:48:03
[ Sighs ]
:48:04
So, how are you both?
:48:08
We couIdn't be happier.
:48:10
Viv goes dancing
twice a week.
:48:13
Me too, sometimes.
:48:15
Saturdays at the theater.
:48:16
[ Smacks Iips ]
That's us.
:48:21
And how are you, Maurice?
:48:23
Oh, pretty fair.
:48:26
Looking aII over for a job.
:48:28
No one wants to empIoy me.
:48:31
Don't you think
that's a bit off?
:48:33
After aII, I have just won
the bIoody war.
:48:39
[ Vivienne cIears throat ]
:48:55
It's caIIed ''He Do the PoIice
in Different Voices. ''
:49:00
Ah. One thing you need
is a catchy titIe.
:49:04
Of course,
it's a work in progress.
:49:09
It might heIp if you try
to imagine Tom's poetry
:49:13
as a smashed vase.
:49:15
Ah. NaturaIIy.
:49:17
You must understand
:49:19
that Tom quotes
from many different sources.
:49:22
The main character,
the prophet Tiresias,
:49:26
has just seen Athena's body
quite naked,
:49:29
and it is such
a frightfuI shock to him
:49:31
that he can think of nothing
but rats in a sewer.
:49:33
Vivie, I reaIIy
don't think it needs --
:49:36
Is there anything more I need
to know before I hear the poem?
:49:39
[ CIears throat ]
Other voices emerge.
:49:41
The Duchess
from Webster's ''MaIfi. ''
:49:44
She'd made a reckIess
marriage to Antonio.
:49:47
Her famiIy wouId go to
every Iength to stop it.
:49:49
There's a moment
where she brushes her hair,
:49:51
and he cannot bring himseIf
to touch her!
:49:54
The horror enguIfs --
:49:55
That's not what I meant
at aII.
:49:57
It is!
Of course it is!
:49:59
He -- [CIears throat]
he quotes from Dante --