Orlando

for I feel that I can offer nothing in return. 277 00:34:33,740 --> 00:34:37,995 I'm sure that any writer would be more than willing to except your hospitality. 278 00:34:38,078 --> 00:34:39,788 Oh, do you think so? 279 00:34:40,205 --> 00:34:42,416 If we would speak of poetry... 280 00:34:43,167 --> 00:34:45,961 then let us first speak of poets lives. 281 00:34:46,170 --> 00:34:47,796 Do you know how "Hamlet" was written? 282 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,507 Written while bailiffs were pounding on Shakespeare's door. 283 00:34:52,134 --> 00:34:54,678 No wonder so many of his plays were falsey too. 284 00:34:54,803 --> 00:34:56,680 Aw, I'm sure you're right. 285 00:34:57,264 --> 00:35:00,809 How can a... How can a genius work when he cannot pay the bills? 286 00:35:01,727 --> 00:35:03,437 When I say work... 287 00:35:03,562 --> 00:35:06,398 Erm, work you see... is... 288 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:10,611 people who haven't labored in this way don't understand 289 00:35:10,694 --> 00:35:13,697 that real poetry neither easy nor easily produced. 290 00:35:13,864 --> 00:35:16,783 Then I feel that I can understand a little Mr. Greene. 291 00:35:16,783 --> 00:35:21,413 Because I have myself been so righteous to attempt to write some poems... 292 00:35:22,456 --> 00:35:25,751 Did I hear a mouse's squeak? 293 00:35:27,127 --> 00:35:28,545 I must say I didn't hear any. 294 00:35:28,545 --> 00:35:30,797 That's saying you're in good health. 295 00:35:30,839 --> 00:35:35,469 My own... has been so bad it's a marvel I'm still alive. 296 00:35:35,928 --> 00:35:40,015 I have an enlarged heart, a spleen and a diseased liver. 297 00:35:41,975 --> 00:35:46,021 Above all there are sensations in my spine which defy description. 298 00:35:46,104 --> 00:35:49,858 There is one nob about a third from the top which burns like fire. 299 00:35:50,025 --> 00:35:53,570 Second from the bottom... cold as ice. 300 00:35:53,612 --> 00:35:58,242 Sometimes I feel as if a thousand wax tapers were a lite. 301 00:35:58,283 --> 00:36:02,412 And people were throwing fireworks inside my brain and I... 302 00:36:02,496 --> 00:36:04,414 I'm so sensitive. 303 00:36:04,581 --> 00:36:07,876 I can feel a rose leaf through my mattress. 304 00:36:09,169 --> 00:36:10,212 In short. 305 00:36:10,963 --> 00:36:13,590 I'm a piece of machinery so finely made 306 00:36:13,590 --> 00:36:16,343 and curiously put together 307 00:36:16,510 --> 00:36:18,595 that it confounds me to think 308 00:36:18,679 --> 00:36:22,015 That I've only sold 115 copies of my poem. 309 00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:26,436 But it has to be said this is largely due to what can only be descried as a conspiracy against me. 310 00:36:26,645 --> 00:36:31,275 But Mr. Greene surely your work is widely admired by all the young poets? 311 00:36:31,358 --> 00:36:35,863 - Including dare I say it... - All young writers will turn at any trash that will sell. 312 00:36:36,697 --> 00:36:38,323 It hurts me to say it. 313 00:36:38,407 --> 00:36:41,743 For I love literature, as I love life. 314 00:36:42,536 --> 00:36:45,622 But the art of poetry is dead in England. 315 00:36:47,291 --> 00:36:49,626 You think so? 316 00:36:49,710 --> 00:36:51,628 Of course... erhm... 317 00:36:52,296 --> 00:36:54,131 That I have pension... 318 00:36:54,214 --> 00:36:55,883 of... 319 00:36:56,091 --> 00:36:57,885 300 pounds a year? 320 00:36:58,343 --> 00:36:59,803 paid... 321 00:36:59,928 --> 00:37:01,680 quarterly... 322 00:37:01,722 --> 00:37:03,682 I'd live for literature alone... 323 00:37:03,849 --> 00:37:06,268 I'd dedicate myself to fine writing. 324 00:37:07,561 --> 00:37:10,230 But... sadly... 325 00:37:10,230 --> 00:37:13,609 It's necessary to have a pension to do it. 326 00:37:14,485 --> 00:37:16,487 About 300 pounds a year. 327 00:37:18,614 --> 00:37:20,491 Paid quarterly. 328 00:37:21,283 --> 00:37:25,829 Mr. Greene, I wonder would you be so kind as to give me your opinion of my efforts? 329 00:37:25,829 --> 00:37:29,249 By all means... If I can find the time. 330 00:37:29,708 --> 00:37:31,543 For time is money. 331 00:37:31,668 --> 00:37:33,754 And I must write to eat. 332 00:37:34,171 --> 00:37:38,675 - We're not in the pursuit of art. - Of course I will arrange for the small matter of the 300 pounds. 333 00:37:40,177 --> 00:37:41,553 To be paid... 334 00:37:41,553 --> 00:37:42,513 Quarterly? 335 00:37:42,596 --> 00:37:45,557 - As you wish. - My dear friend! 336 00:37:47,476 --> 00:37:50,270 "Death of a lover". 337 00:37:59,947 --> 00:38:04,785 Listen to this my friend. This is the great work 338 00:38:04,952 --> 00:38:10,791 Of my gracious host, the soon to be, congratulate me friend, my pension 339 00:38:10,833 --> 00:38:13,085 "His heart was broken" 340 00:38:13,252 --> 00:38:15,295 "cleft in two" 341 00:38:15,546 --> 00:38:18