:30:01
and then used like butter
on bread and toast.
:30:04
Sounds like something
you'd feed the dog.
:30:06
Yes, it is.
Only the poorest families ever et it.
:30:09
We used to keep ours
in a large, blue crockery jar.
:30:14
Your family ate,
uh, dripping?
:30:18
Oh, of course not.
No, no.
:30:20
As I said,
only the poorest families.
:30:24
Oh, God, is ironic.
:30:29
What is?
:30:30
I've spent much of my life
outrunning the past,
:30:36
and now it floods
all over me.
:30:39
There's something about
the openness of your face that
makes me want to tell the truth.
:30:43
Yes, our family
et dripping.
:30:47
Beef dripping.
:30:50
And four to a bed.
:30:52
And a privy out back
in the alley.
:30:55
Are you also from the slums,
Mr. Boone?
:30:58
Well, we weren't rich,
but w-w-we weren't poor either.
:31:02
No, well, you were
middle-class, hmm?
:31:04
Like all Americans,
hmm?
:31:06
Well, I don't know.
I guess you could say we lived
on the wrong side of the tracks.
:31:12
Well, in Dudley,
in the north of England,
:31:14
there were more sides to the tracks
than any American could imagine.
:31:18
Every Englishman
knows his place,
:31:20
and if you forget,
there's always someone to remind you.
:31:22
Our family had no doubt
about who they were,
:31:25
but I was an aberration
in that household, a freak of nature.
:31:30
I had imagination,
cleverness, joy.
:31:34
Now, where did I get that?
:31:39
Certainly not from them.
:31:44
They took me out of school
when I was 14...
:31:47
and put me in a factory.
:31:50
They meant no harm.
:31:53
They were like a family of farmers
who've been given a giraffe...
:31:57
and don't know what to do
with the creature except
to harness him to the plow.