:57:00
Whoa! ls this dissension
in the ranks?
:57:03
Should I do my reading
from this tonight?
:57:05
No. No readings this Thanksgiving.
Nobody even likes the readings.
:57:10
- It's just gonna be us.
- And Jordan.
:57:13
Wait a minute. You're gonna buck
26 years of tradition?
:57:16
You're gonna take away Frost and Whitman
and all those other exciting dead guys?
:57:19
- Are you feeling all right?
- Shut up.
:57:21
You are not going to believe
who is downstairs with Harold.
:57:25
Oliver Most...
:57:27
poet laureate, in our house.
:57:33
- What is that book?
- Oh, it's mine.
:57:36
Ellen, could you put up, like, some
hors d'oeuvres or something for them?
:57:41
Are they staying?
:57:42
Yeah.
:57:48
- Hmm.
- Uh-huh. Great.
:57:52
- Dad?
- Yeah.
:57:55
lt was just supposed
to be Jordan and us, just family.
:58:00
Well, I mean...
:58:04
They have no place else to go.
Oliver is down from Harvard
for a book-signing tour.
:58:08
He's all by himself. Come on. You know
your mother loves Oliver Most's work.
:58:12
You promised.
:58:14
Well, I can't very well
disinvite them now, can I?
:58:18
And we could all use a little
holiday cheer around here now.
:58:21
Couldn't we?
:58:32
Get up!
:58:35
- Okay. Thank you.
- Oh, Ellen. You did this?
:58:39
- Oh, Ellie.
- You don't have to be
concerned with things like that.
:58:42
- There's plenty of time.
- I have to pay
my father when I get back.
:58:45
- I don't know if I feel good about it.
- Would you like some wine?
:58:48
Well, you know,
there is plenty of time.
:58:50
A writer writes something.
He calls his friend. He says...
:58:54
"I'm finished writing a little
something, and it's not very good.
:58:57
In fact, it's terrible.
The worse part about it is
it's the best thing I can do.,,