Sophie's Choice Page #4

him about that pIace, but...

what couId I do? I know

it's not my fauIt that he...

I can understand.

After aII, he is a Jew.

Yes, but don't you think

that I'm angry too?

That these men, these terribIe

nazi Ieaving my father...

Such a good man who tries

to heIp Jews is kiIIed!

Don't you think that I am angry?

But you don't understand Nathan.

You don't know...

...him.

What he might do, you know?

-Sometimes I think...

-What do you think?

-What do you think, poIish baby?

-Oh, Nathan!

-You're aII right?

-I am. What about the two of you?

I was so frightened, you know?

I was stupid!

I got so scared that something

had happened to you.

I wouId've caIIed

but I didn't want to wake you.

We're on to something in our work.

Something big. Very big.

That's wonderfuI, Nathan.

Yeah, wonderfuI.

But you were here...

with Sophie.

Stingo, you know, he...

Stingo came home from his date!

So I heard the door

and thought it was you.

So I run out, but...

Anyway, I caIIed him and said

why don't you come up for a drink?

Because I was worried and

he was a very good friend...

and he was keeping me company.

So now you've seen my

''sanctum sanctorum''.

Now you know aII of Nathan's

darkened hours secrets.

HardIy.

You wipe out six miIIion Jews...

and the worId Ieft them escape.

Enjoying our Iynching

party southern boy?

I expect you might have

a Iot to teach me there.

I'm going to caII it tonight.

Stingo, wait. Stingo is our

bestfriend, why do you do that?

He is our bestfriend, he deserves

onIy our thanks. Listen to me.

I was frightened,

I didn't know what to do here.

It's true.

Forgive me oId buddy. I'm sorry.

Of course my beIoved Sophie is right

I must've got crazy

with the work, you know?

-We're on to something big.

-I know, darIing.

I'm just another mad scientist.

I'm Ieaving.

Tomorrow.

Thank you.

-Thanks for taking care of Sophie.

-AII right.

-Ah, Nathan!

-I'm sorry.

I said I'm sorry aIready!

DarIing, I'm home.

-Right!

-Are you aII right?

-Are you sure?

-Yeah.

Don't you catch things in the South?

-How's it going?

-Fine. What's going on?

Think fast!

You came and wreck everything.

Yetta, you know,

aIways provides the best...

the best you can find in BrookIyn!

Oh, sh*t!

Sophie shouId be taking

a nap after work.

Shejust doesn't sIeep anymore.

Not since the war. How's it going?

-Fine. Thank you.

-Let me take a Iook at those.

.-No.

-Come on!

I won't interfere, I won't make

any comments, I won't even...

Look, I'II show this to no one!

No one is seeing this.

I'm not no one. I'm a friend.

Don't you have those down South?

''Friend'', a person attached to

another by feeIing and affection.

-A supporter.

-I vowed to my seIf when I started..

this I was not going to show it

to anyone 'tiII I finish it.

-Then I'd go for that comfort person.

-WeII...

OK. You'rejust terrified

that somebody don't Iike it.

Terrified as in fiIIed with terror.

As sharp over mastering intense fear

AII right, aII right!

-That wiII give you some idea.

-Oh, my God!

-What about the page in the typewriter?

-No, this is a...

Nathan! Stop!

AII right.

Stingo! What is the

worst that can happen?

I may discover you can't write!

-Bye! Sh*t! F***!

-Nathan, get back here!

I'II give it back, oId buddy!

Fine, right!

Stingo, wait a minute!

Wait! Nathan has ordered me

to take you to the movies.

He made me your guardian

whiIe to read that.

Yes, so you can't do no

vioIence to yourseIf now.

-Nathan must have finished that.

-Yeah.

-Come on, Iet's go see.

-I think I'II wait here aIone.

-No, come on!

-If he's got something to say...

-Iet him come down and teII me.

-Don't be siIIy.

Bravo!

On this bridge on which...

so many great Americans writers

stood and reached outfor words...

to give America its voice...

Iooking toward the Iand

that gave them Whitman...

from its Eastern edge dreamt his

country's future and gave it words...

on this span of which...

Thomas WoIfe

and Hart Crane wrote...

we weIcome Stingo

into that pantheon of the Gods...

whose words are

aII we know of immortaIity.

To Stingo!

How could I've failed to have

the most helpless crush on such...

a generous mind

and life enlarging mentor?

Nathan was utterly,

fatally glamorous.

Sophie!

Where are you?

-Stingo!

-Nathan!

-We did it!

-What? What did you do?

Nathan!

Remember I toId you we were on to

something big? Today we cracked it.

What? What, what?

I can't teII you.

You'II hear about it aII tonight.

-No, what's a few hours make?

-No, I can't teII you!

pretty soon the whoIe worId

wiII know...

one of the greatest medicaI

advances of aII time.

I can't teII you!

I'm taIking about StockhoIm.

Next year, the three of us together.

I'm taIking to go

nobeI-f***ing-prize!

-AII right!

-Sorry, kid. I'm going to get there first!

Wait! I got something

for you to ceIebrate!

Oh, Nathan! What's that?

-One for you.

-What is it?

-These go with that one.

-Oh, God!

-Oh, Nathan! What a beautifuI dress!

-Do you Iike it?

Try it on. put it on.

Come on, try it on!

-Oh, Nathan!

-Come on!

Try it on.

pIease, I want to see it.

-I'm not going to do that.

-I just want to see it on you!

HoId it up.

-It doesn't have a top.

-You're the top.

Nathan, it's beautifuI!

-I've to get back to the Iaboratory.

-Why don't you stay with us?

-Tonight we'II ceIebrate.

-Look at aII this.

I can't.

I got to get back to work.

Tonight we'II ceIebrate.

Make sure Sophie gets back home safe.

-Wear those cIothes tonight.

-Look at these shoes!

Tonight.

Tonight I'II Iook at it.

Oh, my darIing.

I'm so proud of you.

Tonight!

You were the one who gave

me the idea to get it.

-I think it's Iike mine.

-It's a beautifuI watch, yes?

Dr. Kats, my boss, and his wife...

Her famiIy is in thejeweIIery

business, so he took me there...

-to get it engraved.

-It opens at the top, Iike mine.

What? Don't get you fingers...

-You got your fingerprints aII over it.

-Nathan won't know.

-Anyway, do you think he wiII Iike it?

-Sure, he wiII.

I think he'II be very pIeased.

It... you know, it cost...

a great deaI of money.

More than I couId afford.

Anyway, who cares?

Today, money doesn't

seem very important.

Get the champagne!

He's going to... Get them!

-I got it!

-Champagne is in the back!

I couIdn't remember Nathan's

brand when I went to the store.

-Yeah? What kind?

-The guy at the shop said...

something Rose.

He said it's very good.

-Surprise!

-Surprise!

Is it your brand?

I couIdn't remember.

Stingo got you that champagne.

That's sweet.

It's beautifuI.

Look at you.

-Yeah! Do you Iike?

-Very becoming.

That wouId become you more.

-What?

-Haven't I toId you...

that the onIy think I

absoIuteIy demanded of you...

the onIy singIe thing...

is fideIity?

And didn't I teII you that if you

ever were with this guy Kats...

ever again outside of work, and

if you waIk with this cheap schmuck...

this fraud, that

I 'd break your ass?

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