The Kreutzer Sonata Page #6

What's, what's, what's

gonna happen to the school

if there's a delay?

Well, we'll lose

the trust of the local government,

for one thing, which was hard won.

Right.

I don't know...l don't know if they'll

let us back in after, you know.

Darling, hi.

Um, I'm not gonna be able to

make the symphony tonight.

Why don't you invite a friend?

Um, or, hey, why don't you

invite Aiden?

I, you know, he's, he's, um,

leaving tonight, so I'm sure

he's gonna be going out

with his friends

and painting the town red.

All right, all right.

Well, see if you can find a friend.

Otherwise, cancel the tickets.

I'm gonna be back

in a couple of days.

I've got to do some

damage control with sis.

All right? No, it's all-

Everything's fine.

I'll call, I'll call you on my travels.

All right, all right, bye.

After having said good-bye

to my Wife

in the best and

most tranquil of moods,

I headed up north to see my sister.

She was bent out of shape

about the school in Sierra Leone

and ultimately she controlled

the family foundation,

but I was confident

I could placate her.

Airport.

We are currently at Homeland

Security threat level orange.

He can call me, but I

may have my phone switched off,

in which case he can leave

a message and I'll call him back.

All right...

I'll talk to you soon. Bye.

You can almost see

the bridge from here.

Oh, yeah.

Are you married?

Yes, I am.

Please leave

a message and I'll call you back.

At the tone,

please record your message...

Are you?

I was.

Hi, darling, it's me.

I got your text.

I was just, um, interested to

see who the mystery date was.

Um, call me.

I'm, I'm on my phone.

Thanks, bye.

This text was a bit

of a surprise.

Its whole tone seemed

forced to me.

I could feel myself starting to spiral

again, but I checked my emotions.

I was being ridiculous.

Nothing could be more normal

than her taking a trip to the theater.

What was your name again?

Dave. Dave Sizemore.

Dave Sizemore?

Sizemore Cars.

Oh, it's your own service?

Yes.

Well, congratulations.

Thank you.

What do you do?

Which explained why we

couldn't get on the bridge,

and they were on the other side,

the side which looks out

to the sea...

Right. Right, right, right.

It's one of those

landmarks, you know?

You, you have to go to it if you live...

Don't you think it's strange?

You live somewhere, and normally

the tourist place in the area

is the place that you never go to.

Yes.

I mean, you live

in Los Angeles, right?

Yes.

Have you ever been

to Disneyland?

Far too many times.

That's not a good example.

That's a bad one.

The Robin Williams gag?

You know, how like there's

a voice on the side of the tunnel

saying, "No black people

beyond this point"

because it's Marin-so white.

Really, people here are

just much more pretentious,

'cause it's actually quite

provincial around here.

Do you know what I mean?

.You think that the women here

are, are going to be smarter,

but really they're not.

They're even-you know,

they may be wearing sensible shoes...

Edgar

You're looking thin.

Lost some weight.

I try to work out.

Really?

The trail was smooth,

the light was bright,

and the air was clear and pure.

I really enjoyed the ride.

I forgot the terrible thing

that awaited me...

or maybe I knew only too Well

Where I was headed,

and was saying a last good-bye

to the joys of life.

Did y'all have a good ride?

Yeah, we did.

But this tranquility, this ability

to deny the awful truth,

evaporated as soon

as the ride was over.

Feel your back?

A little wobbly in the legs.

Well, if you only stayed

up here for a little while...

we could get you fit.

They got a workout,

didn't they.

Yeah, they did.

'Cause this is the first...

hottest day ever.

Who's a good girl?

Here, Edgar, I'll take that.

Thank you.

Fresh mint.

God, listen to those frogs.

Yeah.

Look.

You think they're f***ing?

Yes.

So, Edgar, I've been wanting

to talk to you.

Why are you sending funds

to Sierra Leone?

Seems like a worthy cause.

It's, uh, schools, books,

clothes, children.

Uh-huh.

We agreed that these investments

were going into medical...

medical investments, not about

saving starving children.

And if you want to talk about

starving children,

I'll talk to you

about starving children.

There are starving children

all over Los Angeles,

all over California.

There's a lot of rural poverty

going on here...

Well, we can try

to take care of them too.

Plus which, you don't seem

to have a passion for it.

You don't seem to really have a,

an enthusiasm for it.

You seem...quiet and withdrawn

and thin and kind of,

if you'll forgive me, dull.

I, I'm searching for you,

and I don't know who you are.

You don't feel like my brother.

You don't feel like the brother

that I had fun with.

I don't want to beat you up,

but it's like talking to a f***ing wall.

I love you, Edgar.

I'm worried about you.

You want to tell me

what's going on?

I really hate it when you

shut me out, you know that?

I had a friend, you know,

who was suicidal.

I asked her to come down

to the beach with me,

and she was very reluctant.

Didn't want to go to the beach.

She didn't want to go

to the beach because it was

a bright summer's day and there

were about 30,000 people

on the beach, if not more.

Maybe 300,000.

I don't know what 30,000 looks like.

And we were walking along the sand,

and I was shouting at her,

"Look up! Look up!"

and she was walking along the sand,

looking at her own feet.

That's what you're doing.

And there are 300- or 30,000

other people out there,

all of them, you know,

with their own problems and...

they're all putting on their sun block

and looking after their children

and making sand castles

and living lives,

and you're looking at your feet.

I just hope you're talking

to someone.

'Cause from where I sit...

that looks like a lonely seat.

It all started up again.

"How often I've tortured myself

like this, I've said to myself.

Yet every time,

it was a false alarm.

Please leave a message

and I'll call you back...Thanks.

At the tone,

please record your message.

Hello, honey. Hi.

Hi, it's me.

Just wondering where you were.

Just trying to reach you.

Suppose you've already gone

to the...to the theater.

All right, talk to you later.

Bye.

Where the hell is she?

F***ing b*tch.

F***ing b*tch, f***ing b*tch.

I hear you.

I hear you.

Believe me, I've had more years

of my life ruined by women

who I thought were great...

than, than years when

I've felt happy.

You just can't get happy.

There is no way you can

really please a woman.

As men, we try our hardest,

and in many ways, we think

that we're the ones in control,

but the truth is, we're not

in control at all.

We're in control of nothing!

Absolutely nothing!

It's women who are in control

of everything,

but it's an insidious way

of controlling.

It's kind of, you wake up one

morning, and you suddenly

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