Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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1:11:22
- This is quicksand I'm on.
- Why?

1:11:26
Because there is no reason
1:11:28
for a conversation like this to happen.
1:11:30
To talk about a person's ideas
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and end up
with the same ending every time--

1:11:35
maybe we should split up.
1:11:37
I've heard you enough.
1:11:39
Now, listen, I'm hurt by that.
1:11:42
And I'm constantly hurt
by that when you're stoned.

1:11:45
I'm hurt that you won't submit to me.
1:11:46
- I'm very hurt that you won't--
- That wasn't the issue.

1:11:49
I can barely breathe half the time--
1:11:51
That's all I wanted and you won't do it.
1:11:54
Look at how you've changed.
This is not about submission.

1:11:56
I've been thinking
about that for a long time.

1:11:58
When you're not stoned,
let's talk about it.

1:12:00
But that's another issue.
1:12:02
I told you
it's been in my mind for a while now.

1:12:05
- About the fact that we don't--
- It's been on both our minds.

1:12:09
So it wasn't just this evening--
1:12:12
- No, but you brought it up now.
- It just reminded me of it.

1:12:14
We've discussed it before.
It's been on both our minds.

1:12:17
How do we get this back
in a relationship

1:12:19
where one of the parties
can barely breathe?

1:12:21
And I have lots to think about.
I'm dying.

1:12:24
Where is that coming from?
1:12:26
If you still love me,
you'd submit to me.

1:12:33
- What is the matter with you?
- Well...

1:12:36
But I'm saying
I'd like to have that prerogative.

1:12:39
You gave it to me 15 years ago.
1:12:43
So what's the problem now?
1:12:45
'Cause you're not submissive to me now.
1:12:46
I'm not submissive to anybody.
I love you.

1:12:49
But I think I need you
to be submissive to me.

1:12:51
Why?
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Psychologically,
I really, really need it.


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