:17:01
Clark, why don't you
go away?
:17:04
- Why don't you relax?
- Why don't you go away?
:17:06
-I'm just havin' fun with my new friend.
-Are we gonna have a problem?
:17:09
No, no, no, no.
There's no problem here.
:17:11
I was just hoping you might give me
some insight into the evolution...
:17:15
of the market economy
in the southern colonies.
:17:18
My contention is that
prior to the Revolutionary War,
the economic modalities--
:17:23
especially
in the southern colonies--
:17:26
could most aptly
be characterized as...
:17:28
- agrarian precapitalist.
- Let me tell you somethin'.
:17:30
Of course that's your contention.
You're a first-year grad student.
:17:33
You just got finished readin'
some Marxian historian--
Pete Garrison, probably--
:17:37
You're gonna be convinced of that till
next month when you get to James Lemon.
:17:39
Then you're gonna be talkin'
about how the economies
of Virginia and Pennsylvania...
:17:42
were entrepreneurial
and capitalist way back in 1740.
:17:45
That's gonna last until
next year. You're gonna be in
here regurgitatin' Gordon Wood,
:17:48
talkin' about, you know,
the prerevolutionary utopia...
:17:51
and the capital-forming effects
of military mobilization.
:17:54
[ Scoffs ] Well,
as a matter of fact, I won't,
:17:56
because Wood drastically
underestimates the impact of--
:18:00
Wood drastically underestimates
the impact of social distinctions...
:18:03
predicated upon wealth,
especially inherited wealth.
:18:06
You got that from Vickers'
Work in Essex County. Page 98, right?
:18:10
I read that too. Were you gonna
plagiarize the whole thing for us?
:18:13
Do you have any thoughts
of your own on this matter?
:18:16
Or is that your thing? You come into
a bar. You read some obscure passage.
:18:19
Then pretend--
pawn it off as your own.
:18:22
As your own idea just to impress
some girls? Embarrass my friend?
:18:26
See, the sad thing about a guy like
you is, in 50 years,
:18:29
you're gonna start doin'
some thinkin' on your own.
:18:31
You're gonna come up with the fact that
there are two certainties in life.
:18:34
One: Don't do that.
:18:36
And two: You dropped 150 grand
on a fuckin' education...
:18:39
you could've got for $1.50
in late charges at the public library.
:18:42
[ Chuckling ]
:18:44
Yeah, but
I will have a degree,
:18:46
and you'll be servin' my kids
fries at a drive through
on our way to a skiing trip.
:18:51
Maybe, but at least
I won't be unoriginal.
:18:54
If you have a problem with that,
we could step outside.
We could figure it out.
:18:59
No, man, there's no problem.
It's cool.