:26:00
in our affairs ?
:26:03
It seems a particular
patient of yours...
has captured his fancy.
:26:13
I understand
he practices the very crimes
he preaches in his fiction.
:26:18
Certainly not here.
:26:20
- There were a few
indiscretions in his youth.
- "Indiscretions" ?
:26:24
Abbe, please,
I have read his case history.
:26:27
At 16, he violated
a servant girl with a crucifix.
:26:31
After six months in a dungeon,
he mutilated a prostitute,
:26:34
carving her flesh with a razor
and cauterizing the wounds
with hot wax.
:26:39
I hope you'll judge him
by his progress here,
:26:41
- No !
- not his past reputation.
:26:43
I can't go on like this.
Why should this be happening to me ?
:26:48
Once again, gentlemen.
:26:50
I'm just a lowly cobbler.
:26:53
I have been all my life.
:26:55
And with this shoe,
I'm asking you to be a cobbler's wife.
:27:00
It's a dreadful play,
a festering pustule
on the face of literature.
:27:06
Why, the parchment it's written upon
isn't worthy to wipe my ass.
:27:11
But you need not make it worse.
Say your lines with conviction,
my happy little shoemaker.
:27:16
- Like a true actor.
- But I'm not an actor.
I'm a dyspeptic.
:27:20
Just seduce her,
you goon !
:27:23
He's actually made a great success
of our little theater.
:27:26
There's seldom an empty seat,
not to mention its therapeutic value.
:27:31
Playing dress-up
with cretins...
:27:33
sounds like a symptom
of madness, not a cure.
:27:36
Homo perversio:
a species that thrives in captivity.
:27:39
Marquis, this is Dr. Royer-Collard.
He's joining us here in-
:27:42
An advisory capacity.
:27:45
Welcome to our humble
madhouse, Doctor.
:27:48
I trust you'll
find yourself at home.
:27:51
There he is, the new doctor.
:27:53
Tell me, Abbe, why is he in your care
and not a proper prison ?
:27:57
- His wife's influence.
- " His wife's" ?