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He’s saying that once you’ve made your case to an adolescent child, you’ve made your case and you can’t then take these kids and lock them up in their rooms and throw away the key
His daughter was an insane murderer hiding on the floor of a room in Newark, his wife had a lover who dry-humped her over the sink in their family kitchen, his ex-mistress had knowingly brought disaster upon his house, and he was trying to propitiate his father with on-the-one-hand-this and on-the-other-hand-that
“You’d be surprised,” Shelly told the old man, “how much the kids today have learned to take in their stride
“But degrading things should not be taken in their stride! I say lock them in their rooms if they take this in their stride! I remember when kids used to be at home doing their homework and not out seeing movies like thisThis is the morality of a country that we’re talking aboutWell, isn’t it? Am I nuts? It is an affront to decency and to decent people
“And what,” Marcia asked him, “is so inexhaustibly interesting about decency?”
The question so surprised him that it left him looking a little frantically around the table for somebody gucci clearance with an opinion learned enough to subdue this woman
It turned out to be Orcutt, that great friend of the familyBill Orcutt was coming to Lou Levov’s aid”And what is wrong with decency?” Orcutt asked, smiling broadly at Marcia
The Swede could not look at himOn top of all the things he could not think about there were two people–Sheila and Orcutt–he could not look atDid Dawn consider Bill Orcutt handsome? He never thought soRound face, snout nose, puckering lower lippiggy-looking bastardMust be something else that drove her to that frenzy over the kitchen sinkWhat? The easy assurance? Was that what got her going? The comfort taken by Bill Orcutt in being Bill Orcutt, his contentment in being Bill Orcutt? Was it because he wouldn’t dream of slighting you even if both you and he knew that you weren’t up to snuff? Was it his appropriateness that got her going like that, the flawless appropriateness, how very appropriately he played his role as steward of the Morris County past? Was it the sense he exuded of never having had to grub for anything or take shit from anyone or be at a loss as to how to behave even when the wife on his arm was a necklace pearl chanel hopeless drunk? Was it because he’d entered the world expecting things not even a Weequahic three-letterman begins to expect, that none of us begin to expect, that the rest of us, if we even get those things by working our asses off for them, still never feel entitled to? Was that why she was in heat over the sink–because of his inbred sense of entitlement? Or was it the laudable environmentalism? Or was it the great art? Or was it simply his cock? Is that it, Dawn dear? I want an answer! I want it tonight! Is it just his cock?
The Swede could not stop imagining the particulars of Orcutt fucking his wife any more than he could stop imagining the particulars of the rapists fucking his daughterTonight the imagining would not let him be
“Decency?” Marcia said to Orcutt, foxily smiling back at him”Much overvalued, wouldn’t you say, the seductions of decency and civility and convention? Not the richest response to life I can think of
“So what do you recommend for ‘richness’?” Orcutt asked her”The high road of transgression?”
The patrician architect was amused by the literature professor and the menacing figure she tried to cut in order miu miu clutch to appall the squaresAmused! But the Swede could not turn the dinner party into a battle for his wifeThings were bad enough without colliding with Orcutt in front of his parentsAll he had to do was to not listen to himYet each time that Orcutt spoke, every word antagonized him, convulsed him with spite and hatred and sinister thoughts; and when Orcutt wasn’t speaking, the Swede was constantly looking down the table to see what in God’s name there was in that face that could so excite his wife
“Well,” Marcia was saying, “without transgression there isn’t very much knowledge, is there?”
“My God,” cried Lou Levov, “that’s one I never heard beforeExcuse me, Professor, but where the hell do you get that idea?”
“The Bible,” said Marcia, deliciously, “for a start
“The Bible? Which Bible?”
“The one that begins with Adam and EveIsn’t that what they tell us in Genesis? Isn’t that what the Garden of Eden story is telling us?”
“What? Telling us what?”
“Without transgression there is no knowledge
“Well, that ain’t what they taught me,” he replied, “about the Garden of EdenBut then I never got past eighth grade
“What did they teach torebki louis vuitton you, Lou?”
“That when God above tells you not to do something, you damn well don’t do it–that’s whatDo it and you pay the piperDo it and you will suffer from it for the rest of your days
“Obey the good Lord above,” said Marcia, “and all the terrible things will vanishyes,” he replied, though without conviction, realizing that he was being mocked”Look, we are way off the subject–we are not talking about the BibleThis is no place to talk about the BibleWe are talking about a movie where a grown woman, from all reports, goes in front of a movie camera, and for money, openly, for millions and millions of people to see, children, everyone, does everything she can think of that is degradingThat’s what we’re talking about
“Degrading to whom?” Marcia asked him
“To her, for God’s sakeShe has made herself into the scum of the earthYou can’t tell me you are in favor of that”
“Oh, she hasn’t made herself into the scum of anything, Lou
“To the contrary,” said Orcutt, laughing”She has eaten of the Tree of Knowledge
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