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"We know we have fallen,
because we know who we are."
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-When were you in Paris?
-That's beside the point.
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But did they listen to me?
Of course not.
:57:13
-You okay, Fay?
-No, I'm not okay.
:57:17
Your poem brought my period
on a week and a half early.
:57:20
So, just shut up.
Everybody, just shut up!
:57:23
-Simon, can I have your autograph?
-Never let yourself be flattered.
:57:29
-What of your friend, the publisher?
-Who?
:57:33
-Angus James.
-How about sending the poem to him?
:57:36
Because it's not done yet.
:57:39
When is it gonna
be done, Simon?
:57:42
-I don't know.
-You ought to be home writing.
:57:44
-Instead of hanging with groupies.
-I'm not a groupie.
:57:48
-Pardon me. Is this your laptop?
-The thing to do is to send...
:57:52
parts of it to different magazines
and literary channels first.
:57:56
-You know, substantiate it.
-What scatological mean?
:57:59
A preoccupation with excrement.
Why?
:58:02
That's what the Board of Education
called Simon's poem yesterday.
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-Hello.
-Yeah. I'm listening.
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I'm Edna Rodriguez and I write for
the "Queens County Examiner."
:58:19
I was just wondering if I can
have a word with Simon Grim?
:58:26
Simon!
:58:30
You can't talk too long with him,
because he writes all day.
:58:35
That's all he does. Can you believe
that? Simon, get down here!
:58:40
Simon, Edna.
She's from the newspaper.
:58:42
The parent's association is
calling your poem pornography.
:58:47
The teachers are defending
the students' rights to exercise...
:58:50
critical taste and sensibility. The
county agrees with the church and...
:58:54
considers the poem emblematic of
modern society's moral...
:58:56
disintegration. How do you feel
about these reactions to your poem?