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[guitar playing]

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[audience cheering]

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Hey!!

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♪ Last week, I attended a family affair ♪

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♪ And a few remarked
Upon my recent growth of facial hair ♪

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♪ "You look just like your father did
With that beard," someone said ♪

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♪ I answered back, "I am him ♪

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♪ Even though my old man's dead" ♪

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♪ I didn't want to be him ♪

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♪ Well, at first I did ♪

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♪ And I loved and looked up to him
As a little kid ♪

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♪ He sent me to his old school
I was a numeral with his name ♪

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♪ And he gave me this gold signet ring
And he wore one just the same ♪

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♪ I guess that I believed him ♪

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♪ Probably it was true ♪

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♪ When he told me I was just like him ♪

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♪ That's what some fathers do ♪

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♪ But a father's always older
And my dad was rather tall ♪

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♪ Who says size doesn't matter? ♪

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♪ He was big and I was small ♪

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♪ I needed to be big enough ♪

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♪ To be someone someday ♪

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♪ And I learned I had to beat him ♪

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♪ That was the only way ♪

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♪ I learned I had to fight him ♪

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♪ My own flesh, blood, bone, and kin
But I felt I was just like him ♪

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♪ Can a man's son be his twin? ♪

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♪ First we fought for my mother ♪

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♪ That afforded little joy ♪

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♪ When he left, she was heartbroken ♪

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♪ I was still their little boy ♪

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♪ But I started to get bigger ♪

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♪ And to win the ugly game ♪

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♪ Well, I made a little money ♪

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♪ And I got a bit of fame ♪

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♪ And I saw how this could wound him ♪

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♪ Yeah, this could do the trick ♪

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♪ And if I made it big enough
I could kill him off quick ♪

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♪ But how can you murder someone
in a way that they don't die? ♪

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♪ I didn't want to kill him ♪

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♪ That would be suicide ♪

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♪ I got frightened and I backed off ♪

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♪ I let up I was through ♪

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♪ And in the end, he did himself in ♪

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♪ Usually that's what we do ♪

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♪ I'm alive and he is dead ♪

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♪ And neither of us won ♪

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♪ It's spoiled for the victor ♪

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♪ Once the vanquishing is done ♪

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♪ A man becomes immortal ♪

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♪ Through his daughter or his son ♪

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♪ And when he fears his legacy ♪

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♪ A man can come undone ♪

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♪ The beard is a reminder ♪

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♪ I'm a living part of him ♪

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♪ Although my father's dead and gone ♪

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♪ I'm his surviving twin ♪

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♪ Although the old man's dead and gone ♪

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♪ I'm his surviving twin ♪

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Hey!

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Welcome to  Surviving Twin.

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That was the title track.

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It's a posthumous collaboration,
in which I'm gonna combine and connect

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some of my songs
with the writing of my late father,

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the esteemed  Life  magazine columnist
Loudon Wainwright Junior.

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He wrote under the byline
of Loudon Wainwright,

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and his column, "The View From Here,"
appeared in  Life  magazine

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throughout the 1960s and '70s and '80s

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when  Life  was ubiquitous
on every coffee table in America,

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way back when there were coffee tables.

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My dad wrote
about the big stories of his day,

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the Vietnam War,
the Project Mercury astronauts,

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he interviewed Martin Luther King
and Robert Kennedy

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and Marilyn Monroe and...

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the Maharishi.

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But he also wrote about his personal life,

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including his feelings
about his own father,

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and they were complicated feelings.

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My dad's father died
when my dad was just 17.

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So my dad never got to say,
"Fuck you, Dad!"

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It's so important, kids.

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So his father was a ghost figure for him

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and that's reflected a little bit
in this first piece I'm going to do

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that my dad wrote, for you.

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Let's have the card.

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So when you see that card--

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Not that particular... you know,
when a card comes up,

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when a card comes up,
that's my father talking to you.

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Okay, and now the card's up.

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This is my father talking to you
about his father.

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If I remain still

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if I am alone and silent long enough
to hear the sound of my own blood

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or breathing or digestion
above the rustling of leaves

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and the whir of the refrigerator...

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my father is likely to turn up.

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He just arrives,

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unbidden in the long-running film
of my thoughts

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like Hitchcock in his pictures.

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And he looks for all these 40-plus years
of disembodiment,

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much like himself, big and sandy-haired
with freckles on the backs of his hands,

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perhaps a bit more diffident in the way
he holds himself than I remember.

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Doesn't stay long.

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As far as I can tell,
his visits have no message.

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Yet even though years of therapy have
led me to make the dark whistling claim

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that he's finally dead and gone...

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my father...

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who died when I was 17...

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continues to be

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my principal ghost...

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a lifelong  éminence grise.

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And only my own end...

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will finish it.

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♪ I've seen the family photos ♪

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♪ And the man's a mystery ♪

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♪ Died in 1942 at the age of 43 ♪

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♪ My grandmother was his widow ♪

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♪ And my father was his son ♪

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♪ Whoa, I know next to nothing ♪

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♪ Of the first Loudon ♪

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♪ They say he was an SOB ♪

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♪ Who liked to smoke and drink ♪

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♪ In the photos, he looks handsome ♪

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♪ "Trapped" is what I think ♪

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♪ And there's one of him in uniform
It must be World War One ♪

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♪ They say he was an expert sailor ♪

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♪ And could handle a shotgun ♪

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♪ In a wedding portrait ♪

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♪ Posing with his young bride ♪

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♪ His right hand hidden by her bouquet ♪

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♪ His left hanging at his side ♪

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♪ Closed in a kind of half-fist ♪

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♪ Unsure what he'd just done ♪

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♪ Facing his short future ♪

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♪ Like he could hit someone ♪

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♪ It was elbows off the table ♪

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♪ Before the meal begun ♪

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♪ But it's his hands I recognized ♪

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♪ He gave them to his son ♪

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♪ Whose own hands held and touched me
Ruffled up my hair ♪

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♪ I recognized that half-fist ♪

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♪ Oh, I'd know it anywhere ♪

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♪ Later on in the late 30s
He began to go to seed ♪

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♪ In the photos, he looks loaded
The observant eye will heed ♪

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♪ Mugging for the camera ♪

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♪ Having a little fun ♪

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♪ Cigarette in one hand ♪

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♪ And a drink in the other one ♪

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♪ Yes, I know a little something
About the first Loudon ♪

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♪ My grandmother was his widow ♪

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♪ My father was his son ♪

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♪ Tell me, what are we afraid of? ♪

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♪ Why do we resist? ♪

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♪ I spread my hands and flex my fingers ♪

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♪ Open and close my fist ♪

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♪ I spread my hands and flex my fingers ♪

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♪ Open and close my fist ♪

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At last I am properly dressed.

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Well, that is on some occasions.

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I'll be properly dressed
because any fool knows

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a man can't wear
his new English suit every day.

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But on the good days
when the suit has been well brushed

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and its fibers adequately rested
after a decent period in the closet,

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I will wear it with pride
in the confidence that I fit all over.

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Ah, of course, all this
has probably happened too late.

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A man should really have his first
London tailored suit in his speedy years,

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sometime in his early James Bond period.

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He should certainly have more than one.

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Still, if a single Savile Row suit
does not make a new man,

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it has at least made this one feel
splendidly redecorated.

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A miracle of weskit and good gray worsted.

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When I choose it

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over the less distinguished
American models on my rack,

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I can be sure that its   $170 elegance

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covers up a substantial secret.

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Much of my feeling about the suit

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undoubtedly comes
from the experience of buying it.

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It was the most lingering pleasurable
purchase I have ever made.

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I will remember it long
after the trousers are out at the knees.

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During the five meetings I had with
my tailor over a period of two months,

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the conversation was delightfully
single-purposed.

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We talked about my requirements,

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my measurements,

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my appearance.

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We seemed always to be progressing
toward a triumph

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that would be totally mine.

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I selected my tailor
because he was nice about a button.

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With a friend, I'd been looking
at suit materials in several London shops,

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and we finally wound up
in a small establishment

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where the friend
had bought a suit earlier.

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[bell rings]

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He introduced me to the tailor,

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a short gentleman named Mr. Perry

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who was dressed in a double breasted
black weskit and striped trousers.

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A tape measure was draped around his neck.

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Mr. Perry was entirely courteous,

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but as he showed us bolts of cloth...

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he kept glancing in the direction...

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of my middle.

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At first,
I thought he might be registering

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some sort of understated astonishment
at the cut of my American ready-made suit,

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and then I thought he might be
wondering about the problem...

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of dealing with my shape.

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I was beginning to not like Mr. Perry...

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when he spoke.

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"I think you have a bit
of a problem there, sir," Mr. Perry began.

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"That is if you don't mind
my saying so, sir."

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He approached and delicately touched
the center button on my coat.

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"The button, sir.

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I doubt if it will last out the day.

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We'll have it tied down
properly for you in a moment."

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Ah. I felt relieved,
ridiculously grateful,

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and decided that a man
so discerning about buttons

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would have to be marvelous about suits.

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We selected the material rather quickly

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when I kept returning to a swatch
of light colored tweed, said I liked it.

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Mr. Perry said...

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"Well, it's very nice.

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But if I may say so, sir,

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I believe you'd look a bit massive in it."

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Appalled at the thought of being
any more massive than necessary,

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I selected a darkish gray
with a very faint stripe.

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"Now, that's a cloth that suits you, sir,"
Mr. Perry said firmly.

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"It's not flashy, it's not pretentious.

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It makes up smart,
we should get a good result."

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The matter was settled.

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Until the measuring session that followed,

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I'd never realized
how many crucial dimensions I have.

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From the nape of the neck
to the armpit, 11 inches.

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From the center of the back
to the elbow, 22 inches.

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From the inside of the leg,
known in London as the fork,

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to the seam of the shoe,
32 and 3/4 inches.

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The circumference at the trouser seat,
breathtaking!

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There are 25 vital measurements,

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and Mr. Perry took them all,
calling them out like depth soundings

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to an assistant,
who wrote them down on a large pad.

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These were necessary
to cut the pattern, Mr. Perry advised me,

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and they would then be placed...

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in the company files.

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How agreeable to reflect
that this catalog of specifics

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would be kept in a safe place.

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Weeks elapsed before I returned to London
and Mr. Perry.

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[bell rings]

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Looking at my new suit
for the first time...

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I felt much the same horror I'd felt
at the first sight of my eldest son.

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He'd looked very raw to me
through the nursery window

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and so did the suit.

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The jacket scarred with basting thread,

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the pockets missing or sewn shut.

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Mr. Perry did not reassure me entirely

250
00:18:12,382 --> 00:18:15,552
when he found some fault
with the shoulder of the jacket,

251
00:18:15,636 --> 00:18:17,888
simply clipped some threads

252
00:18:17,971 --> 00:18:20,641
and removed one complete sleeve.

253
00:18:23,727 --> 00:18:28,273
In the wreckage, we agreed
and disagreed, politely, about details.

254
00:18:28,357 --> 00:18:33,904
Mr. Perry persuaded me that the jacket
should have more shape at the waist

255
00:18:35,239 --> 00:18:37,533
so the suit would not be like
an American suit.

256
00:18:38,992 --> 00:18:41,995
"Reasonably tidy,
but lacking in character."

257
00:18:43,622 --> 00:18:48,168
I persuaded him that the trousers
should be fitted to accommodate a belt

258
00:18:49,044 --> 00:18:50,587
and not suspenders.

259
00:18:51,588 --> 00:18:54,550
Oh, Mr. Perry did not
really like that at all.

260
00:18:55,759 --> 00:19:01,098
But he cheered up considerably
when we settled on the weskit.

261
00:19:01,515 --> 00:19:02,558
It would depart somewhat

262
00:19:02,641 --> 00:19:05,102
from the straight conservatism
of the rest of the suit

263
00:19:05,769 --> 00:19:10,190
and have little lapels... of its own.

264
00:19:10,941 --> 00:19:13,735
"The step collar vest
is coming into fashion, sir,"

265
00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:15,195
Mr. Perry said approvingly.

266
00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:19,575
"I think we're quite right to just
go ahead and take the chance."

267
00:19:21,368 --> 00:19:23,996
Flushed with risk-taking...

268
00:19:25,455 --> 00:19:27,833
I proposed two side vents in the jacket.

269
00:19:28,792 --> 00:19:29,710
Ah!

270
00:19:30,544 --> 00:19:33,088
But Mr. Perry coolly checked me.

271
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:39,887
[bell rings]

272
00:19:40,804 --> 00:19:42,806
At the next session,
the suit was almost finished

273
00:19:42,890 --> 00:19:45,684
and Mr. Perry offered some guidance
for the future.

274
00:19:46,476 --> 00:19:50,063
"I suggest you wear it in regular rotation
with your other suits, sir.

275
00:19:50,147 --> 00:19:51,607
Once a week would be about right.

276
00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:54,693
If you give it fair rest and treatment
between times,

277
00:19:54,776 --> 00:19:56,862
it should last five years or more.

278
00:19:57,654 --> 00:20:01,366
Brush it regularly,
sponge it a bit if need be,

279
00:20:01,450 --> 00:20:03,035
but don't have it dry-cleaned

280
00:20:03,744 --> 00:20:05,746
unless there's been
some sort of an accident."

281
00:20:06,622 --> 00:20:10,209
I tried not to think of the accidents
that regularly befall my suits.

282
00:20:11,543 --> 00:20:14,504
"And let me remind you, sir,"
he finished,

283
00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:17,591
"look after it for moths."

284
00:20:34,107 --> 00:20:35,734
[bell rings]

285
00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:41,406
The next meeting was our last,
and much as I wanted the finished suit,

286
00:20:41,490 --> 00:20:43,700
I was reluctant to stop buying it.

287
00:20:49,331 --> 00:20:53,252
Mr. Perry held each trouser leg
clear of the floor

288
00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:57,506
as I put on the pants.

289
00:21:01,551 --> 00:21:02,386
Ah.

290
00:21:08,517 --> 00:21:10,143
[inhales deeply]

291
00:21:25,951 --> 00:21:27,953
[groaning]

292
00:21:36,086 --> 00:21:39,214
The lapels on the weskit...

293
00:21:40,048 --> 00:21:41,508
magnificent.

294
00:21:46,096 --> 00:21:47,264
The jacket...

295
00:21:54,896 --> 00:21:58,692
Ah! The jacket fit perfectly
across the shoulders!

296
00:21:59,234 --> 00:22:03,905
I gazed appreciatively at myself
in mirrored quadruplicate.

297
00:22:04,823 --> 00:22:06,408
Mr. Perry smiled slightly.

298
00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:10,454
"I don't think we'll find
the belt bothers at all, sir.

299
00:22:11,371 --> 00:22:13,332
You're well turned out."

300
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:17,919
When I paid Mr. Perry, I asked him
if there'd been any...

301
00:22:18,628 --> 00:22:22,424
special problems
in making the suit for me.

302
00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:25,886
"Oh, no, sir," he began.

303
00:22:26,178 --> 00:22:29,389
"Some might say tailoring
is the art of disguising the man,

304
00:22:29,639 --> 00:22:31,308
but it's only if a man has
a bad appearance

305
00:22:31,391 --> 00:22:32,642
that there are any problems.

306
00:22:34,770 --> 00:22:36,021
If he has a good figure...

307
00:22:37,773 --> 00:22:39,107
we come up trumps."

308
00:22:40,859 --> 00:22:42,694
I felt he hadn't quite answered
my question.

309
00:22:44,821 --> 00:22:45,906
And I repeated it.

310
00:22:47,866 --> 00:22:51,036
"Well, the only thing,
I don't know if I should mention it..."

311
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:52,037
I urged him on.

312
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,956
"Well, sir, you have rather a long body,

313
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,335
and that's the thing
we had to try to minimize.

314
00:22:59,669 --> 00:23:02,089
We had to lengthen your legs, so to speak,

315
00:23:03,131 --> 00:23:04,800
and shorten your body.

316
00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:08,220
Nothing serious, really,
and it worked out quite well."

317
00:23:08,303 --> 00:23:12,599
Now this was the first time I'd heard
of this particular defect in my structure.

318
00:23:14,142 --> 00:23:15,727
I took another look in the mirrors.

319
00:23:17,229 --> 00:23:18,271
Mr. Perry was right.

320
00:23:19,147 --> 00:23:22,901
It was impossible to tell now
where my short legs ended

321
00:23:22,984 --> 00:23:24,486
and my long body began!

322
00:23:26,446 --> 00:23:30,283
In a post-operative glow
at his sartorial surgery,

323
00:23:30,367 --> 00:23:33,495
I said goodbye to Mr. Perry
and set off down the street,

324
00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:40,585
trying to make my strides long enough
to keep the secret of my suit.

325
00:23:43,213 --> 00:23:44,840
I gotta tell you, folks,

326
00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:47,467
this is the actual suit.

327
00:23:49,219 --> 00:23:51,012
[applause]

328
00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:54,766
Let's give it up for the actual suit!

329
00:23:58,061 --> 00:23:59,563
1965.

330
00:24:03,567 --> 00:24:06,778
♪ Between the forest and the ocean
Lies a lonely strand  ♪

331
00:24:09,281 --> 00:24:10,740
♪ The ocean is your mother  ♪

332
00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:14,119
♪ The forest fatherland  ♪

333
00:24:14,202 --> 00:24:18,457
♪ You are stranded on that empty beach
Not knowing where to go  ♪

334
00:24:20,041 --> 00:24:23,670
♪ Out to sea or else inland
Your whole life, you don't know  ♪

335
00:24:25,338 --> 00:24:27,591
♪ In between the earth and sky  ♪

336
00:24:27,674 --> 00:24:29,468
♪ There is an atmosphere  ♪

337
00:24:29,551 --> 00:24:32,429
♪ Feet on the ground, your head up high
But you are stuck  ♪

338
00:24:33,847 --> 00:24:34,973
♪ Right here  ♪

339
00:24:36,349 --> 00:24:38,602
♪ You're in between your whole life long  ♪

340
00:24:38,685 --> 00:24:42,230
♪ What happens when you die?  ♪

341
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:47,319
♪ Down below us, Mother Earth
Your father dwells on high  ♪

342
00:24:49,488 --> 00:24:52,491
♪ Honor thy father and thy mother  ♪

343
00:24:52,574 --> 00:24:54,034
♪ Though they're not the same  ♪

344
00:24:54,117 --> 00:24:55,994
♪ And one pits you against the other  ♪

345
00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:00,749
♪ It's the cruelest game  ♪

346
00:25:02,167 --> 00:25:08,632
♪ You are stuck and you are stranded
You must live until you die  ♪

347
00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:13,762
♪ At home in forest and in ocean
Worship earth and sky  ♪

348
00:25:14,221 --> 00:25:16,765
♪ At home in forest and in ocean  ♪

349
00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:22,187
♪ Worship earth and sky  ♪

350
00:25:39,704 --> 00:25:41,414
♪ I knew your mother  ♪

351
00:25:41,498 --> 00:25:42,791
♪ Let me be clear  ♪

352
00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:46,002
♪ We were lovers before you got here  ♪

353
00:25:48,046 --> 00:25:50,966
♪ So don't forget that I knew her when  ♪

354
00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:55,720
♪ Love was the means
And you were the end  ♪

355
00:26:03,937 --> 00:26:08,316
♪ I still remember somebody
Who was amazing  ♪

356
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,236
♪ And crazy and someone like you  ♪

357
00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:12,946
♪ I fell for your mother  ♪

358
00:26:13,863 --> 00:26:16,866
♪ Love made me a fool
We were into each other  ♪

359
00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:19,661
♪ Till it came off the spool  ♪

360
00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:31,256
♪ Folks choose their parents
Some Buddhists say  ♪

361
00:26:31,881 --> 00:26:35,176
♪ Maybe you picked us
And we were your way  ♪

362
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:39,097
♪ In the biblical sense, I knew your mom  ♪

363
00:26:39,681 --> 00:26:44,894
♪  Und  it wasn't all  sturm
Und  it wasn't all  drang   ♪

364
00:26:45,687 --> 00:26:48,189
♪ There was some calm  ♪

365
00:27:07,709 --> 00:27:10,795
♪ Having a father
is the most dangerous game  ♪

366
00:27:10,879 --> 00:27:13,048
♪ And when Dad takes a powder  ♪

367
00:27:14,090 --> 00:27:15,550
♪ It's always a shame  ♪

368
00:27:15,925 --> 00:27:18,803
♪ I knew your mother
And your mother knew me  ♪

369
00:27:18,887 --> 00:27:20,639
♪ And as long as it lasted  ♪

370
00:27:21,556 --> 00:27:23,058
♪ Was how long it could be  ♪

371
00:27:31,274 --> 00:27:34,444
♪ Today is your birthday
And if truth be told  ♪

372
00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:37,155
♪ It has to be said now  ♪

373
00:27:38,031 --> 00:27:39,449
♪ We're both a bit older  ♪

374
00:27:40,367 --> 00:27:43,912
♪ Yeah, happy birthday
But I want to be clear  ♪

375
00:27:43,995 --> 00:27:45,747
♪ I loved your mother  ♪

376
00:27:46,581 --> 00:27:47,832
♪ That's why you're here  ♪

377
00:27:56,424 --> 00:27:59,135
♪ I knew your mother
Let me be clear  ♪

378
00:27:59,928 --> 00:28:02,389
♪ We two were lovers before you got here  ♪

379
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:07,644
♪ So don't forget that I knew her when  ♪

380
00:28:08,019 --> 00:28:11,856
♪ Love was the means
And you were the end ♪

381
00:28:15,193 --> 00:28:19,322
♪ Love was the means
And you were the end ♪

382
00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:24,077
♪ I knew your mother  ♪

383
00:28:47,225 --> 00:28:49,811
A few years ago, I saw a collection
of old home movies

384
00:28:49,894 --> 00:28:52,522
that my father had made in the mid-1930s.

385
00:28:54,149 --> 00:28:57,068
Since he held the camera,
he never appeared in the films,

386
00:28:57,819 --> 00:29:00,155
although his long afternoon shadow

387
00:29:00,238 --> 00:29:02,574
occasionally fell across
the scenes he shot.

388
00:29:04,826 --> 00:29:05,869
But his presence,

389
00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:09,706
the way he thought
about some things and how he felt...

390
00:29:11,374 --> 00:29:13,209
seemed extraordinarily evident.

391
00:29:14,669 --> 00:29:16,588
To make his movie
during one bitter winter,

392
00:29:16,671 --> 00:29:20,175
he'd walked out on the frozen bay
near our house

393
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:24,012
and shot a long piece of film
looking back toward the land.

394
00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:29,267
What obviously interested him
were the shapes the camera lingered on.

395
00:29:30,685 --> 00:29:32,479
Great heaves of broken ice

396
00:29:32,562 --> 00:29:37,525
and pilings of docks wrenched
into jagged angles against the sky.

397
00:29:38,651 --> 00:29:41,821
Watching, I was astonished
at his selections.

398
00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:44,574
I always thought of him
as a completely direct man

399
00:29:45,325 --> 00:29:48,703
with no interest at all
in abstractions of any kind.

400
00:29:49,412 --> 00:29:50,955
But here he was on film,

401
00:29:51,664 --> 00:29:55,001
working hard with the camera,
trying to find the right framing

402
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,879
for the stark forms he saw.

403
00:29:59,756 --> 00:30:02,717
Now, this was a large insight
into my father's being

404
00:30:02,842 --> 00:30:04,219
that I'd missed completely.

405
00:30:06,888 --> 00:30:08,890
The film showed me more
than that about him.

406
00:30:09,682 --> 00:30:11,851
In another section,
he was photographing me

407
00:30:11,935 --> 00:30:13,561
as I skated near him.

408
00:30:13,645 --> 00:30:17,774
First, I watched the movie
with the fascination one usually feels

409
00:30:17,857 --> 00:30:19,442
when he looks at pictures of himself,

410
00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:22,904
especially pictures of a self
in child's packaging.

411
00:30:24,531 --> 00:30:27,992
Delighted with my own gay
awkwardness on ice...

412
00:30:29,118 --> 00:30:31,788
I suddenly had the sense
that the camera

413
00:30:31,871 --> 00:30:36,835
was projecting a clear quality... of love.

414
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:40,296
The child fell, the camera lurched

415
00:30:40,755 --> 00:30:42,465
as its holder moved in to help,

416
00:30:43,132 --> 00:30:45,718
then steadied as the boy rose smiling.

417
00:30:46,052 --> 00:30:48,596
The camera zoomed in for a close-up,

418
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,557
then drew back and held

419
00:30:50,765 --> 00:30:56,771
as the child bent-ankled
in one crude circle... after another.

420
00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:00,859
Decades later,

421
00:31:01,651 --> 00:31:06,322
the photographer's tenderness
quite overwhelmed his subject.

422
00:31:09,117 --> 00:31:10,243
Even if we're late...

423
00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:13,538
we can still reach out for fathers...

424
00:31:14,789 --> 00:31:18,835
and find good moments for ourselves
in what they left behind.

425
00:31:28,428 --> 00:31:30,597
[Loudon over PA]
I drove down to Baltimore recently

426
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,348
and seeing an exit for Middletown,

427
00:31:32,432 --> 00:31:36,436
I pulled or perhaps
was pulled off Interstate 95.

428
00:31:36,853 --> 00:31:41,024
Driving the rental car through
the still sleepy little Delaware town,

429
00:31:41,107 --> 00:31:45,778
I was amazed to see the old movie theater
and the barber shop were still standing,

430
00:31:46,112 --> 00:31:47,655
much less in operation.

431
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:52,160
Now I nose the Caprice
towards St. Andrews.

432
00:31:52,869 --> 00:31:58,166
My father had sent me away to the then
all-boys boarding school in 1961.

433
00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:03,755
It was his alma mater, his own father
had exiled him there in 1938.

434
00:32:04,589 --> 00:32:07,675
It hadn't been a happy experience
for either of us,

435
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:11,262
and I have managed to stay away
from the place for decades.

436
00:32:11,638 --> 00:32:12,680
But suddenly,

437
00:32:13,556 --> 00:32:14,557
I'm here again.

438
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:20,063
Aside from the new science building
and the even newer field house,

439
00:32:20,146 --> 00:32:23,608
neither of which were built
thanks to any contribution from me,

440
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:27,070
the campus looks as it did 50 years ago.

441
00:32:27,987 --> 00:32:32,283
I park, get out of the car,
and walk into the main building.

442
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:36,162
I feel slightly furtive, like a man
slipping back into a room

443
00:32:36,245 --> 00:32:39,666
to retrieve a wristwatch
he's left on a bedside table,

444
00:32:39,749 --> 00:32:43,920
not sure if the woman in the bed
is sleeping or pretending.

445
00:32:44,879 --> 00:32:47,382
This feels like running away in reverse.

446
00:32:48,216 --> 00:32:52,303
It's summer, so aside from a custodian
or two, the place is empty.

447
00:32:53,429 --> 00:32:58,101
I climb some stairs heading to what
was once the third form bathroom.

448
00:32:58,726 --> 00:32:59,769
It's still there.

449
00:33:00,603 --> 00:33:02,563
Pushing open the heavy swinging door,

450
00:33:02,730 --> 00:33:05,483
I belly up to a familiar-looking urinal.

451
00:33:05,566 --> 00:33:08,486
I pee, marking this old territory.

452
00:33:09,445 --> 00:33:11,489
In 1961, after lights,

453
00:33:11,572 --> 00:33:13,908
I sat cross-legged and bathrobed

454
00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:17,078
on the black and white
tiled floor of this can,

455
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:20,748
and while finishing a paper
or cramming for some exam,

456
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:23,793
suddenly would look up,
startled and amazed

457
00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:27,463
by the loud cutting blare
of the night train's horn.

458
00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:32,969
It was a sound expressing everything
that was beyond the school,

459
00:33:33,052 --> 00:33:36,639
the whole empty world
that was waiting for me.

460
00:33:37,473 --> 00:33:39,726
Now I'm in the basement,
which to this day,

461
00:33:39,809 --> 00:33:41,728
still houses the tuck shop,

462
00:33:41,811 --> 00:33:44,063
school store, and school bank.

463
00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:49,152
I'm searching the darkly stained
pine wood paneling

464
00:33:49,235 --> 00:33:52,780
for somewhere among those
hundreds of crudely carved,

465
00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:56,367
scratched and branded
sets of initials and dates,

466
00:33:56,451 --> 00:34:00,455
there should be LSW3 '65

467
00:34:00,538 --> 00:34:03,750
or LSW Junior '42.

468
00:34:03,833 --> 00:34:05,585
But I can't find us.

469
00:34:05,668 --> 00:34:07,420
Maybe we were never here.

470
00:34:08,087 --> 00:34:09,630
I'm in the auditorium now,

471
00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:12,550
remembering Saturday nights
a half-century ago.

472
00:34:13,092 --> 00:34:14,260
Watching the weekly movie,

473
00:34:14,343 --> 00:34:18,473
I was Wainwright then,
always insisting on sitting alone,

474
00:34:18,681 --> 00:34:20,975
away from my chatty goofball friends,

475
00:34:21,184 --> 00:34:24,771
so as to concentrate on the flick,
hunkered down in the dark,

476
00:34:24,854 --> 00:34:27,315
watching  Forbidden Games,

477
00:34:27,648 --> 00:34:29,192
Odd Man Out,

478
00:34:29,275 --> 00:34:30,860
Mr. Hulot's Holiday,

479
00:34:31,444 --> 00:34:34,864
and so appropriate
for a boys boarding school,

480
00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:37,116
The Great Escape.

481
00:34:38,910 --> 00:34:41,579
Now I'm standing inside the old gym,

482
00:34:41,662 --> 00:34:44,373
scanning the thick, ugly plaster walls.

483
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:48,377
The school's team pictures hang there
in honor and remembrance.

484
00:34:48,961 --> 00:34:53,716
I find my varsity football team picture.
I'm number 22,

485
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,469
left half-back, bad skin.

486
00:34:57,678 --> 00:35:00,515
Then 30 feet away,
there's a picture of my father,

487
00:35:00,598 --> 00:35:03,309
standing on the gym steps in 1942

488
00:35:03,392 --> 00:35:06,062
with his varsity baseball team.

489
00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:09,482
He and I, father and son

490
00:35:09,565 --> 00:35:13,152
are connected
by our same sad expressions.

491
00:35:13,736 --> 00:35:17,490
We're glum young men, unhappy Loudons.

492
00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:23,371
I go outside and stand in the center
of the football field,

493
00:35:23,454 --> 00:35:24,872
recalling the horrific sight

494
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:27,500
of Andy McNair's knee
being driven the wrong way

495
00:35:27,583 --> 00:35:31,587
by the vicious clip he received
in the 1964 Tatnall game.

496
00:35:33,464 --> 00:35:36,217
Then I experienced the memory
of my father

497
00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:38,886
seated in the stands watching me play.

498
00:35:39,303 --> 00:35:41,472
Now he's up and cheering.

499
00:35:41,556 --> 00:35:42,974
I've got the ball.

500
00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:47,270
Then I imagine him
on that same field in 1940

501
00:35:47,353 --> 00:35:50,648
or maybe '41,
the next-to-no shoulder pads,

502
00:35:50,731 --> 00:35:53,943
shod and mud-caked high-top cleats,

503
00:35:54,026 --> 00:35:56,487
wearing an ancient face-guardless helmet

504
00:35:57,071 --> 00:36:00,992
searching those same stands
for his own father.

505
00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:14,088
Hey, you want to do a sing-along?

506
00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:15,798
-[all] Yeah.
-Yeah?

507
00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:19,260
You don't sound like
you're very enthusiastic.

508
00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:20,928
[cheering]

509
00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:24,473
I'll tell you, if you don't sing along
on this, we're doing "Kumbaya."

510
00:36:26,475 --> 00:36:27,435
So, uh...

511
00:36:28,436 --> 00:36:29,562
you decide.

512
00:36:32,273 --> 00:36:34,692
You know, this show is very, um--

513
00:36:36,402 --> 00:36:38,779
There's a lot of father stuff
in this show.

514
00:36:40,698 --> 00:36:42,867
Some mother stuff
is coming up, don't worry.

515
00:36:43,743 --> 00:36:45,745
Don't worry, you moms out there.

516
00:36:47,288 --> 00:36:49,165
We're gonna do this,
this is the sing-along.

517
00:36:49,248 --> 00:36:51,751
I'm gonna teach you
the sing-along part, your part.

518
00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:54,795
♪ Being a dad ♪

519
00:36:56,339 --> 00:36:58,549
[all] ♪  Being a dad ♪

520
00:36:58,716 --> 00:37:01,594
That's good.
The moms are good, the dads...

521
00:37:02,511 --> 00:37:05,973
The dads, like so many dads, suck!

522
00:37:08,392 --> 00:37:10,228
♪ Being a dad ♪

523
00:37:10,311 --> 00:37:11,312
Let me hear you.

524
00:37:11,395 --> 00:37:12,563
[all] ♪  Being a dad ♪

525
00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:14,857
Now we've got some bottom on that thing.

526
00:37:14,941 --> 00:37:16,984
All right, so I'm gonna start the song.

527
00:37:17,985 --> 00:37:19,987
The sing-along thing is kind of...

528
00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:22,156
You'll know. You'll know.

529
00:37:31,457 --> 00:37:33,584
♪ Being a dad ♪

530
00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:35,086
♪ It isn't so bad ♪

531
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:38,547
♪ Except that you gotta feed 'em ♪

532
00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:44,428
♪ You gotta shoe 'em and clothe them ♪

533
00:37:44,512 --> 00:37:46,931
♪ And try not to loathe them ♪

534
00:37:48,516 --> 00:37:50,184
♪ Bug 'em and hug 'em and heed 'em ♪

535
00:37:54,188 --> 00:37:56,065
♪ Being a dad ♪

536
00:37:56,148 --> 00:37:58,192
♪ Can sure make you mad ♪

537
00:37:58,276 --> 00:38:01,320
♪ Man, it sure can drive you crazy! ♪

538
00:38:04,824 --> 00:38:06,325
♪ It's as hard as it looks ♪

539
00:38:07,034 --> 00:38:09,370
♪ You gotta read them dumb books ♪

540
00:38:10,204 --> 00:38:13,958
♪ And you end up despising Walt Disney ♪

541
00:38:16,836 --> 00:38:18,921
♪ Being a dad ♪

542
00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:20,965
♪ It starts to get radical ♪

543
00:38:21,549 --> 00:38:24,510
♪ When they turn into teenagers! ♪

544
00:38:27,054 --> 00:38:29,515
♪ You gotta tighten the screws ♪

545
00:38:29,598 --> 00:38:31,851
♪ Enforce the curfews ♪

546
00:38:32,268 --> 00:38:35,062
♪ Confiscate weapons and pagers ♪

547
00:38:36,063 --> 00:38:37,565
Remember pagers?

548
00:38:40,651 --> 00:38:42,987
♪ But a daughter or son ♪

549
00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:45,364
♪ Can be sort of fun ♪

550
00:38:45,448 --> 00:38:48,367
♪ Just as long as they don't defy you ♪

551
00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:50,995
♪ They'll treat you like a king ♪

552
00:38:51,078 --> 00:38:53,247
♪ They'll believe anything ♪

553
00:38:54,123 --> 00:38:57,543
♪ They're easy to frighten and ♪

554
00:38:57,626 --> 00:39:00,588
♪ Lie to ♪

555
00:39:00,671 --> 00:39:02,465
Just like we rehearsed it...

556
00:39:02,548 --> 00:39:04,759
[all]  ♪ Being a dad ♪

557
00:39:04,842 --> 00:39:07,136
Come on now, you can do
better than that, come on!

558
00:39:07,219 --> 00:39:09,055
♪ Being a dad ♪

559
00:39:09,722 --> 00:39:10,973
Little bit louder!

560
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,976
♪ Being a dad ♪

561
00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:16,187
That's pathetic. One more.

562
00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:18,314
♪ Being a dad ♪

563
00:39:20,816 --> 00:39:22,610
♪ Being a dad can make you feel glad ♪

564
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,740
♪ When you get paper weights
And aftershave lotion ♪

565
00:39:30,826 --> 00:39:32,536
♪ Yeah, it feels pretty great ♪

566
00:39:33,621 --> 00:39:35,081
♪ When they graduate ♪

567
00:39:36,415 --> 00:39:38,584
♪ That's when you're choked with emotion ♪

568
00:39:40,294 --> 00:39:44,173
♪ But being a dad takes more than a tad ♪

569
00:39:44,256 --> 00:39:48,052
♪ Of good luck and divine intervention ♪

570
00:39:50,805 --> 00:39:53,391
♪ You need airtight alibis ♪

571
00:39:53,891 --> 00:39:55,434
♪ Foolproof disguises ♪

572
00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:59,438
♪ Desperation's the father of invention ♪

573
00:40:01,690 --> 00:40:03,567
♪ So sometimes you take off ♪

574
00:40:04,527 --> 00:40:06,529
♪ For a few rounds of golf ♪

575
00:40:06,612 --> 00:40:09,740
♪ And you stay away
for half of their lifetimes   ♪

576
00:40:11,033 --> 00:40:12,284
♪ The result of it all ♪

577
00:40:12,368 --> 00:40:15,913
♪ Is you're captured and hauled off ♪

578
00:40:15,996 --> 00:40:18,666
♪ Before a tribunal for ♪

579
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:22,128
♪ Dad crimes ♪

580
00:40:22,503 --> 00:40:24,088
Two, three, four...

581
00:40:24,171 --> 00:40:26,674
[all]  ♪ Being a dad ♪

582
00:40:26,757 --> 00:40:27,758
Come on, moms!

583
00:40:28,634 --> 00:40:30,636
♪ Being a dad ♪

584
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,680
Pretend I'm Pete Seeger.

585
00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:35,182
♪ Being a dad ♪

586
00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:37,309
Same sex couples.

587
00:40:37,852 --> 00:40:39,854
♪ Being a dad ♪

588
00:40:44,316 --> 00:40:46,694
♪ Being a dad can make you feel sad ♪

589
00:40:49,029 --> 00:40:51,615
♪ Like you're the insignificant other ♪

590
00:40:55,327 --> 00:40:57,455
♪ Yeah, right from the start ♪

591
00:40:58,122 --> 00:40:59,623
♪ They break your heart ♪

592
00:41:00,332 --> 00:41:03,794
♪ In the end, every kid wants his mother ♪

593
00:41:05,796 --> 00:41:08,299
Big finish, everybody goes like this,
we go like...

594
00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:12,303
♪ Being a dad ♪

595
00:41:31,405 --> 00:41:34,825
So in January of 1942...

596
00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:39,788
Loudon the first, my grandfather, dies.

597
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:46,337
And that spring of the same year,

598
00:41:47,838 --> 00:41:51,258
my dad, Loudon Junior,
graduates from St. Andrews.

599
00:41:52,134 --> 00:41:54,637
And then, in the summer of 1942,

600
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:56,263
at the age of 17,

601
00:41:57,056 --> 00:41:59,433
he enlists in the Marine Corps.

602
00:42:01,101 --> 00:42:03,187
And he writes some letters...

603
00:42:05,397 --> 00:42:10,069
to his recently widowed mother...

604
00:42:12,112 --> 00:42:15,783
a couple of which mention Martha Taylor...

605
00:42:17,993 --> 00:42:20,412
who, in 1946, would become my mother.

606
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:28,087
July 1942.

607
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:33,801
"Dear Mother, I just got your letter
saying you almost burst into tears

608
00:42:34,134 --> 00:42:36,887
when you saw a Marine private
on 42nd Street.

609
00:42:38,681 --> 00:42:40,474
If I could only give you
the strength, Mother.

610
00:42:40,975 --> 00:42:42,977
You showed your real guts when Daddy went

611
00:42:43,060 --> 00:42:46,272
by making a great effort to carry on
with what he had done

612
00:42:46,355 --> 00:42:50,568
because you felt that you had to make
a life and a home for you and me,

613
00:42:50,818 --> 00:42:53,195
a new home in place of the old one

614
00:42:53,279 --> 00:42:55,948
that suddenly disintegrated
with the departure

615
00:42:56,031 --> 00:43:00,286
of my best friend and father and your man,

616
00:43:00,536 --> 00:43:03,080
the one we both loved above all else.

617
00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:06,584
You have done a splendid job, Mom.

618
00:43:07,376 --> 00:43:10,421
I realize now what a torture
your life must have been

619
00:43:10,504 --> 00:43:12,631
since that awful day in January.

620
00:43:12,715 --> 00:43:16,468
Never turn your face to the wall,
never despair for me, Mother.

621
00:43:17,052 --> 00:43:20,055
Wherever I am,
my heart is always with you,

622
00:43:20,139 --> 00:43:22,349
my thoughts are always with you.

623
00:43:22,433 --> 00:43:27,771
Let the fact that I love and worship you
for your splendid courage and patience

624
00:43:28,522 --> 00:43:32,192
be a comfort to you
whenever you feel my absence.

625
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:35,279
Remember that like Big Louds...

626
00:43:36,447 --> 00:43:37,740
I am always with you.

627
00:43:38,741 --> 00:43:39,992
Goodnight, Mommy.

628
00:43:41,118 --> 00:43:42,119
Louds."

629
00:43:44,330 --> 00:43:45,998
September 1942.

630
00:43:46,081 --> 00:43:48,917
"Toots, your picture arrived today

631
00:43:49,001 --> 00:43:51,086
and I am terribly pleased with it.

632
00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:54,673
It really is swell.

633
00:43:54,757 --> 00:43:59,219
You can be sure it's been put in the most
prominent position beside my bunk.

634
00:43:59,553 --> 00:44:05,225
There is no doubt in my mind as to who
has the prettiest mother in the place.

635
00:44:06,101 --> 00:44:09,188
You're really younger looking
than most of the guys' girls.

636
00:44:10,856 --> 00:44:11,857
No, I'm not kidding.

637
00:44:12,858 --> 00:44:16,153
I like the Marine Corps,
I have a million and one good pals.

638
00:44:16,236 --> 00:44:18,739
I like California and I'm quite happy,

639
00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:21,742
but I'm so damn mad at this setup I'm in

640
00:44:21,825 --> 00:44:23,911
that I feel like getting plastered
or something.

641
00:44:23,994 --> 00:44:26,288
I mean, whoever said, 'War is hell,'

642
00:44:26,372 --> 00:44:29,875
either wasn't using the full extent
of his vocabulary

643
00:44:30,459 --> 00:44:34,046
or had never fought the war
from the sunny shores of California.

644
00:44:35,047 --> 00:44:37,007
It is, as Dad would have said,

645
00:44:37,091 --> 00:44:40,344
a great big pain in the  pardonnez-moi  ass.

646
00:44:41,845 --> 00:44:44,848
Ah, nuts to me,
I'm griping too much, and I'm sorry."

647
00:44:46,183 --> 00:44:47,893
October 1942.

648
00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:50,854
"Mother...

649
00:44:51,855 --> 00:44:56,944
I'm now listening to "Melancholy Baby"
coming in loud and clear over the radio.

650
00:44:58,445 --> 00:45:01,073
Remember those nights
driving back from Easthampton

651
00:45:01,156 --> 00:45:03,283
when we'd sing all the way home?

652
00:45:03,367 --> 00:45:06,870
Or coming back from a game
at Princeton with Dad giving out

653
00:45:06,954 --> 00:45:10,666
with his special octave-jumping tenor?

654
00:45:13,210 --> 00:45:14,378
Them were the days.

655
00:45:15,337 --> 00:45:16,171
Good night,

656
00:45:16,839 --> 00:45:18,632
and lots of love, Louds."

657
00:45:19,842 --> 00:45:22,845
1943. "I'm in San Diego now, Mom.

658
00:45:22,928 --> 00:45:24,888
It's a dull sailor-crammed town.

659
00:45:24,972 --> 00:45:28,517
I can't get a drop to drink because
I'm not 21 and they won't serve me.

660
00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:31,645
I'm gonna write
to the new governor, Earl Warren,

661
00:45:32,104 --> 00:45:36,608
and I'm gonna tell him I don't like
the liquor laws in his lousy state

662
00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:39,403
and that if he doesn't have them
fixed immediately

663
00:45:39,486 --> 00:45:42,448
so that all men in uniform can imbibe,

664
00:45:42,531 --> 00:45:43,866
I'll depart.

665
00:45:45,242 --> 00:45:48,787
If Errol Flynn being accused
of the seduction

666
00:45:48,871 --> 00:45:51,707
and statutory rape of two minor girls

667
00:45:51,790 --> 00:45:55,669
is an example of the purity
of glorious California,

668
00:45:56,044 --> 00:45:57,546
then why can't I have a beer?

669
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:02,634
To be truthful,

670
00:46:03,552 --> 00:46:07,181
I long for a little younger
female companionship.

671
00:46:08,348 --> 00:46:11,727
Although you realize, Mom, there's nothing
I'd rather do than see you.

672
00:46:14,021 --> 00:46:15,022
Love, Loudee."

673
00:46:20,778 --> 00:46:22,529
July, 1945.

674
00:46:25,574 --> 00:46:29,369
"I'm thinking very seriously of bringing
Martha home with me next weekend.

675
00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:35,375
Might both get a three-day pass. We could
go out to Cedarhurst and swim, etc.

676
00:46:37,836 --> 00:46:40,881
I'm thinking very seriously
of getting married.

677
00:46:41,673 --> 00:46:44,802
So I hope you like her
and will not start thinking of ways

678
00:46:44,885 --> 00:46:46,428
to make me forget about it.

679
00:46:48,639 --> 00:46:50,724
I didn't mean that exactly the way
that it sounded,

680
00:46:50,808 --> 00:46:52,684
but I do feel that you probably think

681
00:46:52,768 --> 00:46:56,313
of the objectionable sides
of the relationship before anything else.

682
00:46:57,314 --> 00:46:59,858
I love her a great deal, and I feel...

683
00:47:00,901 --> 00:47:02,861
pretty certain that it's a good thing.

684
00:47:04,112 --> 00:47:06,281
She completely understands my situation.

685
00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:10,202
Don't worry about it, Mother.
Love, Louds."

686
00:47:11,203 --> 00:47:12,913
October 1945.

687
00:47:12,996 --> 00:47:16,416
"Mom, Martha is down at Camp Lejeune
getting discharged

688
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:18,252
and won't be home until Saturday.

689
00:47:22,130 --> 00:47:25,259
I miss her like hell, I don't know what
to do with myself when she's not here.

690
00:47:26,635 --> 00:47:30,973
The way I feel about her
almost seems to be too far inside me

691
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,684
for any appropriate expression.

692
00:47:36,228 --> 00:47:38,146
I never thought I could be this lonely.

693
00:47:40,983 --> 00:47:42,276
She's a sweetheart.

694
00:47:43,569 --> 00:47:44,736
And I love her."

695
00:48:00,669 --> 00:48:04,756
♪ Mother liked her white wine
When she was alive  ♪

696
00:48:05,090 --> 00:48:08,677
♪ She was desperate to live
But her limit was five  ♪

697
00:48:09,636 --> 00:48:11,096
♪ Carefully, I'd kiss her  ♪

698
00:48:11,930 --> 00:48:13,265
♪ Send her off to bed  ♪

699
00:48:14,057 --> 00:48:17,269
♪ We always stuck to white wine
We stayed away from red  ♪

700
00:48:19,813 --> 00:48:22,983
♪ Always stick to white wine,
Stay away from...  ♪

701
00:48:23,066 --> 00:48:27,154
♪ Mother liked her white wine
She'd have a glass or two  ♪

702
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:31,700
♪ Almost every single night
After her day was through  ♪

703
00:48:32,492 --> 00:48:35,162
♪ Sancerre, chardonnay, Chablis  ♪

704
00:48:35,245 --> 00:48:36,747
♪ Pinot grigio  ♪

705
00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:40,751
♪ Just to take the edge off
Just to get the glow  ♪

706
00:48:42,878 --> 00:48:46,048
♪ You've got to take the edge off
If you want to get...  ♪

707
00:48:54,848 --> 00:48:58,727
♪ Mother liked her white wine
She'd have a glass or three  ♪

708
00:48:59,603 --> 00:49:03,565
♪ We'd sit out on the screen porch
White winos, Mom and me  ♪

709
00:49:04,816 --> 00:49:07,069
♪ We'd talk about her childhood  ♪

710
00:49:07,152 --> 00:49:09,655
♪ And recap my career  ♪

711
00:49:09,738 --> 00:49:11,281
♪ When we got to my father  ♪

712
00:49:11,365 --> 00:49:13,283
♪ That's when I'd switch to beer  ♪

713
00:49:15,661 --> 00:49:18,580
♪ When we got to the old man
I'd always switch...  ♪

714
00:49:19,289 --> 00:49:21,583
♪ Mother liked her white wine  ♪

715
00:49:21,667 --> 00:49:23,001
♪ She'd have a glass or four  ♪

716
00:49:23,085 --> 00:49:25,879
♪ Each empty bottle a dead soldier  ♪

717
00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:27,464
♪ The marriage was the war  ♪

718
00:49:28,423 --> 00:49:31,843
♪ When we blurred the edges
When we drank a lot  ♪

719
00:49:32,761 --> 00:49:36,056
♪ That's when I got nervous
When the glow got hot  ♪

720
00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:42,062
♪ I always get nervous
When the glow gets... ♪

721
00:49:54,324 --> 00:49:58,078
♪ I still like my white wine
And I'll have a glass or two  ♪

722
00:49:59,037 --> 00:50:02,499
♪ When I'm down, I'll drink some whiskey
It's something I shouldn't do  ♪

723
00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:07,838
♪ Every now and then
I'll take a drop of red  ♪

724
00:50:08,422 --> 00:50:09,965
♪ When I'm with a woman  ♪

725
00:50:10,048 --> 00:50:11,675
♪ That I want to take to bed  ♪

726
00:50:13,844 --> 00:50:16,722
♪ When I'm with a woman
That I want to take...  ♪

727
00:50:16,805 --> 00:50:20,851
♪ Mother liked her white wine
And when she was alive  ♪

728
00:50:20,934 --> 00:50:23,270
♪ She was desperate to live  ♪

729
00:50:23,353 --> 00:50:24,896
♪ But her limit was five  ♪

730
00:50:25,355 --> 00:50:26,898
♪ Carefully, I'd kiss her  ♪

731
00:50:27,649 --> 00:50:29,026
♪ Send her off to bed  ♪

732
00:50:29,818 --> 00:50:32,154
♪ Thank God we stuck to white wine  ♪

733
00:50:32,237 --> 00:50:34,281
♪ And we stayed away from...  ♪

734
00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:39,828
♪ Mother liked her white wine  ♪

735
00:51:04,686 --> 00:51:05,854
[sighs]

736
00:51:14,112 --> 00:51:16,907
Well, it's always seemed
like a zero holiday to me.

737
00:51:19,367 --> 00:51:23,455
Another commercially pumped up occasion
to sell greeting cards or neckties.

738
00:51:24,247 --> 00:51:26,958
Long distance phone calls,

739
00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:30,212
41 million on Father's Day.

740
00:51:31,463 --> 00:51:33,465
More on Mother's Day.

741
00:51:36,176 --> 00:51:38,470
Aloud, I profess to find it
beneath my notice,

742
00:51:38,553 --> 00:51:42,182
but as it rolls around each June,
I find myself wondering

743
00:51:42,265 --> 00:51:43,934
if I'm gonna hear
from each of the kids,

744
00:51:44,810 --> 00:51:46,478
and I get ready to sulk...

745
00:51:47,771 --> 00:51:50,482
if someone doesn't phone
or write or show up.

746
00:51:51,441 --> 00:51:55,153
I call the roll in my head
and tick off tender memories of each.

747
00:51:56,822 --> 00:52:00,283
Looking back, I suppose
one of the problems I had with fatherhood

748
00:52:00,367 --> 00:52:04,246
was that I attached a kind of divinity
to the role.

749
00:52:05,455 --> 00:52:09,084
Not that I consider myself all-knowing,
but I did have this notion

750
00:52:09,501 --> 00:52:11,128
that a really good father...

751
00:52:11,837 --> 00:52:14,464
would have the answers
to just about everything

752
00:52:15,507 --> 00:52:18,093
and the power
to make all things work out.

753
00:52:19,678 --> 00:52:23,390
I think it's likely my own father,
who died a relatively young man,

754
00:52:23,473 --> 00:52:26,226
suffered from the same delusion.

755
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:29,688
Even when he seemed most confident
and implacable,

756
00:52:31,898 --> 00:52:33,441
I would bet he was full of doubt,

757
00:52:34,317 --> 00:52:38,280
that his controlling family style
was just a cover-up

758
00:52:39,030 --> 00:52:42,075
for the fear
he didn't have much power at all.

759
00:52:45,036 --> 00:52:46,913
Maybe my experience is unusual,

760
00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:50,458
but I can't recall having given
a single serious thought

761
00:52:50,542 --> 00:52:54,421
to what it would be like to be a father
until I was married

762
00:52:55,213 --> 00:52:57,674
and my first son was on the way.

763
00:52:58,925 --> 00:53:02,429
All my dreams up to then had revolved
around escaping boyhood

764
00:53:02,512 --> 00:53:06,391
and its strictures
or around sex or around...

765
00:53:07,475 --> 00:53:09,352
learning everything
about everything

766
00:53:09,436 --> 00:53:12,272
or being recognized, even acclaimed,

767
00:53:13,273 --> 00:53:16,693
as a full-fledged person
with limitless future.

768
00:53:18,987 --> 00:53:20,530
When that first son was born,

769
00:53:21,781 --> 00:53:25,911
I spent all night in the waiting room
with another expectant father.

770
00:53:28,788 --> 00:53:29,998
He was about 40.

771
00:53:31,458 --> 00:53:34,794
Almost twice my age then, so was his wife.

772
00:53:34,878 --> 00:53:36,546
They'd been married for many years.

773
00:53:37,172 --> 00:53:38,965
This would be their first too.

774
00:53:40,842 --> 00:53:43,762
He and I talked
and drank coffee until dawn

775
00:53:43,845 --> 00:53:47,974
while our wives labored unseen
down the hall.

776
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:51,811
He told me how carefully
they had planned for this child,

777
00:53:52,187 --> 00:53:55,023
how many earlier disappointments
they'd had.

778
00:53:57,859 --> 00:54:00,612
Their experience
was so astonishingly different

779
00:54:00,695 --> 00:54:02,697
and so much more complex than my own,

780
00:54:02,781 --> 00:54:07,619
in which a child seemed to come
almost spontaneously out of marriage.

781
00:54:09,329 --> 00:54:13,041
These people really wanted their baby.

782
00:54:16,044 --> 00:54:17,170
We did too, but...

783
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,882
that was a whole other order of things.

784
00:54:22,968 --> 00:54:26,930
Then as we talked on, their doctor
came out of the delivery room

785
00:54:27,013 --> 00:54:29,849
and told my new friend
that his wife was all right.

786
00:54:33,144 --> 00:54:37,565
After the most awful pause,
he added that the baby, a boy,

787
00:54:38,233 --> 00:54:39,442
hadn't made it.

788
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:45,365
Until right then...

789
00:54:47,784 --> 00:54:50,662
when that calm and kind man...

790
00:54:51,913 --> 00:54:56,584
so ready for fatherhood
and so cruelly deprived of it,

791
00:54:57,294 --> 00:55:01,548
put his arm around me and told me
he was sure our baby would be okay...

792
00:55:06,428 --> 00:55:10,098
I hadn't realized how close
all life is to sorrow.

793
00:55:23,570 --> 00:55:27,073
♪ We're wondering when you will arrive ♪

794
00:55:28,241 --> 00:55:29,993
♪ We're wondering what you'll be ♪

795
00:55:31,494 --> 00:55:33,788
♪ We're wondering if you'll be a her ♪

796
00:55:36,082 --> 00:55:38,209
♪ Or if you'll be a he ♪

797
00:55:39,794 --> 00:55:42,255
♪ Maybe you'll arrive today ♪

798
00:55:43,882 --> 00:55:46,259
♪ Perhaps tomorrow night ♪

799
00:55:47,469 --> 00:55:50,180
♪ We're hoping you won't hurt too much ♪

800
00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:54,726
♪ And that you'll be all right ♪

801
00:55:55,852 --> 00:55:58,480
♪ Life has a few unpleasantries ♪

802
00:55:58,563 --> 00:56:01,566
♪ We may as well confess ♪

803
00:56:04,069 --> 00:56:05,862
♪ We suppose you'll cry a lot ♪

804
00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:09,324
♪ And that you'll be a mess ♪

805
00:56:11,493 --> 00:56:14,037
♪ There is one thing
You should note well ♪

806
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,790
♪ Of this, there is no doubt ♪

807
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:20,251
♪ You cannot get inside again ♪

808
00:56:22,253 --> 00:56:24,631
♪ Once you have come out ♪

809
00:56:26,383 --> 00:56:28,510
♪ Even though there's trouble ♪

810
00:56:29,427 --> 00:56:30,762
♪ Even though there's fuss ♪

811
00:56:32,764 --> 00:56:35,141
♪ We really think you'll like it here ♪

812
00:56:36,726 --> 00:56:41,314
♪ We hope that you like us ♪

813
00:56:56,037 --> 00:57:00,250
Now the name of that song
is "Dilated to Meet You."

814
00:57:05,255 --> 00:57:06,172
Or...

815
00:57:07,132 --> 00:57:08,425
"At Your Cervix."

816
00:57:10,552 --> 00:57:11,845
And, uh...

817
00:57:11,928 --> 00:57:16,391
I wrote it probably about 1973...

818
00:57:17,517 --> 00:57:23,106
when we were waiting on Rufus
to make his grand entrance.

819
00:57:23,189 --> 00:57:26,192
[applause]

820
00:57:29,821 --> 00:57:31,906
When we told, um...

821
00:57:33,533 --> 00:57:37,328
my grandmother
that her first great-grandchild

822
00:57:37,662 --> 00:57:41,249
was not going to be called
Loudon Wainwright IV,

823
00:57:42,167 --> 00:57:43,751
but Rufus...

824
00:57:45,670 --> 00:57:46,671
she said...

825
00:57:47,464 --> 00:57:48,506
"Rufus...

826
00:57:49,507 --> 00:57:50,800
Rufus?

827
00:57:50,884 --> 00:57:52,469
That's a dog's name!"

828
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:00,310
Yeah, she was right.

829
00:58:05,565 --> 00:58:07,025
Let me just tune again.

830
00:58:16,868 --> 00:58:18,870
[tuning]

831
00:58:21,831 --> 00:58:22,790
You can't tell.

832
00:58:26,002 --> 00:58:28,963
It's those guitar techs at home
that I'm worried about.

833
00:58:39,474 --> 00:58:40,308
Eh.

834
00:58:41,601 --> 00:58:46,105
Okay, so "Dilated to Meet You"
was written in 1974,

835
00:58:46,189 --> 00:58:47,857
'73, I think I said.

836
00:58:48,650 --> 00:58:50,652
18 years later, this one popped out.

837
00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:02,705
♪ When I was your age
I was just like you ♪

838
00:59:02,789 --> 00:59:04,666
♪ Just look at me now
I'm sure you do ♪

839
00:59:06,042 --> 00:59:08,586
♪ But your grandfather was just as bad ♪

840
00:59:08,670 --> 00:59:10,964
♪ You should have heard him
Trash his dad ♪

841
00:59:11,881 --> 00:59:14,300
♪ Life's no picnic, that's a given ♪

842
00:59:14,884 --> 00:59:17,595
♪ My mom's mom died
When my mom was seven ♪

843
00:59:18,054 --> 00:59:20,431
♪ My mom's father was a tragic guy ♪

844
00:59:20,515 --> 00:59:23,518
♪ He was so distant, nobody knows why ♪

845
00:59:27,230 --> 00:59:29,816
♪ Now, your mother's family ♪

846
00:59:30,483 --> 00:59:32,110
♪ You know them ♪

847
00:59:35,738 --> 00:59:37,282
♪ Each and every one a gem ♪

848
00:59:38,241 --> 00:59:39,701
♪ Each and every one a gem ♪

849
00:59:41,119 --> 00:59:43,955
♪ When I was your age
I was a mess on a bad day ♪

850
00:59:44,038 --> 00:59:45,248
♪ I still am, I guess ♪

851
00:59:46,457 --> 00:59:48,501
♪ I think I know
What you're going through ♪

852
00:59:49,002 --> 00:59:50,962
♪ Everything changes, but nothing is new ♪

853
00:59:51,796 --> 00:59:54,549
♪ I know that I'm miserable
Can't you see? ♪

854
00:59:55,383 --> 00:59:57,302
♪ I just want you to be just like me ♪

855
00:59:59,971 --> 01:00:01,931
♪ Boys grow up to be grown men ♪

856
01:00:02,015 --> 01:00:05,143
♪ And then men change
Back into boys again ♪

857
01:00:08,938 --> 01:00:11,941
♪ You are starting up
And I'm winding down ♪

858
01:00:16,738 --> 01:00:19,991
♪ Ain't it big enough
for us both in this town? ♪

859
01:00:20,074 --> 01:00:22,368
♪ Say it's big enough for us both ♪

860
01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:40,261
♪ When I was your age
I thought I hated my dad ♪

861
01:00:40,345 --> 01:00:42,847
♪ That the feeling was a mutual one
That we had ♪

862
01:00:42,930 --> 01:00:45,642
♪ We fought each other day and night ♪

863
01:00:45,725 --> 01:00:48,061
♪ I was always wrong,
He was always right ♪

864
01:00:49,896 --> 01:00:51,022
♪ But he had the power ♪

865
01:00:51,689 --> 01:00:53,232
♪ He needed to win ♪

866
01:00:53,524 --> 01:00:56,235
♪ His life half over,
Mine about to begin ♪

867
01:00:56,819 --> 01:00:59,405
♪ I'm not sure about that Oedipal stuff ♪

868
01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:00,823
♪ But when we were together ♪

869
01:01:01,824 --> 01:01:02,909
♪ It was always rough ♪

870
01:01:07,830 --> 01:01:10,833
♪ Hate is a strong word
I want to backtrack ♪

871
01:01:15,421 --> 01:01:17,882
♪ The bigger the front
The bigger the back ♪

872
01:01:17,965 --> 01:01:20,093
♪ The bigger the front
The bigger the back ♪

873
01:01:21,135 --> 01:01:23,221
♪ Now you and me or me and you ♪

874
01:01:23,304 --> 01:01:26,140
♪ It's a different ballgame
No, not brand new ♪

875
01:01:26,224 --> 01:01:28,976
♪ I don't know what
All this fighting is for ♪

876
01:01:29,060 --> 01:01:31,521
♪ We're having us
a teenage/middle-age war ♪

877
01:01:31,604 --> 01:01:32,855
♪  I don't want to die ♪

878
01:01:33,731 --> 01:01:34,732
♪  You want to live ♪

879
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,777
♪  Takes a little bit of take
And a whole lot of give ♪

880
01:01:38,486 --> 01:01:41,364
♪  Never really ends, though
Each race is run ♪

881
01:01:41,447 --> 01:01:44,826
♪  This thing between a father and a son ♪

882
01:01:50,248 --> 01:01:51,541
♪  Maybe it's power ♪

883
01:01:52,583 --> 01:01:53,793
♪  Push and shove ♪

884
01:01:56,421 --> 01:01:58,840
♪  Maybe it's hate, probably it's love ♪

885
01:01:59,215 --> 01:02:01,509
♪  Maybe it's hate, probably it's love ♪

886
01:02:33,458 --> 01:02:36,544
Right in the middle of a long New Year's
weekend full of bright weather

887
01:02:36,627 --> 01:02:41,174
on lovely snow and a numbing succession
of televised quarterbacks...

888
01:02:43,342 --> 01:02:44,552
our dog died.

889
01:02:46,554 --> 01:02:50,767
Or to put it absolutely straight, after
a family agreement rare in its unanimity,

890
01:02:51,350 --> 01:02:53,728
we had his life stopped...

891
01:02:54,937 --> 01:02:57,899
by a veterinarian who agreed
it was the right thing to do

892
01:02:57,982 --> 01:03:01,694
for such a painfully
and fatally ill animal.

893
01:03:03,696 --> 01:03:06,783
His name was John Henry.

894
01:03:09,869 --> 01:03:11,662
I don't know why we called him that.

895
01:03:12,914 --> 01:03:14,957
I don't think I've ever been
more sharply aware

896
01:03:15,041 --> 01:03:18,795
of the fine line between here and gone

897
01:03:18,878 --> 01:03:23,049
than I was near the end when
I held him close on the vet's table.

898
01:03:24,050 --> 01:03:27,720
The kind doctor,
her eyes floating in tears

899
01:03:28,930 --> 01:03:30,681
because she knew him and us,

900
01:03:32,975 --> 01:03:35,269
pumped something bluish into his leg.

901
01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:40,566
And with a calm, open-eyed patience

902
01:03:40,650 --> 01:03:43,611
that characterized so much of his style,

903
01:03:43,694 --> 01:03:45,696
he waited that briefest moment

904
01:03:45,780 --> 01:03:47,490
until it struck his center...

905
01:03:48,908 --> 01:03:50,117
and killed him.

906
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,081
Couple of polite gasps...

907
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:56,916
and it was over.

908
01:03:59,335 --> 01:04:02,171
Slightly undone by my sentiment,

909
01:04:02,255 --> 01:04:06,175
and for some wild reason,
remembering not  Lassie,

910
01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:08,094
but  Love Story

911
01:04:10,096 --> 01:04:14,976
and the astounding
communicative success of Erich Segal,

912
01:04:17,436 --> 01:04:21,899
I will now risk a version
of his opening question.

913
01:04:23,734 --> 01:04:29,282
What can you say about
an 11 and a half year old dog that died?

914
01:04:32,451 --> 01:04:35,288
That he was at least as beautiful
as Ali MacGraw.

915
01:04:37,456 --> 01:04:38,541
He was dumber...

916
01:04:40,501 --> 01:04:41,961
a messier eater.

917
01:04:43,504 --> 01:04:46,841
That he ran shining
and marvelously fast through fields

918
01:04:46,924 --> 01:04:49,010
and rolled snorting in snow

919
01:04:49,093 --> 01:04:53,681
and floated a burnt auburn blur
over stone walls,

920
01:04:53,764 --> 01:04:56,100
that he didn't much mind Mozart and Bach,

921
01:04:56,183 --> 01:05:00,187
but that violin solos
and harmonicas made him howl.

922
01:05:00,730 --> 01:05:04,400
That he could destroy six glasses

923
01:05:05,067 --> 01:05:07,528
with one sweep of his tail.

924
01:05:09,238 --> 01:05:14,076
But when I asked him how he ranked me
among the people he liked,

925
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,579
he would thump his tail
against the floor and grin,

926
01:05:17,330 --> 01:05:20,082
occasionally punctuating that
with a noise...

927
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:22,460
that became a smell.

928
01:05:26,130 --> 01:05:29,008
Well, he was half-Irish Setter
and half-golden retriever.

929
01:05:29,091 --> 01:05:31,344
His manners were predictably imperfect.

930
01:05:32,428 --> 01:05:37,433
There was a totally non-human quality
about his loving.

931
01:05:37,516 --> 01:05:43,189
Virtually everyone was a suitable target
for his affection.

932
01:05:43,940 --> 01:05:48,361
And unlike your one-man brute
who will slobber over his master's hand

933
01:05:48,444 --> 01:05:51,697
and then dismember the neighbor's child...

934
01:05:52,698 --> 01:05:54,325
he menaced nothing,

935
01:05:54,408 --> 01:05:57,286
including the rabbits he chased
and never got

936
01:05:58,454 --> 01:06:01,624
and the skunks who always got him.

937
01:06:02,875 --> 01:06:05,294
Not that he was indiscriminating.
He was not a tramp.

938
01:06:06,045 --> 01:06:07,588
He did not follow strangers.

939
01:06:07,672 --> 01:06:09,799
He was a wide-ranging country dog,

940
01:06:09,882 --> 01:06:13,135
but his daily investigations most always
brought him home at night.

941
01:06:13,219 --> 01:06:14,971
He liked to sleep on rugs...

942
01:06:16,180 --> 01:06:19,100
usually where it was convenient
to stumble over him.

943
01:06:20,184 --> 01:06:22,061
He liked to ride in cars.

944
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:28,943
Best... he liked to be invited on walks.

945
01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:32,238
And he worked like a roving scout,

946
01:06:33,030 --> 01:06:36,659
around the walker,
in front, behind, alongside,

947
01:06:36,742 --> 01:06:39,370
often at a dead run a good distance away.

948
01:06:39,453 --> 01:06:41,080
And when he rested in winter

949
01:06:41,956 --> 01:06:45,376
during one of these wonderful
dashes in all directions,

950
01:06:45,459 --> 01:06:51,090
he would break ice in a stream
to cool his belly and his tongue.

951
01:06:56,303 --> 01:06:59,098
Although he was forced to live
with a succession...

952
01:07:00,349 --> 01:07:01,684
of cats...

953
01:07:04,311 --> 01:07:06,147
I don't think he liked them at all.

954
01:07:06,897 --> 01:07:10,443
Yet in most moods but joy,
he was a model of understatement,

955
01:07:10,526 --> 01:07:16,991
the weary and wary tolerance
he displayed at the cats' rude spitting

956
01:07:17,074 --> 01:07:19,535
or at their hit-and-run assaults
from ambush

957
01:07:19,618 --> 01:07:24,123
from beneath a chair was the closest
he ever came to expressing real distaste.

958
01:07:24,582 --> 01:07:28,544
Obviously, our knowledge about his
relationships with other dogs is limited.

959
01:07:28,627 --> 01:07:31,338
He probably had wet down bark or bush

960
01:07:31,422 --> 01:07:34,884
with every dog
within a radius of three miles,

961
01:07:34,967 --> 01:07:36,886
but he didn't seem
to care much for groups,

962
01:07:37,762 --> 01:07:41,182
preferring instead to run alone
or with just one other at a time.

963
01:07:41,766 --> 01:07:43,893
He was alert, forward,

964
01:07:44,477 --> 01:07:45,728
but never aggressive.

965
01:07:47,021 --> 01:07:49,732
Though his hair bristled splendidly,

966
01:07:49,815 --> 01:07:52,735
and he growled well when challenged,

967
01:07:53,194 --> 01:07:56,197
he had a distinct aptitude
for avoiding fights

968
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,115
and could walk away from one

969
01:07:58,199 --> 01:08:02,536
with a casualness that implied
it wouldn't be worth his trouble.

970
01:08:09,585 --> 01:08:11,587
In his later years, he was treated roughly

971
01:08:11,670 --> 01:08:14,006
by a much younger
and stronger dog down the road,

972
01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:17,093
but he accepted this indignity
in a way that wasn't cowardly,

973
01:08:17,176 --> 01:08:19,845
as if it were in
the normal order of things

974
01:08:20,429 --> 01:08:23,808
that the puppy
he had earlier taught to play...

975
01:08:25,142 --> 01:08:27,228
was now bouncing him around quite badly.

976
01:08:30,022 --> 01:08:33,859
Even when he was very feeble and old...

977
01:08:35,361 --> 01:08:38,489
he always trotted out
to defend his home station.

978
01:08:46,747 --> 01:08:49,041
I hope he had a full and happy sex life.

979
01:08:50,793 --> 01:08:53,170
But I only know of one affair.

980
01:08:53,254 --> 01:08:56,006
It was arranged
and he fathered a litter from it.

981
01:08:56,090 --> 01:08:58,050
His partner in this matter
was a female dog

982
01:08:58,134 --> 01:08:59,760
from a household of good friends.

983
01:08:59,844 --> 01:09:01,512
She too was sweet and easygoing,

984
01:09:01,595 --> 01:09:05,599
and she looked more or less as if she came
from a similarly mixed background.

985
01:09:06,892 --> 01:09:08,769
We tell a story about this match.

986
01:09:10,020 --> 01:09:13,649
I'm no longer sure if it's entirely true,
but the story goes...

987
01:09:13,732 --> 01:09:16,152
oblivious to approaching delight,

988
01:09:16,235 --> 01:09:18,696
he was taken by car to the vets

989
01:09:19,363 --> 01:09:21,490
for one supervised meeting.

990
01:09:21,574 --> 01:09:24,618
The vet said afterwards he felt sure
everything had gone well,

991
01:09:24,702 --> 01:09:28,956
but perhaps for insurance, the two should
be brought together again the next day.

992
01:09:29,415 --> 01:09:33,335
So the next day, our dog was put
in the car, driven to his appointment,

993
01:09:33,419 --> 01:09:35,379
which was once more declared a success.

994
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,883
The affair was pronounced
consummated and closed,

995
01:09:38,966 --> 01:09:41,218
the dog came home.

996
01:09:41,635 --> 01:09:44,346
The following morning,
he was found ready in the car...

997
01:09:49,894 --> 01:09:52,188
presumably awaiting another trip...

998
01:09:53,480 --> 01:09:54,607
and another meeting.

999
01:09:56,942 --> 01:09:59,778
Unlike Segal's doomed creature,
this one wasn't perfect.

1000
01:09:59,862 --> 01:10:02,698
Now and then, his taste in food
would turn to garbage

1001
01:10:02,781 --> 01:10:06,869
and he upset many cans
in search of the ripest morsels.

1002
01:10:06,952 --> 01:10:09,246
He dug holes in lawns.

1003
01:10:09,330 --> 01:10:12,291
He liked to sprawl on young plants.

1004
01:10:12,374 --> 01:10:15,544
He was a discoverer of mud!

1005
01:10:18,047 --> 01:10:20,966
When he found something often invisible,

1006
01:10:21,383 --> 01:10:24,762
and even non-existent, to bark at...

1007
01:10:25,971 --> 01:10:29,266
he barked hard
and utterly ignored commands

1008
01:10:29,350 --> 01:10:30,434
to stop it!

1009
01:10:31,518 --> 01:10:32,895
Come the hell home!

1010
01:10:34,563 --> 01:10:37,066
I am proud of one area
of his ignorance.

1011
01:10:39,109 --> 01:10:41,320
He knew no tricks at all.

1012
01:10:44,156 --> 01:10:46,533
Unless you count
a sort of half-baked paw shake

1013
01:10:48,619 --> 01:10:50,496
he employed, as a last effort,

1014
01:10:51,455 --> 01:10:57,586
in his perpetual and undiscouraged search
for affection.

1015
01:11:03,884 --> 01:11:06,762
In his last days,
he had great difficulty getting up.

1016
01:11:06,845 --> 01:11:09,723
He tottered weakly on three legs
and was dreadfully thin.

1017
01:11:10,683 --> 01:11:14,770
The pain, even muffled with pills,
was leaving him stupid with exhaustion

1018
01:11:16,689 --> 01:11:20,067
and it became clear past all reluctance
that what he needed most...

1019
01:11:21,652 --> 01:11:23,195
was a push out of life.

1020
01:11:24,321 --> 01:11:28,993
Briefly, I had the conventional
and outlandish thought of doing it myself.

1021
01:11:30,703 --> 01:11:32,162
So did one of my sons...

1022
01:11:34,039 --> 01:11:36,417
who likely loved the dog the most.

1023
01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:43,966
Then with her potion that hit
with such shocking and merciful speed...

1024
01:11:45,301 --> 01:11:47,386
the doctor ended our nonsense.

1025
01:11:50,431 --> 01:11:54,560
That night,
I dreamed that my son kept calling him.

1026
01:11:57,271 --> 01:11:59,440
The boy had a way of calling that dog.

1027
01:12:01,066 --> 01:12:02,067
I woke.

1028
01:12:03,652 --> 01:12:06,071
Life gets to be
a series of dogs, I thought,

1029
01:12:06,155 --> 01:12:08,324
and I ticked off those I could remember.

1030
01:12:08,407 --> 01:12:10,326
Ghosts in the house suddenly.

1031
01:12:11,827 --> 01:12:13,203
Old dogs...

1032
01:12:15,914 --> 01:12:18,917
When I slept and woke again,
it was cold, half-light.

1033
01:12:19,710 --> 01:12:23,672
I was almost sure I heard the dog's
toenails against the hall floor...

1034
01:12:24,548 --> 01:12:26,842
and his single, discrete bark

1035
01:12:27,509 --> 01:12:28,552
to go outside.

1036
01:12:33,265 --> 01:12:35,142
I won't live with a lot more dogs.

1037
01:12:42,900 --> 01:12:45,027
And I won't live
with another dog like him.

1038
01:12:58,499 --> 01:13:02,169
♪ When a man has a dog in the city  ♪

1039
01:13:03,379 --> 01:13:05,297
♪ A man needs to walk in the park  ♪

1040
01:13:07,007 --> 01:13:08,926
♪ Take a little stroll by the riverside  ♪

1041
01:13:09,009 --> 01:13:12,346
♪ Smoke a cigarette there in the dark
Living in the city  ♪

1042
01:13:15,808 --> 01:13:17,601
♪ Living with a dog  ♪

1043
01:13:20,729 --> 01:13:25,692
♪ And a man has to carry him a plastic bag
On his person at all times  ♪

1044
01:13:27,945 --> 01:13:30,197
♪ When a dog dumps on the sidewalk  ♪

1045
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:32,991
♪ Walking away is a crime
Living in the city  ♪

1046
01:13:36,745 --> 01:13:38,455
♪ Walking with a dog  ♪

1047
01:13:41,959 --> 01:13:44,253
♪ A man likes living in the city  ♪

1048
01:13:44,336 --> 01:13:46,713
♪ City, city  ♪

1049
01:13:47,423 --> 01:13:49,591
♪ But a man has to find some work  ♪

1050
01:13:51,009 --> 01:13:53,011
♪ Walking with a dog is a kind of a job  ♪

1051
01:13:53,095 --> 01:13:55,931
♪ Make you feel like a fool and a jerk
Living in the city  ♪

1052
01:13:59,601 --> 01:14:01,311
♪ Working like a dog  ♪

1053
01:14:02,396 --> 01:14:03,313
Work out, Loudo!

1054
01:14:18,203 --> 01:14:20,372
♪ A dog likes living in the city  ♪

1055
01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:22,916
♪ City, city  ♪

1056
01:14:23,667 --> 01:14:25,669
♪ In a city
There's a lot of other mutts  ♪

1057
01:14:27,296 --> 01:14:29,298
♪ Checking in front, checking in back  ♪

1058
01:14:29,381 --> 01:14:32,551
♪ No ifs, no ands, just butts
Living in the city  ♪

1059
01:14:35,012 --> 01:14:36,930
♪ Dog checking out a dog  ♪

1060
01:14:40,684 --> 01:14:42,644
♪ It's a pretty good way to meet a woman  ♪

1061
01:14:43,770 --> 01:14:46,356
♪ If a woman is walking her dog
Just say  ♪

1062
01:14:46,440 --> 01:14:48,233
♪ "What's her name? How old is she?"  ♪

1063
01:14:49,610 --> 01:14:52,571
♪ It's easy, like rolling off a log
Checking out a woman ♪

1064
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,409
♪ Man acting like a dog ♪

1065
01:15:01,121 --> 01:15:03,624
♪ But when a man
Has a fight with a woman  ♪

1066
01:15:03,707 --> 01:15:05,542
♪ A man needs to go for a walk  ♪

1067
01:15:07,211 --> 01:15:08,879
♪ Walking with a dog is easy  ♪

1068
01:15:09,713 --> 01:15:11,048
♪ He listens, he don't talk  ♪

1069
01:15:16,970 --> 01:15:18,055
♪ Talking to a dog  ♪

1070
01:15:19,515 --> 01:15:21,683
Talk to me, Loudo!

1071
01:15:35,656 --> 01:15:37,741
♪ Walking with a dog
In the winter in the wind  ♪

1072
01:15:37,824 --> 01:15:40,202
♪ And the rain and the snow is a drag  ♪

1073
01:15:41,328 --> 01:15:43,080
♪ It's hard as hell
To keep a cigarette lit  ♪

1074
01:15:43,163 --> 01:15:45,207
♪  And get the shit in a plastic bag  ♪

1075
01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:50,254
♪ Living in the city  ♪

1076
01:15:53,257 --> 01:15:55,092
♪ Walking with a dog  ♪

1077
01:15:55,801 --> 01:15:58,220
♪ When a man has a dog in the city  ♪

1078
01:15:58,303 --> 01:16:00,430
♪ City, city  ♪

1079
01:16:00,514 --> 01:16:02,057
♪ City  ♪

1080
01:16:02,766 --> 01:16:04,560
♪ A man needs a walk in the park  ♪

1081
01:16:06,186 --> 01:16:08,188
♪ Take a little stroll by the riverside  ♪

1082
01:16:08,272 --> 01:16:11,608
♪ Smoke a cigarette there in the dark
Living in the city  ♪

1083
01:16:14,111 --> 01:16:16,154
♪ Man living with a dog  ♪

1084
01:16:39,386 --> 01:16:42,973
So in 1985, my father was diagnosed
with colon cancer.

1085
01:16:44,683 --> 01:16:47,603
And after a three-year battle...

1086
01:16:48,812 --> 01:16:49,896
it got him.

1087
01:16:51,732 --> 01:16:54,776
He died in December of 1988,

1088
01:16:54,860 --> 01:16:59,656
which, interestingly enough,
was also the same month and year

1089
01:16:59,740 --> 01:17:03,201
that his last column
in  Life  magazine appeared.

1090
01:17:08,540 --> 01:17:12,085
Maps are just excuses
for the journeys they set us on.

1091
01:17:13,211 --> 01:17:15,255
I remember one glorious summer in Maine.

1092
01:17:15,339 --> 01:17:17,382
I used to wake up
at three or four in the morning,

1093
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:19,968
have coffee, make a couple
of sandwiches for me and my wife,

1094
01:17:20,594 --> 01:17:21,803
just set off.

1095
01:17:23,347 --> 01:17:24,556
There was no great plan.

1096
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:27,768
I had it roughly in mind
to follow every little road

1097
01:17:27,851 --> 01:17:30,604
leading down to the sea from Deer Isle,

1098
01:17:30,687 --> 01:17:34,441
a couple of hundred miles to Campobello,
where Maine turns into Canada.

1099
01:17:36,401 --> 01:17:39,404
Map in hand, I would cover
that huge piece of terrain.

1100
01:17:40,530 --> 01:17:42,115
It was even better than I hoped.

1101
01:17:42,199 --> 01:17:44,701
We saw scores of little communities

1102
01:17:44,785 --> 01:17:47,371
we might just have sped past otherwise.

1103
01:17:49,206 --> 01:17:53,001
East Machias, Jonesport, Beals Island...

1104
01:17:54,211 --> 01:17:58,632
and each somehow
developed its own character

1105
01:17:58,715 --> 01:18:00,717
as we approached in this way.

1106
01:18:03,095 --> 01:18:05,722
One amazing morning,
we drove down a little dirt road

1107
01:18:05,806 --> 01:18:09,267
until the fog was so thick,
we simply couldn't go any further.

1108
01:18:09,559 --> 01:18:12,688
We sat silent for perhaps half an hour

1109
01:18:13,105 --> 01:18:14,856
in that gray dampness.

1110
01:18:15,982 --> 01:18:17,192
Then suddenly...

1111
01:18:18,151 --> 01:18:19,486
the fog lifted...

1112
01:18:20,445 --> 01:18:24,783
and we found ourselves
in the shining little port of Cutler.

1113
01:18:26,743 --> 01:18:31,707
We could never have seen it
under such exquisite circumstances.

1114
01:18:31,790 --> 01:18:35,460
To appreciate it the way we did,
we had to fail first

1115
01:18:36,211 --> 01:18:37,546
to see it in the fog.

1116
01:18:42,008 --> 01:18:44,886
My connection with maps
is a little distant these days.

1117
01:18:46,638 --> 01:18:49,266
As much as I'd like to plan
for some good coastal trips...

1118
01:18:50,475 --> 01:18:51,852
I'm not really up for them.

1119
01:18:53,228 --> 01:18:56,398
The possibility of other trips
more engulfing intrudes...

1120
01:18:57,190 --> 01:19:01,945
and I am unsettled
by possible... destinations.

1121
01:19:03,655 --> 01:19:05,949
As much as I'd like to think
I'm ready for anything,

1122
01:19:06,032 --> 01:19:08,618
I'm not really ready
to accept all possibilities.

1123
01:19:10,662 --> 01:19:14,499
I'm not ready to see
where all the roads come to an end.

1124
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:20,547
But the old trips still give pleasure.

1125
01:19:21,631 --> 01:19:26,303
I feel joy
at the bright sunshine in Cutler.

1126
01:19:28,889 --> 01:19:29,931
And I know it...

1127
01:19:31,975 --> 01:19:34,436
as well as if I saw it this morning.

1128
01:20:02,172 --> 01:20:03,632
♪  I've slumped in your chair  ♪

1129
01:20:04,424 --> 01:20:06,510
♪  Tossed and turned in your bed  ♪

1130
01:20:08,845 --> 01:20:11,765
♪  Lurked in your lair
I have lived in your head  ♪

1131
01:20:14,476 --> 01:20:17,938
♪  Where others were closer
No one is nearer  ♪

1132
01:20:18,021 --> 01:20:21,733
♪  As I glimpse you and me in  ♪

1133
01:20:22,526 --> 01:20:27,030
♪  The hallway mirror, I...  ♪

1134
01:20:30,408 --> 01:20:32,118
♪  I...  ♪

1135
01:20:36,706 --> 01:20:38,416
♪  I've grabbed from the plate  ♪

1136
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:40,961
♪  I've stabbed with a knife  ♪

1137
01:20:42,921 --> 01:20:46,633
♪  On day one, my first date
I slept with your wife ♪

1138
01:20:48,218 --> 01:20:50,470
♪ My common-law stepmom ♪

1139
01:20:51,012 --> 01:20:53,265
♪ I desire and fear her ♪

1140
01:20:53,348 --> 01:20:56,810
♪ I compare you to me in ♪

1141
01:20:57,394 --> 01:21:01,898
♪ The full-length mirror, I... ♪

1142
01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:07,028
♪ I... ♪

1143
01:21:10,782 --> 01:21:13,535
♪ Sharing hair, forehead lines ♪

1144
01:21:14,244 --> 01:21:16,329
♪ Scowling, worrying, thinking ♪

1145
01:21:17,664 --> 01:21:22,127
♪ With a penchant for fine wines
A disposal toward drinking ♪

1146
01:21:24,129 --> 01:21:25,422
♪ You had 'em, I got 'em ♪

1147
01:21:26,506 --> 01:21:29,050
♪ I move my face nearer ♪

1148
01:21:29,134 --> 01:21:31,469
♪ Broken blood vessels ♪

1149
01:21:31,553 --> 01:21:37,350
♪ In the bathroom mirror, I... ♪

1150
01:21:40,478 --> 01:21:42,063
♪ I... ♪

1151
01:21:46,610 --> 01:21:50,572
♪ And your doormen all know me
It's not bizarre ♪

1152
01:21:53,158 --> 01:21:57,287
♪ It shouldn't throw me
To go move your car ♪

1153
01:21:58,038 --> 01:21:59,998
♪ But the ghost of your father ♪

1154
01:22:01,833 --> 01:22:03,376
♪ He couldn't be clearer ♪

1155
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:06,546
♪ He's there where he haunted you ♪

1156
01:22:07,672 --> 01:22:13,011
♪ The rearview   mirror, I... ♪

1157
01:22:16,139 --> 01:22:17,891
♪ I... ♪

1158
01:22:42,374 --> 01:22:45,335
Well, on the basis of the way
things are with my children,

1159
01:22:45,418 --> 01:22:47,921
I doubt that the length
of the acquaintance

1160
01:22:48,004 --> 01:22:51,841
necessarily makes it easier
for loved ones to know you better...

1161
01:22:53,969 --> 01:22:55,470
or for you to know them.

1162
01:22:56,429 --> 01:23:00,934
The past... keeps getting in the way.

1163
01:23:02,978 --> 01:23:04,896
My children are all grown now,

1164
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:07,399
deep into the complications
of their adult lives,

1165
01:23:07,941 --> 01:23:12,112
but where I'm concerned, I'd bet
the ghostly parent of earlier Christmases

1166
01:23:12,195 --> 01:23:15,824
keeps popping up for them
when my number is punched.

1167
01:23:16,366 --> 01:23:20,704
The old record complete
with stored outrage and disappointment

1168
01:23:20,787 --> 01:23:22,872
comes up on the computer screen

1169
01:23:22,956 --> 01:23:28,461
and a natural reserve, a caution,
built up for years, takes over.

1170
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:31,881
Why shouldn't it?

1171
01:23:32,674 --> 01:23:34,592
We share a big chunk of the past

1172
01:23:35,468 --> 01:23:37,262
and there were awful bumps.

1173
01:23:38,930 --> 01:23:41,683
I've gotten used to the fact
that they have their own versions

1174
01:23:41,766 --> 01:23:42,892
of how things were.

1175
01:23:44,269 --> 01:23:45,228
They're entitled,

1176
01:23:46,021 --> 01:23:48,189
even if I recall some things differently.

1177
01:23:50,025 --> 01:23:52,944
No, it's not that I want
to set the record straight.

1178
01:23:54,195 --> 01:23:55,822
That could make matters worse.

1179
01:23:57,532 --> 01:23:59,242
But change is possible.

1180
01:24:00,827 --> 01:24:03,621
And I'd like to begin work on some sort

1181
01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:07,834
of updated realigned model
for our connection.

1182
01:24:09,002 --> 01:24:13,173
Something that will reflect
not so much what we all were...

1183
01:24:14,466 --> 01:24:15,800
or think we were...

1184
01:24:18,845 --> 01:24:20,388
but what we have become.

1185
01:24:42,494 --> 01:24:45,622
♪ Here's another song in C ♪

1186
01:24:47,832 --> 01:24:50,960
♪ When I play piano,   it's my key ♪

1187
01:24:53,797 --> 01:24:55,924
♪ If I was playing my guitar ♪

1188
01:24:58,551 --> 01:25:01,346
♪ I'd probably be in G ♪

1189
01:25:01,429 --> 01:25:02,889
♪ The chances are ♪

1190
01:25:05,016 --> 01:25:08,436
♪ Here's another song in C  ♪

1191
01:25:09,979 --> 01:25:12,023
♪ With my favorite protagonist ♪

1192
01:25:13,316 --> 01:25:14,192
♪ Me ♪

1193
01:25:15,318 --> 01:25:17,904
♪ Of my little world, I'll tell and show ♪

1194
01:25:20,448 --> 01:25:22,450
♪ I'll sing all about it ♪

1195
01:25:22,534 --> 01:25:24,619
♪ So you'll know ♪

1196
01:25:25,912 --> 01:25:29,541
♪ When the people in it break my heart ♪

1197
01:25:31,292 --> 01:25:34,838
♪ Except to sing in C to you ♪

1198
01:25:36,714 --> 01:25:40,885
♪ And there's not a thing I can do ♪

1199
01:25:42,679 --> 01:25:46,182
♪ Except to sing in C to you ♪

1200
01:25:47,642 --> 01:25:50,687
♪ Oh, there used to be a family ♪

1201
01:25:53,022 --> 01:25:57,068
♪ Brother, sisters, father,
Mother and me ♪

1202
01:25:58,945 --> 01:26:01,114
♪ We were living in a little home ♪

1203
01:26:03,950 --> 01:26:08,163
♪ We were fending off the great unknown ♪

1204
01:26:09,747 --> 01:26:12,792
♪ But the great unknown, it got inside ♪

1205
01:26:15,128 --> 01:26:18,464
♪ And what had been whole
It did divide ♪

1206
01:26:20,758 --> 01:26:23,511
♪ In the end, the father had to leave ♪

1207
01:26:26,472 --> 01:26:27,974
♪ When he did ♪

1208
01:26:28,057 --> 01:26:29,976
♪ The mother had to grieve ♪

1209
01:26:32,270 --> 01:26:35,732
♪ That's the time real troubles start ♪

1210
01:26:37,483 --> 01:26:40,862
♪ It's when a world can fall apart ♪

1211
01:26:42,655 --> 01:26:46,784
♪ And there's not a thing I can do ♪

1212
01:26:48,620 --> 01:26:51,122
♪ Except to sing in C ♪

1213
01:26:51,206 --> 01:26:52,415
♪ To you ♪

1214
01:26:55,793 --> 01:26:58,922
[continues playing]

1215
01:27:30,828 --> 01:27:34,290
♪ I grew up and had a family ♪

1216
01:27:37,210 --> 01:27:39,587
♪ But it broke apart so easily ♪

1217
01:27:42,548 --> 01:27:45,134
♪ All that started 40 years ago ♪

1218
01:27:47,845 --> 01:27:51,766
♪ Why it's never ended, I don't know ♪

1219
01:27:53,434 --> 01:27:55,979
♪ I could blame it on the great unknown ♪

1220
01:27:58,106 --> 01:28:01,943
♪ Or as a kid when I was told and shown ♪

1221
01:28:04,070 --> 01:28:05,655
♪ But I blame myself ♪

1222
01:28:06,572 --> 01:28:07,782
♪ And I blame her ♪

1223
01:28:09,742 --> 01:28:12,495
♪ The cruel and foolish people ♪

1224
01:28:13,121 --> 01:28:14,372
♪ That we were ♪

1225
01:28:16,124 --> 01:28:20,086
♪ And the children that we had are grown ♪

1226
01:28:21,921 --> 01:28:25,842
♪ They're out fending off
The great unknown ♪

1227
01:28:30,179 --> 01:28:32,807
♪ And I've noticed they're a bit like me ♪

1228
01:28:42,150 --> 01:28:46,154
♪ With a tendency to sing in C ♪

1229
01:28:47,697 --> 01:28:51,159
♪ So by now it's clear to hear and know ♪

1230
01:28:53,453 --> 01:28:56,456
♪ I don't play a lot of piano ♪

1231
01:28:58,833 --> 01:29:01,044
♪ But sometimes a fella has to sit ♪

1232
01:29:04,130 --> 01:29:07,550
♪ Just to sing about the heavy shit ♪

1233
01:29:09,761 --> 01:29:13,097
♪ And the great unknown's a hurricane ♪

1234
01:29:14,349 --> 01:29:18,478
♪ With howling winds
And floods, and driving rain ♪

1235
01:29:20,271 --> 01:29:22,190
♪ You might make it through, huh ♪

1236
01:29:22,482 --> 01:29:23,649
♪ But you don't know ♪

1237
01:29:25,234 --> 01:29:29,447
♪ If right behind it, there's a tornado ♪

1238
01:29:31,199 --> 01:29:34,577
♪ And if families didn't break apart ♪

1239
01:29:36,329 --> 01:29:39,916
♪ I suppose there'd be no need for art ♪

1240
01:29:41,709 --> 01:29:45,963
♪ Oh, but you and I know they do ♪

1241
01:29:47,965 --> 01:29:51,844
♪ So I sing in C to you ♪

1242
01:30:06,317 --> 01:30:07,860
Thank you very much.

1243
01:30:07,944 --> 01:30:09,862
[cheering]

1244
01:30:10,279 --> 01:30:11,823
Thanks for coming.

1245
01:30:18,204 --> 01:30:19,163
Thank you.

1246
01:30:32,844 --> 01:30:34,429
Thank you very much! Thank you.

1247
01:30:34,512 --> 01:30:36,764
Thanks for coming out. Thank you.

1248
01:30:37,390 --> 01:30:38,474
Thank you.

1249
01:30:48,693 --> 01:30:50,695
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