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American Pastoral Page #6
Say it.
Just say it, Swede.
"I came here to f*** you."
Will you stop all this?
I'm 22.
I do everything.
I do it all.
You're not scared, are you?
A big guy like you can't have met
Pillar.
Pillar of the f***ing community,
Swede Levov.
Come on, let's see the pillar.
- What is the aim of all this?
- To introduce you to reality.
And it ain't going to be no picnic,
jock-o.
I'll tell you where your daughter is.
First we f***,
and then I'll zip up your little fly
and take you to where she is.
My daughter has no part in this.
You're not fit to wipe
my daughter's shoes.
She has nothing to do with you
or the bombing.
There.
Put it right there.
Do you know what size it is?
Let's see what kind of guesser you are.
I'm guessing it's a four.
In ladies', that's as small as they come.
Stick it in.
But slowly,
This has nothing to do with anything.
[Rita] You great, big Boy Scout.
Do you want to know what this has to do
with what's happening?
[moans]
Taste it.
Taste it and you'll know.
Do you want to know
how it tastes?
[imitates stuttering]
It tastes like your daughter.
[]
[toilet flushing]
[horns honking]
[man 1] Get out of the street, clown!
[man 2] What the f*** are you doing?
[horn honks]
When you add it up,
your daughter's a minor,
she's seen a psychologist for years.
That's evidence of mental stress.
That bomb, she plainly
had no intent to kill,
not at that hour in the morning.
Protecting her from us
is not intelligent.
It's pretty unintelligent,
- What is it you want from me?
- Nothing.
The description that you gave
of this girl, Rita Cohen,
if that's her real name, that's fine,
all right? You can go.
Mrs. Levov know
what happened here today?
Yeah, I just called her.
She's disappointed, naturally.
This was our only hope.
on this, Mr. Levov.
You've done everything wrong
you possibly could've.
Since when?
Excuse me?
I've done everything wrong
since when?
That's a question you're gonna have
to answer for yourself, Mr. Levov.
Seymour.
- How long ago did she get here?
- I don't know. I didn't see her come in.
She won't let me near her, poor thing,
and I didn't want to scare her.
Excuse me.
What do I do on Monday?
Dream, dream, dream
What do I do on Tuesday?
Dream, dream, dream
- Wednesday, Thursday...
- Excuse me.
Come and then
- I do the same thing all over again
- Dawn.
Well...
Dawn. Baby, come on.
I do the same thing
all over...
- All right, all right, all right.
- [wailing]
All right. Stop it.
Stop, stop, stop.
All right.
Don't.
[sobbing]
I'm afraid.
I'm frightened.
I'm frightened.
I'm frightened all the time.
It's not time for your medicine.
Dawn. Dawn.
Think of the most pleasant place
you've ever been. Hmm?
Um...
At the... at the shore, in Avon.
It's my uncle's house and...
I'm a girl.
Come on, lie down.
Come on.
And the...
the lifeguards are all...
Catholic boys from Fordham
and Holy Cross.
They'd come down for summer.
And they were all in love with you.
I should have married one of them.
[]
- See you again tomorrow, Mr. Levov.
- Good night.
[reporter on radio]
At one minute before 1:00 this morning,
the switchboard at the U.S. Capitol
received a phone call.
A man's voice said a bomb would go off
in the building in half an hour.
At 1:
30 in the morning, it did,in a small, unmarked restroom
on the ground floor of the Senate side,
next to a barbershop
and near several small offices,
including one
committee hearing room.
For a report on the first serious damage
to the nation's foremost structure
since the British burned it in 1814,
here is congressional correspondent
Lawrence Lawson.
[Lawson] There was alarm for a time
that other bombs
might still be hidden
inside the Capitol.
They're forced to be outlaws
by the way this society is run
and we think they're great.
[reporter on TV] Across the nation,
between January of last year
and April of this year,
a total of 4,330 bombings
have been reported.
[man on megaphone] We're going
to remake this country in the streets.
We've got to build a strong base
and someday we've got to knock
those motherfuckers who control
this thing right on their ass.
Seymour.
Yeah?
The first time I was in Princeton,
I was at the Governor's mansion.
[Seymour] That's right,
just after the contest.
Twenty-one, scared to death.
from Elizabeth in my crown.
I danced in my crown
with the governor of New Jersey...
and I ended up here. How?
How did I end up here?
You.
You.
You wouldn't leave me alone.
Had to marry me.
That's what I wanted.
To teach kids music
in the school system...
and be left alone by boys.
That's it.
Miss Union County...
Miss crazy New Jersey...
Miss America.
I wanted a scholarship.
I wanted a degree... a job.
But then you arrived.
You. Those hands.
You wouldn't let me breathe!
Every time I looked up,
there's my boyfriend,
gaga because I was some
ridiculous beauty queen.
You were like a child.
And you made me a princess.
In a madhouse.
Your princess.
[sniffles]
In a madhouse.
Thank you very much.
- Take care.
- Goodbye.
She read a magazine article
about a doctor in Geneva.
- [Sheila] What kind of doctor?
- A plastic surgeon.
That's all she's talked about
since she came home.
I see her looking in the mirror.
She thinks somehow
that by having a facelift,
even though she's only 43...
[Sheila] She thinks that it will help her
to start over, and why not?
Imagine all that Dawn's been through.
I don't have to imagine.
I've seen this before. Women in trauma,
women who have been ill,
it can help them
to become a new woman.
But I want the old Dawn.
I want my wife and I want Merry.
[Sheila] We're not talking about Merry.
But as for Dawn,
what if you were to go along with her,
support her in this,
in the trip to Switzerland,
the operation?
It could help the both of you
to put the past behind you.
[Seymour] I don't want
to put the past behind.
The past is Merry. There's no way I want
to put that behind.
[Sheila] But Dawn does.
[]
What is it?
Can you help me out?
Lou, keep your voice down.
This is the way
your friend paints?
You know it is, Dad. You've seen the one
in our living room.
The one you paid
an arm and a leg for.
I don't care what you say,
she looks like a million dollars.
Yeah, all right, Dad.
She looks great.
"Great"?
The girl's herself again.
Getting rid of those cows
was the smartest thing she ever did.
But getting that facelift?
I was against it, but I was wrong.
- Darling, a million dollars.
- Thank you, Lou.
I'm serious, Dawn.
The best money ever spent.
You seem better.
Lou, Sylvia, you know
Bill and Jesse Orcutt.
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