The Normal Heart Page #5

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Can you please bring me my dog?

He won't know how to live without me.

(TV BUZZING)

Don't bother.

Who's going to bring me my dog?

His name is Skip.

He'll come when you call him.

Please. (GASPING)

I miss him.

(SOBBING)

I miss him.

BROOKNER:
Can you imagine this at 19?

Your first boyfriend

you were gonna spend your whole life with.

(DOOR OPENS)

- Excuse me.

- MAN:
Yeah?

You're the TV guy.

Please go to room 407 and fix it.

No, I'm not gonna do that.

Fix the TV! It's your f***ing job.

My union says I don't gotta risk my life

for some contagious fairy.

If I have to go in there, then I f***ing quit.

So what exactly has your side been doing?

(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

(DOORBELL RINGING)

- Hi.

- Hey.

Thanks.

- You want some of this? Beer?

- Oh, beer is fine. Thanks.

Oh. Hey, pooch.

- Her name's Sam.

- Hi, Sam.

You know, I really used to like high tech.

I'm tired of it now.

I think I want chintz back again.

- Don't be insulted.

- Uh...

I'm not.

I want chintz back again, too.

- So, here we are.

- Mmm-hmm.

Two fellas who want chintz back again.

I guess this really is a date.

I'm starving.

Are you glad I'm here?

Oh, I'm pleased as punch you're here.

You're very good-looking.

What are you doing here?

- You think you're bad-looking or something?

- Mmm.

- Where you from?

- I'm from Oklahoma.

I left home at 18, put myself through...

What, you want to dance?

Put myself through college.

My dad worked at the refinery in West Tulsa,

and my mom was a waitress

in a luncheonette in Walgreens.

It's amazing, isn't it, how a kid

comes out of all that to wind up on The Times

dictating taste and style to the entire world.

And we were just starting to talk so nicely.

Talking's not my problem.

Shutting up's my problem.

(CHUCKLES)

Why do you write

all that fancy ball-gown bullshit?

I bet you gobble it up every day.

(SIGHS)

I know 10 people who have died.

When I came to you, it was only one.

I'm sorry.

Is that why you agreed to this date?

(SCOFFS)

Fork on the left,

knife on the right.

Did you know that Hitler's final solution

to eliminate the Polish Jews

was first mentioned in The Times?

It was on page 28,

on page six of The Washington Post.

They were both owned by Jews,

their very own people.

Scholars are finally writing honestly about it,

and it's damning to everyone.

Where was the Christian churches?

The Pope? Churchill? Roosevelt?

A few words from any of them

would have put Hitler on notice.

Dachau was open in 1933.

Where the f*** was everybody?

This is turning out to be

a very romantic evening.

You've never had a lover, have you?

I suppose you've had quite a few?

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