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TR: So how'd you like the movie?
SS: I loved it.
TR: Johnny Depp is really something, isn't he.
SS: Did you read "Through The Looking Glass" as a kid?
TR: No, I just watched it with you.
SS: No, I mean the book.
TR: The what?
SS: The book. By Lewis Carroll.
TR: Oh is that who wrote the movie?
SS: You've got to be kidding me.
TR: I didn't know much about the movie. I just saw the trailer
and Johnny Depp and thought "Sold!" He was so good in
Sleepy Hollow.
SS: Based on a book.
TR: And Chocolat.
SS: Based on a book.
TR: And of course Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
SS: Based on a book.
TR: I thought that was based on an older movie.
SS: Which was based on a book. Do you read books?
TR: Sometimes.
SS: What do you read?
TR: I donno. Whatever I like. History. That sort of thing.
SS: "That sort of thing"??? History is a "sort of thing"?
TR: What's the problem?
SS: Do you ever read poetry?
TR: In school we did.
SS: In college?
TR: High school.
SS: Emily Dickinson?
TR: What did she write?
SS: You've never read Emily Dickinson?
TR: Is that going to be a problem?
SS: How have you never read Emily Dickinson?
TR: Pretty easily, actually.
SS: Well you are missing out.
TR: I guess I'll just have to live with that. What you want to do?
Get something to eat?
SS: I'm going home. Thanks for the evening.
TR: What's wrong?
SS: How did I ever meet you?
TR: I'm a friend of your cousin. Remember? Your cousin Betty.
SS: Wow. I've got to talk to her.
TR: I don't understand.
SS: You are so right.
TR: What are you saying?
SS: The Soul selects her own Society --
Then -- shuts the Door --
To her divine Majority --
Present no more --
TR: What's that supposed to mean?
SS: It means, hit the road, Jack.
TR: What did I do?
SS: It's what you didn't do is the problem.
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