The Gambler Page #5

Listen. I'm a doctor.

I have patients waiting to see me.

Are you going to help me

or do I have to see the manager?

The manager will tell you, you need

two pieces of identification.

Yes? You said you were having

dinner at your parents' house.

- What do you think you're doing?

- Look.

This lady is trying to be polite,

and you're taking advantage of her.

- Give her the money that's hers.

- I must see proof that...

Look.

I came out of her womb...

and I am telling you

that she's Naomi Freed.

Give her the money.

- Are you going right home?

- Yeah.

- Do you give it to them today?

- Today.

Do they come to your house?

It's all right, Mom.

It's okay now.

This is the end of it.

Yeah. This is the end.

We'll have our coffee,

and I'll take you home.

No. You do it now.

Axe?

You better do

some painful thinking.

Unless you come to terms

with why you're doing this...

no money's gonna get you out.

- Who is it?

- What do you mean who is it?

I need to use your phone.

Did you get your debt paid up?

Are you using this place to hide?

You can if you want to, you know.

- Hello?

- Ray? Axel. Hips there?

- No, he's on the road.

- I'll call back in a half hour.

- Any message?

- Just tell him I've got it all.

- You got all of it?

- Right.

- In cash?

- Yes!

- How did you get it?

- I won it.

Why are you angry at me?

'Cause I didn't call to find out

how you're makin' out?

That's right.

I didn't have to. You told me

you were gonna get it.

Anyway, I knew you would.

You knew it?

You should be a gambler.

You didn't win it, did you?

How did you get it?

I killed somebody for it.

Must've been somebody

pretty important.

I'm gonna go teach a class.

You wanna come with me?

You can jeer and throw

rotten eggs at me if I get boring.

- I'll get the eggs.

- Okay. Hurry up.

"George Washington was,

I think, the typically good man.

Take it as you please.

He was 90% of the force

which made the American Revolution.

Know Washington and you

will know practically...

all there is to understand

about the American republic."

That's the way William Carlos

Williams begins his essay.

Washington is a good man

and a supreme symbol of America.

But as we get into the details...

of this personal vision

of the father of our land...

we find that he is not so simple.

That he wanted women violently...

but stayed tied

to the apron of his wife.

That he lived in constant rage...

but lost his temper only once.

That he was a man

of massive size and frame...

but wore waistcoats,

lace and gloves.

So that by the time

the piece ends...

we find that Williams

has reversed himself completely.

"Washington is the typical

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