Return to Montauk Page #7

Synopsis: It is winter in Montauk, at the far end of Long Island. There are two deck chairs on the windswept beach. The chairs are waiting for two people who have, for a long time, been lost to each other. He is a writer and has come from Berlin. She is a New York lawyer. Many years before, they had a fling, but they were too young to know they had each met the love of their lives. Now they have come back to Montauk, filled with regret and hope. The bodies remember. It feels for them like the next day after the last one they were together. They do not know if it is possible to reverse time. In Montauk, they find out.
 
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2017
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its fine in hotels

its fine in a Woody Allen movie

but try it on your own

on a Monday night in winter

when the cold

is getting into your bones.

And the man you love

is 1000 miles away and does not care.

Just try it once.

Try it once.

Im sorry.

I want you to tell me who you are

and what you want from me.

I want you to look at me.

I look at you! I see you Clara.

I was jealous.

Jealous?

So you eloped with f***ing Lindsey.

I didnt go to Montauk

with f***ing Lindsey!

You did not?

No! I didnt go to Montauk

with f***ing Lindsey.

Were going home.

I...

I want you to come with me.

Something really bad

must have happened to you.

But I dont want to know what it was.

Lets go tonight.

Clara repeat what Im saying

say after me:

Ive read all your books.

Please.

Ive read all your books.

No one except me will tolerate you.

Thats just plain silly.

Just say it.

No one else except me will tolerate you.

Youre not gonna change

but Im staying with you.

I dont know why.

No not this one.

Ah...

Dont contradict him. He likes women

to be sweet and agreeable.

Sweet and agreeable?

Theres a drawing

he promised me years ago a Paul Klee.

It may get 300 000 at an auction.

Of course. Your pension fund.

Sweet and agreeable.

And theres Malevich Kandinsky

and somewhere we have Corot Klee

many things manuals and...

Some are from my family of course.

But now I wonder

if Im not tired of them.

Which is why I dont mind the light.

You see the light?

They fade

you know.

YouIl see they fade...

A little each year more in summer.

So why dont you protect them?

I could burn them. They are mine.

I let them fade.

They'll disappear when I do.

I find that comforting.

I think its disgusting.

No I dont think so.

They are mine you understand?

I own them.

- Bullshit! No one can own them.

My dear

I think this conversation will become...

extremely boring.

Why dont you occupy Wall Street?

Drink?

Thank you.

Now for the real reason

I brought you here Max.

Open it.

I want you to have it.

You remember Rebecca

was with us when I bought it?

You still see her?

- No.

She works too much now.

You?

Go on take it.

Let that be an end to it.

Take it Max.

Before it fades away here.

I hope to be back.

Next year. Maybe sooner.

Oh

your scarf.

Keep it.

Really?

Thank you. Bye.

I love you. You know that.

I did... I did something very wrong.

I feel I can tell you that.

What happened in Montauk?

I... I saw a ghost.

Did you f*** her?

It wasnt about sex.

Maybe it was.

You cant f*** a ghost.

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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet.Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2017.Hailed as a champion of minorities as he collected the 2011 Irish PEN Award, that same year he was named by The Observer one of "Britain's Top 300 Intellectuals" despite being Irish. more…

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