:29:00
They create beauty.
:29:03
And beauty is the enemy.
:29:06
Artists are escapists.
:29:09
Artists are counter-
revolutionary,
:29:12
and so you are a counter-
revolutionary, Reinaldo Arenas,
:29:16
and you know why?
:29:20
Because there's a man
that cannot govern
:29:24
the terrain called beauty,
so he wants to eliminate it.
:29:27
So, here we are, 400 years
of Cuban culture
:29:30
about to become extinct
and everybody applauds.
:29:34
And what happened to your lip?
:29:36
I found somebody who doesn't
like French music, that's all.
:29:39
Be careful.
Be careful.
:29:41
No, no, no.
Keep it--
:29:43
He would love for you
to have it.
:29:47
There are 150 books that
contain everything
:29:50
that literature has to offer.
:29:52
You read them and you don't have
to read anything else.
:29:55
So which book would
be the first?
:29:56
"The Bible."
You have to read the Bible.
:29:59
Oh, croquettes.
Ooh, María Luisa.
:30:06
These croquettes don't stick
to the roof of your mouth.
:30:13
They are delicious.
:30:14
What kind are they?
:30:15
I n this country, you don't
ask that question.
:30:16
We're all being placed
on an international diet.
:30:19
Let's go back
to the Bible,
:30:20
it's far
more interesting.
:30:22
Now, I don't mean
to convert you.
:30:25
Just read it like a novel.
:30:27
I tell you what, I'm going
to give you five books--
:30:30
Correction, I'm going to lend
you five books.
:30:33
You return them,
then I'll give you five more.
:30:36
"Moby Dick," Melville,
:30:38
Robert Lewis Stevenson's
"Treasure lsland,"
:30:41
Proust's,
"Remembrance of Things Past"
:30:43
Kafka's "Metamorphosis,"
:30:45
Flaubert's,
"Sentimental Education."
:30:48
María Luisa,
coffee please.
:30:52
One, two, three--
:30:53
four, five.
:30:57
Reinaldo, I don't mean
to be presumptuous,