:06:02
- Yes.
- The public prosecutor is highly displeased.
:06:06
- Why?
- It is a bad book.
:06:08
- Badly written?
- It is an offensive book.
:06:11
- It will do great harm to public morals.
- Keep quiet.
:06:14
We've been watching your writings,
young man.
:06:17
You're a troublemaker. Your articles,
attacking our leading men of letters...
:06:21
...the arts, criticizing the civic authorities.
:06:25
Perhaps there's something
better for me to criticize?
:06:28
I don't want any of your impudence.
You've got to stop it.
:06:31
This is an official warning.
:06:35
- I hope I won't have to come here again.
- You realize, monsieur...
:06:39
...that his book was not published by me.
:06:41
But it was written by your employee.
That makes you responsible under the law.
:06:48
- Well.
- I didn't mean to get you into trouble.
:06:51
Why do you write such muckraking stuff
when there are many pleasant things in life?
:06:56
And many unpleasant things.
:06:58
That's not your business while you work
for me. I should discharge you...
:07:02
...but I'll give you one more chance.
- Thank you.
:07:05
But from now on, you will tend strictly
to your work and stop writing trash.
:07:11
- What? Is that a bad exchange for a job?
- A very bad exchange, Monsieur La Rue.
:07:20
Here is your pay
up to the end of the month.
:07:25
Get out.
:07:28
- I'm very grateful to you.
- What?
:07:30
For allowing me to devote
all my time to my writing.
:07:33
Then go ahead with your scribbling.
:07:35
And maybe a lean stomach
will teach you better!
:07:38
But a fat stomach sticks out too far,
Monsieur La Rue.
:07:41
It prevents you from seeing
what's going on around you.
:07:44
While you grow fatter and richer
publishing your nauseating confectionary...
:07:49
...I shall become a mole,
digging here, rooting there.
:07:52
Stirring up the whole rotten mess
where life is hard, raw and ugly.
:07:56
You will not like the smell of my books.
Neither will the public prosecutor.