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<i>And now, in our third series
of discussions</i>

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<i>entitled Modern Marriage</i>

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<i>Mr. Harold Nicolson
and his wife</i>

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<i>the distinguished novelist
Vita Sackville-West</i>

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<i>share with us their thoughts</i>

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<i>on the foundation
of a modern marriage.</i>

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I didn't sign
a marriage contract.

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I negotiated one.

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<i>And I found a great deal
more flexibility</i>

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<i>than I was brought up
to expect.</i>

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- <i>Would you agree?</i>
- <i>I would.</i>

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<i>Marriage is less
a piece of furniture</i>

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and more like a plant.

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A living organism
in need of constant nurture.

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It is not something we own
but something we grow.

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<i>And in so doing,
we are offered the opportunity</i>

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<i>to nurture it in our own image.</i>

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Yes, but it does seem

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that men tend
to regard themselves the plant

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and women, the soil.

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This is a poor state of affairs
for both sexes.

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I enjoy the qualities in myself

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that may be said
to be masculine.

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And so do I, darling.

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<i>Nevertheless, I would argue
the most virile woman</i>

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<i>is infinitely more feminine
than the most feminine man.</i>

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That kind of thinking
implies damaging absolutes.

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That there is something necessarily
passive about the feminine

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and therefore that it should
always be the woman

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who surrenders
her opportunities.

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<i>But you do agree
that the joys of motherhood</i>

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<i>are sufficient compensation
for any such sacrifice?</i>

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Emphatically not.

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<i>Are you saying that your
success as a bestselling writer</i>

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<i>thrills you more than
your duties as a mother?</i>

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<i>My professional success
satisfies a different stomach.</i>

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Independence has no sex.

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Do you think
we scandalized the nation?

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With any luck, we did.

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Are you coming to Bloomsbury?

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I'm not sure I could bear
an evening of sullen handshakes

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and breathless philosophy.

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I think you'd find
you've got them quite wrong.

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Good luck with your mother.

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Aren't you sweet?

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I want some cake, mama.

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Boys, what do you say
to <i>bonne maman?</i>

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Oh, it's alright. Tuck in.

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I've been invited to a party
in Bloomsbury tonight.

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<i>All the most exciting artists
will be there</i>

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and all the writers
from the Hogarth Press.

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Oh, isn't it run
by those Woolfs?

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Yes. That's why
I'm so flattered.

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But they're socialists.
They are bohemians.

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This is a chance for me
to be accepted by serious minds.

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I hear she's mad.

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I wouldn't want people to believe
everything they hear about me.

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Well, of course, in your case,
everything they hear is true.

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Virginia
is a wickedly brilliant mind

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and I must know her.

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I hope you're not thinking
of running off with her as well?

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- No, <i>maman.</i> Of course not.
- If you do that again...

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You've scolded me enough.

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I've said again and again
how much I regret what happened

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and that I only pretended to be
a man when I went to France

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with Violet
to get copy for my book.

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I'm sorry
if the gossip gave you pain.

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I thought I could try
to forget your behavior

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<i>but you decided now
to tell the whole world.</i>

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- S... so you've read it then?
- It's not a novel.

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It's a thinly disguised account
of your ludicrous affair.

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- It's already been printed.
- But not published.

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You will stop the publishing

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or I will stop all money
to you and Harold.

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And I shall take steps
to protect the boys

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<i>from your influence.</i>

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I'll ask my publisher not
to go ahead with the binding.

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What I want very much

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is to have a daughter
that I can be proud of

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and not
a promiscuous exhibitionist

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who brings only shame on me

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after all I have done
to be accepted by society.

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<i>You really must promise
not to go.</i>

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Ah!

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There you are, Vita.

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Um, I'm not sure
Nessa would be thrilled

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to find you
poking around in here.

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I couldn't resist.

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Ah, that's my wife's
new portrait of her sister.

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Oh, it's Virginia?

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Well, come back to the party

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and I'll introduce you
to the real thing if you like.

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She's not so tranquil
off the canvas

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I can promise you.

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Duncan, I found Vita
in Nessa's studio.

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- What shall we do with her?
- Forty lashes immediately.

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Much more taken
with Nessa's work

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than Duncan's,
weren't you, Vita?

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I didn't know you worked
with Mrs. Bell, Mr. Grant.

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Constantly. About half
the work in there is mine.

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They have the same way of seeing
the world, you see, Vita.

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Theirs is what Virginia calls
a left-handed marriage.

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And what would that make
your marriage to Nessa then?

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A crowded one.

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Nessa and I try to catch
the truth of a thing

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by... by stripping it back...

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- Vanessa?
- ...capturing its essence.

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Radical simplification.

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Mm, no, no, no,
you're boring poor Vita, Duncan.

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I heard you on the radio
this morning.

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I just read your latest novel.

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Why do you think your books sell
more than mine?

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Popularity was never
a sign of genius.

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Are you going to smoke that?

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Bodies, bodies, bodies.

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- How does it feel?
- What are you getting at?

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The present moment.

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What is it composed of?

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It is composed
of bodily sensations.

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The air wafts cold on the skin
under one's clothes.

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The touch of a hand
gives the sense

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that one is sinking through
the center of the earth.

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The moment becomes harder..

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...stained by the desire
to be loved..

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...to be held close
by another shape.

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<i>Can you feel it
running molten up your spine</i>

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and down your limbs?

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Can you see
what's inside this moment?

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Can you feel it?

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<i>Yes, it is hardened.</i>

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Stained by the desire
to be loved.

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There.

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Snap.

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The body takes us there
and brings us back.

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It's entirely necessary
and a constant distraction.

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If we don't live quietly
inside the moment..

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...what would be one's gain
in dying?

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No.

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Stay this moment.
No one ever says that enough.

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Good morning, neighbor.

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Morning, neighbor.

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And a very good morning... it is,
neighbor.

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How was Clive's?

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A revelation.

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Well, did you meet her?

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Yes.

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I adore her.

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And so will you.

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She was utterly silent

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until she wanted to say
something

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and then she said it
supremely well.

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I still don't know why you wanna
go slumming about in Bloomsbury.

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Don't be such a dreadful snob,
Harold.

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The lot of them feel
so downtrodden and earnest.

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I thought I might invite her
to join my little writers' club

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<i>unless you disagree?</i>

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- Strongly, darling.
- <i>Marvelous.</i>

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That will make it all the more
enjoyable to invite her.

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No, I hear nothing
but reports of her madness.

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Madness.

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What a convenient way
to explain away her genius.

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Genius.

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I'm not set against her,
darling.

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I just think she sounds like
rather hard work.

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That young man
is a congenital idiot.

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What little brain he had

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has been commandeered
by Dora Carrington.

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He forgot to grease the rollers
on the press.

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He can't remember where he put

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the woodcuts
for your new easels.

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<i>I just hope they sell better
than the last round.</i>

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<i>Are you sure that headache
is from blocked sinuses?</i>

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- Quite sure.
- You were up too late last night at Vanessa's.

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- <i>You should get back to bed.</i>
- Stop fussing, Leonard.

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There are
your wretched woodcuts.

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- I suppose he's told you?
- About the rollers?

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No. Damn the rollers!

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How can I think about rollers
when I've been... betrayed?

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- Dora's betrayed me.
- In what way?

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Well, she lied to me.

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She said
she wasn't seeing Lytton

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<i>and she was seeing Lytton.</i>

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She was honest.

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She told you
she wanted to see Lytton.

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And I told her
she wasn't to see Lytton.

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I see. You told her.

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I... I love her. She's mine.

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- Do you think that is love?
- Absolutely.

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And I'm in... in agony!

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<i>Next time we advertise
for staff</i>

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we'll stipulate
only eunuchs need apply.

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I often think romance is just

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not altogether knowing
the other person.

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<i>It's the not knowing
that drives one mad.</i>

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<i>Dear Mrs. Woolf</i>

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<i>I admit
that when Clive invited me</i>

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<i>to your sister's party,
I came with every intention</i>

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<i>of meeting you.</i>

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<i>And what a curious creature
I found.</i>

201
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<i>You operate with such strength
and clarity.</i>

202
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<i>It is as if you were moving
above us somehow.</i>

203
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<i>How do you walk along that
raised ridge without falling?</i>

204
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<i>Now, if you'd allow me to ask</i>

205
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<i>Pen Committee are very anxious
for you to join our club.</i>

206
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<i>Will you be nice and let them
make you a member?</i>

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For my sake,
if for no other reason.

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Bunch of landed aristocracy

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congratulating each other
on their mediocre scribblings.

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You can't tell me it would be
anything but pure torture for you.

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I might like to discuss
their mediocre scribblings.

212
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Huh!

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Vita seemed to sell

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more than mine in any case.

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Her last book outsold
D.H. Lawrence by a mile.

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I can't believe
you care about that.

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I don't. I just resent
your forbidding it.

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I'm not forbidding anything.

219
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But it would drain
and enrage you

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to have your brilliant mind
ogled by those leering toffs.

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Didn't she dress up as a man

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and run off
with Violet Trefusis?

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That must have been difficult
for Nicolson

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to live down
at the Foreign Office.

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You know I hate
this sort of gossip, Ginia.

226
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You know I don't take these

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aristocratic aberrations
seriously, Leonard.

228
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Then we are in agreement.

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"I see from the club papers
that it is a dining club

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"and my experience is that
I can't belong to dining clubs.

231
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I'm so sorry."

232
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Are you frustrated
because you wanted Mrs. Woolf

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to become a member
of your writers' club

234
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or are you just not used
to being refused?

235
00:17:41,646 --> 00:17:43,116
What did Violet have to say?

236
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She's going abroad.
She wants me to come with her.

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00:17:47,027 --> 00:17:49,522
You're coming to Lausanne
on the 20th though, aren't you

238
00:17:49,524 --> 00:17:50,964
to play diplomat's wife
for five minutes?

239
00:17:50,966 --> 00:17:52,695
I shall be angry
if you don't come.

240
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Yes, of course.

241
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She's absolutely
unscrupulous.

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If you see her at all,
I know your will becomes like

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00:18:04,036 --> 00:18:06,180
a jellyfish addicted to cocaine.

244
00:18:06,182 --> 00:18:09,128
You know how grateful I am
that you came to rescue me.

245
00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:10,311
I'd have killed Violet

246
00:18:10,313 --> 00:18:11,881
if I'd stayed
with her an instant longer.

247
00:18:11,883 --> 00:18:13,067
It would have ruined us both,
but you would have been

248
00:18:13,069 --> 00:18:14,958
utterly cast out of society.

249
00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,173
You'd have lost the boys.

250
00:18:16,175 --> 00:18:19,121
I could have done nothing...
nothing to help you.

251
00:18:19,123 --> 00:18:22,584
I'll have nothing more
to do with her. Word of honor.

252
00:18:24,471 --> 00:18:28,731
I really am exhausted
with this sapphic pageant.

253
00:18:28,733 --> 00:18:29,787
I don't think
I could bear to be drawn

254
00:18:29,789 --> 00:18:31,261
into that vortex
of unhappiness again.

255
00:18:31,263 --> 00:18:35,076
- It nearly overwhelmed me.
- Hadji, I do love you.

256
00:18:38,695 --> 00:18:40,201
And I love you.

257
00:18:41,993 --> 00:18:44,457
But you do like to have
your cake and eat it, Vitti.

258
00:18:44,459 --> 00:18:46,253
And so many cakes.

259
00:18:46,255 --> 00:18:48,559
So many.

260
00:18:48,561 --> 00:18:50,835
Nothing would tempt me
to see her again.

261
00:18:57,914 --> 00:18:59,385
But if you do go off to France
with Violet again

262
00:18:59,387 --> 00:19:02,299
I shan't get into an aeroplane,
bring you back as I did before.

263
00:19:02,301 --> 00:19:04,703
I shall shock the nation
and elope to Kathmandu

264
00:19:04,705 --> 00:19:05,986
with Lord Curzon.

265
00:19:16,619 --> 00:19:20,496
I rely on your discretion,
Vitti.

266
00:19:24,212 --> 00:19:26,103
My own life depends on it.

267
00:19:38,307 --> 00:19:40,066
<i>You won't join
my little writers' club</i>

268
00:19:40,068 --> 00:19:43,909
so I shall have to enclose
my latest manuscript here.

269
00:19:43,911 --> 00:19:46,408
I would so love to know
what you think.

270
00:19:46,410 --> 00:19:49,067
If you like it,
my next is yours.

271
00:19:49,069 --> 00:19:52,016
A gift, if the Hogarth Press
would like it.

272
00:20:20,588 --> 00:20:22,828
Oh, dear.
We'll have to read it now.

273
00:20:22,830 --> 00:20:24,942
You admitted she does sell.

274
00:20:24,944 --> 00:20:26,737
You're not suggesting
we ask her to write for us?

275
00:20:26,739 --> 00:20:28,145
We could do with a bestseller.

276
00:20:28,147 --> 00:20:31,638
Don't forget we've got Tom Eliot
and Sigmund Freud to sell too.

277
00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:33,527
B... but maybe we should think
about it.

278
00:20:33,529 --> 00:20:36,219
But not her poetry, I beg you.
I won't print a word of that.

279
00:20:36,221 --> 00:20:37,278
<i>Ha!</i>

280
00:20:46,693 --> 00:20:50,087
I haven't lost the appetite
to know you better.

281
00:20:50,089 --> 00:20:51,818
So you must be very kind

282
00:20:51,820 --> 00:20:54,413
because I'm going
to be very brave and ask

283
00:20:54,415 --> 00:20:56,272
would you ever come
traveling with me?

284
00:21:18,213 --> 00:21:20,454
<i>Does the proposal
seem attractive to you?</i>

285
00:21:20,456 --> 00:21:21,800
I'm very flattered.

286
00:21:21,802 --> 00:21:23,914
I presume Mrs. Woolf knows
you've asked me?

287
00:21:23,916 --> 00:21:26,315
Of course, we always make
joint decisions

288
00:21:26,317 --> 00:21:28,078
about the writers we publish.

289
00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,263
I would ask her to join us

290
00:21:29,265 --> 00:21:32,721
but when there's a cross
on that door

291
00:21:32,723 --> 00:21:34,387
she's writing

292
00:21:34,389 --> 00:21:35,958
and everyone is forbidden
to disturb her.

293
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,274
Even her husband?

294
00:21:39,130 --> 00:21:40,348
Even her husband.

295
00:21:41,789 --> 00:21:45,728
So she writes down here
amidst all this?

296
00:21:45,730 --> 00:21:47,104
Oh, Julian.

297
00:21:47,106 --> 00:21:49,347
<i>A short, maybe a travel book,
will suit us very well.</i>

298
00:21:49,349 --> 00:21:51,045
<i>But we leave it to you.</i>

299
00:21:51,047 --> 00:21:52,778
- Aunt Ginia, I bought us...
- Julian!

300
00:21:56,299 --> 00:21:59,116
<i>Mrs. Nicolson is here,
Virginia.</i>

301
00:21:59,118 --> 00:22:01,041
- Is she?
- <i>How are you feeling?</i>

302
00:22:02,706 --> 00:22:05,235
My head's a little better now
I've let some words out.

303
00:22:05,237 --> 00:22:06,676
<i>Julian darling,
they look wonderful.</i>

304
00:22:06,678 --> 00:22:08,664
Have you got something
for me to read?

305
00:22:10,939 --> 00:22:12,026
Well, if it's terribly written

306
00:22:12,028 --> 00:22:14,813
at least
the paper will be delicious.

307
00:22:14,815 --> 00:22:16,961
Mr. Woolf said
you weren't to be disturbed.

308
00:22:19,780 --> 00:22:21,702
I was battling to read
Mr. Joyce.

309
00:22:25,801 --> 00:22:27,338
Are you going to write for us?

310
00:22:27,340 --> 00:22:28,779
No one has ever yet
thrown down a glove

311
00:22:28,781 --> 00:22:30,574
I was not ready to pick up.

312
00:22:32,656 --> 00:22:34,864
I'm meeting Harold in Italy.

313
00:22:34,866 --> 00:22:37,330
On the peaks of mountains
and beside green lakes

314
00:22:37,332 --> 00:22:39,414
I shall write my story.

315
00:22:39,416 --> 00:22:41,432
I'll shut my ears
to the brawling rivers.

316
00:22:41,434 --> 00:22:43,772
<i>I'll shut my nose
to the scent of the pines.</i>

317
00:22:45,117 --> 00:22:48,927
I'll concentrate
on my story... for you.

318
00:22:52,996 --> 00:22:54,438
I must be going.

319
00:23:11,991 --> 00:23:13,688
Would you ever play a truant
to Bloomsbury

320
00:23:13,690 --> 00:23:15,737
and come traveling with me?

321
00:23:15,739 --> 00:23:17,915
<i>You could look on it as copy.</i>

322
00:23:17,917 --> 00:23:19,965
I believe you look
on everything

323
00:23:19,967 --> 00:23:21,826
on everyone, as copy.

324
00:23:23,491 --> 00:23:24,388
Uh..

325
00:23:25,446 --> 00:23:26,792
Goodbye, Mrs. Woolf.

326
00:23:44,056 --> 00:23:46,872
<i>I feel as though I should like
to write you a long letter.</i>

327
00:23:46,874 --> 00:23:48,986
An endless letter.

328
00:23:48,988 --> 00:23:51,135
Pages and pages.

329
00:23:52,896 --> 00:23:55,200
Ever since I left England,
I've been like a person

330
00:23:55,202 --> 00:23:57,507
in an advanced stage
of intoxication.

331
00:23:57,509 --> 00:24:00,070
Cocktails made not of gin
and vermouth

332
00:24:00,072 --> 00:24:03,145
but of thrill and misery

333
00:24:03,147 --> 00:24:05,774
adventure and homesickness.

334
00:24:10,001 --> 00:24:12,690
<i>Tell me
who you've been seeing..</i>

335
00:24:12,692 --> 00:24:14,519
<i>...even if I've never heard
of them.</i>

336
00:24:16,088 --> 00:24:19,067
<i>I can get the sensation
of seeing you now and then..</i>

337
00:24:21,597 --> 00:24:23,391
<i>...but then I find you
going off.</i>

338
00:24:26,050 --> 00:24:27,941
How little we know anyone.

339
00:24:30,373 --> 00:24:31,431
<i>Only movements.</i>

340
00:24:32,487 --> 00:24:33,673
Gestures.

341
00:24:35,818 --> 00:24:37,453
<i>Nothing connected..</i>

342
00:24:38,541 --> 00:24:39,632
<i>...continuous..</i>

343
00:24:41,937 --> 00:24:43,186
...profound.

344
00:24:48,503 --> 00:24:51,705
<i>Don't you find all this intimate
philosophizing a bit vulgar?</i>

345
00:24:51,707 --> 00:24:52,637
Tsk.

346
00:24:54,269 --> 00:24:56,541
I don't know why you care
what she thinks.

347
00:24:56,543 --> 00:24:59,203
They're lucky to get you.
Your books sell, hers don't.

348
00:25:00,581 --> 00:25:02,820
I want her to admire me.

349
00:25:02,822 --> 00:25:04,265
Oh, dear.

350
00:25:05,641 --> 00:25:08,012
I hope you're not about
to become a Gloomsbury.

351
00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:12,589
Ooh!

352
00:25:18,967 --> 00:25:22,168
<i>I can't believe you!
This is unacceptable.</i>

353
00:25:22,170 --> 00:25:24,665
- <i>Please try to calm down.</i>
- <i>Try to calm down?</i>

354
00:25:24,667 --> 00:25:26,942
<i>How do you expect me to calm
down when you're on his bed?</i>

355
00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:33,442
<i>I can't. I can't bear it, Vita,
and I won't!</i>

356
00:25:50,518 --> 00:25:52,312
<i>Try to calm down?</i>

357
00:25:56,283 --> 00:25:58,428
<i>I don't think there's any use
in either of us</i>

358
00:25:58,430 --> 00:26:00,285
<i>playing wounded party,
Geoffrey.</i>

359
00:26:00,287 --> 00:26:03,329
Well, you can't treat love
the way you treated mine.

360
00:26:03,331 --> 00:26:04,385
Truly, you can't.

361
00:26:04,387 --> 00:26:05,346
Nothing that's happened here

362
00:26:05,348 --> 00:26:07,013
hasn't been perfectly lovely.

363
00:26:07,015 --> 00:26:09,034
- We're both adults.
- Morning, Geoffrey.

364
00:26:11,627 --> 00:26:13,230
Well, there you have it.

365
00:26:15,502 --> 00:26:17,775
I don't know how I'm going
to summon the courage

366
00:26:17,777 --> 00:26:19,665
to see the Woolfs
without having heard

367
00:26:19,667 --> 00:26:21,299
a single word about my book.

368
00:26:21,301 --> 00:26:23,124
Do you think
they hated it very much?

369
00:26:23,126 --> 00:26:24,501
Perhaps they both want
to tell you

370
00:26:24,503 --> 00:26:26,842
how marvelous it was in person.

371
00:26:29,373 --> 00:26:31,518
<i>You know what I think?</i>

372
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,728
It's self-conscious
and artificial.

373
00:26:33,730 --> 00:26:36,609
<i>You've tried to write
like Mrs. Woolf, but you can't.</i>

374
00:26:36,611 --> 00:26:38,759
And why you should want to,
I can't imagine.

375
00:26:44,332 --> 00:26:45,836
Dottie and Geoffrey.

376
00:26:45,838 --> 00:26:47,405
Trespassing on two marriages
at once.

377
00:26:47,407 --> 00:26:49,358
It isn't serious.

378
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,572
Virginia and I will have
to console each other.

379
00:27:00,923 --> 00:27:03,999
I'd like to dedicate it to you,
if you don't mind.

380
00:27:06,274 --> 00:27:07,970
When we last met,
you said you thought

381
00:27:07,972 --> 00:27:10,372
I looked on everything,
everyone as copy.

382
00:27:10,374 --> 00:27:11,526
Did I?

383
00:27:11,528 --> 00:27:12,614
You couldn't have accused
poor Virginia

384
00:27:12,616 --> 00:27:13,992
of being that mercenary,
could you, Vita?

385
00:27:13,994 --> 00:27:16,170
She did.

386
00:27:16,172 --> 00:27:18,700
It gave me a great deal of pain.

387
00:27:18,702 --> 00:27:22,288
Do you ever mean what you say
or say what you mean?

388
00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:24,113
Or do you just enjoy
baffling the people

389
00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:25,974
who try to creep
a little nearer?

390
00:27:28,599 --> 00:27:31,001
You know very well
that I like you.

391
00:27:31,003 --> 00:27:32,541
A fabulous lot.

392
00:27:35,005 --> 00:27:36,159
Do I?

393
00:27:44,327 --> 00:27:45,513
Damn it.

394
00:27:49,868 --> 00:27:52,398
You must remember
that Virginia is vulnerable

395
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,355
under all of that brilliance.

396
00:28:03,739 --> 00:28:04,793
I can't bear the thought

397
00:28:04,795 --> 00:28:06,654
of having caused you
any pain at all.

398
00:28:07,967 --> 00:28:10,528
Why have you such an art
of keeping so much of yourself

399
00:28:10,530 --> 00:28:12,290
up your sleeve?

400
00:28:12,292 --> 00:28:14,564
I suspect even after 20 years

401
00:28:14,566 --> 00:28:17,254
there'd still be something
to be unfolded.

402
00:28:17,256 --> 00:28:19,563
Some last layer not uncoiled.

403
00:28:21,004 --> 00:28:24,750
These snatched moments with you
are exasperating.

404
00:28:24,752 --> 00:28:27,346
Meet me so we may have another.

405
00:28:43,490 --> 00:28:46,501
I tried to find you at home,
but Leonard said you were here.

406
00:28:48,807 --> 00:28:51,881
I don't think I could ever care
for one single solitary thing

407
00:28:51,883 --> 00:28:55,981
with as much focus
as Leonard cares for you.

408
00:28:55,983 --> 00:29:00,338
I like things wild and vast
and complicated.

409
00:29:00,340 --> 00:29:03,380
- So I hear.
- I have something for you.

410
00:29:03,382 --> 00:29:06,038
A peace offering,
and don't try to resist

411
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,963
because I've gone
to a lot of trouble.

412
00:29:09,917 --> 00:29:11,805
They're from Cairo.

413
00:29:11,807 --> 00:29:14,143
The blue-tinted spectacles
that inspired me

414
00:29:14,145 --> 00:29:16,195
to write "Seducers" about you.

415
00:29:17,701 --> 00:29:20,518
"Arthur Lomax found
that he no longer dared

416
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,568
"to remove his spectacles.

417
00:29:22,570 --> 00:29:25,930
Realism was no longer for him."

418
00:29:25,932 --> 00:29:28,270
A fearless adventurer
who trades in passion

419
00:29:28,272 --> 00:29:30,865
pain and fantasy?

420
00:29:30,867 --> 00:29:33,554
Arthur Lomax is you, Vita.

421
00:29:33,556 --> 00:29:35,960
You just dedicated "Seducers"
to me, don't you see?

422
00:29:38,426 --> 00:29:41,049
- How unsettling.
- What?

423
00:29:41,051 --> 00:29:43,904
That you seem to understand
my work better than I do.

424
00:29:45,696 --> 00:29:47,745
When I read your work,
I don't know

425
00:29:47,747 --> 00:29:51,365
whether to be dejected
or encouraged.

426
00:29:51,367 --> 00:29:52,710
What do you mean?

427
00:29:52,712 --> 00:29:55,946
Dejected because I shall never
be able to write like that

428
00:29:55,948 --> 00:29:58,477
or encouraged
because somebody else can.

429
00:29:59,791 --> 00:30:01,521
- Do keep it up.
- What?

430
00:30:02,546 --> 00:30:05,461
The belief
that I achieve things.

431
00:30:06,486 --> 00:30:08,244
I have need of it.

432
00:30:08,246 --> 00:30:11,096
I am bewitched by your writing.

433
00:30:11,098 --> 00:30:12,924
It makes me afraid of you.

434
00:30:16,641 --> 00:30:18,082
It's all rhythm.

435
00:30:19,746 --> 00:30:22,756
Once you get that,
you can't use the wrong words.

436
00:30:22,758 --> 00:30:25,863
A sight, an emotion,
creates a wave in the mind

437
00:30:25,865 --> 00:30:28,586
long before you have the words
to describe it.

438
00:30:28,588 --> 00:30:30,956
When writing,
that is what you must recapture.

439
00:30:30,958 --> 00:30:35,985
That wave as it breaks
and tumbles in the mind.

440
00:30:35,987 --> 00:30:39,095
If you listen, it will make
the words to fit it.

441
00:30:44,283 --> 00:30:46,811
I must get back.

442
00:30:46,813 --> 00:30:48,349
I only stayed out this long

443
00:30:48,351 --> 00:30:49,983
because Leonard's reading
"Mrs. Dalloway"

444
00:30:49,985 --> 00:30:51,904
and I couldn't bear to be there.

445
00:31:59,399 --> 00:32:01,642
Goodness, Ginia.
Are you alright?

446
00:32:03,050 --> 00:32:04,139
Yes.

447
00:32:08,336 --> 00:32:10,193
Just tell me what you think.

448
00:32:14,709 --> 00:32:16,247
It's your best yet.

449
00:32:17,945 --> 00:32:19,291
Absolutely the best.

450
00:32:28,194 --> 00:32:31,367
You shouldn't be so fearful,
specially of what I think.

451
00:32:44,723 --> 00:32:46,292
<i>"The state in which you live
at Charleston</i>

452
00:32:46,294 --> 00:32:48,372
<i>"is not modern but immoral.</i>

453
00:32:48,374 --> 00:32:49,783
<i>"And making a nonsense
of your marriage</i>

454
00:32:49,785 --> 00:32:51,224
<i>"by knitting your life together
with a man</i>

455
00:32:51,226 --> 00:32:52,857
<i>"who is not your husband.</i>

456
00:32:52,859 --> 00:32:55,679
You know, of course,
Mr. Grant is a homosexual."

457
00:32:57,536 --> 00:33:00,128
What reason is there to think
I don't tell Clive everything?

458
00:33:00,130 --> 00:33:02,115
If anything, you share too much.

459
00:33:02,117 --> 00:33:03,685
I am completely indifferent
to anything

460
00:33:03,687 --> 00:33:06,183
the world may have to say about
me and my husband or my children.

461
00:33:06,185 --> 00:33:07,624
You seem indifferent.

462
00:33:07,626 --> 00:33:09,386
And I don't know
why you're laughing!

463
00:33:09,388 --> 00:33:11,630
<i>I'm laughing at your rage,
Nessa.</i>

464
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,607
I knew you wouldn't like
"Mrs. Dalloway."

465
00:33:14,609 --> 00:33:16,465
- But I did like it.
- No, you didn't.

466
00:33:16,467 --> 00:33:18,323
- Just say you didn't like it.
- I won't.

467
00:33:18,325 --> 00:33:20,117
<i>...on the house
if we don't disband...</i>

468
00:33:20,119 --> 00:33:21,654
It's not half as debauched
down there

469
00:33:21,656 --> 00:33:23,192
as she seems to think.

470
00:33:23,194 --> 00:33:25,339
It might be fun if it were.

471
00:33:25,341 --> 00:33:27,805
<i>You live exactly as you wish
at our house.</i>

472
00:33:27,807 --> 00:33:29,950
The house
we have made yours too.

473
00:33:29,952 --> 00:33:31,456
How do you say such a thing?

474
00:33:31,458 --> 00:33:34,019
I live exactly as I wish, do I?

475
00:33:34,021 --> 00:33:36,421
Mm, positively angelic,
aren't you, Duncan?

476
00:33:36,423 --> 00:33:39,207
<i>No one's forcing you
to live here.</i>

477
00:33:39,209 --> 00:33:42,508
I thought it dazzling,
evasive and infuriating.

478
00:33:42,510 --> 00:33:44,048
Exactly like you.

479
00:33:45,296 --> 00:33:47,219
Well, there you are then.

480
00:33:48,531 --> 00:33:51,957
Nessa, I've always admired
your handling of life

481
00:33:51,959 --> 00:33:54,010
as if it were a thing
one can throw out.

482
00:33:55,802 --> 00:33:57,402
But I cannot think of any book

483
00:33:57,404 --> 00:33:59,997
I will read more often
than "The Common Reader."

484
00:33:59,999 --> 00:34:03,200
There are passages
I should like to know by heart.

485
00:34:03,202 --> 00:34:04,962
Of course,
you prefer "The Common Reader."

486
00:34:04,964 --> 00:34:06,404
- <i>It's easy meat.</i>
- Clive!

487
00:34:06,406 --> 00:34:08,101
- <i>Well, it is.</i>
- "Dalloway" is the thing.

488
00:34:08,103 --> 00:34:09,831
It is an organism.
It is alive.

489
00:34:09,833 --> 00:34:11,271
I wish
you could understand that.

490
00:34:11,273 --> 00:34:12,393
Why do you think that I don't?

491
00:34:12,395 --> 00:34:14,315
Because in your work,
you cling to technique.

492
00:34:14,317 --> 00:34:16,077
You don't understand
that once you've mastered it

493
00:34:16,079 --> 00:34:17,134
you should throw it up
in the air

494
00:34:17,136 --> 00:34:18,831
and let it smash
on the pavement.

495
00:34:18,833 --> 00:34:20,689
<i>Right. Enough of all this.</i>

496
00:34:20,691 --> 00:34:22,355
I need to show you something
in the studio.

497
00:34:22,357 --> 00:34:25,429
I need my harshest critics
throwing fire at the canvas.

498
00:34:25,431 --> 00:34:27,064
<i>Oh, now come on.</i>

499
00:34:27,066 --> 00:34:28,825
I'm staying at Knole
this weekend.

500
00:34:28,827 --> 00:34:31,646
Come with me and stay the night.

501
00:34:33,792 --> 00:34:35,523
No, no, impossible.

502
00:34:36,931 --> 00:34:39,908
I've only got torn clothes.
I'd have to eat behind a screen.

503
00:34:39,910 --> 00:34:42,374
You'd be ashamed of me.
You'd say things you'll regret.

504
00:34:42,376 --> 00:34:44,264
I don't think
I've ever wanted anything

505
00:34:44,266 --> 00:34:46,255
so much in my whole life.

506
00:34:48,783 --> 00:34:50,674
Would you be very kind to me?

507
00:34:52,051 --> 00:34:54,739
I'll pick you up on Saturday
at midday.

508
00:35:04,607 --> 00:35:06,498
- Virginia.
- Vita.

509
00:35:09,220 --> 00:35:11,846
- Hello, Leonard.
- Hello, Vita.

510
00:35:19,470 --> 00:35:21,520
- Drive safely.
- Don't worry, Leonard.

511
00:35:45,512 --> 00:35:47,209
We have the sandwiches
and the champagne ready, do we?

512
00:35:47,211 --> 00:35:48,906
- Yes.
- <i>Very good.</i>

513
00:35:48,908 --> 00:35:50,988
- <i>I think she...</i>
- <i>What an exquisite hat.</i>

514
00:35:50,990 --> 00:35:52,845
<i>Very brave.</i>

515
00:35:52,847 --> 00:35:56,080
Hello. You are very welcome.

516
00:35:56,082 --> 00:35:58,228
- Hello!
- Hello, darling.

517
00:35:58,230 --> 00:35:59,828
Hello, darling.

518
00:35:59,830 --> 00:36:02,007
This is Geoffrey Scott
and Dorothy Wellesley.

519
00:36:02,009 --> 00:36:04,473
<i>I thought they'd round out
our little party.</i>

520
00:36:04,475 --> 00:36:06,621
And this is Virginia Woolf.

521
00:36:08,575 --> 00:36:09,726
Lovely.

522
00:36:09,728 --> 00:36:11,873
How lovely of you all
to allow me to join you.

523
00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:13,186
<i>Don't be silly.</i>

524
00:36:13,188 --> 00:36:15,175
It's so sweet
that you were free.

525
00:36:19,114 --> 00:36:21,356
Well, don't just stand there.
Do come up.

526
00:36:42,914 --> 00:36:45,441
I'll take this to be ironed,
Mrs. Woolf.

527
00:37:23,273 --> 00:37:25,289
- <i>Behave.</i>
- <i>It's very good.</i>

528
00:37:26,444 --> 00:37:28,364
<i>Really.</i>

529
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,464
<i>What do you think
of this place, Mrs. Woolf?</i>

530
00:37:32,466 --> 00:37:36,341
Vita tells me
you're damn hard to impress.

531
00:37:36,343 --> 00:37:38,329
I do so hope we all pass muster.

532
00:37:43,037 --> 00:37:47,456
The past is expressive here,
not dumb and forgotten.

533
00:37:47,458 --> 00:37:49,317
All the centuries seem lit up.

534
00:37:50,566 --> 00:37:51,524
<i>All about the place</i>

535
00:37:51,526 --> 00:37:53,863
a crowd of people
stand behind you

536
00:37:53,865 --> 00:37:55,339
not dead at all.

537
00:38:01,296 --> 00:38:02,863
How obscure you are.

538
00:38:05,748 --> 00:38:07,956
I think you've listened
a little too intently

539
00:38:07,958 --> 00:38:09,818
to what you've heard about me.

540
00:38:19,522 --> 00:38:21,698
<i>Forgive me my faults, Virginia.</i>

541
00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:23,556
<i>They are silly surface things.</i>

542
00:38:23,558 --> 00:38:24,645
<i>I want to show you a place</i>

543
00:38:24,647 --> 00:38:26,792
that really means
something to me.

544
00:38:26,794 --> 00:38:28,652
This is where I got married.

545
00:38:29,579 --> 00:38:31,439
It must feel very sacred.

546
00:38:33,681 --> 00:38:34,802
Marriage..

547
00:38:36,115 --> 00:38:39,379
...a ritual
performed on this spot

548
00:38:39,381 --> 00:38:41,881
permanently tore me apart
from this place.

549
00:38:43,611 --> 00:38:44,668
A play..

550
00:38:46,173 --> 00:38:49,470
...in which my part
was to be powerless

551
00:38:49,472 --> 00:38:52,928
to be passed
from one line of men to another.

552
00:38:52,930 --> 00:38:55,108
But you do love Harold?

553
00:38:55,110 --> 00:38:58,218
Of course, I do. Very much.

554
00:39:00,267 --> 00:39:03,599
But this house, it made me.

555
00:39:05,712 --> 00:39:08,115
<i>Our separation
has been my greatest pain.</i>

556
00:39:09,779 --> 00:39:13,047
It is where my soul is,
where my family are.

557
00:39:16,251 --> 00:39:19,099
I've been cheated
out of my home.

558
00:39:19,101 --> 00:39:22,178
I cannot have her
simply because I am a woman.

559
00:39:24,739 --> 00:39:28,388
It's as though for years
I've had an affair with a lover

560
00:39:28,390 --> 00:39:31,336
who never belonged to me
entirely.

561
00:39:31,338 --> 00:39:35,243
<i>We've been forced apart
by stupid, ancient laws</i>

562
00:39:35,245 --> 00:39:37,165
and I can only visit her.

563
00:39:47,642 --> 00:39:49,277
Are you alright, Virginia?

564
00:39:52,383 --> 00:39:53,858
Yes, I'm fine.

565
00:40:03,242 --> 00:40:05,065
Where is she?

566
00:40:05,067 --> 00:40:07,021
With the Mad Hatter, I suppose.

567
00:40:13,139 --> 00:40:15,092
<i>Are you sure you're
feeling better, Virginia?</i>

568
00:40:15,094 --> 00:40:16,341
I'm sure.

569
00:40:16,343 --> 00:40:18,298
<i>Leonard will be furious
with me.</i>

570
00:40:21,437 --> 00:40:23,423
Why did you bring
Dottie and Geoffrey?

571
00:40:37,804 --> 00:40:38,733
I..

572
00:41:17,652 --> 00:41:18,838
I can't.

573
00:41:21,175 --> 00:41:22,457
I've tried..

574
00:41:24,027 --> 00:41:25,148
...with Leonard..

575
00:41:26,974 --> 00:41:29,698
...but I... I... I..

576
00:41:54,649 --> 00:41:56,665
<i>...manner had grown upon him</i>

577
00:41:56,667 --> 00:41:58,971
<i>and he took little parts
in the games.</i>

578
00:41:58,973 --> 00:42:02,303
<i>The children wearing the spoils
of their crackers</i>

579
00:42:02,305 --> 00:42:04,289
<i>danced and romped noisily.</i>

580
00:42:04,291 --> 00:42:06,146
I wonder if I could render
one of your paintings

581
00:42:06,148 --> 00:42:07,493
into prose.

582
00:42:07,495 --> 00:42:09,670
You're hardly wanting
for inspiration.

583
00:42:09,672 --> 00:42:11,754
"Mrs. Dalloway"
has been so much admired.

584
00:42:13,195 --> 00:42:14,541
Are you pleased?

585
00:42:17,745 --> 00:42:19,280
Yes.

586
00:42:19,282 --> 00:42:21,811
<i>I do write damned well
sometimes.</i>

587
00:42:21,813 --> 00:42:24,212
Almost as well as your sister
paints, do you think?

588
00:42:24,214 --> 00:42:25,718
Never.

589
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:27,579
But almost consistently better
than you do.

590
00:42:31,806 --> 00:42:33,665
<i>What does Vita think?</i>

591
00:42:36,482 --> 00:42:39,398
It doesn't matter.
It's not her mind I admire.

592
00:42:40,712 --> 00:42:42,634
What exactly happened at Knole?

593
00:42:46,060 --> 00:42:48,910
She lavishes a kind
of maternal protection on me

594
00:42:48,912 --> 00:42:52,051
but her friendship
is never untinged with desire.

595
00:42:54,197 --> 00:42:56,406
<i>I wonder what exactly they do
with one another</i>

596
00:42:56,408 --> 00:42:58,167
these sapphists.

597
00:42:58,169 --> 00:42:59,511
I really can't imagine.

598
00:42:59,513 --> 00:43:02,426
Nessa, of course, you can.
It must be marvelous.

599
00:43:02,428 --> 00:43:05,950
All those velvet curves
colliding.

600
00:43:05,952 --> 00:43:09,955
It does seem a shame to forfeit
actual penetration though.

601
00:43:09,957 --> 00:43:11,843
And what makes you think
they forfeit that?

602
00:43:15,627 --> 00:43:17,613
But do you like her, Virginia?

603
00:43:20,528 --> 00:43:23,731
I like her... maturity..

604
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:26,935
...and her voluptuousness.

605
00:43:32,091 --> 00:43:33,949
Do you think
there's something wrong with me?

606
00:43:36,254 --> 00:43:37,889
Something disconnected?

607
00:43:44,455 --> 00:43:48,040
You are capable of so much love.

608
00:43:48,042 --> 00:43:50,701
And one has room
for many different shades of it.

609
00:43:53,296 --> 00:43:55,664
The truth is I worry
I'm not quite allowed

610
00:43:55,666 --> 00:43:58,771
to desire
in the same way as you.

611
00:43:58,773 --> 00:44:02,294
Sex isn't the most
important thing, you know.

612
00:44:02,296 --> 00:44:04,411
That's what people say
when it's easy for them.

613
00:44:12,867 --> 00:44:15,653
<i>I was not intended to be
just a diplomat's wife.</i>

614
00:44:15,655 --> 00:44:16,997
Well, that is what you are

615
00:44:16,999 --> 00:44:18,150
amongst a great
many other things

616
00:44:18,152 --> 00:44:19,880
which I've never objected to.

617
00:44:19,882 --> 00:44:21,385
But in Tehran, I will have

618
00:44:21,387 --> 00:44:22,988
more responsibilities
than ever before

619
00:44:22,990 --> 00:44:24,461
and I cannot be there
without a wife.

620
00:44:24,463 --> 00:44:27,312
Wife? You needn't administer
the word with such venom.

621
00:44:27,314 --> 00:44:30,515
- I deliver the word as fact.
- So I'm to play the role?

622
00:44:30,517 --> 00:44:31,637
What is a wife if not a role?

623
00:44:31,639 --> 00:44:33,398
And I'm to be thrown together
with people

624
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:34,616
with whom
I have nothing in common

625
00:44:34,618 --> 00:44:36,760
except the place we happen
to find ourselves in?

626
00:44:36,762 --> 00:44:38,363
Yes, Tehran will be
much the same

627
00:44:38,365 --> 00:44:39,612
as any of my other postings.

628
00:44:39,614 --> 00:44:41,085
I can't bear it this time.

629
00:44:41,087 --> 00:44:42,783
Oh, I'm sorry
that diplomats and their wives

630
00:44:42,785 --> 00:44:44,416
don't talk about copulation

631
00:44:44,418 --> 00:44:47,075
with the same readiness
as your friends.

632
00:44:47,077 --> 00:44:48,197
And I'd feel
a great deal happier

633
00:44:48,199 --> 00:44:49,157
if you didn't see your friends
for a while.

634
00:44:49,159 --> 00:44:50,247
They make nothing but muddles.

635
00:44:50,249 --> 00:44:52,649
I'm not in any muddle
at the moment.

636
00:44:52,651 --> 00:44:54,153
- Geoffrey?
- That was never anything much.

637
00:44:54,155 --> 00:44:56,588
And he's quite happily gone back
to his tiresome wife.

638
00:44:56,590 --> 00:44:58,350
- Dorothy?
- I haven't seen her.

639
00:44:58,352 --> 00:45:00,433
Your maid. The French one.
Wh... what was she called?

640
00:45:00,435 --> 00:45:02,611
- Genoux. No.
- Violet?

641
00:45:02,613 --> 00:45:03,988
I don't even know where she is.

642
00:45:03,990 --> 00:45:05,076
And Virginia?

643
00:45:05,078 --> 00:45:06,583
That is not a muddle
and never can be.

644
00:45:06,585 --> 00:45:07,671
She's utterly unattainable.

645
00:45:07,673 --> 00:45:09,533
Which makes her
even more desirable.

646
00:45:11,421 --> 00:45:13,854
You know, I can't help but think
that this furious display

647
00:45:13,856 --> 00:45:16,256
has more to do with the timing
than the duties

648
00:45:16,258 --> 00:45:18,595
you've more than
happily performed for years.

649
00:45:18,597 --> 00:45:19,877
God forbid
I should wrench you away

650
00:45:19,879 --> 00:45:22,823
from your precious
genius invalid.

651
00:45:22,825 --> 00:45:24,584
Harold, please stop this.

652
00:45:24,586 --> 00:45:26,475
I don't question
your indulgences.

653
00:45:26,477 --> 00:45:28,557
I never play with fire, Vita,
because I don't have the luxury

654
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,190
of flirting with scandal
as you do

655
00:45:30,192 --> 00:45:33,617
and I always, always choose
to be with you in the end.

656
00:45:33,619 --> 00:45:36,501
You never take risks?
Lord Curzon, Raymond...

657
00:45:36,503 --> 00:45:38,391
This arrangement works
because I allow it!

658
00:45:38,393 --> 00:45:40,763
Don't you dare believe that!

659
00:45:46,881 --> 00:45:48,483
I want you with me, Vita.

660
00:45:49,891 --> 00:45:52,070
We've been together
for only ten weeks this year.

661
00:46:00,079 --> 00:46:02,898
I find it all so meaningless
without you.

662
00:46:07,926 --> 00:46:09,399
It hurts me, Vita.

663
00:46:27,081 --> 00:46:29,897
- Well, for how long?
- Only four or five months.

664
00:46:29,899 --> 00:46:32,076
- Only?
- <i>Think of seeing Persia.</i>

665
00:46:32,078 --> 00:46:33,934
Yes.

666
00:46:33,936 --> 00:46:36,720
Do you think you might write
another travelogue for us, Vita?

667
00:46:36,722 --> 00:46:39,348
"Seducers in Ecuador" was such
a success for the press.

668
00:46:39,350 --> 00:46:41,014
I thought you'd never ask.

669
00:46:41,016 --> 00:46:44,120
It might breathe some life
into the stale domestic duties

670
00:46:44,122 --> 00:46:45,850
I'll have to perform for Harold.

671
00:46:45,852 --> 00:46:47,099
Of course,
I'll never see you again.

672
00:46:47,101 --> 00:46:48,541
Of course, you'll see me again.

673
00:46:48,543 --> 00:46:50,719
Do you think I'm going
to get kidnapped by brigands?

674
00:46:50,721 --> 00:46:51,872
No.

675
00:46:51,874 --> 00:46:53,569
I know
it doesn't make you envious.

676
00:46:53,571 --> 00:46:55,716
You prefer
your misty old Bloomsbury.

677
00:46:55,718 --> 00:46:58,823
But I do wish Leonard
would let me steal you away.

678
00:46:58,825 --> 00:47:00,904
<i>Take you with me,
put you in the sun...</i>

679
00:47:00,906 --> 00:47:03,435
And I wish you would stop
saying things like that.

680
00:47:03,437 --> 00:47:05,361
You know
it would never be possible.

681
00:47:06,801 --> 00:47:08,082
I shall miss you..

682
00:47:09,364 --> 00:47:11,222
...more than
you'll ever believe.

683
00:47:14,552 --> 00:47:16,345
She'd never say anything
as simple as that

684
00:47:16,347 --> 00:47:17,817
would she, Leonard?

685
00:47:17,819 --> 00:47:19,099
She clothes everything she says

686
00:47:19,101 --> 00:47:21,501
in such exquisite phrases,
things lose their meaning.

687
00:47:21,503 --> 00:47:23,296
Maybe you don't understand
the nature of the truth

688
00:47:23,298 --> 00:47:24,962
that Virginia unearths.

689
00:47:24,964 --> 00:47:26,626
She has the clearest mind
I've ever known.

690
00:47:26,628 --> 00:47:29,641
Always, always, always,
I try to say how I feel.

691
00:47:31,722 --> 00:47:33,929
I shall miss you dreadfully.

692
00:47:33,931 --> 00:47:35,628
Everything here
will seem dull and damp

693
00:47:35,630 --> 00:47:37,585
and if you don't believe that,
you're an ass.

694
00:47:38,736 --> 00:47:41,395
There.
Is that simple enough for you?

695
00:47:45,336 --> 00:47:47,194
I think we'd better be
saying goodbye, Vita.

696
00:48:02,121 --> 00:48:03,400
I shan't make you want me
anymore

697
00:48:03,402 --> 00:48:05,931
by giving myself away like this.

698
00:48:05,933 --> 00:48:08,143
You can't think me
that ruthless, can you?

699
00:48:35,466 --> 00:48:36,556
<i>Ginia.</i>

700
00:48:38,508 --> 00:48:40,430
<i>Close the door.
It's bitter out there.</i>

701
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,922
<i>The only way I can deal
with Egypt is alphabetically.</i>

702
00:48:52,924 --> 00:48:54,970
<i>Alabaster, Americans, Arabs</i>

703
00:48:54,972 --> 00:48:56,637
bromides, buffaloes, beggars

704
00:48:56,639 --> 00:48:58,590
camels, crocodiles, colossi

705
00:48:58,592 --> 00:49:00,160
dust, dervishes, desert

706
00:49:00,162 --> 00:49:02,755
Egyptians, elation,
fellaheen, flies

707
00:49:02,757 --> 00:49:05,028
goats, granite,
hotels, hieroglyphics

708
00:49:05,030 --> 00:49:07,592
imshi, ignorance,
jibbahs, Kodaks

709
00:49:07,594 --> 00:49:09,769
Levantines, mummies,
mud, millionaires

710
00:49:09,771 --> 00:49:10,826
<i>Nubia, obsidian</i>

711
00:49:10,828 --> 00:49:12,941
pyramids, quarries,
ruins, sarcophagi

712
00:49:12,943 --> 00:49:15,666
Tutankhamun, utopia,
vultures, Virginia.

713
00:49:18,228 --> 00:49:19,894
I feel dissipated..

714
00:49:21,783 --> 00:49:23,033
...and aimless.

715
00:49:24,858 --> 00:49:25,884
<i>Insipid.</i>

716
00:49:26,910 --> 00:49:27,935
<i>Restless.</i>

717
00:49:28,894 --> 00:49:30,016
Virginia.

718
00:49:32,258 --> 00:49:34,562
I feel as if
a dark pool of sticky water

719
00:49:34,564 --> 00:49:36,070
were closing over me.

720
00:49:39,754 --> 00:49:41,673
It's that you're not here.

721
00:50:13,131 --> 00:50:18,190
Does anything ever actually
happen to Mrs. Dalloway?

722
00:50:18,192 --> 00:50:21,393
Not really.
She just gives the party.

723
00:50:21,395 --> 00:50:23,894
Golly, I'm hooked.

724
00:50:29,723 --> 00:50:31,615
More poetry from your Pharisee?

725
00:50:33,856 --> 00:50:35,715
He's in love with you,
of course.

726
00:50:37,570 --> 00:50:39,010
Is he still teaching you Arabic?

727
00:50:39,012 --> 00:50:40,872
No, this is from Virginia.

728
00:50:42,505 --> 00:50:45,098
You've finally caught your prey?

729
00:50:45,100 --> 00:50:47,790
- I suppose I have.
- Are you happy now?

730
00:50:59,513 --> 00:51:01,499
<i>"'Mrs. Ramsay, ' Lily cried..</i>

731
00:51:03,293 --> 00:51:04,926
"...but nothing happened.

732
00:51:04,928 --> 00:51:06,463
"'The anguish could reduce one

733
00:51:06,465 --> 00:51:08,452
to such a pitch of imbecility, '
she thought."

734
00:51:12,134 --> 00:51:14,345
It's good, Ginia.
It's always good.

735
00:51:30,072 --> 00:51:33,304
<i>How very rude. I'd like
to see you give it a go.</i>

736
00:51:48,138 --> 00:51:49,997
She just finished
"To The Lighthouse."

737
00:51:50,957 --> 00:51:51,915
It's remarkable.

738
00:51:51,917 --> 00:51:54,254
So confused in her letters.

739
00:51:54,256 --> 00:51:55,376
<i>It's what I read.</i>

740
00:51:55,378 --> 00:51:57,522
What is in Vita's past
is all in my future

741
00:51:57,524 --> 00:51:59,639
but in reading it,
in consuming it..

742
00:52:01,272 --> 00:52:02,807
...suddenly it's all over.

743
00:52:02,809 --> 00:52:04,600
She's no longer coasting
in Baluchistan.

744
00:52:04,602 --> 00:52:06,490
She's riding in a cab
in Baghdad.

745
00:52:06,492 --> 00:52:08,861
She's just asleep. She's dead.

746
00:52:08,863 --> 00:52:10,814
The present tense
has become meaningless.

747
00:52:10,816 --> 00:52:14,273
I heard she traveled
all the way from Luxor

748
00:52:14,275 --> 00:52:16,356
<i>to Cairo
with the train on fire.</i>

749
00:52:16,358 --> 00:52:18,951
Yes! Flames licking out
from under the carriage.

750
00:52:18,953 --> 00:52:20,648
All those smoldering diplomats.

751
00:52:20,650 --> 00:52:22,506
And all that chaos,
all that violence.

752
00:52:22,508 --> 00:52:23,948
- <i>Do you know what she said?</i>
- What?

753
00:52:23,950 --> 00:52:25,965
Simply that it gave her
a lingering regret

754
00:52:25,967 --> 00:52:27,056
for the Southeastern.

755
00:52:31,028 --> 00:52:32,119
Yeah.

756
00:52:41,631 --> 00:52:43,906
And what else
does she write of?

757
00:52:45,282 --> 00:52:47,779
She's crawled
through ramparts of snow

758
00:52:47,781 --> 00:52:49,188
been attacked by bandits

759
00:52:49,190 --> 00:52:51,623
seen hills
stained with copper sulfate

760
00:52:51,625 --> 00:52:53,513
mud towns at nightfall

761
00:52:53,515 --> 00:52:57,006
dead camels pecked by vultures,
dying men.

762
00:52:57,008 --> 00:53:01,043
And does she make you
want to write or to live?

763
00:53:03,348 --> 00:53:04,375
Both.

764
00:53:05,847 --> 00:53:07,834
But how to make sense of her,
Duncan?

765
00:53:09,499 --> 00:53:11,003
- What do you mean?
- All her fragments.

766
00:53:11,005 --> 00:53:14,017
She makes me feel as if language
is miserably insufficient.

767
00:53:15,874 --> 00:53:17,091
Broken.

768
00:53:18,340 --> 00:53:21,031
You must let the eye
lick it all up.

769
00:53:23,016 --> 00:53:25,225
All that deliciousness

770
00:53:25,227 --> 00:53:27,628
and then the brain
will settle itself down

771
00:53:27,630 --> 00:53:30,767
and watch things happening

772
00:53:30,769 --> 00:53:34,866
without troubling itself
to think.

773
00:53:34,868 --> 00:53:37,718
Yes, the eye licks it up,
but the brain can't.

774
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:40,219
- The... the brain can't..
- <i>What?</i>

775
00:53:42,748 --> 00:53:44,603
What?

776
00:53:44,605 --> 00:53:46,686
- What?
- <i>Live.</i>

777
00:53:46,688 --> 00:53:48,640
- <i>Virginia, are you alright?</i>
- I'm so sorry.

778
00:53:48,642 --> 00:53:51,364
The eye and the brain..

779
00:53:55,945 --> 00:53:57,064
I'm so sorry.

780
00:53:57,066 --> 00:53:59,086
The... the eye and the brain..

781
00:54:00,430 --> 00:54:01,776
I can't..

782
00:54:06,515 --> 00:54:07,734
The eye and..

783
00:54:15,453 --> 00:54:16,543
The eye and..

784
00:54:23,013 --> 00:54:24,167
<i>Ginia?</i>

785
00:54:32,301 --> 00:54:33,519
I'm so sorry.

786
00:54:35,314 --> 00:54:37,842
Virginia. Wait!

787
00:54:37,844 --> 00:54:39,764
<i>Just give her a moment.</i>

788
00:55:25,602 --> 00:55:26,789
Virginia.

789
00:55:36,237 --> 00:55:37,965
I feel as though
my mind were driven

790
00:55:37,967 --> 00:55:40,338
to some remote corner
of my body.

791
00:55:41,298 --> 00:55:42,771
Don't worry, my darling.

792
00:55:42,773 --> 00:55:45,492
I'll bring you back
to the surface.

793
00:55:45,494 --> 00:55:47,418
<i>Give her
all the usual sedatives.</i>

794
00:55:49,275 --> 00:55:51,771
Absolute rest and quiet.

795
00:55:51,773 --> 00:55:54,432
We might just avoid a crisis.

796
00:55:58,084 --> 00:56:00,195
Is she writing?

797
00:56:00,197 --> 00:56:02,629
She's just finished a novel.

798
00:56:02,631 --> 00:56:04,684
I fear the writing is what
brings on the breakdowns.

799
00:56:06,155 --> 00:56:08,333
If you stop her writing,
she'll die.

800
00:56:08,335 --> 00:56:10,254
I sometimes feel
that women can't cope

801
00:56:10,256 --> 00:56:12,625
with too much gray matter.

802
00:56:12,627 --> 00:56:15,730
Well,
I'm not a doctor, of course

803
00:56:15,732 --> 00:56:19,512
but I do know a few men
who've had bouts of instability

804
00:56:19,514 --> 00:56:22,362
though I couldn't say whether
it was because of their genius.

805
00:56:22,364 --> 00:56:24,957
I do think the world is rather
short of brilliant minds

806
00:56:24,959 --> 00:56:26,818
and I'm happy to see it
in either sex.

807
00:56:28,034 --> 00:56:31,139
What fools would we be
to deny women a voice

808
00:56:31,141 --> 00:56:33,000
lest they laugh at us?

809
00:56:46,131 --> 00:56:48,085
<i>The doctor has sent me to bed.</i>

810
00:56:49,752 --> 00:56:51,706
Tried to forbid all writing.

811
00:56:54,588 --> 00:56:56,543
So this is my swansong.

812
00:57:00,002 --> 00:57:01,860
One thing has remained
a beacon..

813
00:57:03,846 --> 00:57:06,152
...these past six weeks
of lying in bed.

814
00:57:11,406 --> 00:57:13,328
You believe in my strength..

815
00:57:17,650 --> 00:57:19,510
...that I am no invalid.

816
00:57:21,976 --> 00:57:23,127
<i>I wish that you were well</i>

817
00:57:23,129 --> 00:57:24,344
<i>and that you could come
and see me</i>

818
00:57:24,346 --> 00:57:27,002
<i>so we may live
in the present moment together.</i>

819
00:57:27,004 --> 00:57:28,892
You must promise to get better.

820
00:57:28,894 --> 00:57:32,192
You are a very,
very remarkable person.

821
00:57:32,194 --> 00:57:34,053
<i>You are one
perpetual achievement.</i>

822
00:57:35,301 --> 00:57:37,480
I've settled down
to wanting you..

823
00:57:39,529 --> 00:57:40,780
...doggedly..

824
00:57:43,053 --> 00:57:44,143
...dismally..

825
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:48,466
...faithfully.

826
00:57:51,252 --> 00:57:53,335
I hope at last this pleases you.

827
00:57:56,185 --> 00:57:58,043
It's damned unpleasant for me.

828
00:58:04,898 --> 00:58:07,171
I need to go home.

829
00:58:07,173 --> 00:58:08,997
It's Virginia, isn't it?

830
00:58:08,999 --> 00:58:10,858
- <i>Salaam alaikum.</i>
- <i>Walaikum salaam.</i>

831
00:58:12,074 --> 00:58:13,193
A full-blown affair with her

832
00:58:13,195 --> 00:58:15,118
would be like smoking
over a petrol tank.

833
00:58:15,886 --> 00:58:16,973
<i>Alhamdulillah.</i>

834
00:58:20,114 --> 00:58:22,064
God, the next person
who kisses my hand

835
00:58:22,066 --> 00:58:23,926
will get his face slapped.

836
00:58:26,007 --> 00:58:27,706
- Good evening.
- Good evening.

837
00:58:30,588 --> 00:58:33,312
Hypocrisy, Harold.
Brazen hypocrisy.

838
00:58:44,042 --> 00:58:45,417
It's clear to me
that you believe yourself

839
00:58:45,419 --> 00:58:47,435
to be in love with Virginia.

840
00:58:47,437 --> 00:58:49,261
So let me say what I couldn't

841
00:58:49,263 --> 00:58:51,409
during that dreadful confusion
with Violet.

842
00:58:56,052 --> 00:58:57,944
There are several kinds
of love, Vita.

843
00:58:59,290 --> 00:59:01,816
Yours for Virginia lives here.

844
00:59:01,818 --> 00:59:02,973
It constricts.

845
00:59:04,350 --> 00:59:05,856
It panics. It consumes.

846
00:59:07,810 --> 00:59:10,244
It is selfish and corrosive.

847
00:59:14,888 --> 00:59:15,881
The other..

848
00:59:18,027 --> 00:59:21,968
...is an outpouring
of everything good in you..

849
00:59:24,754 --> 00:59:26,195
...and it lives here.

850
00:59:29,335 --> 00:59:31,193
It is what I feel for you.

851
00:59:35,806 --> 00:59:37,279
I'm going back.

852
00:59:46,376 --> 00:59:48,520
<i>I'm sorry, but she really
mustn't see anyone.</i>

853
00:59:48,522 --> 00:59:49,673
<i>I'm sure you understand.</i>

854
00:59:49,675 --> 00:59:51,884
You're sure even I couldn't help
cheer her up?

855
00:59:51,886 --> 00:59:54,606
It isn't quite so simple
as just cheering her up, Vita.

856
00:59:54,608 --> 00:59:58,193
- Well..
- I'm having trouble convincing her to take a glass of milk.

857
00:59:58,195 --> 01:00:00,051
This may be a little ambitious.

858
01:00:00,053 --> 01:00:01,750
Of course.

859
01:00:01,752 --> 01:00:03,479
How silly of me.

860
01:00:03,481 --> 01:00:06,458
I... I... I don't think you'd be
quite so cross with me

861
01:00:06,460 --> 01:00:08,380
if you knew how very much
I approve

862
01:00:08,382 --> 01:00:10,718
of your care of Virginia.

863
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:14,595
I just thought I could help ease
things a little for you all

864
01:00:14,597 --> 01:00:16,358
if she came to stay with me.

865
01:00:17,927 --> 01:00:21,865
I brought this for you
from Harold's library.

866
01:00:21,867 --> 01:00:23,757
I thought it might distract you.

867
01:00:28,818 --> 01:00:31,731
I am good for her,
you know, Leonard.

868
01:00:31,733 --> 01:00:34,167
I don't doubt
there's some truth in that.

869
01:00:36,569 --> 01:00:39,901
You will let me know
if she's in any... danger?

870
01:00:41,343 --> 01:00:42,400
I promise.

871
01:00:55,341 --> 01:00:58,092
Now she's been able to sleep
for a few hours..

872
01:00:58,094 --> 01:01:00,400
<i>...and stopped talking
incoherently.</i>

873
01:01:00,402 --> 01:01:01,619
But she still won't eat.

874
01:01:03,477 --> 01:01:05,336
I'll do what I can
to persuade her.

875
01:01:09,915 --> 01:01:11,997
What do you think of Ginia
going to stay with Vita?

876
01:01:16,258 --> 01:01:18,821
- Does Virginia want to see her?
- Yes.

877
01:01:22,407 --> 01:01:24,231
Maybe it would be good for her.

878
01:01:24,233 --> 01:01:26,633
Then there's Vita's reputation.

879
01:01:26,635 --> 01:01:28,172
Well, Vita can try to seduce her

880
01:01:28,174 --> 01:01:30,638
<i>but she wouldn't get very far,
will she?</i>

881
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,882
She's not entirely devoid
of physical desire, Nessa!

882
01:01:35,828 --> 01:01:37,688
Oh, my goodness, Leonard,
of course not.

883
01:01:41,178 --> 01:01:44,638
Well, if you think going to stay
with Vita will do her good..

884
01:01:46,656 --> 01:01:48,447
...I shan't stop her.

885
01:01:48,449 --> 01:01:50,626
I know it's very hard on you,
Leonard.

886
01:01:50,628 --> 01:01:52,903
I simply don't believe
in jealousy, Nessa.

887
01:01:55,369 --> 01:01:56,520
One must screw it up

888
01:01:56,522 --> 01:01:58,380
and throw it out
like a useless manuscript.

889
01:02:21,955 --> 01:02:24,968
<i>What a relief it is to finally
be alone with you again.</i>

890
01:02:33,710 --> 01:02:36,976
I promised Leonard
I'd have you in bed by 11:00

891
01:02:36,978 --> 01:02:39,057
and I always try
to keep my promises.

892
01:02:39,059 --> 01:02:40,919
I can't even think of sleeping.

893
01:02:41,912 --> 01:02:43,383
I have a million things

894
01:02:43,385 --> 01:02:45,948
not so much to say,
as to sink into you.

895
01:04:10,832 --> 01:04:13,203
I wonder if death feels
anything like that.

896
01:04:17,206 --> 01:04:18,936
It's as if all of a sudden..

897
01:04:20,121 --> 01:04:21,370
...time gets stuck..

898
01:04:23,292 --> 01:04:24,927
...and you feel empty.

899
01:04:27,105 --> 01:04:28,642
Are you happy?

900
01:04:30,979 --> 01:04:32,037
Yes.

901
01:04:34,952 --> 01:04:37,162
But do I know you
better than before?

902
01:04:59,809 --> 01:05:01,984
I do think
she is very beautiful, Ginia.

903
01:05:01,986 --> 01:05:04,579
She's an aristocrat
of an ancient race.

904
01:05:04,581 --> 01:05:06,374
Well, all that ancestry

905
01:05:06,376 --> 01:05:08,807
certainly has bred
a perfect body.

906
01:05:08,809 --> 01:05:10,953
And I thought
you admired her writing.

907
01:05:10,955 --> 01:05:13,581
<i>Only to rile you, Ginia.</i>

908
01:05:13,583 --> 01:05:15,023
She's hardly
breaking boundaries.

909
01:05:15,025 --> 01:05:17,072
Oh, don't be acidic, Clive.

910
01:05:17,074 --> 01:05:18,897
It isn't easy
for a woman to work.

911
01:05:18,899 --> 01:05:19,986
No, don't worry, Nessa.

912
01:05:19,988 --> 01:05:21,492
I'm sure
Vita can console herself

913
01:05:21,494 --> 01:05:23,416
with her vast wealth
and privilege.

914
01:05:24,890 --> 01:05:27,674
Come on, Julian.
Let's play your new record.

915
01:05:27,676 --> 01:05:29,243
I'm relying on your generation

916
01:05:29,245 --> 01:05:31,168
to get rid of the class system
altogether.

917
01:05:39,241 --> 01:05:41,480
- Come on, Virginia.
- Mm?

918
01:05:41,482 --> 01:05:44,459
Let us hear about your romance.

919
01:05:44,461 --> 01:05:46,961
Have you been to bed
with Vita yet?

920
01:05:48,817 --> 01:05:52,050
- Yes, Duncan. I have.
- You have?

921
01:05:52,052 --> 01:05:55,254
- Vanessa, Leonard will hear.
- I think he probably knows.

922
01:05:55,256 --> 01:05:58,009
<i>And how does it feel?</i>

923
01:05:58,011 --> 01:06:01,980
I've never experienced
anything so perfectly..

924
01:06:01,982 --> 01:06:04,034
...indescribably physical.

925
01:06:10,727 --> 01:06:13,480
The garden is all dug over,
hedges planted

926
01:06:13,482 --> 01:06:15,147
masses of orange lilies
in the borders

927
01:06:15,149 --> 01:06:16,684
and new roses in the oil jars.

928
01:06:16,686 --> 01:06:19,566
<i>So really all we have to do now
is get rid of the poplars</i>

929
01:06:19,568 --> 01:06:22,385
<i>and remove the lilac
from the bed under the window.</i>

930
01:06:22,387 --> 01:06:24,726
And remove Mrs. Woolf
from the bed in your room.

931
01:06:29,530 --> 01:06:30,874
Apart from the fact
that I like the Woolfs

932
01:06:30,876 --> 01:06:32,636
<i>you must know, Vitti,
that it's dangerous.</i>

933
01:06:32,638 --> 01:06:36,224
Hadji darling,
please don't be anxious.

934
01:06:36,226 --> 01:06:40,354
I'm devoted to her as a friend,
but I'm not in love with her.

935
01:06:40,356 --> 01:06:43,494
<i>It's a spiritual thing.
She grounds me, I think.</i>

936
01:06:43,496 --> 01:06:46,954
She forces me
to think seriously.

937
01:06:46,956 --> 01:06:50,542
I've been so wretched and lonely
without you.

938
01:06:50,544 --> 01:06:53,363
<i>There's absolutely nothing
for you to be jealous about.</i>

939
01:06:55,476 --> 01:06:57,398
This is not how we live, Vitti.

940
01:07:16,585 --> 01:07:18,441
I do.

941
01:07:18,443 --> 01:07:19,821
I do love you.

942
01:07:24,498 --> 01:07:27,221
All those sparkling minds
you surround yourself with..

943
01:07:28,982 --> 01:07:31,289
...none of them love you
as much as I love you.

944
01:07:35,741 --> 01:07:38,141
Leonard's going to be strict
with me.

945
01:07:38,143 --> 01:07:40,001
He says
I've been doing too much.

946
01:07:43,139 --> 01:07:45,703
Would you ever leave Leonard
and come away with me?

947
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:48,970
I'm serious.

948
01:07:50,635 --> 01:07:51,756
Will you?

949
01:07:53,326 --> 01:07:55,056
- Leave Leonard?
- Yes.

950
01:07:56,785 --> 01:07:57,875
I can't.

951
01:07:59,828 --> 01:08:02,453
I'd lose my footing. I..

952
01:08:02,455 --> 01:08:05,466
I can live in perfect freedom
with him without any fear.

953
01:08:07,772 --> 01:08:09,660
You know you've broken down
more barriers than anyone

954
01:08:09,662 --> 01:08:11,839
but I can't.

955
01:08:11,841 --> 01:08:13,090
I simply can't.

956
01:08:17,862 --> 01:08:20,681
If you leave me stranded,
I will hurt you.

957
01:08:22,412 --> 01:08:23,790
I know I will.

958
01:08:31,829 --> 01:08:34,104
Why must you always grasp
for more?

959
01:08:35,159 --> 01:08:36,119
Mmm.

960
01:08:36,121 --> 01:08:37,176
Even when I'm in bed with you

961
01:08:37,178 --> 01:08:40,347
you insist
on conjuring fantasies.

962
01:08:40,349 --> 01:08:43,904
You with your fears,
me with my fantasies.

963
01:08:43,906 --> 01:08:46,980
Maybe our perversions
simply aren't compatible.

964
01:08:50,503 --> 01:08:52,454
I don't see
why you couldn't stay with me

965
01:08:52,456 --> 01:08:53,833
for a few days longer.

966
01:08:53,835 --> 01:08:56,619
You could write perfectly well
at Knole.

967
01:08:56,621 --> 01:08:58,894
I can't bear delivering you
back to Bloomsbury.

968
01:08:58,896 --> 01:09:00,815
You know I need to be there
to write clearly...

969
01:09:00,817 --> 01:09:03,154
I don't like to think of you
all cooped up down there

970
01:09:03,156 --> 01:09:05,620
with Leonard fussing over you.

971
01:09:05,622 --> 01:09:07,193
I need Leonard.

972
01:09:08,441 --> 01:09:09,849
And I love him.

973
01:09:09,851 --> 01:09:12,476
How he makes sure
that I'm settled..

974
01:09:12,478 --> 01:09:13,852
...that I'm well.

975
01:09:13,854 --> 01:09:15,262
But you are.

976
01:09:15,264 --> 01:09:17,344
You are well.

977
01:09:17,346 --> 01:09:19,846
It's taken me
such a long time to find..

978
01:09:21,222 --> 01:09:22,311
...balance.

979
01:09:24,778 --> 01:09:26,730
Do you know what I would do
if you weren't a person

980
01:09:26,732 --> 01:09:28,651
to be so strict with?

981
01:09:28,653 --> 01:09:31,663
I'd steal my motor
out of the garage tonight

982
01:09:31,665 --> 01:09:34,097
be in Bloomsbury by 11:00

983
01:09:34,099 --> 01:09:36,659
and throw stones at your window.

984
01:09:36,661 --> 01:09:39,541
You'd come down and let me in

985
01:09:39,543 --> 01:09:41,915
and I'd stay with you all night.

986
01:09:47,968 --> 01:09:49,731
But you being you, I can't.

987
01:09:51,269 --> 01:09:54,601
For a different Virginia,
I'd fly to London in the night.

988
01:09:56,938 --> 01:09:59,277
You have as much of me
as I have to give.

989
01:10:24,709 --> 01:10:28,202
Vita, if your promise
was a challenge..

990
01:10:29,770 --> 01:10:31,497
...come then.

991
01:10:31,499 --> 01:10:32,622
Come tonight.

992
01:10:33,870 --> 01:10:36,014
Chance missed.

993
01:10:36,016 --> 01:10:37,426
<i>I am so sorry.</i>

994
01:10:38,931 --> 01:10:41,589
Will you and Leonard
meet Harold and I together?

995
01:10:41,591 --> 01:10:44,408
I was going to suggest
the weekend of the eclipse.

996
01:10:44,410 --> 01:10:46,493
Harold does so much
want you both to come.

997
01:11:06,607 --> 01:11:09,776
I neglected to thank you
for your kind review

998
01:11:09,778 --> 01:11:11,413
of my book, Virginia.

999
01:11:12,949 --> 01:11:14,456
It was quite an achievement,
Harold.

1000
01:11:15,769 --> 01:11:17,657
You wrote your characters
as if they were at once

1001
01:11:17,659 --> 01:11:19,229
real and imaginary.

1002
01:11:20,989 --> 01:11:23,807
Biographies can enlarge our
understanding of who people really are

1003
01:11:23,809 --> 01:11:27,842
by hanging up mirrors
in odd corners.

1004
01:11:27,844 --> 01:11:29,988
I can't help but think
how essential it is to do so

1005
01:11:29,990 --> 01:11:31,526
when we live in an age
where a thousand cameras

1006
01:11:31,528 --> 01:11:34,346
are pointed at every person
from every angle.

1007
01:11:34,348 --> 01:11:36,398
<i>Newspapers, politics..</i>

1008
01:11:38,030 --> 01:11:39,056
...gossip.

1009
01:11:40,177 --> 01:11:41,299
Gossip.

1010
01:11:45,685 --> 01:11:49,720
How do you suppose Vita will be
rendered by her biographer?

1011
01:11:49,722 --> 01:11:52,285
<i>As a diplomat's wife
and a celebrated novelist?</i>

1012
01:11:53,566 --> 01:11:56,096
Or an insatiable lover

1013
01:11:56,098 --> 01:11:58,273
notorious for her trysts

1014
01:11:58,275 --> 01:12:01,606
for the torment to which
she subjected her poor husband?

1015
01:12:06,923 --> 01:12:08,812
I suppose that depends
on how your own chapter

1016
01:12:08,814 --> 01:12:10,509
with Vita will end.

1017
01:13:20,436 --> 01:13:22,004
If we were talking at Charleston

1018
01:13:22,006 --> 01:13:24,186
we'd be surprised to hear
about love.

1019
01:13:25,626 --> 01:13:26,873
Clive says he's worked it out.

1020
01:13:26,875 --> 01:13:29,243
And one spends
three hours a day on food,

1021
01:13:29,245 --> 01:13:32,578
six on sleep, four on work
and two on love.

1022
01:13:33,410 --> 01:13:35,649
Vanessa says ten on love.

1023
01:13:35,651 --> 01:13:38,084
I say a whole day on love.

1024
01:13:38,086 --> 01:13:40,458
<i>I say it's seeing things
through a purple shade.</i>

1025
01:13:41,706 --> 01:13:43,757
But you've never been in love,
they say.

1026
01:13:46,223 --> 01:13:49,267
How many hours do you suppose
one spends on sex..

1027
01:13:50,866 --> 01:13:52,402
<i>...and thinking about it</i>

1028
01:13:52,404 --> 01:13:54,998
<i>turning the sensation of it
over in your mind</i>

1029
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,442
<i>the ghost of it?</i>

1030
01:13:57,370 --> 01:13:59,194
Everyone's body
is haunted by it

1031
01:13:59,196 --> 01:14:01,118
long after its reverberations
are over.

1032
01:14:04,450 --> 01:14:06,944
<i>Dearest creature.</i>

1033
01:14:06,946 --> 01:14:08,710
<i>And when I see you again..</i>

1034
01:14:10,567 --> 01:14:12,297
<i>...I want you more and more.</i>

1035
01:14:14,668 --> 01:14:16,590
You like to think of
me unhappy, I know.

1036
01:14:18,895 --> 01:14:20,880
How nice it is of me
to be writing to you

1037
01:14:20,882 --> 01:14:22,804
when you're not
writing to me at all.

1038
01:14:46,090 --> 01:14:47,373
Is she here?

1039
01:14:48,461 --> 01:14:50,285
Vita?

1040
01:14:50,287 --> 01:14:52,851
I haven't seen her anywhere,
but I know Duncan asked her.

1041
01:14:54,195 --> 01:14:56,052
Perhaps she can't get up to town
this week.

1042
01:14:59,288 --> 01:15:00,792
Have you seen Vita, Duncan?

1043
01:15:00,794 --> 01:15:03,417
No, but she answered to me
affirmative

1044
01:15:03,419 --> 01:15:05,278
so I expect we will very soon.

1045
01:15:09,378 --> 01:15:11,780
Leonard, have you seen Vita?

1046
01:15:25,330 --> 01:15:27,124
Please try to keep calm.

1047
01:15:45,221 --> 01:15:47,079
You're extremely late!

1048
01:15:48,586 --> 01:15:51,177
I brought Ben and Nigel
to see mother this afternoon.

1049
01:15:51,179 --> 01:15:52,619
And when I mentioned
I was coming here

1050
01:15:52,621 --> 01:15:54,510
she became hysterical
and started screaming

1051
01:15:54,512 --> 01:15:57,619
about all those homosexual
conscientious objectors.

1052
01:15:59,828 --> 01:16:01,076
<i>Vita.</i>

1053
01:16:01,078 --> 01:16:03,829
- Clive, this is Mary Campbell.
- Pleasure.

1054
01:16:03,831 --> 01:16:05,338
- A pleasure to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

1055
01:16:10,847 --> 01:16:13,119
What a fool I've been
to be so open with someone

1056
01:16:13,121 --> 01:16:14,980
who kept strands of themselves
hidden from me.

1057
01:16:16,197 --> 01:16:17,187
Oh, darling.

1058
01:16:17,189 --> 01:16:20,006
I can't stand myself like this.

1059
01:16:20,008 --> 01:16:21,226
Enough now, Ginia.

1060
01:16:22,378 --> 01:16:24,138
This must be enough.

1061
01:16:40,189 --> 01:16:41,756
<i>Did she say
where she was going?</i>

1062
01:16:41,758 --> 01:16:43,423
She didn't.

1063
01:16:43,425 --> 01:16:45,151
What did you say to her?

1064
01:16:45,153 --> 01:16:47,457
That Vita had betrayed her.

1065
01:16:47,459 --> 01:16:49,637
Why on earth would you say that?

1066
01:16:49,639 --> 01:16:51,334
Because it is the truth,
Leonard.

1067
01:16:51,336 --> 01:16:54,216
There's no use in telling
poisonous truths, Vanessa.

1068
01:16:54,218 --> 01:16:57,387
None at all.
Least of all to Virginia.

1069
01:16:57,389 --> 01:16:58,287
You know that.

1070
01:17:45,054 --> 01:17:46,208
Virginia?

1071
01:18:09,621 --> 01:18:10,648
Leonard..

1072
01:18:12,056 --> 01:18:14,872
...I've had the most
wonderful idea.

1073
01:18:14,874 --> 01:18:17,083
You know how I haven't been able
to screw a word out for weeks.

1074
01:18:17,085 --> 01:18:18,944
<i>No ideas, nothing,
then suddenly..</i>

1075
01:18:20,288 --> 01:18:23,202
it came to me like a fin
rising out of the water.

1076
01:18:23,204 --> 01:18:24,802
I rushed back here,
I dipped my pen in ink

1077
01:18:24,804 --> 01:18:27,429
and I wrote
almost automatically.

1078
01:18:27,431 --> 01:18:29,802
"Orlando, A Biography."

1079
01:18:31,147 --> 01:18:32,650
Who is Orlando?

1080
01:18:32,652 --> 01:18:35,025
A 16th century man
who's also a woman.

1081
01:18:37,522 --> 01:18:39,218
<i>I'll need to get her to talk
about all those ancestors.</i>

1082
01:18:39,220 --> 01:18:40,467
Who?

1083
01:18:40,469 --> 01:18:41,812
I'll need to get her
to talk about everything.

1084
01:18:41,814 --> 01:18:43,160
- <i>Who?</i>
- Vita!

1085
01:19:05,869 --> 01:19:08,078
Orlando stood stark naked.

1086
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,289
No human being
since the world began

1087
01:19:10,291 --> 01:19:12,915
has ever looked more ravishing.

1088
01:19:12,917 --> 01:19:14,580
His form combined in one

1089
01:19:14,582 --> 01:19:17,944
the strength of a man
and a woman's grace.

1090
01:19:17,946 --> 01:19:20,282
We may take advantage
of this pause in the narrative

1091
01:19:20,284 --> 01:19:21,917
to make certain statements.

1092
01:19:21,919 --> 01:19:25,504
Orlando had become a woman,
there is no denying it.

1093
01:19:25,506 --> 01:19:28,034
<i>At the age of 30,
this young nobleman</i>

1094
01:19:28,036 --> 01:19:29,700
had not only had
every experience

1095
01:19:29,702 --> 01:19:31,140
that life has to offer

1096
01:19:31,142 --> 01:19:33,961
but had seen
the worthlessness of them all.

1097
01:19:33,963 --> 01:19:35,787
Love and ambition

1098
01:19:35,789 --> 01:19:39,053
women and poets
were all equally vain.

1099
01:19:39,055 --> 01:19:41,456
<i>Literature was a farce.</i>

1100
01:19:41,458 --> 01:19:45,748
Two things alone remained to him
in which he now put any trust

1101
01:19:45,750 --> 01:19:47,989
dogs and nature

1102
01:19:47,991 --> 01:19:50,489
an elkhound and a rosebush.

1103
01:19:50,491 --> 01:19:52,859
<i>The world in all its variety</i>

1104
01:19:52,861 --> 01:19:55,453
<i>life in all its complexity</i>

1105
01:19:55,455 --> 01:19:57,314
<i>had shrunk to that.</i>

1106
01:20:01,284 --> 01:20:05,512
You're going to project me
into the shape of this Orlando?

1107
01:20:05,514 --> 01:20:07,466
Yes, it's all about you.

1108
01:20:07,468 --> 01:20:10,925
Lusts of your flesh
and the lure of your mind.

1109
01:20:10,927 --> 01:20:12,559
You'll shoot through time
like an arrow.

1110
01:20:12,561 --> 01:20:15,506
You'll be a man, a woman,
an ancient, a modern.

1111
01:20:15,508 --> 01:20:16,882
- What do you think?
- What fun for you?

1112
01:20:16,884 --> 01:20:19,317
It is to be
a sort of imaginative biography.

1113
01:20:19,319 --> 01:20:21,207
There will be portraits
of your ancestors

1114
01:20:21,209 --> 01:20:22,552
photographs, illustrations.

1115
01:20:22,554 --> 01:20:24,795
And you must dedicate it
to your victim.

1116
01:20:24,797 --> 01:20:27,357
And I'll need to see you
frequently.

1117
01:20:27,359 --> 01:20:30,145
To sit and look at you,
get you to talk

1118
01:20:30,147 --> 01:20:32,162
correct any doubtful points.

1119
01:20:32,164 --> 01:20:34,436
I should like to untwine
and twist again

1120
01:20:34,438 --> 01:20:37,898
the very odd,
incongruous strands in you.

1121
01:20:40,684 --> 01:20:42,317
Roy and Mary say
they've no hot water.

1122
01:20:42,319 --> 01:20:43,951
Shall I send Parsons
over to them?

1123
01:20:43,953 --> 01:20:46,672
- Yes, Hadji darling.
- <i>Hello, Virginia.</i>

1124
01:20:46,674 --> 01:20:50,068
Roy and Mary Campbell are
staying in our boys' cottage.

1125
01:20:50,070 --> 01:20:51,096
And why not?

1126
01:20:52,505 --> 01:20:55,673
Virginia, I would like
to explain about Mary.

1127
01:20:55,675 --> 01:20:58,300
To... apologize.

1128
01:20:58,302 --> 01:21:00,670
No, please don't.
It would bore me.

1129
01:21:00,672 --> 01:21:01,887
If you've given yourself to Mary

1130
01:21:01,889 --> 01:21:03,874
I'll have no more
to do with you.

1131
01:21:03,876 --> 01:21:05,475
So it shall be written plainly

1132
01:21:05,477 --> 01:21:08,422
for all the world
to read in "Orlando."

1133
01:21:08,424 --> 01:21:12,874
I'm incapable of creating
one perfect relationship.

1134
01:21:12,876 --> 01:21:15,279
I've tried and failed
at doing so my whole life.

1135
01:21:20,372 --> 01:21:22,645
It is a terrible muddle,
isn't it?

1136
01:21:22,647 --> 01:21:24,794
Yes.

1137
01:21:26,618 --> 01:21:28,154
But any vengeance
you want to take

1138
01:21:28,156 --> 01:21:30,046
will lie ready to your hand.

1139
01:21:35,107 --> 01:21:37,347
Now..

1140
01:21:37,349 --> 01:21:40,489
...when was the moment of your
greatest disillusionment?

1141
01:21:42,538 --> 01:21:44,494
The first time I saw a penis.

1142
01:21:50,547 --> 01:21:52,114
<i>Nessa darling, it's supposed
to look like Knole.</i>

1143
01:21:52,116 --> 01:21:53,332
<i>It does look like Knole.</i>

1144
01:21:53,334 --> 01:21:54,741
Don't you think
it looks like Knole, Duncan?

1145
01:21:54,743 --> 01:21:55,797
I'm not getting
in the middle of this.

1146
01:21:55,799 --> 01:21:56,921
That's unlike you.

1147
01:21:58,587 --> 01:22:00,283
I didn't think
you were serious about putting

1148
01:22:00,285 --> 01:22:02,781
real photographs of me
in the book, Virginia.

1149
01:22:02,783 --> 01:22:05,185
I want "Orlando" to feel
as if it could be true.

1150
01:22:06,147 --> 01:22:07,172
Lower.

1151
01:22:12,873 --> 01:22:14,312
I do feel rather exposed.

1152
01:22:14,314 --> 01:22:16,397
And that's exactly
how we want you.

1153
01:22:18,157 --> 01:22:20,399
Sit still, Vita. We've just
got you looking perfect.

1154
01:22:20,401 --> 01:22:22,513
Doesn't she look perfect,
Nessa, hm?

1155
01:22:22,515 --> 01:22:24,659
Hmm. It's looking marvelous,
I think.

1156
01:22:24,661 --> 01:22:26,676
Well, Vita, if you'd try
to relax a little

1157
01:22:26,678 --> 01:22:27,894
it would look even better.

1158
01:22:27,896 --> 01:22:30,170
I'm trying jolly hard,
I assure you, Vanessa.

1159
01:22:31,739 --> 01:22:33,917
Do you think you have to feel
more powerful than someone

1160
01:22:33,919 --> 01:22:35,517
to be sexually attracted
to them?

1161
01:22:36,801 --> 01:22:38,528
My goodness, what a question.

1162
01:22:38,530 --> 01:22:40,645
You do have the air
of the conqueror about you.

1163
01:22:44,873 --> 01:22:47,465
I suppose it does give me
immense pleasure...

1164
01:22:47,467 --> 01:22:48,781
To give pain?

1165
01:22:51,791 --> 01:22:54,416
Do you think yourself
good or bad?

1166
01:23:20,397 --> 01:23:21,965
It was miserable, Hadji.

1167
01:23:21,967 --> 01:23:24,045
Draped in an inadequate piece
of pink satin

1168
01:23:24,047 --> 01:23:25,071
with all my clothes slipping off

1169
01:23:25,073 --> 01:23:27,378
whilst they took
endless photographs.

1170
01:23:27,380 --> 01:23:28,915
Virginia was thrilled,
but I couldn't help feeling

1171
01:23:28,917 --> 01:23:30,900
an overwhelming urge to escape.

1172
01:23:30,902 --> 01:23:33,720
- <i>Have you read it?</i>
- No.

1173
01:23:33,722 --> 01:23:35,610
She absolutely won't
let me see a draft.

1174
01:23:35,612 --> 01:23:37,948
- How's Berlin?
- <i>Miserable without you, Vita.</i>

1175
01:23:37,950 --> 01:23:40,222
Yes, I'm desperate
to get to you.

1176
01:23:40,224 --> 01:23:41,984
I feel as if
I'm itching all over.

1177
01:23:41,986 --> 01:23:44,805
- <i>When can you come?</i>
- In a few days, I think.

1178
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:49,608
Are you sure
all this time with Vita

1179
01:23:49,610 --> 01:23:51,660
isn't too much
of a strain on you?

1180
01:23:53,774 --> 01:23:56,334
Do you not think
I look full of life?

1181
01:23:56,336 --> 01:23:58,192
You do.

1182
01:23:58,194 --> 01:23:59,730
But are you happy?

1183
01:23:59,732 --> 01:24:02,327
I'm rapturously,
ecstatically happy.

1184
01:24:04,344 --> 01:24:06,841
I can revolutionize biography
overnight

1185
01:24:06,843 --> 01:24:09,755
with the story of a hero
who turns into a heroine

1186
01:24:09,757 --> 01:24:12,543
and she turns out to be fiction.

1187
01:24:12,545 --> 01:24:14,403
Which is, of course,
what all biographies are.

1188
01:24:17,094 --> 01:24:19,333
<i>...now are ended.</i>

1189
01:24:19,335 --> 01:24:22,953
<i>These our actors,
as I foretold you</i>

1190
01:24:22,955 --> 01:24:25,676
<i>were all spirits
and are melted..</i>

1191
01:24:27,247 --> 01:24:29,135
<i>...into thin air.</i>

1192
01:24:32,339 --> 01:24:34,869
Must you go?
We have so much work to do.

1193
01:24:34,871 --> 01:24:37,431
I must visit Harold in Berlin.

1194
01:24:37,433 --> 01:24:40,284
I can't leave a diplomat without
a dutiful wife for too long.

1195
01:24:44,031 --> 01:24:45,890
This is important work, Vita.

1196
01:24:47,236 --> 01:24:49,508
You're part of something
like a revolution.

1197
01:24:49,510 --> 01:24:51,558
There's never been a woman's
biography, not like this.

1198
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:53,671
Chastity, modesty,
have always prevented it.

1199
01:24:53,673 --> 01:24:55,081
And, of course,
I have neither of those.

1200
01:24:55,083 --> 01:24:57,836
I wish you would take
something seriously, Vita.

1201
01:24:57,838 --> 01:25:00,109
I'm trying to capture
your essence.

1202
01:25:00,111 --> 01:25:02,161
Biographies have always
described the things

1203
01:25:02,163 --> 01:25:03,314
that happened to the person

1204
01:25:03,316 --> 01:25:05,106
not the person
to whom those things happened.

1205
01:25:05,108 --> 01:25:06,805
<i>I'm trying to tunnel into you.</i>

1206
01:25:06,807 --> 01:25:08,662
Do you not understand
how important this is?

1207
01:25:08,664 --> 01:25:09,912
How special this is?

1208
01:25:09,914 --> 01:25:11,546
And how lucky I am, I suppose

1209
01:25:11,548 --> 01:25:13,502
to be the great
Mrs. Woolf's muse.

1210
01:25:16,127 --> 01:25:18,016
And what if

1211
01:25:18,018 --> 01:25:21,349
after all that tunneling
you find nothing there?

1212
01:25:23,623 --> 01:25:26,154
Once you've pinned me down
with your pen..

1213
01:25:28,236 --> 01:25:29,967
...what will you do with me?

1214
01:25:32,561 --> 01:25:34,420
Or will you be
finished with me?

1215
01:25:40,056 --> 01:25:41,338
I don't know.

1216
01:28:02,471 --> 01:28:04,038
Lady Sackville.

1217
01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:06,313
<i>I didn't know
I was to expect you.</i>

1218
01:28:06,315 --> 01:28:09,390
I didn't know
I was to expect this.

1219
01:28:11,471 --> 01:28:14,063
I don't think you realize
how explosive this is

1220
01:28:14,065 --> 01:28:16,915
from inside your debauched
bohemian bubble.

1221
01:28:16,917 --> 01:28:19,093
But out there in proper society

1222
01:28:19,095 --> 01:28:21,623
you're putting Vita
in great danger.

1223
01:28:21,625 --> 01:28:22,904
Vita and her boys.

1224
01:28:22,906 --> 01:28:24,794
I gather the only person
who has ever threatened

1225
01:28:24,796 --> 01:28:27,231
to remove Ben and Nigel
from their mother is you.

1226
01:28:32,163 --> 01:28:34,115
You're a mad woman

1227
01:28:34,117 --> 01:28:36,839
whose successful mad desire

1228
01:28:36,841 --> 01:28:39,243
is to separate people
that care for each other.

1229
01:28:40,716 --> 01:28:43,052
Your work has a kind
of violence to it

1230
01:28:43,054 --> 01:28:45,999
that either you're unaware of

1231
01:28:46,001 --> 01:28:49,011
or too reckless to control.

1232
01:28:49,013 --> 01:28:53,015
Thank God you don't have
children of your own.

1233
01:29:33,346 --> 01:29:37,059
- I thought you were in Berlin.
- I was, but now I'm here.

1234
01:29:37,061 --> 01:29:39,561
I have fallen in love
with your vision of me.

1235
01:29:40,905 --> 01:29:43,466
Were you not hurt or angry?

1236
01:29:43,468 --> 01:29:44,907
It struck me that you might be.

1237
01:29:44,909 --> 01:29:47,181
I feel like a mannequin
in a shop window

1238
01:29:47,183 --> 01:29:50,319
on which you've hung a robe
stitched with fine jewels.

1239
01:29:50,321 --> 01:29:52,530
How could you have hung
so splendid a garment

1240
01:29:52,532 --> 01:29:54,772
on such a poor peg?

1241
01:29:54,774 --> 01:29:57,976
Oh, Virginia, it's the wisest

1242
01:29:57,978 --> 01:30:00,316
richest book I've ever read.

1243
01:30:02,269 --> 01:30:04,385
My darling, what are you doing?

1244
01:30:06,754 --> 01:30:08,258
I'm baking a cake.

1245
01:30:08,260 --> 01:30:10,372
<i>Nelly's given notice.
I have guests for tea.</i>

1246
01:30:10,374 --> 01:30:12,232
You'll poison them.

1247
01:30:15,307 --> 01:30:17,387
I've lived in you so long
that now I see you.

1248
01:30:17,389 --> 01:30:20,814
I wonder do you exist
or have I made you up?

1249
01:30:20,816 --> 01:30:23,380
I feel terribly real right now.

1250
01:30:27,638 --> 01:30:29,754
You have found me again.

1251
01:30:32,796 --> 01:30:36,318
I won't be loved
only in a fictitious world.

1252
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:39,938
Let's go away together now
before the gossip starts.

1253
01:30:39,940 --> 01:30:41,446
Please, Virginia.

1254
01:30:44,936 --> 01:30:46,987
Yes. Absolutely.

1255
01:30:50,767 --> 01:30:53,456
I don't know why you can't say
when exactly you'll be back.

1256
01:30:53,458 --> 01:30:54,929
I need to know
how long we'll be apart.

1257
01:30:54,931 --> 01:30:57,202
Now you're being sentimental.
We don't do that.

1258
01:30:57,204 --> 01:30:59,893
No, I'm being truthful.
It's entirely rational.

1259
01:30:59,895 --> 01:31:01,046
I shall worry about you
all the time.

1260
01:31:01,048 --> 01:31:03,129
Leonard, stop.

1261
01:31:03,131 --> 01:31:04,602
You just finished a book.

1262
01:31:04,604 --> 01:31:05,948
You know you'll be fraught
with nerves

1263
01:31:05,950 --> 01:31:07,518
until the reviews come in.
That's the time you go under...

1264
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:10,144
Well, this time feels different.

1265
01:31:10,146 --> 01:31:12,805
Yes, it does.
This feels different.

1266
01:31:14,790 --> 01:31:17,031
That's why
I don't want you to go.

1267
01:31:17,033 --> 01:31:20,073
Writing "Orlando" gave me the
greatest rapture I've ever known.

1268
01:31:20,075 --> 01:31:21,931
Which is why now is a very
dangerous time for you.

1269
01:31:21,933 --> 01:31:23,854
- I'll be with Vita.
- That's what worries me.

1270
01:31:23,856 --> 01:31:25,359
Oh, your protection of me

1271
01:31:25,361 --> 01:31:27,251
sometimes verges
on the unwholesome.

1272
01:31:35,483 --> 01:31:37,438
I shan't stop you going..

1273
01:31:39,263 --> 01:31:41,919
...but I will ask you
to think very carefully

1274
01:31:41,921 --> 01:31:44,676
about what it is you think
is possible with Vita.

1275
01:34:57,829 --> 01:35:00,998
Virginia, are you alright?

1276
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:02,699
What are you doing out here?

1277
01:35:04,172 --> 01:35:08,366
I've been wondering if lightning
struck the house, collapsed

1278
01:35:08,368 --> 01:35:11,249
what it would be like
to be crushed to death.

1279
01:35:11,251 --> 01:35:12,693
Oh, my dearest.

1280
01:35:16,695 --> 01:35:19,449
I've got it fairly vivid.

1281
01:35:19,451 --> 01:35:21,150
Would it be painful?

1282
01:35:22,717 --> 01:35:24,221
Yes.

1283
01:35:24,223 --> 01:35:27,104
Terrifying? I suppose so.

1284
01:35:27,106 --> 01:35:31,716
A swoon, a drum,
gulps attempting consciousness

1285
01:35:31,718 --> 01:35:35,016
and then dot, dot, dot.

1286
01:35:35,018 --> 01:35:36,394
I can't bear to think
of your dying.

1287
01:35:36,396 --> 01:35:38,254
I don't think
it's gonna happen today.

1288
01:35:39,534 --> 01:35:41,392
I was just imagining it.

1289
01:35:42,610 --> 01:35:43,921
- Don't you do that?
- No.

1290
01:35:43,923 --> 01:35:46,035
I do.

1291
01:35:46,037 --> 01:35:50,423
I do think with intense
curiosity about death.

1292
01:35:50,425 --> 01:35:54,555
It could be a great excitement
like going over Niagara.

1293
01:35:54,557 --> 01:35:55,998
But it is the one experience

1294
01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:57,922
I will never
be able to describe.

1295
01:36:00,067 --> 01:36:04,582
Do you ever feel that you record
things rather than feel them?

1296
01:36:04,584 --> 01:36:06,603
Oh, you're tearing open
that old wound.

1297
01:36:08,043 --> 01:36:10,059
<i>You've always thought
I had look on everything</i>

1298
01:36:10,061 --> 01:36:12,429
<i>on everyone, as something
for my pen to exploit.</i>

1299
01:36:12,431 --> 01:36:13,553
No.

1300
01:36:14,706 --> 01:36:16,564
I was thinking about myself.

1301
01:36:24,955 --> 01:36:28,861
There is something about you
that doesn't connect.

1302
01:36:28,863 --> 01:36:30,338
What do you mean?

1303
01:36:31,651 --> 01:36:34,883
You demand utter devotion.

1304
01:36:34,885 --> 01:36:37,093
But it is as if
you are surrounded

1305
01:36:37,095 --> 01:36:39,595
by a cloud of obscure fog.

1306
01:36:41,228 --> 01:36:42,607
And when..

1307
01:36:46,705 --> 01:36:48,788
...when I loved you..

1308
01:36:50,357 --> 01:36:52,342
...it felt as if
you could not reach through

1309
01:36:52,344 --> 01:36:54,779
to take my hand
as I held it out to you.

1310
01:36:59,294 --> 01:37:01,951
It's in your writing.

1311
01:37:01,953 --> 01:37:05,314
Something evasive but sparkling.

1312
01:37:05,316 --> 01:37:07,880
A lack of fidelity, I suppose.

1313
01:37:09,256 --> 01:37:11,146
When you loved me?

1314
01:37:12,844 --> 01:37:14,158
Yes.

1315
01:37:15,311 --> 01:37:16,465
<i>I did.</i>

1316
01:37:18,065 --> 01:37:19,475
Very much.

1317
01:37:20,500 --> 01:37:23,863
And I still do,
but not in the same way.

1318
01:37:32,768 --> 01:37:35,392
So after all that tunneling
into me with "Orlando"

1319
01:37:35,394 --> 01:37:37,667
you found me an empty shell?

1320
01:37:37,669 --> 01:37:39,429
No.

1321
01:37:39,431 --> 01:37:40,777
I listened.

1322
01:37:42,697 --> 01:37:47,023
"If you leave me stranded,
I will hurt you."

1323
01:37:49,425 --> 01:37:52,913
I recorded those words
every way I know how.

1324
01:37:52,915 --> 01:37:56,918
I wrote them down,
I scored them into my heart

1325
01:37:56,920 --> 01:38:00,506
and in "Orlando,"
I set you free.

1326
01:38:00,508 --> 01:38:04,125
I created many versions of you
to live unconstrained.

1327
01:38:04,127 --> 01:38:05,567
I captured Knole.

1328
01:38:05,569 --> 01:38:07,588
I gave you
what you'll never inherit.

1329
01:38:10,341 --> 01:38:12,005
Sometimes I do feel as though

1330
01:38:12,007 --> 01:38:14,506
I observe things
from the outside..

1331
01:38:15,691 --> 01:38:17,549
...rather than feel them.

1332
01:38:19,022 --> 01:38:22,482
Perhaps you care more for things
than for people.

1333
01:38:23,986 --> 01:38:25,810
This place still twists
your heart

1334
01:38:25,812 --> 01:38:27,317
more than any person ever has.

1335
01:38:27,319 --> 01:38:29,078
So you think I'm very cold?

1336
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:30,522
Quite the opposite.

1337
01:38:31,387 --> 01:38:32,861
Quite the opposite.

1338
01:38:34,365 --> 01:38:37,505
A million candles
burn in you, Vita.

1339
01:38:38,754 --> 01:38:41,507
You're an exploding star

1340
01:38:41,509 --> 01:38:44,678
refracting light
across the universe.

1341
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:47,305
But it means you are incapable
of shining your light

1342
01:38:47,307 --> 01:38:50,317
on one thing,
on one person alone.

1343
01:38:52,656 --> 01:38:53,969
And not..

1344
01:38:54,898 --> 01:38:56,340
...in the end..

1345
01:38:58,807 --> 01:39:00,088
...on me.

1346
01:39:05,886 --> 01:39:07,743
So what happens now?

1347
01:39:12,035 --> 01:39:14,310
The end is already written.

1348
01:39:16,743 --> 01:39:19,976
"Orlando naturally loved

1349
01:39:19,978 --> 01:39:24,143
"solitary places, vast views..

1350
01:39:25,648 --> 01:39:28,145
"...and to feel himself

1351
01:39:28,147 --> 01:39:32,313
forever and ever alone."

1352
01:40:41,760 --> 01:40:46,760
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