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Of course people will want to read it,

it sounds so romantic. To kill for love...

# I crop by the

Neckar I crop by the Rhine

# Now I have a sweetheart

# And now I have none

- # What use is cropping if none is mine

- I love this song.

The problem is I'm imagining it.

Really?

It's not funny, Maurice.

How long has this been going on?

Don't know.

- A few months.

- Three months, six months?

I don't know.

Could it be the end of January, say?

Thereabouts, I suppose.

Why? Do you think there

is some connection to...

Well, we put the country

in the hands of a lunatic...

Taking refuge in fantasy might be a

rational response to an irrational world.

- Why singing?

- I don't know.

No idea?

Why not?

To be honest, John,

I'm all out of ideas.

I've been cooped up in this little room all

day listening to the twisted sexual fantasies

of a bunch of the most unattractive

housefraus you could ever wish to meet.

Desperate for a cold beer and a nice shallow

conversation I don't have to read anything into.

The point is, Maurice, I'm her

teacher. It's a position of trust,

- like yours with your patients.

- Ah.

Or should I say, most

doctors with their patients.

That's not the point. The

point is, have you f***ed her?

The question isn't whether or not I've slept

with Anne... which, for the record, I haven't.

- For Christ's sake.

- The question is why,

when the idea even crossed my mind,

Istarted hearing bloody Mahler.

- That's interesting you should choose

a Jew. - What gave you that idea?

She's as Aryan as they come. Not that

I don't find Jewish women attractive...

Mahler was Jewish.

- He converted.

- Still makes him Jewish.

- The thing is... - Please, do me

a favour, change the subject.

Don't drag me into your neurosis.

I get it. You're terribly

troubled, you hear music.

Some of us out here in the real world

have plenty to worry about ourselves.

You never seem to worry

about anything... much.

Don't I?

I mean, as a study in pathological

narcissism, the man's quite fascinating.

Trouble is, instead of strapping him to the

nearest couch and frying his f***ing brains out,

everyone is taking him so literally.

Give it time, Maurice.

Hitler's a joke.

He'll never last.

Would it surprise you to learn that the

Fhrer himself had examined your book?

- The Fhrer?

- Mm-hm.

I'd like you to read this.

One of our tasks here at the Chancellery

is to process the huge volume of letters

addressed to our leader by ordinary citizens.

They give, as you can see,

an unrivalled insight into the spirit

of renewal alive in our country today.

- It's very... affecting.

- Isn't it?

The Fhrer has received several

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