:07:02
No, they're just having breakfast.
T.B. is Theodore Banner.
:07:06
You know, the owner of Banner House,
the fellow publishing your little book?
:07:10
That's his portrait, there.
:07:15
[ Vikki ] Forgive me if we kept you
waiting, but Barbara hit a storm...
:07:18
on her way down from Maine.
:07:20
- So you've come down from Maine, huh?
- You remember, C.B.
:07:23
Miss Novak is
the farmer's daughter librarian...
:07:26
who spent the long,
cold New England winter...
:07:29
writing her manuscript
by the light of a lonely oil lamp.
:07:33
I'm at a loss here, ladies.
:07:34
I'm afraid I don't know exactly
what Miss Novak's book is about.
:07:39
Miss Novak's book is a serious work
of nonfiction entitled--
:07:43
Vikki, excuse me.
It's right behind you.
:07:45
Would you mind pouring me
a cup of coffee?
:07:50
It's a serious work of nonfiction...
:07:52
entitled Down With Love.
:07:55
- This is empty.
- If you're making a fresh pot,
I'll have a cup.
:07:58
- Count me in.
- Likewise.
:08:00
- Ditto.
- None for me, Vikki.
:08:02
- Thanks, R.J.
- I'll have a Sanka.
:08:08
As I was saying, the central thesis
of Miss Novak's book, Down With Love...
:08:12
is that women will never be happy
until they become...
:08:15
independent as individuals by achieving
equal participation in the workforce.
:08:20
And how do you propose
women do this, Miss Novak?
:08:23
By saying, ''Down with love.''
:08:27
Love is a distraction.
:08:29
If women were to stop falling in love,
it would mean the end of the human race.
:08:32
Not at all.
:08:34
I said women should refrain
from love, C.W....
:08:38
not sex.
:08:40
Isn't that the same thing?
:08:44
I mean, for women.
:08:46
It won't be, after they've mastered the
three levels I've outlined in my book...
:08:50
that will teach any woman
to live life the way a man does.
:08:53
Level one instructs women
to abstain from men altogether...
:08:58
so they'll stop thinking that
the pleasures experienced during
the sex act are related to love.