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ever, the real me.
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- [Cheering]
- That's right.
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Ahem. [British Accent]
I'm actually British.
:37:16
And though I dabble in clowning,
I do find it so boorish,
:37:19
so... American.
:37:23
I prefer the fine arts,
henceforth, today...
:37:25
I am going to grace you
with a reading...
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of one of the greatest
novels ever written,
:37:30
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
:37:33
[Scattered Laughing]
:37:37
Please.
:37:41
"In my younger
and more vulnerable years,
:37:43
my father gave me some advice
that I've been turning over
in my mind ever since.
:37:47
'Whenever you feel
like criticizing anyone,'
he told me,
:37:50
- [Man] Latka!
- 'just remember that all
the people of this world...
:37:52
- Latka!
- haven't had the advantages
that you've had.'
:37:54
But he'd always been unusually
communicative in a reserved way,
:37:57
- [Shouting]
- and I understood
that he meant...
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- a great deal more than that."
- [Shouting Continues]
:38:05
[Audience Quiets, Laughing]
:38:09
[As Latka]
Thank you very much.
:38:11
[All]
Yeah!
:38:17
- "In consequence,
- [Moaning]
:38:19
I'm inclined
to reserve all judgments,
:38:21
- a habit that has opened up
many curious natures to me...
- [Booing]
:38:23
and also made me the victim
of not a few veteran bores."
:38:26
- Oh, come on!
- No, no. No, no.
:38:29
No, no, please keep it down.
We've got a long way to go.
:38:32
"They were the same people,
:38:34
or at least the same sort of people,
the same profusion of--"
:38:38
I tell you what.
:38:40
Would you rather I kept reading,
or do you prefer to hear
the phonograph record?
:38:43
[All]
Record!
:38:45
- I'm sorry. I can't hear you.
- Record!
:38:47
- Are you positive?
- Yeah!
:38:50
- Very well then.
- [Man] Yeah, "Mighty Mouse"!
:38:59
[Andy, British Accent]
"His presence gave the evening
it's quality of oppressiveness.