{1}{1}23.976 {2073}{2157}Old paint on canvas, as it ages... {2160}{2237}sometimes becomes transparent. {2239}{2301}When that happens,|it is possible in some pictures... {2304}{2365}to see the original lines. {2368}{2453}A tree will show through a woman's dress. {2455}{2534}A child makes way for a dog. {2537}{2625}A boat is no longer on an open sea. {2628}{2702}That is called pentimento... {2705}{2758}because the painter repented... {2761}{2821}changed his mind. {3619}{3728}I'm old now, and I wanna remember... {3730}{3792}what was there for me once... {3794}{3854}and what is there for me now. {5894}{5976}It's not working again, Dash. {5979}{6033}It's falling apart again. {6036}{6095}Put on your sweater.|Bring some whiskey. {6098}{6148}I'll build a fire, and we'll start dinner. {6150}{6198}Don't forget the smokes. {6201}{6256}I'm not here to take orders. I want advice. {6258}{6353}You're a big-shot writer. {6355}{6463} You're not a general,|Hammett, and I ain't the troops.! {6801}{6890}If you really can't write,|maybe you should go find a job. {6941}{7046}Be a waitress. {7048}{7110}What about a fireman, eh?|You could be chief. {7113}{7197}It's not a bad idea, you know?|Little town somewhere... {7199}{7268}find yourself a little fire station, a hat. {7270}{7345}- I'll be the mayor.|- Why should you be the mayor? {7348}{7397}Well, someone has to appoint you if... {7400}{7494}I'm in trouble with my goddamn play,|and you don't care! {7496}{7557}Just because you stopped writing doesn't... {8133}{8241}Tell you what, Lilly.|I'll send you on a trip to Paris. {8243}{8300}I don't wanna go to Paris. {8302}{8384}Why not? I hear it's a swell town. {8386}{8472}Finish the play there.|Have a little fun. Visit your friend Julia. {8474}{8542}You know damn wellJulia's not in Paris. {8545}{8615}Well, wherever she is. {8618}{8697}Go to Spain. There may be a civil war|in Spain. You'd help somebody win it. {8699}{8795}- You're scrappy.|- I'm not scrappy. Don't call me scrappy. {8798}{8845}You make me sound like|a neighborhood bulldog. {8848}{8895}You are the neighborhood bulldog, Lilly! {8898}{8971}'Cept you got some cockeyed dream|about bein' a cocker spaniel. {9023}{9097}- I can't work here.|- Well, then don't work here.|Don't work anyplace. {9100}{9173}It's not as if you've written|anything before, you know. {9175}{9260}Nobody'll miss you.|It's a perfect time to change jobs. {9326}{9401}You're the one who talked me|into being a writer, Dashiell. {9403}{9490}You're the one who said,|"Stick with it, kid. You got talent, kid." {9493}{9573}You soft-soaped me with all that crap! {9575}{9670}- And now look at me.|- If you're gonna cry about it,|go stand on a rock. {9672}{9723}Don't do it around me. {9758}{9867}If you can't write here, go someplace else. {9870}{9954}Give it up. Open a drugstore. {9957}{10033}Be a coal miner. {10035}{10105}Only just don't cry about it. {10238}{10342} I think I have|always known about my memory. {10345}{10465}I know when the truth|is distorted by some drama or fantasy. {10511}{10610}But I trust absolutely|what I remember about... {10613}{10658}Julia. {12513}{12577}Happy New Year, Grandmother. {12579}{12630}Happy New Year, Julia. {12820}{12902}- Happy New Year, Grandfather.|- Hmm? {12951}{13001}Why did we have sherbert|in the middle of the meal? {13004}{13076}It clears the palate|between the fish and the meat. {13146}{13219}- Who's that?|- It's my mother. {13222}{13309}- My God.|- Shejust got married again. {13312}{13377}- Where does your mother live?|- In Scotland. {13380}{13445}- My mother owns a very fancy castle.|- Have you been there? {13448}{13499}- Once.|- What's it like? {13502}{13565}Full of fancy people with fancy titles. {13567}{13647}- Who were they?|- I don't remember. They didn't interest me. {13650}{13697}They're all very rich and famous. {13700}{13757}They just said hello to me,|and I don't remember. {14602}{14681}- Happy New Year, Julia.|- Happy New Year. {14739}{14831}I am... Paris. {14834}{14950}I am Paris, and I am a string of beads. {14953}{15073}I am Paris,|and I am a string of beads on a hot dancer. {15179}{15278}I am Paris,|and I am a string of beads on a hot dancer... {15281}{15338}and a romantic Frenchman|comes into my room. {15341}{15422}And he carries me|off into the dark Parisian night. {15425}{15473}- And takes me to his villa. {15556}{15605}- What happened? {15607}{15717}- Oh, I'm in ecstasy!|- What happened? {15720}{15790}You'll have to learn French. {15897}{15974}- I am Paris. {16025}{16087}I am Paris, and I am a string ofbeads. {16168}{16233}No, wait a minute. No. {16236}{16365}I am Paris,|and I am a string of beads on a hot dancer. {16367}{16421}I am Paris. I am a string|of beads on a hot dancer... {16424}{16531}and outside it is Renoir and Degas. {16534}{16634}I am Paris, and I am a string|of beads on a hot dancer... {16637}{16710}- and outside it is...|- Renoir. {16713}{16793}Renoir and Degas... {16795}{16893}and inside it is hard and hot. {16896}{16961}- I don't care. {16964}{17052}- I don't care. {17119}{17197}- Happy New Year, Julia.|- Happy New Year, Lilly. {17289}{17363} I cannot say now|that I had ever used the words... {17366}{17447}gentle or strong... {17450}{17518}or delicate. {17521}{17575}But I did think that night... {17578}{17653}that it was the most beautiful face... {17656}{17727}I had ever seen. {18540}{18634}Maybe I could do better work someplace else. {18637}{18711}- Dash? {18714}{18777}If I were to go to Paris and work... {18780}{18876}- Are you awake? {18907}{18970}Dash, do I keep you from writing? {18973}{19056}No. Sleeping, Lilly.|You keep me from sleeping. {19297}{19300}But what about Paris? What about Rome? {19300}{19349}But what about Paris? What about Rome? {19351}{19415}- You aren't listening.!|- I am listening.! {21473}{21520}Please tell me what's the matter. {21523}{21586}I don't want to be here, not with them. {21589}{21664}- I hate them.|- Why? {21813}{21871}They took me to see Cairo. {21874}{21979}They told me how beautiful|Cairo would be, but it wasn't. {21982}{22059}I said to my grandfather,|"Look at those people. They're hungry. {22062}{22119}They're sick.|Why don't we do something?" {22122}{22170}And he said, "Don't look at them." {22173}{22221}I said, "But they're sick." {22223}{22303}He said, "I didn't make them sick." {22306}{22362}What about Paris?|What about Rome? {22365}{22427}- You aren't listening!|- I am listening! {22483}{22547}Where my mother lives,|the servants live under the ground... {22550}{22654}18 people in three rooms,|no windows, one bathroom. {22657}{22757}It's wrong. It's wrong, Lilly. {22759}{22807}Do you understand? {22807}{22818}Do you understand? {22879}{22965}I heard from Oxford, from medical school. {22967}{23041}- I was accepted.!|- When will you go? {23044}{23106}At the end of the summer.! {23660}{23714}When are we gonna see each other again? {23717}{23764}It'll be so long. {23825}{23926}Think of it this way... when we do|we'll have everything to talk about. {23929}{23988}- All ashore that's going ashore.!|- Please write me. {23991}{24046}You know I will. {24085}{24157}Work hard. Take chances. {24160}{24248}- Be very bold. Do you hear me?|- {24250}{24315}- All ashore that's going ashore.!|- Good-bye. {24318}{24365}Good-bye. {24415}{24498} I wasn't to see her|again for a very long time... {24500}{24583}until I went to visit her at Oxford. {24734}{24807}There are women who reach|a perfect time oflife... {24810}{24897}when the face will never again be as good... {24900}{24990}the body never as graceful or powerful. {25035}{25105}It had happened that year toJulia. {25193}{25264}- Do you have lots of friends?|- Not many. {25267}{25365}- Do you get to the theater?|- No, there isn't time. {25367}{25431}But we always went to the theater. {25434}{25525}When you write your play, then I'll go again. {25528}{25619}- How is your writing?|- Oh, I'm still at the publishing house. {25622}{25681}I wish I could write full-time. {25683}{25778}- Do you have a beau?|- No. Do you? {25780}{25845}Well, I think maybe I found somebody. {25847}{25922}- And you?|- I did, but it didn't work out. {25925}{25995}- What are you reading now?|- Darwin, Engels... {25998}{26085}Hegel, Einstein. {26087}{26170}- Do you understand Einstein?|- Sure. {26593}{26701}- Will you come home next summer?|- No, I'm going to Vienna. {26704}{26753}I'll finish my medical studies there... {26756}{26837}and then I'll apply to study|with Professor Freud. {26839}{26898}Can you do that?|I mean, I know you can do that... {26900}{26953}- butJesus.|- I think so. There's a chance. {26955}{27026}I think he will accept me.|Lilly, you have to come to Vienna. {27029}{27091}Then you'll know what to write about. {27094}{27189}People are coming alive there... working|people who've never had a chance before. {27192}{27257}They've built their own|part of the city in Floridsdorf. {27260}{27359}They've got their own orchestra.|The newspaper's the best in Vienna. {27362}{27454}Lilly, finally there's|some real hope in the world. {27457}{27530}Do you understand? {27533}{27580}Yes, of course. {27662}{27721}But I didn't understand. {27723}{27821}Not fully. Who of us did? {27824}{27966}She wrote me from time to time. She went on|to study medicine at the university in Vienna. {27968}{28079}And as the years went on,|she wrote angrily of the threat of fascism... {28082}{28190}and of the Nazis, of Mussolini|and Adolf Hitler... {28193}{28285}and of the holocaust|that was on the way. {28287}{28394}She couldn't understand why the world|refused to see what was coming. {28530}{28624}I decided to accept Hammett's offer... {28626}{28711}to see if I could do|better work...
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