Perhaps it would be wise to change the subject
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James Tyrone:
[Edmund has just recited a piece of poetry]
You recite it well... Who wrote it? Edmund Tyrone:
Baudelaire. James Tyrone:
[Dismissively]
Never heard of him. Where you get your taste in authors... James Tyrone:
[Motioning to Edmund's bookshelves]
This damned library of yours: Voltaire and Rousseau and Schopenhauer. And Ibsen... Atheists, fools and madmen! And your poet, this... "Baudelaire." And Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. Whitman and Poe... Whoremongers and degenerates! When I've got three good sets of Shakespeare there you can read... Edmund Tyrone:
They say he was a souse, too. James Tyrone:
They lie. I don't doubt he liked his glass - it's a good man's failing - but he knew how to drink that it didn't poison his mind with morbidness and filth. Don't compare him with the pack you've got here. Your dirty Zola. And your... James Tyrone:
[Picking up one of Edmund's books and dismissively flipping through the pages]
... Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was a dope fiend, a... hmm. Edmund Tyrone:
[Bemused at his father's sudden discomfort]
Perhaps it would be wise to change the subject
[Edmund has just recited a piece of poetry]
You recite it well... Who wrote it? Edmund Tyrone:
Baudelaire. James Tyrone:
[Dismissively]
Never heard of him. Where you get your taste in authors... James Tyrone:
[Motioning to Edmund's bookshelves]
This damned library of yours: Voltaire and Rousseau and Schopenhauer. And Ibsen... Atheists, fools and madmen! And your poet, this... "Baudelaire." And Swinburne, and Oscar Wilde. Whitman and Poe... Whoremongers and degenerates! When I've got three good sets of Shakespeare there you can read... Edmund Tyrone:
They say he was a souse, too. James Tyrone:
They lie. I don't doubt he liked his glass - it's a good man's failing - but he knew how to drink that it didn't poison his mind with morbidness and filth. Don't compare him with the pack you've got here. Your dirty Zola. And your... James Tyrone:
[Picking up one of Edmund's books and dismissively flipping through the pages]
... Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was a dope fiend, a... hmm. Edmund Tyrone:
[Bemused at his father's sudden discomfort]
Perhaps it would be wise to change the subject
Full Transcript
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But you recited it well lad
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Who wrote it Baudelaire
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Never heard of him
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Where do you get your taste in authors
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This damned library of yours
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Voltaire and Rousseau and Schopenhauer and Ibsen
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Atheists fools and madmen And your poet this Baudelaire
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And Swinburne and Oscar Wilde and Whitman and Poe
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Whore mongers and degenerates
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I have three good sets of Shakespeare you could read
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They say he was a souse too
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They lie I don't doubt he liked his glass it's a good man's failing but he
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knew how to drink that it didn't poison his mind with morbidness and filth
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Don't compare him with the pack you've got here
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Your dirty Zola And your Dante Gabriel
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Rossetti who was a dope fiend
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Perhaps it would be wise to change the subject
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Movie Summary
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
Actors
James Tyrone
Edmund Tyrone