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( Guests Chattering, Laughing )
:15:16
( Guests Chattering, Laughing )
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( Woman )
Hi, Rick.
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What a mystery. Rick Von Sloneker
and Serena Slocum, still together.
:15:25
- Seems like months.
- It has been months.
:15:27
Well, one thing's for certain -
she's lost her virginity by now.
:15:30
- How can you say that?
- You're right. Maybe she wasn't a virgin.
:15:41
- Riffraff.
- He's hardly that.
:15:44
Oh, you mean because of his title.
We're supposed to be impressed by that.
:15:47
On the contrary, I think the titled
aristocracy are the scum of the Earth.
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( Chattering Continues )
:15:54
By Tolstoy, War and Peace...
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and byJane Austen,
Persuasion and Mansfield Park.
:16:00
Mansfield Park?
You've got to be kidding.
:16:02
- No.
- But it's a notoriously bad book.
:16:05
Even Lionel Trilling,
one of her greatest admirers, thought that.
:16:08
Well, if Lionel Trilling thought that,
he's an idiot.
:16:10
( Scoffs ) The whole story
revolves around, what...
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the immorality of a group of young people
putting on a play.
:16:16
In the context of the novel
it makes perfect sense.
:16:19
But the context of the novel,
and nearly everything Jane Austen wrote...
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is near ridiculous
from today's perspective.
:16:24
Has it ever occurred to you that today,
looked at from Jane Austen's perspective...
:16:27
would look even worse?
:16:36
You must be freezing
dressed in that.
:16:38
- It has a lining.
- What kind of lining is it?
:16:42
You gonna wear a raincoat all winter?
:16:44
Princeton's south of here.
I guess it's a lot warmer.
:16:47
No, I just didn't know
where to get a good overcoat.
:16:50
Uh, Brooks,J. Press, Tripler-
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Actually, I haven't had time to buy one.
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( Orchestra; ''The Blue Danube Waltz'')