:13:01
Foxhill!
:13:03
Foxhill!
:13:04
She loves feeding our wicked lady.
Foxhill's rather a brute.
:13:08
Such an extravagance, really,
from early fall to late spring...
:13:11
...lady must be kept under glass...
:13:13
...and we have to provide her
with flies flown in at great expense.
:13:17
Foxhill, you do the honours.
:13:19
- Lady's very hungry today.
- Of course, Mrs. Venable.
:13:23
I've never seen an insectivorous
plant before. What is it called?
:13:27
The Venus flytrap.
:13:29
A devouring organism...
:13:31
...aptly named
for the goddess of love.
:13:35
What was your son's work?
I mean, aside from this garden.
:13:39
As many times as I've had
to answer that question...
:13:42
...it still shocks me
a little to realize...
:13:44
...that Sebastian Venable the poet
was quite unknown...
:13:47
...outside of a small coterie
of friends, including his mother.
:13:50
- Your son was a poet?
- His life was his occupation.
:13:54
Yes. Yes, Sebastian was a poet.
:13:56
That's what I meant
when I said his life was his work.
:14:00
Because the work of a poet
is the life of a poet. And vice versa.
:14:04
I mean, you can't separate them.
I mean...
:14:07
...a poet's life is his work.
:14:10
And his work is his life,
in a special sense.
:14:18
- Are you all right?
- Right as rain, however right that is.
:14:22
This operation of yours,
does it really work?
:14:25
Yes, yes, it does.
:14:27
However, it is very experimental.
:14:29
I was struck by something
you said in the paper.
:14:33
About the sharp knife in the mind.
:14:36
That kills the devil in the soul?
:14:39
I'm afraid I got a bit carried away.
:14:42
No, what you said
was almost poetic itself.
:14:47
Mrs. Venable, the work
of a doctor is his life too.
:14:51
But we need help, particularly
in a field as experimental as mine.
:14:56
Particularly at a state hospital
like Lions View.