I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets. Oh, poets are...
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Constance Petersen:
I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets.
Anthony Edwardes:
Oh, poets are dull boys, most of them, but not especially fiendish.
Constance Petersen:
They keep filling people's heads with delusions about love... writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra or a flight of angels.
Anthony Edwardes:
Which is isn't, eh?
Constance Petersen:
Of course not. People fall in love, as they put it, because they respond to a certain hair coloring or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents.
Anthony Edwardes:
Or... or... sometimes for no reason at all.
Constance Petersen:
That's not the point. The point is that people read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.
Anthony Edwardes:
And when they find out differently, then they get sick and have to be analyzed, eh?
Constance Petersen:
Yes, very often.
Anthony Edwardes:
Professor, you're suffering from "mogo on the gogo."
Constance Petersen:
I beg your pardon!
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I think the greatest harm done to the human race
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has been done by the poets
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Poets are dull boys most of them but not especially fiendish
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But they keep filling people's heads with delusions about love
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writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra a flight of angels
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Which it isn't eh Of course not
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People fall in love as they put it
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because they respond to a certain hair coloring
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or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents
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Or sometimes for no reason at all
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But that's not the point The point is that people read about love as one thing
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and experience it as another
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They expect kisses to be like lyrical poems
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and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas
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And when they find out differently
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then they get sick and they have to be analyzed eh
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Yes very often
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Professor you're suffering from mogo on the go go
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I beg your pardon
Clip duration: 55 seconds
Views: 556
Timestamp in movie: 00h 20m 47s
Uploaded: 07 December, 2022
Genres: mystery, thriller, romance
Summary: When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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