American Pastrol Page #4

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I don't.

- Besides, where else

am I supposed to go?

Time cards, gentleman.

Thank you, Vicky.

Vicky, my son is trying to tell me

never to come around here anymore.

I didn't say "anymore,"

I said "not every day."

But, Lou, you built this place.

You made a home for all of us.

Where else do you belong?

Exactly my point.

- Here you go.

- Oh, thank you.

You finish your stuttering book?

Mmm-hmm.

Have you written down all the

words that stopped you today?

Do you want to check?

Not if you say you finished.

My teacher in school never

believes me unless she checks.

Well, your teacher says that

you have a stubborn streak.

Merry, why does she say that?

Because of the homework.

The class had to write an

answer to the question

"why are we here?"

And merry wrote...

Merry can tell me herself.

Sorry.

"Why are apes here?"

That's it?

She made her rewrite it.

So I wrote

"why are

"kangaroos here?"

And then last week, the teacher

asked them, "what is life?"

This is what they ask in school?

"What is life?"

What did you answer?

I don't

remember.

Yes, you do.

"Life is just

a short space of time

"in which you are alive."

Daddy,

do you understand?

Yes, I think I do.

He assumed the lotus posture and

another priest stepped forward

and poured gasoline over him.

A very frail, old man

in his 70s, Quang Duc.

Oh, my god.

What is this?

This monk burned himself

and he sat there.

Oh, merry shouldn't

be seeing this.

No.

And then suddenly a towering

flame and the smell of gasoline

and of burning flesh in the air.

For 10 minutes.

And the priests and the nuns

in the audience

moaned and prostrated them...

Why did that poor...

Why did that poor man

have to burn himself?

Hey.

That gentle man and

those gentle people.

It's far away, baby.

It's far away.

Doesn't anybody care?

Of course people care.

Doesn't anybody...

Doesn't anybody

have a conscience?

Yes, you have a conscience.

Cookie.

Don't cry.

Do they look good, daddy?

You've got the touch.

If you don't end up

senator for New Jersey,

you'll make a great

short-order cook.

I'd rather cook any day.

Mmm. Great.

This makes you the first Levov in

history who can prepare edible food.

As long as it's hamburgers.

What's wrong with hamburgers?

It's an American classic.

I came here to speak

to you about Vietnam.

Talk about an American classic.

There's an American

classic a**hole.

We abhor the political murder

of any state by another.

F***ing liar.

He's better than the guy

he ran against.

Barry Goldwater

would have buried us all.

F***ing mad man.

Lyndon Baines

"baby burner" Johnson.

What's going on?

Johnson's press conference.

We don't disagree, Mer. We're all

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