You I sort of felt like I had to Explain the the history involved in the family here and in because you probably would like to know a little bit of the background about Francis my son and My husband John Francis his father and I'm waiting for John.
He should be home soon About he always works very late But what I'd like to really talk about is the story first of all about how we met I used to go out with these very nice boys.
I mean years ago nice very nice young and some of them are doing quite well now, I understand and you would walk to a movie and then we'd walk home and They'd be walking me to my door and they're there on the porch would be this This big guy waiting for me That was John.
I I didn't invite him to wait for me.
I didn't tell him to wait, but he thought he should wait and these nice boys that I was Going out with usually got a little bit you could say they were intimidated by him and they Left quickly and that was the end of that I mean, I knew who he was I had seen him in the neighborhood and sometimes he asked me out and I refused and but still there he'd be waiting for me after these these dates and it seems that One by one these These different young men that I would go out with would stop going out with me because there would John be on the porch waiting and After a while there wasn't anybody in the neighborhood left to go out with except for John and then I realized I was getting older and you know, I was getting close to 20 and You know You realize that you better make a decision soon and there just didn't seem to be anybody left to marry Except for John well we got married very soon and and then after that Francis was born and I thought that we should move into a neighborhood like this Where there's a nice parish is a very nice parish I do have a good husband it's just that um He's awfully quiet, you know, he doesn't say much and I try to Do my best I think that that I should do my best and he works very late though He you know, he starts work at 3 in the afternoon and I make him a nice little I make him a little meal before he goes and then He comes home.
It's about 3 in the morning and Francis is sleeping at that time, but I have a little dinner waiting for him I put out a little a tablecloth and a little lace tablecloth and I I've made these At first I used to sort of I I would read Good housekeeping had lovely recipes with these very beautiful little jello molds and some of the neighborhood ladies would help me out with these And I would set them for John, but he doesn't seem to like that sort of thing.
And so I Tried to make something simpler for him Well, I guess this brings us up today with the story It might seem like it's not really a true story like it's some Something that somebody made up but it's not this is all true all the people in this Story really existed and all these things Really happened.
So we'll just continue the story I How could I have been so vile If only there was some way to erase those events from my past I'll live with this the rest of my life My family lived near a quarry where people dumped things next to our house at 151 33 labity My schoolmates Alan and Caesar helped me build a fort there from some junk.
We found We liked finding things that people threw out We found good things in the ash pits behind each house I can vaguely remember the day it happened.
I The front when they came I'd be ready I I Francis Francis Francis are you ready? You know, this is important The doctor said that this was necessary And you know this wouldn't have happened if you hadn't jumped off the I spent my free time with Alan He was my closest friend We trusted each other Outside we did as we pleased I Spent in religious instruction and rituals Like having our throats blessed We had to wear a cord around our waist to ward off impure thoughts.
The sisters were really strict One day a new student Caesar was put into our class He'd do anything for attention take any dare Sister couldn't restrain him Once he jumped from our classroom window two stories up I Was drawn to him You know Francis this wouldn't have happened if you hadn't jumped off the garage roof got to build up your arches Now Francis I want you to go and play with your friends You can do that now and then I'm gonna go and see the priest we're gonna talk about your studies and Well, we're also gonna talk about your kind.
I knew I was in for it coming up since turning 13.
My studies had slipped my mind wandered I I Good day, madam.
I represent the vacuum cleaner company May I be so bold as to ask you what type of vacuum you're using? presently Hmm.
Well, I don't know what this is called, but it seems to fulfill my needs pretty well Well, ma 'am, I think you'll find that ours has a greater capacity many more attachments and can do things that you can't even imagine In that case do you have any notions? Yes, ma 'am, I do have notions Yeah Well, actually I could use the shoelaces And the lighter Oh Jane was my girl ever since the time we took our clothes off in the gangway when we were three Quarter on a chain I Found it in the ash I It's just what I've always wanted I'm glad you do I got real dirty finding it You're too good to me Now I'm gonna kiss you Now stay right here cuz I'm gonna go to the park and quit the team it's too much pressure I Think I'm gonna go with them Tommy John's first game Francis where have you been you missed practice last week? Don't you know we play st.
Philomena? They're on top.
This is our chance to knock him off Are they guys who wear the cord around their waist yes to protect them from impure thoughts Anyway, if you don't show up, I'll be the first to go Who are we gonna get to play the hot corner and and lead off well, I Forgot all about it.
I had other things to do lately.
I forgot all about practice Be a shame if you gave up now and when you're in your prime I Didn't have the heart to tell mr.
Bat the news babe Ruth had sif Francis you know how hard we've worked this summer.
This is the culmination You don't want to let your team down do you it's been hard for me to keep my interest up lately Well, it's it's your decision.
I Just hope the lessons you've learned out here on the diamond will Spill over in your daily life and stay with you until you're an adult You know Francis Sportsmanship isn't something that ends when you walk off the diamond and step onto the street Do you remember the two essentials we've talked about all year the two qualities that enable good players to win second -rate or spock Poison guts right It's a lesson we learned from the great ones Take the babe It was infectious with him a lot of the players just picked it up being around him He was a man after my own heart he had poisoned guts especially guts Without him Francis you go to pieces You're no good under pressure Well, mr.
Bat you've always been a real example Well Francis, I try you know I'm out at the stadium whenever the big guys are in town The life commitment with me why I eat drink and sleep baseball Practice practice practice is what you got to do if you you want to be good at anything Why I figure but all the time I've spent in batting practice I've got the equivalent of a master's degree Francis I'm a master batter Why don't you go out in the outfield and I'll I'll hit you something sure It comes baby What is the baseball glove a Baseball glove is a beginning and an ending a boy's first sure step towards manhood a man's final lingering hold on you It is promise and memory a baseball glove is the dusty badge of belonging the tanned and oiled mortar of teen and Commeratory in its creases and scuffs lodge sunburned afternoons Freckled with thrills a baseball glove is the leather of adventure Worthy successor to the Cowboys holster the troopers saddle and the buckskin laces of the frontier scout It is combat heroics and victory a place to smack a fist or snuff a rally What place the mumbley peg sure okay slap the baby I quit the team today hot time Ever this is what I found before today Over the bridge what a bullet I believe you but my two lawyers don't Tony chestnut So Just Wow widow Caesar hears about this don't tell him he'll want it Alan I have a surprise for you the new TV set arrived.
We're the first ones on the block I Am I why you squirting the wall You see we live in a valley that has no large body of water to cool it down Rick absorbs and retains heat so on warm days like today the inside of the house Becomes very uncomfortable to steaming cauldron You see this is the late 40s air conditioning hasn't become popular yet Why do you feed before you go in boys We're expecting quite a few people over for dinner tonight, and I can't wait to show off my new place Aren't they exciting boys Gee mom real nice Great Mom's in a birthday club tonight's your friend Judy that old bad lax Hey, you want to watch TV sure well.
Hey, why don't you climb up with my dad's chair? He's not gonna be home for a while up here.
Yeah, sure.
I'll hold it okay It's a little rickety Mom can I go over to Francis's for a while after dinner and study? Sure Alan, but you hurry home right after you're finished Hey, it's nice from up here Excuse me Alan before you turn on the TV set let me run this back and clean and clean up a little bit I just got it Man what a deal Oh Oh Yeah, well, I gotta go to the John I'll be back in a minute okay, okay, see ya I She borrowed the rake but came back for more Oh Market and this little piggy went home This little piggy had roast beef but this little piggy had none so we cried Want to play house I Don't know I'm Francis's girlfriend Oh Francis isn't here now Ever wish you could sleep like a baby Well, if you have trouble getting to sleep nights look when you're young you sleep like a baby because your nerves are relaxed No tensions.
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I wasn't expecting you so soon.
I Wanted to talk to you about your son's grades They've been slipping lately.
In fact, if he doesn't show marked improvements soon You will not be allowed to make his confirmation and he may not be promoted I Can't understand it father He studies every night With his friends Caesar and Alan They seem to be very interested in the work That's a big part of the problem Caesar is incorrigible.
We feel that he cannot be controlled Sister Stephen informs me that he disrupts the class at every opportunity.
We can no longer tolerate his antics Francis should not be allowed to study with him.
It's a bad influence.
I'm afraid Caesar must be expelled Where can he go he's already been kicked out of public schools his parents are poor You're his last hope TrSay Code or the Central Oh Techn tack Caesar, Caesar, speak to me.
Please, better.
Caesar, Caesar! I wish we could help him.
I guess he's the state's responsibility now.
We tried, but neither his parents or his sister could help him.
It's a shame that we are just not equipped to handle his problem.
At present, the church's funds must go to support our foreign missionaries.
If the church is to prevail, we must sacrifice for that purpose.
Priests and nuns have often given their lives for the propagation of the...
...faith.
Excuse me, I must have a little heartburn.
In fact, if your son were to announce his intention for the priesthood, I'm sure sister would be more inclined to generous grades.
I received my calling at his age.
Caesar and Alan had come over early to study.
Mom wasn't home yet.
Caesar had made a discovery.
The night before, he'd picked up a girl at the Palm Theater over on Union Street.
He was just about to tell us the secret he'd found.
Something about the man in the boat.
I hear footsteps.
Hi, boys.
What are you studying? Geography.
Biology.
Geography.
Nothing.
We're just looking through the book.
I just saw...
...father on the porch.
The priest over at your school, Francis, and he told me that your grades have really dropped...
...this year.
Dropped? They've gone way down.
They are very low, and he...
I don't know, Caesar, you're a very nice boy, I think.
And I know that you all have fun together, and I think that probably it would be best, Caesar, if you no longer played with my son, because actually, to be perfectly honest, the priest doesn't think you all should play together, because you're not such a...
I mean, I know your mother, Caesar, and I like her very much, but I think that you should probably go, because I want my son to...
You know, he has to...
Francis, you have to study more, I think, and, you know, it's probably better this way, because you do have to go on with your studies, and I want you to go on from the school that you're attending now, and the only way you can is if you...
I shouldn't have told Caesar.
I guess I wanted to get even.
Alan left soon after.
I told him to go to the fort.
Caesar wanted to see him.
My stomach tightened.
I'd done the wrong thing.
...discuss something that I've been thinking about ever since I talked to the priest today, and the first thing that I'd really like to talk to you about is that report you're going to be doing tomorrow.
I heard you wanted to see me.
Yeah, give me the bullet.
What are you talking about? The bullet.
Bullet.
I don't got no bullet.
I want the bullet.
I don't have a bullet.
All right, well, that report isn't going to be a very good report, and your teacher's not going to be happy with it, unless you study harder.
You just have to study harder.
Or maybe it's sort of like that you have to, to really study harder.
I'm not sure if it's really that exactly, or maybe it's simply that you have to just study harder.
Or maybe you have to, maybe you have to, to study, study harder.
No, maybe it could be that you just simply have to study harder.
I think that's it.
You have to study harder.
Or you have to study harder.
Or you have to study harder.
Or maybe you have to study harder.
I've been giving it a lot of fun.
I think you just have to study harder.
I mean, you have to study harder! You have to study harder? You have to study harder? You have to bear down and study harder.
...b -u -l -I -t - him Bullets!! Here it is.
Here's a bullet.
You have to study harder.
You have to study harder...
or you can say you have to study harder.
Or you can say you have to study harder.
Or you can say you have to study harder.
Or you have to study harder.
Or you have to study harder.
You have to study harder...
or you have to study harder.
You have to study harder.
You have to study harder.
You have to study harder.
You have to study harder.
I'm gonna do...
What are you gonna do with it? Shoot it? Shit.
Francis! Just keep it going.
One...
Two...
Three.
What's the matter with this thing? No! What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? What's the matter with this thing? I'm sorry! Dat's it.
That's it.
Doctor, how does the X -ray look? Negative.
Evidence before us is of a brain in its final stage.
In common terms, we would say that the party is dead.
Of course, as forensic pathologists, we realize that the possibility of death is to be defined in terms of that moment after which the body can possibly be revived according to the present state of the art.
This as a completely separated brain then in terms of our contemporary technology is as thoroughly dead as anything we know.
My colleague in Marlborough, Dr.
Heidegger, would say that death is the horizon towards which we look while living and that after death, after that horizon is reached, the human becomes a mere thing.
We have before us a mere thing then which was once the center of cognitive operations of the boy, Cesar.
You'll note that in our attempt to cure him of his wet dreaming and dry up the fissure of sylveus, we have had to remove the entire apparatus.
This happens more often than we would like.
I'm sorry.
I don't understand.
What are you saying? Perhaps you'll understand when I explain that I have used your son's body for an important scientific experiment which was quite successful in determining the nature of used brain parts.
And we have here for you a cheque certified for $10 in recompense, full recompense I hope, for the use of your son's parts.
Thank you.
Bless me Father for I have sinned.
My son, how long since your last confession? A week.
I had a paper with part two hours before communion and I ate some bacon on Friday night.
Yes, yes.
Go on my son.
I had a bad dream.
Impure thoughts, my son.
Yes.
Were you alone or with others, my boy? I was on couch with a lady and there was someone on TV so I guess there were three of us.
Very good my son.
Is there anything else? Yes.
I was responsible for Caesar's death.
I told him that Alan had a bullet and he killed himself with it.
For your penance say, three our fathers and three Hail Marys.
Now make a good act of contrition and try not to do it again.
Oh my God.
For the first time the absolution didn't take effect.
I felt only emptiness.
I decided to search for a more modern form of help.
I would enter an institution.
That's what brought me to Chicago.
I was a little bit scared.
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I was a little bit scared.
I was a little bit scared.
The primate rejected my first application, so I went to preparatory school for a year.
The next year I was back, waiting, hoping this time to have my acceptance confirmed.
Shelters.
Asset.
Soaring.
Certificates.
You seem to have a visitor.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'll be in the boardroom.
Good news for you.
We're going to accept you.
This is your confirmation.
A step closer to adulthood.
Over the past, facing the future.
When I get out, I'd like to travel to South America.
Maybe I could do some good there.
South America? I know some very good restaurants there.
Galatois.
Antoine's.
Especially in New Orleans.
We've given them one thing.
We've given them great cuisine.
Come.
I'll bet they're practicing even now.
You should get on well with most of them.
That's not to say we don't encourage differences of opinion.
Who knows? Someday you may join the main house in the East.
And be responsible for dogma.
I'd do anything for that sort of power.
Except maybe kill.
They've done it already anyway.
And get away with it.
Go ahead and mix in for a few minutes.
I think you know some of them already.
And I'll be here when you decide.
Let me come with you.
I'll introduce you around.
Amazing.
They were all in a class by themselves.
I hoped I'd fit in.
I'd like everyone to meet Francis.
Do that again and you lose your aid.
You're not still mad at me, are you? Hell yeah.
Not a bullet back, you think? What are you doing around here anyway? I came to take orders.
Holy orders.
Why wouldn't take orders from that pig? He's given us a law deal.
But what if he closes the place? They wouldn't tolerate us outside.
If we had any guts, we'd take this place over ourselves.
Trim off the fat.
I'm not chicken.
I just want to wait and see what happens.
I'm neutral.
I don't want to make any enemies.
Or any friends.
When you want to really act, get in touch.
Wait.
This place has helped me.
They took me in when no one else would.
What else could I get this kind of treatment? All this space.
I consider myself lucky.
Why, the heating bill alone for this place must be...
Oh, no, don't go there.
Order.
Order.
Order.
Order.
No.
No.
Order.
Order.
Order.
May I take your order, please? Run.
Run.
Run.
Run.
Run.
Run.
Run.
Run.
Run.
Oh, Jane.
I'm so glad to see you.
It's been so long.
I still love you.
Will you marry me? I can't make that decision.
I'm a vegetarian.
Besides, you're a priest.
You're supposed to be celibate.
I'd drop my frock for you.
Watch it, buddy.
We don't take that kind of crap anymore.
Why don't you come with me? Okay.
I'm real sorry, but I'm saving myself for Jane.
For God's sake, you died.
Yes, I died for your sin.
Hereafter, your time is my time.
Someday I'll make it up to you.
Order.
May I take your order, please? Run.
Run.
Run.
Run.
May I take your order, please? Well, have you decided? I think I can adjust.
I want it someday to be just like Dr.
Caligari.
I'm sorry, but I can't make that decision.
Well, I've been at the Institute 20 years now.
What I've learned here can't be put into words.
My work has kept me safe from harsh reality.
From time to time, it's even received some favorable notice.
Although I do worry at times that someday they may release me.
When things get tough, the inmates are always the first to go.
She's called Br Ranger.
And what do we never lose...
Don't forget your marbles.
