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a year ago, when you were returning
from Paris with your parents.
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And here you were again,
affecting him the same way.
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How coincidental.
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- Smitten.
- Smitten!
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That's the word he used.
He said he was smitten by you.
:38:12
Fascinating.
:38:13
- That's my point.
- No, thank you.
:38:17
Leading up to
your own indecent proposal.
:38:20
I didn't make any proposal.
:38:21
No, but you discussed me with him.
:38:23
Yes.
:38:25
And money came up
in the discussion?
:38:27
Money always comes up in discussions
with the Count.
:38:29
- Did he say he wanted to meet me?
- Yes, he did.
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And what did you say?
:38:33
I said I was sure you'd be fascinated
with the stories he has to tell.
:38:37
And you'd enjoy exposing yourself
to someone as accomplished as he is.
:38:42
Is that the phrase you used,
"exposing" myself?
:38:44
That's not the point.
Then he said something like...
:38:48
he said he would like to give you,
as a token of his appreciation...
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for your loveliness, $100,000.
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Which I assume you assume
I would give to you.
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- I hadn't thought that far ahead.
- Take a shot, stretch your mind.
:39:05
Well, if you force me to think about it...
:39:07
I'd probably say since you're
in pretty good shape financially...
:39:11
and I'm just getting started,
you might want to front it to me.
:39:14
That's not the point. Anybody can get
money. I could with my eyes closed.
:39:18
That's not what I'm about here.
I'm a mentor. I'm not a hustler.
:39:23
I'm a conduit. I'm a circuit.
Listen, listen to me very carefully.
:39:28
My whole mission
on this planet right now...
:39:30
in relation to you,
is to introduce you to yourself.
:39:32
You know that.
You're a deeply sexual human being.
:39:36
You have major erotic power.
:39:38
The easiest thing,
and the most selfish...
:39:41
would be to convince you
to limit yourself to one person.
:39:45
That'd suffocate you and be ignoble
of me. A hustler would do that...
:39:50
I refuse to hustle. I want to lead you
down the path of Ovid and Sappho.
:39:55
D.H. Lawrence.
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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To say nothing of
the whole hip-hop revolution.