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dressing up as a poet and singing
is a desire to place oneself
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in Mardi Gras situations.
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'I was born, if you'll excuse me,
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-in the age of the pergola and tennis.''
-I'm trying to write a poem
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about Spain while
avoiding the phantasmagoric.
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A sestina.
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A mediaeval sestina?
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They'll call you frivolous
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Ironic perhaps,
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but not frivolous.
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Spain's more like a mediaeval cliche,
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than a modern literary theme
going beyond anyone's experience
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Hence the sestina.
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So that what the poem is
can be greater
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than what the poet says.
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Franco's backing
the Opus Dei technocrats
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and withdrawing the Falangists
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They want to freeze wages and cut
social spending. Right, Federico?
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Manuel's very cold towards me.
I don't understand.
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He doesn't dare tell you, Jaime, but ..
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you haven't been admitted
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into the party.
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Why?
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Things to do with comrade Lenin.
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What's he got to do with it?
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They say homosexuals could be
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a threat to the safety of the party.
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-Queers might rat to the police.
-I see.
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I'm sorry. Jaime.
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-Orthodox economic remedies.
-We need to turn
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labour strikes into political ones.
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And the government's plan would fail
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-What if it doesn't?
-We'd have European prosperity
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on a Spanish scale.
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Prosperity on a small
and pretty miserable scale.
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Of all the stories in history,
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the saddest of all is that of Spain
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because of the unhappy ending
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It's as if a man, tired of struggling
with his inner demons,
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decided to place his poverty
in the government's hands
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Your post, sir.
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Thank you. Conchita.
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I'd like to think of
this bad government as a vulgar.
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man-made affair
and not a metaphysical issue,
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and that Spain must
and can rise out of its poverty.
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There's still time to change
the course of its history
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before the demons drag it away.
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-Morning. Mr. Jaime
-Morning. This is for washing.
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Sorry 'm late. Dad.
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Have you signed
a manifesto for some miners?
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Yes.
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This is from the army.
It's for you.
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You have to report to
the Bruch barracks urgently.
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You're no longer a second lieutenant.
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You've been demoted.
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To me, that's an honour.
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Finish your breakfast
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We have to go.
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What'll they do to you?
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Strip me of my stripes
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at a public ceremony
on the parade ground.
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-Like Dreyfus.
-Jaime, please!
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It's no joking matter.
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A minister called
your father and at work
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they're asking him questions.
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May Spain expel those demons.
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and poverty affect the government ..
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Sign here.
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...and may men by
the masters of their history.
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You may go
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Is that it?
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Isn't it enough?
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I particularly remember
the end of the war.
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My father stood at the window crying
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as General Yague's troops
marched down the street.
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I was shit-scared.
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For me, they were the happiest days
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of my life
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But this was virtually
on the front line.
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No, it was in Segovia.
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A place we loved visiting,
full of lieutenants with arms in slings
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For the kids it was a way of coming
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close to the war.
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It's been a long time, Mr. Jaime.
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You get younger
every day. Austreberto.
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-Thank you kindly
-How do you do it?
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This way.
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You'll find this perfect for writing
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Let's see today's yield.
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Here.
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Shit, writing novels is like
sitting for a really hard exam.
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Yes. but poetry
doesn't put food on the table.
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That's why I'm a Sunday poet
with a Monday conscience.
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I spend the rest
of the week in an office
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pushing pens
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-I'm a practical man.
- I try to be too.
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By writing seriously
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What's 'seriously' for you?
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Making a living from what I write.
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So you think a writer writes
so that society
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-will buy books?
-That's right
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Why publish your work?
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To influence others. I suppose
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It's a rather Dickensian story.
The doctor told her
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she couldn't have children.
They came out, hailed a taxi,
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-and my father was inside.
-Incredible.
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You look gorgeous tonight.
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-Yvonne!
-Thank you.
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Excuse me.
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Thank you
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Who's that?
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Marcelino. He says
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he's a Manhattan broker
but I don't believe him
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think the guy's a gigolo.
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Jaime. who's she?
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The marchioness.
She has a suite at the Wellington.
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She throws
the wildest parties in Madrid
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No, the one next to her.
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Ah, Joaquina, her companion.
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The only normal person here.