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have time to give me an interview.

I'm sorry, I don't. I don't do interviews.

I had a piece in the Blast not long ago.

- Berkman's Blast? Really?

- That's right.

Well, when did you want

to do this interview?

Now.

I don't live here.

- I live in a house by the river.

- Oh, really.

My, my, my. Two places.

Yeah, I use this place as a studio.

Do you like white lilies?

They're my favorite flowers.

- You're not married, are you?

- No, I don't think I believe in marriage.

- Are you married?

- Marriage?

How could anyone believe in marriage?

I bet your mother's glad

to see you back in Portland.

Just glad when I'm not in jail.

Is this you?

Yes. Do you like it?

Yeah. I think they're...

- A little blurry, but this one's very nice.

- Yes.

It is. Now...

Granted, the profit motive

in the world economy

is a basic root cause for the war.

Do you feel that those

Americans who are pro-war

and who ascribe their motives

to patriotism are cynical or naive?

And, if they're cynical,

is it the cynicism of patriots

who feel that without a profit motive,

the power structure elite of this country

will not enter the war,

even though they feel

that the containment

of German militarism

may be necessary for...

All right, Miss Bryant, do you want

an interview? Write this down.

Are you naive enough to think

containing German militarism

has anything to do with this war?

Don't you understand that England

and France own the world economy

and Germany just wants a piece of it?

Keep writing, Miss Bryant.

Miss Bryant, can't you grasp

that J.P. Morgan

has loaned England and France

a billion dollars?

And if Germany wins,

he won't get it back.

More coffee?

America would be entering the war

to protect J.P. Morgan's money.

If he loses it, we'll have a depression.

So, the real question is,

why do we have an economy

where the poor have to pay

so the rich won't lose money?

All right, now, what haven't we covered?

Economic freedom for women

means sexual freedom,

and sexual freedom

means birth control...

Dissent! The Masses stands for dissent.

...we have a predominantly

upper-middle class readership.

So, we have to run around the country

raising money for the magazine

any way we...

What?

Well, I'm thinking that I guess I...

That I ought to offer you more coffee.

I hadn't realized the hour, but

I seem to have taken up

a lot of your time.

Well, that's okay by me.

Does this happen to you often?

Not often enough.

Well?

We certainly have come a long way fast.

Yeah.

Do you want to take it a step further?

Yeah.

What would you think if I asked you

to do something

that might seem a little selfish?

Well, I... I think you should.

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