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Well, I say, why not bring it out
in the open?
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Why does one decide to marry?
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Social pressure?
Boredom? Loneliness?
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Sexual appeasement?
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Love?
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I won't put any of these reasons down.
:50:19
Each in its own way is adequate.
Each is all right.
:50:21
Last year I married a musician who wanted
to get married in order to stop masturbating.
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Please, don't be startled.
I'm not putting him down.
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That marriage did not work.
:50:32
But the man tried.
:50:34
He is now separated,
still masturbating...
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but he is at peace
with himself...
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because he tried society's way.
:50:42
So, you see, it was not a mistake.
It turned out all right.
:50:45
Now, just last month I married
a novelist to a painter.
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Everyone at the wedding ceremony was under
the influence of an hallucinogenic drug.
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The drug quickened
our mental responses...
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slowed our physical responses...
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and the whole ceremony
took two days to perform.
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Never have the words had
such meaning.
:51:06
Now, that marriage should last.
:51:10
Still, if it does not,
well, that'll be all right.
:51:13
For don't you see, any step
that one takes is useful, is positive...
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has to be positive
because it's a part of life.
:51:19
Even the negation of the previously
taken step is positive.
:51:22
That too is a part of life.
And in this light... and only in this light...
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should marriage be viewed
as a small, single step.
:51:31
If it works, fine.
:51:33
If it fails, fine.
Look elsewhere for satisfaction.
:51:37
To more marriages, fine.
As many as one wants. Fine.
:51:39
To homosexuality? Fine.
To drug addiction?
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I will not put it down. Each of these
is an answer for somebody.
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For Alfred,
today's answer is Patricia.
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For Patricia,
today's answer is Alfred.
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I will not put them down for that.
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So what I implore you both...
Patricia and Alfred...