Castle Keep Page #3

A Botticelli, two Corots.

- Fragonard...

- We are in danger.

Do you intend to do anything

about it, captain?

Wait! That's the count's car!

- Enlisted men can't steal his car.

- Right.

- Where you going at this hour?

- Drilling, sir.

- Drilling?

- Drilling the girls at the Red Queen.

So now we were

on the way to Sainte- Croix.

The cowboy,

the 24-karat Indian, the cook...

... the bak er and myself.

The rage of Paris, France,

and all women everywhere.

Bring out early in your book

that you're very young and Negro...

...unscrewed and unpublished.

I hate this car.

Who's home to welcome the heroes?

Hey, Rossi.

Where there's a bakery,

there's a baker's wife.

The place is closed.

- Where do you come from?

- We come from the castle.

To where are you going?

To the ends of the Earth.

And I think we're there.

Parlez English?

Enough.

I'm a baker.

I'm a baker's wife.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

Where's the baker?

Gone.

That's what a man needs.

A baker's wife, kid, family, home.

Come to bed.

I've been making an inventory too,

Captain Beckman.

You should be interested

in that inventory.

If those Americans

don't hold that ridge...

...your inventory will be shot to hell.

- We don't have to defend here.

- We can drop back to...

- I do, Beckman.

Major, I don't think you know

what this castle means.

It stands on the most important

crossroads in the Ardennes.

- Isn't that...?

- On the road to Bastogne.

- I think we should pull back.

- Don't think, Beckman.

If something isn't saved,

then what's it all for?

You can't save anything

by giving it to the Germans.

If you give them anything,

you have to give everything.

Is that what you wanna do,

Beckman?

You know all about this...

...castle.

But you don't know how to hold it.

You want it in ruins. Everything.

Do I, Beckman?

My purpose is madness.

It's the only way you can tell

what really happened in war.

By lying, you can open the door

a little crack on the truth.

Right, baby.

I love the Red Queen.

Red Queen is lovely.

Everybody loves the Red Queen.

Hey, where's Elk?

You're standing on him.

This whole thing has an ineffable,

dreamlike quality.

Like I've been here before.

This place, this queen, girls...

- Major Falconer is a warmonger.

- Yeah.

- Besides that, he's immoral.

- What?

Three of them. It just ain't right.

Three of them.

- Who?

- Major Falconer and the duchess.

- Well, that's only two.

- No, the duke is there.

Probably tucks them in.

It just ain't right.

I see. Two people is okay,

three people, then it's dirty?

For chrissake, Alistair,

can't you see it ain't natural?

Besides that, she's his nephew...

Niece. Anyhow, it just ain't right.

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