:04:02
so that there should be no ill feeling.
:04:04
What it shows is that a kind of belief
is innate in all of us.
:04:07
At some point
most of us lose that...
:04:09
after which it can only be regained
by a conscious act of faith.
:04:12
You've experienced that?
:04:14
Uh, no, I haven't.
:04:16
I-I hope to someday.
:04:18
Actually, it wasn't my cab. I was just there
waiting for the light to change when it pulled up.
:04:22
- I never take cabs.
- You never take cabs?
:04:24
No, I either walk
or take public transportation.
:04:27
- Why?
- A lot of reasons.
:04:29
So you're one of those
public transportation snobs.
:04:32
- You look down on people who take taxis.
- No, not at all.
:04:36
That's how New York's seen,
at least in the popular imagination.
:04:40
I don't think that there is
a popular imagination.
:04:43
- What do you mean?
-Just that.
:04:45
I don't think that there is
a popular imagination.
:04:48
- Pomfret. Where did you go?
- Farmington.
:04:50
Both of us did.
:04:52
Did you know Serena Slocum there?
:04:54
- ( Chuckles ) The inevitable question.
- What?
:04:56
All the guys ask that. Serena had
an incredible number of boyfriends. At least 20.
:05:01
She could manage it because
they were all at different schools...
:05:04
and she wrote letters
incredibly quickly.
:05:06
Three in a single study hall.
She became really famous.
:05:09
It's incredible how naive some guys are.
How do you know Serena?
:05:12
Actually, that might give someone
the wrong impression.
:05:15
She wrote a lot of guys, but I'm sure
she liked some a lot more than others.
:05:18
Oh, you think so? I never noticed that.
How do you know Serena?
:05:23
I was one of her boyfriends.
:05:25
Oh.
You must be Pomfret.
:05:28
- Your letters were really good.
- Yes.
:05:30
- What do you mean?
- They were interesting.
:05:32
Serena let you read my letters?
:05:34
No. She read them aloud.
:05:37
I can't believe it.
:05:39
She only read us the ones
that she thought were really good.
:05:41
Or really bad.
But yours were really good.
:05:43
There was no suggestion of ridicule, if that's
what's worrying you. At least not that I can recall.
:05:47
I remember a long letter you wrote Serena
about agrarian socialism.
:05:50
I think it was one of the first things
to set Alice Dreyer off about Marxism.
:05:53
Since then she's joined
the Red Underground Army.
:05:56
If she blows herself up,
it'll be your fault.
:05:58
It's actually surprising
to see you at something like this.