:36:15
PATTON: Rommel's out there somewhere,
waiting for me.
:36:18
JENSON:
Yes, sir.
:36:21
PATTON:
You know. . .
:36:23
. . .if I had my way, I'd send
that genius son of a bitch. . .
:36:28
. . .an engraved invitation
in iambic pentameter:
:36:32
A challenge in two stanzas
to meet me alone in the desert.
:36:36
I'll deliver it.
:36:41
Rommel in his tank and me in mine.
:36:44
We'd stop about 20 paces.
We'd get out, we'd shake hands. . .
:36:49
. . .then we'd button up and do battle,
just the two of us.
:36:53
That battle would decide
the outcome of the war.
:36:57
It's too bad jousting's
gone out of style.
:37:01
It's like your poetry, general.
:37:03
It isn't part of the 20th century.
:37:06
You're right, Dick.
:37:09
The world grew up.
:37:12
Hell of a shame.
:37:16
Dick, I want a 24-hour guard
put around this area.
:37:20
lf we don't, the Arabs will dig
them up for their clothes.
:37:22
Yes, sir.
:37:24
Our graves aren't gonna disappear
like everybody else's who fought here.
:37:28
The Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians.
:37:35
God, how I hate the 20th century.