:23
That's what that meant,
and you're right.
:13:25
But, then,
what am I doing here?
:13:27
If you thought I...
:13:28
Nobody wants me,
and nobody tells me anything.
:13:30
And I sit there
in the corner in the back...
:13:33
and everybody's talking
about this all the time...
:13:35
and concepts and precepts and...
:13:38
What in the world
are you talking about?
:13:42
And I read your book...
:13:43
and they said,
"Fine, go in that class"...
:13:44
because you talked about
responsibility to the young.
:13:47
I don't know what it means,
and I'm failing.
:13:49
- Maybe...
- No, you're right.
:13:51
I failed. Flunk me out.
It's garbage.
:13:54
Everything I do...
:13:55
"The ideas
contained in this work...
:13:56
"express the author's feelings."
:13:59
That's right.
:14:00
I know I'm stupid.
I know what I am.
:14:03
I know what I am, Professor.
You don't have to tell me.
:14:06
It's pathetic, isn't it?
:14:07
Uh-huh. Sit down.
:14:11
Sit down, please?
:14:12
Please, sit down.
:14:13
- Why?
- I want to talk to you.
:14:16
- Why?
- Just sit down, please.
:14:19
Sit down!
:14:20
Will you, please?
:14:26
What?
:14:28
I know what
you're talking about.
:14:30
No, you don't.
:14:31
- I think I do.
- How can you?
:14:33
I'll tell you a story
about myself.
:14:35
Do you mind?
:14:37
I was raised
to think myself stupid.
:14:39
What do you mean?
:14:40
Just what I said.
I was brought up...
:14:43
and my earliest and
most persistent memories...
:14:45
are of being told
that I was stupid.
:14:48
"You have such intelligence.
:14:49
"Why must
you behave so stupidly?"
:14:51
Or "Can't you understand?"
:14:53
And I could not understand.
:14:55
What?
:14:57
The simplest problem
was beyond me.
:14:59
It was a mystery.