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Last, I'd like to read you a
story called "Investments."

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"Investments."

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David Klein, a
freelance illustrator

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of 46, who lived in
Greenwich Village

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was practically the only
person he knew who had never

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been in psychotherapy.

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Now, when he had almost
decided to start,

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he feared that he
was making a mistake.

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No shrink could help with
what worried him most.

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His money was in
the stock market,

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which had sunk to a new low
and might collapse entirely.

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Who could tell?

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Certainly not Steve Rabkin,
Klein's stockbroker,

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Klein was sure.

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Steve, who was also his cousin,
had tricked and bullied him

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when they were children.

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Once he had duped
Klein into eating clay.

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Klein sometimes imagined
that he could still taste it.

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Moist pellets the
size of jelly beans,

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warm from Steve's rolling palms.

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When Klein mentioned
this, Steve angrily

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denied that anything like
it had ever happened.

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Klein was crackers, he said.

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One hand jingling the coins
in his pocket, his bald head

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shining aggressively.

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Klein needed to be
shrunk and fast.

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My guy, Traub, is
terrific, Steve said.

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You should see him for Barbara's
sake if you won't for your own.

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Klein's mother recommended a
man named Delvecchio, who had

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done miracles for her friends.

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Edith Timmerman was climbing
the walls, she said.

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Now nothing bothers her.

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Not a thing.

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[LAUGHTER]

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As though to suggest
how relaxed Edith was,

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she released a ball
of cigarette smoke

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with a little pop of her lips.

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Sorry, she said.

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But the ball was
already expanding,

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enveloping Klein, who waved
at it in helpless anger.

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His hand flapping
from the wrist.

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His girlfriend, Jane, his
first affair as a married man

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was pushing for
an Austrian named

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Frederica Gruenwald, who had
been her own therapist for four

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years.

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She can't see us both, can she?

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Klein asked.

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Whose side would she be on?

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Though he raised objections, he
secretly welcomed all advice.

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He still had grave doubts that
he ought to be going into this.

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And the least he could do
in defense, he thought,

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was choose his doctor carefully.

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It was for a Monday
that he managed

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to set up the appointments.

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You'll be gone the whole
day, his wife complained.

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Isn't your painting
group meeting here?

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He asked.

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Barbara belonged to
a circle of artists,

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who shared a model once a week.

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I may have to call
that off, she said.

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Your chest hurts?

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You think I'm making it up?

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She asked.

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Klein shook his head.

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What he did think was that
Barbara concentrated on twinges

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that other people ignored.

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Ever since her heart attack,
she had seemed without strength

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and often terrified him
by holding her chest

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and turning pale.

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Pain is a danger sign, he said.

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Maybe you should rest today.

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The concern that he heard
in his voice depressed him.

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It was as though he wanted
to stay with her and not just

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today, forever.

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I don't need pity, she said.

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Don't start this, Klein said.

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OK?

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She turned away.

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Klein could see through her
thinning hair the dead white

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of her scalp.

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Go, David, she said.

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Just go.

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His first appointment
was at 10:00

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with Traub, who practiced
high up in an old building

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West of Central Park.

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The chair is in
Traub's office were

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covered with white naugahyde.

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The naugahyde was covered
with transparent plastic.

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It reminded Klein of the waiting
room in his mother's beauty

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parlor.

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Traub told him, this is
cocktail party jargon.

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He made dismissive little
finger flicks at the air

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as though Klein's
words still hung there

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in a cartoonists bubble.

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Some specifics, please.

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It surprised Klein that
a man with such a room

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would start something.

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Money, he said.

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My father's estate
was in six figures.

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I let Steve invest my
share in new issues.

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Him, king, a
franchise deal trades

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on the theme of Hamilton King.

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The baseball player, Traub said.

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No, said Klein.

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The soul singer.

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I bought it at 11.

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Sold it at eight.

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Then there was Mediacom.

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That one, we missed that issue.

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It came priced at 15.

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I caught it at 17.

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I was lucky to get out at 12.

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What's left is in
protection devices, systems

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to prevent airplane hijacks.

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Steve touted it to me at 6.

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I bought it at 9.

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Now the bid price is 3 and 1/2.

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There was a soft
click across the room

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and Klein noticed that a digital
clock had advanced to 10:16.

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It all comes back
to money, he said.

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Specifics.

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All right.

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One thing, I married unhappily.

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If I could pay support,
I'd leave Barbara.

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Why are you looking
at the clock?

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The market opened at 10.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And your money may
be trickling away.

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Traub dragged everything he
could from the word trickling.

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How do you feel about that?

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Klein had a mental picture of
his large bald cousin cradling

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a telephone receiver
between shoulder and ear,

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while with delicate fingers,
he unwrapped a candy bar.

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I'm sitting in
protection devices,

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which was off to last week.

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Say now I call and ask Steve.

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Steve, shouldn't I get out?

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He'll tell me, don't
sweat it, buddy.

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The big boys are driving
out the week money.

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Stay calm for Barbara's sake
if you can't for your own.

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And this makes you feel?

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Agonized.

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I mean, now?

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Traub frowned.

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I don't believe you're
feeling a thing.

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You own how many shares
of protection devices?

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Klein was beginning to
think that he could never

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work with Traub.

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15,000.

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So each time it declines
a point you lose $15,000.

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Feel that now.

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I do.

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Last week you lost $30,000.

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The wound was very raw.

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I should have sold right then.

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Steve talked me out of it.

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And how did you feel
after you let him do that?

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Now, Traub had pierced him.

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He pictured himself
replacing the phone

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after that conversation
with Steve.

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And the feeling he had
had came gurgling up

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a nauseous ruptured sensation.

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This is absurd sitting
here talking about it.

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You'd sell, wouldn't
you, Dr. Traub?

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I should put everything
in treasury bills.

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He spotted the telephone.

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Let me call, please.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Traub said nothing,
but seemed amused.

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Klein guessed that Traub
had written him off.

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Steve appeared to be
away from his desk,

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said the switchboard girl.

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The Dow off 12.

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No, Klein said.

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Steve couldn't call him.

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He'll try later.

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When he hung up,
Traub was standing.

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I know, Klein said.

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My fault. I felt negative
the minute I walked in.

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Personal things like decor,
he glanced around the room,

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shouldn't matter.

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It's my own fault.
I'm an Illustrator.

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My wife paints.

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Traub was his.

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He stared at Klein
for a long moment

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and couldn't stop
himself from answering.

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The taste is my wife's.

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Klein's next appointment
was with short,

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silver haired Delvecchio, the
kind of rugged little guy,

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who always made him
want to confide.

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Barbara's clever,
but cold, he said.

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I'll give her this,
she's been loyal.

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Jane's spontaneous
and warm, but I'm not

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quite sure I can trust her.

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Those spontaneous ones,
Delvecchio grunted.

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He sat behind a
desk, which Klein

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had thought shrinks never did.

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A fussy desk, in
Klein's opinion.

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Antique, richly carved, unevenly
refinished as though Delvecchio

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had done the job himself.

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The psychiatrist nodded
often and violently.

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His abruptness was virile.

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Klein could see how he must
have ravaged Edith Timmerman's

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heart.

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A younger man is
after her, Klein said.

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A fellow student name of Conrad.

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She says he's just
an entertaining mind.

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I'm not sure what to think.

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You aren't angry?

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Delvecchio's eyebrows
rose remarkably as

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though he were acting
out the word astonished

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in a game of charades.

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In a personal sense, said
Klein, he's nothing to me.

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This superiority is
phony, Delvecchio said.

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You feel anger, fury.

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What sort of man wouldn't?

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Klein liked being told
what he was feeling

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[LAUGHTER]

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on which his mind was more open
than he guessed it should be.

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But he thought Delvecchio's
last remark insulting.

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His impression of him,
initially favorable,

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changed for the worse.

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Or else, Delvecchio
pursued, you haven't

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made the emotional
investment you think.

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You're too strongly
tied to your wife

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Klein said he'd get a divorce
if he could afford one

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and explained what
Steve had done to him.

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I decided this
morning to sell out,

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but he is away from his desk
while the market is collapsing.

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And toward him you feel?

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Resentment, naturally.

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Resentment?

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Delvecchio screwed up his face
in a pantomime of confusion.

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He scratched his
head and shook it.

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There's something
I'm not getting here.

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Mere resentment?

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Steve's stupidity is a natural
force like hail, Klein said.

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People don't hate the weather.

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Delvecchio nodded
in satisfaction

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as though Klein's
responses were nicely

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confirming his ideas about him.

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We'll talk more
about your cousin.

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I'd like to talk to
him now, Klein said.

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May I call?

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Delvecchio pushed his
phone across the desk,

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but the word was that
Steve had gone for the day.

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The Dow was off 19.

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Klein slammed down
the phone, shouting,

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how can he leave in
the middle of a panic?

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At this moment, I
could be wiped out.

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Delvecchio tilted back and
crossed his ankles on his desk.

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What sort of man
am I describing?

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He said.

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And began taking points
off on his fingers.

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Despite lack of
gratification, his libido

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is still tied to his wife.

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A virtual invalid.

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At 46, he's troubled by
his hatred of his mother.

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He's too timid to
manage his own money

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or even rescue it from
his dominant cousin.

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He'll watch his girlfriend gets
stolen without raising a hand.

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And what does he feel?

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A mild resentment.

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Dramatizing disbelief,
Delvecchio half

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averted his face,
pushing the heels

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of both palms toward Klein
in a double stiff arm.

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I don't buy that, he said.

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Klein felt suddenly exhausted.

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I'll never convince
you, he said.

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And you'll never convince me
the way you do those reactions.

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Why not say what you think?

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You've got the
case all doped out.

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Dulbecco's feet
stayed on his desk.

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If it's direction you
want, OK, he said.

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First of all, switching women
is a fantasy, all of us have it.

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That's all it will ever
be, even if you do it.

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As for money, I recommend
six month time deposits,

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but this is all
superficial stuff.

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What's needed is a change in
your whole lifestyle, got that?

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Now, his feet came down and
he leaned forward earnestly.

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You've got to stop
being so passive.

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Look, he tugged back a cuff,
I repaired this watch myself.

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Noticed the paintings
on the walls?

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My own.

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I write plays too.

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I made my own TV set from a kit.

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I refinished every
piece in my home.

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This desk even.

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[LAUGHTER]

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He rapped on it.

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Are you listening?

00:13:47.342 --> 00:13:47.925 align:middle line:90%
Get the point.

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Klein met Jane for
lunch in Oscars.

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She hadn't slept, she said.

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And had a headache
that was killing her.

00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:06.060 align:middle line:90%
Genes headaches were frequent.

00:14:06.060 --> 00:14:09.960 align:middle line:84%
The more Haggard she looked,
the more touchingly lovely Klein

00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:11.260 align:middle line:90%
thought her.

00:14:11.260 --> 00:14:15.660 align:middle line:84%
Often he had found it peaceful
to sit on the edge of her bed

00:14:15.660 --> 00:14:18.060 align:middle line:90%
massaging her scalp.

00:14:18.060 --> 00:14:20.940 align:middle line:84%
But today he could
worry only about himself

00:14:20.940 --> 00:14:24.270 align:middle line:90%
and resented her being in pain.

00:14:24.270 --> 00:14:27.450 align:middle line:84%
Over the chowder, he told
her that his hopes now

00:14:27.450 --> 00:14:31.680 align:middle line:90%
rested on Frederica Gruenwald.

00:14:31.680 --> 00:14:35.490 align:middle line:84%
Fred is good, but she's
not a magician, James said.

00:14:35.490 --> 00:14:39.030 align:middle line:84%
There's a limit to
what even the most.

00:14:39.030 --> 00:14:43.290 align:middle line:84%
Why is your impulse
to protect Freddie?

00:14:43.290 --> 00:14:46.560 align:middle line:84%
Jeanne scraped angrily at
the bottom of her bowl.

00:14:46.560 --> 00:14:48.960 align:middle line:84%
On a day like
this, Klein said, I

00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:51.690 align:middle line:84%
thought I could
expect your support.

00:14:51.690 --> 00:14:54.690 align:middle line:84%
Darling, said Jane,
Freddie and I have

00:14:54.690 --> 00:14:58.650 align:middle line:90%
been as close as people can be.

00:14:58.650 --> 00:15:01.030 align:middle line:90%
Klein waved for the next course.

00:15:01.030 --> 00:15:03.510 align:middle line:84%
The waiter removed
their chowder bowls.

00:15:03.510 --> 00:15:06.780 align:middle line:84%
Let's say, I asked you to
come with me right now,

00:15:06.780 --> 00:15:09.480 align:middle line:84%
take a taxi to the
airport, and fly somewhere,

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and start a new life,
said Klein, would you?

00:15:14.580 --> 00:15:17.700 align:middle line:84%
I've never believed you
wanted that, she said.

00:15:17.700 --> 00:15:20.400 align:middle line:90%
Would you?

00:15:20.400 --> 00:15:22.260 align:middle line:90%
The fish arrived.

00:15:22.260 --> 00:15:24.030 align:middle line:90%
Jane rubbed her temples.

00:15:24.030 --> 00:15:26.100 align:middle line:90%
David, don't make me do this.

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Can't you see how sick I feel?

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A yoke of tenderness ballooned
and burst in Klein's heart.

00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:37.020 align:middle line:90%
OK, he said gently.

00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:40.530 align:middle line:84%
Jane looked relieved and
Klein realized with fear

00:15:40.530 --> 00:15:46.350 align:middle line:84%
that he himself felt relieved
at her denying him an answer.

00:15:46.350 --> 00:15:48.990 align:middle line:84%
Jane accompanied him to
the Yorkville apartment

00:15:48.990 --> 00:15:52.690 align:middle line:84%
where Frederica Gruenwald
lived and worked.

00:15:52.690 --> 00:15:56.400 align:middle line:84%
She begged two aspirins
from the psychoanalyst.

00:15:56.400 --> 00:15:59.400 align:middle line:84%
A waddled dwarf
neutered with age

00:15:59.400 --> 00:16:03.450 align:middle line:84%
and collapsed into a sagging
love seat in the waiting room.

00:16:03.450 --> 00:16:07.860 align:middle line:84%
Klein followed Dr. Gruenwald
into the consulting room.

00:16:07.860 --> 00:16:09.510 align:middle line:90%
The carpet was worn.

00:16:09.510 --> 00:16:12.600 align:middle line:90%
The sofas black leather cracked.

00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:16.140 align:middle line:84%
Dr. Gruenwald herself
looked frayed and poor,

00:16:16.140 --> 00:16:19.290 align:middle line:84%
which disturbed Klein
in view of her fee.

00:16:19.290 --> 00:16:22.290 align:middle line:90%
50 this was costing him.

00:16:22.290 --> 00:16:26.760 align:middle line:84%
He sat on the lumpy sofa and
smoothly, this third time,

00:16:26.760 --> 00:16:29.070 align:middle line:90%
talked about himself.

00:16:29.070 --> 00:16:32.790 align:middle line:84%
But when he was done, she
shook her head and said,

00:16:32.790 --> 00:16:35.760 align:middle line:90%
I hadn't understood, Mr Klein.

00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:36.900 align:middle line:90%
I'm sorry.

00:16:36.900 --> 00:16:40.050 align:middle line:84%
I couldn't treat anyone
who's passionately involved

00:16:40.050 --> 00:16:43.260 align:middle line:90%
with another of my patients.

00:16:43.260 --> 00:16:46.950 align:middle line:84%
I told Jane that,
Klein said annoyed.

00:16:46.950 --> 00:16:48.660 align:middle line:90%
I knew you'd feel this way.

00:16:48.660 --> 00:16:52.170 align:middle line:84%
Why did you even
agree to see me?

00:16:52.170 --> 00:16:54.390 align:middle line:84%
The old woman
looked embarrassed.

00:16:54.390 --> 00:16:58.500 align:middle line:84%
I had not quite
understood, she said.

00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:02.190 align:middle line:84%
Jane didn't tell you that
she and I are intimate.

00:17:02.190 --> 00:17:04.770 align:middle line:90%
I think I must apologize.

00:17:04.770 --> 00:17:07.740 align:middle line:90%
I have not been very perceptive.

00:17:07.740 --> 00:17:10.950 align:middle line:84%
Her dolap swung gently
as she shook her head

00:17:10.950 --> 00:17:13.710 align:middle line:90%
in reprimand of herself.

00:17:13.710 --> 00:17:15.359 align:middle line:84%
Then what has she
been telling you?

00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.069 align:middle line:90%
Klein demanded.

00:17:17.069 --> 00:17:19.440 align:middle line:84%
He was beginning to
feel dismally weak,

00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:22.500 align:middle line:84%
the way he had felt
once when he and Barbara

00:17:22.500 --> 00:17:26.085 align:middle line:84%
both sick with the flu had
tried to make love anyway.

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[LAUGHTER]

00:17:27.990 --> 00:17:31.530 align:middle line:84%
Didn't she tell you
that I was her lover?

00:17:31.530 --> 00:17:35.280 align:middle line:84%
Or did she say her
lover was Conrad?

00:17:35.280 --> 00:17:39.360 align:middle line:84%
Jane is a most attractive
girl, the psychoanalyst

00:17:39.360 --> 00:17:40.920 align:middle line:90%
said comfortingly.

00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.580 align:middle line:90%
Most attractive.

00:17:42.580 --> 00:17:44.130 align:middle line:90%
Most seductive.

00:17:44.130 --> 00:17:48.270 align:middle line:84%
I think all of us have
been seduced a little.

00:17:48.270 --> 00:17:50.880 align:middle line:84%
Klein jumped up in
a spasm of despair.

00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:54.010 align:middle line:84%
Dr. Gruenwald, he said,
this has been very useful.

00:17:54.010 --> 00:17:56.170 align:middle line:84%
I don't think psychotherapy
is what I need.

00:17:56.170 --> 00:17:58.110 align:middle line:84%
I know my problems,
don't you think so?

00:17:58.110 --> 00:18:01.230 align:middle line:84%
I just have to do
something about them.

00:18:01.230 --> 00:18:03.690 align:middle line:84%
In the waiting room,
Jane was holding

00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:09.190 align:middle line:84%
her head clasped between spread
fingers, nearly in tears.

00:18:09.190 --> 00:18:12.790 align:middle line:90%
This is real agony, she moaned.

00:18:12.790 --> 00:18:14.580 align:middle line:90%
Klein grabbed her by the arm.

00:18:14.580 --> 00:18:16.380 align:middle line:90%
Come on.

00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:18.330 align:middle line:90%
You'll take me home?

00:18:18.330 --> 00:18:20.970 align:middle line:90%
We're going to my house.

00:18:20.970 --> 00:18:24.300 align:middle line:90%
No, this is killing me.

00:18:24.300 --> 00:18:27.210 align:middle line:84%
In the cab, he howled
at her, ignoring

00:18:27.210 --> 00:18:30.780 align:middle line:84%
the driver's anxious glances
from his rearview mirror.

00:18:30.780 --> 00:18:33.540 align:middle line:84%
She shrank against her door
and threatened to get out

00:18:33.540 --> 00:18:35.370 align:middle line:90%
at the next stoplight.

00:18:35.370 --> 00:18:38.580 align:middle line:84%
Klein forced himself
to fold his arms.

00:18:38.580 --> 00:18:42.630 align:middle line:84%
Freddie told me that you
and Conrad are lovers.

00:18:42.630 --> 00:18:44.910 align:middle line:90%
Freddie didn't tell you that.

00:18:44.910 --> 00:18:49.380 align:middle line:84%
Was this your way of ending
it, making me talk to her?

00:18:49.380 --> 00:18:53.270 align:middle line:84%
He's an entertaining
mind, all right?

00:18:53.270 --> 00:18:57.410 align:middle line:84%
The phrase had a
tranquilizing effect on Klein.

00:18:57.410 --> 00:18:59.270 align:middle line:90%
OK, he said.

00:18:59.270 --> 00:19:01.130 align:middle line:90%
I'm going to believe you.

00:19:01.130 --> 00:19:02.660 align:middle line:90%
Here's what we'll do.

00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:06.170 align:middle line:84%
You'll go home, while I work
out arrangements with Barbara.

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I'll tell her it's over.

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And I'll convert
my stocks to cash.

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Then you and I will take off.

00:19:13.820 --> 00:19:17.210 align:middle line:84%
But she was slowly
shaking her bowed head,

00:19:17.210 --> 00:19:20.780 align:middle line:90%
her face hidden in her hands.

00:19:20.780 --> 00:19:26.120 align:middle line:84%
I can't let you do that,
she said in a muffled voice.

00:19:26.120 --> 00:19:28.310 align:middle line:90%
What's that supposed to mean?

00:19:28.310 --> 00:19:31.130 align:middle line:90%
Klein said raggedly.

00:19:31.130 --> 00:19:35.600 align:middle line:84%
She looked up, her wet
eyes were brilliant.

00:19:35.600 --> 00:19:38.960 align:middle line:90%
David, you were wonderful to me.

00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:44.510 align:middle line:84%
Right now I feel, she
searched for a comparison,

00:19:44.510 --> 00:19:47.360 align:middle line:90%
like your mother.

00:19:47.360 --> 00:19:50.780 align:middle line:84%
He understood without
any real surprise

00:19:50.780 --> 00:19:53.120 align:middle line:90%
that she was through with him.

00:19:53.120 --> 00:19:55.970 align:middle line:84%
His first feeling
was humiliation,

00:19:55.970 --> 00:19:58.070 align:middle line:90%
then he became very angry.

00:19:58.070 --> 00:20:01.760 align:middle line:84%
He swung a backhand at her,
but she raised her handbag

00:20:01.760 --> 00:20:04.970 align:middle line:84%
and he cracked his knuckles
painfully on his metal buckle.

00:20:04.970 --> 00:20:05.990 align:middle line:90%
That's it, Jane.

00:20:05.990 --> 00:20:08.360 align:middle line:90%
That's it, he shouted.

00:20:08.360 --> 00:20:09.290 align:middle line:90%
Jane sobbed.

00:20:09.290 --> 00:20:10.130 align:middle line:90%
That's it.

00:20:10.130 --> 00:20:13.520 align:middle line:84%
That's it, he shouted
at her until the words

00:20:13.520 --> 00:20:16.650 align:middle line:90%
were nonsense to him.

00:20:16.650 --> 00:20:20.210 align:middle line:84%
But by the time the cab
turned onto his street,

00:20:20.210 --> 00:20:22.400 align:middle line:90%
Klein felt calmer.

00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.220 align:middle line:84%
Though things were
now bad, he felt

00:20:25.220 --> 00:20:26.990 align:middle line:84%
that he was getting
to the bottom of them

00:20:26.990 --> 00:20:29.750 align:middle line:84%
as though he were
ripping the last bandages

00:20:29.750 --> 00:20:32.180 align:middle line:90%
from a rotten wound.

00:20:32.180 --> 00:20:35.540 align:middle line:84%
When they pulled up in front of
the brownstone where he lived,

00:20:35.540 --> 00:20:38.840 align:middle line:84%
he could see people at the
windows of his second floor

00:20:38.840 --> 00:20:39.800 align:middle line:90%
apartment.

00:20:39.800 --> 00:20:44.480 align:middle line:84%
And remembered that Barbara's
painting group had been coming.

00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:47.390 align:middle line:84%
From now on, he
thought, he and Barbara

00:20:47.390 --> 00:20:50.720 align:middle line:90%
would have to get along better.

00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:54.080 align:middle line:90%
So long, he told Jane.

00:20:54.080 --> 00:20:57.770 align:middle line:84%
David, not like
this, she pleaded.

00:20:57.770 --> 00:21:02.900 align:middle line:84%
But he got out, paid the driver,
and gave him Jane's address.

00:21:02.900 --> 00:21:04.160 align:middle line:90%
The cab pulled away.

00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.030 align:middle line:90%


00:21:07.030 --> 00:21:10.110 align:middle line:84%
He entered his building
and climbed the stairs.

00:21:10.110 --> 00:21:13.890 align:middle line:84%
As he reached the top, he saw
that the door to his apartment

00:21:13.890 --> 00:21:15.600 align:middle line:90%
was open.

00:21:15.600 --> 00:21:20.670 align:middle line:84%
The living room was full of
Barbara's relatives and his.

00:21:20.670 --> 00:21:23.400 align:middle line:90%
The rabbi was there too.

00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:27.930 align:middle line:84%
In the doorway, stood his
mother, her face red and wet.

00:21:27.930 --> 00:21:32.130 align:middle line:84%
Next to her was
his cousin Steve.

00:21:32.130 --> 00:21:34.290 align:middle line:90%
Where have you been?

00:21:34.290 --> 00:21:36.990 align:middle line:90%
Klein's mother demanded.

00:21:36.990 --> 00:21:40.650 align:middle line:84%
Getting sold out,
Klein said bitterly.

00:21:40.650 --> 00:21:44.520 align:middle line:84%
Then he told Steve, you
bastard, I needed you today.

00:21:44.520 --> 00:21:48.750 align:middle line:90%
I wanted to liquidate my assets.

00:21:48.750 --> 00:21:51.480 align:middle line:90%
I'm sorry, Steve said.

00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:56.040 align:middle line:84%
He grabbed Klein, hugged
him, and began to weep.

00:21:56.040 --> 00:21:58.560 align:middle line:84%
I came straight here
when your mother called.

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Klein freed himself
from Steve's arms.

00:22:05.130 --> 00:22:08.670 align:middle line:84%
For a moment he watched
their twisting faces.

00:22:08.670 --> 00:22:11.340 align:middle line:84%
Then he rushed past
them into his apartment,

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ran through the rooms,
wildly ripped the bedding

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from the great empty bed,
he flung it through the air,

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his nostrils filling for a
moment with Barbara's smell,

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then it was gone.

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He was through.

00:22:31.630 --> 00:22:35.780 align:middle line:84%
That was the only idea
that came to Klein.

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There was nothing left in the
world for him to worry about.

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They were all staring at
him from the bedroom doorway

00:22:43.750 --> 00:22:46.900 align:middle line:90%
and he stared back at them.

00:22:46.900 --> 00:22:50.860 align:middle line:90%
OK, he said mildly.

00:22:50.860 --> 00:22:55.090 align:middle line:84%
But moment by moment it
seemed better than OK.

00:22:55.090 --> 00:22:58.120 align:middle line:84%
Klein felt as
relieved as a merchant

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escaping into bankruptcy.

00:23:00.940 --> 00:23:03.730 align:middle line:84%
He was as grateful
as a gambler in love

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with a crooked game, who
is cleaned out at last

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and can go home and sleep.

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[APPLAUSE]

00:23:15.850 --> 00:23:16.450 align:middle line:90%
Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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