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Seriously . . .
    D: He treated it as an art.
    C: He did. Yes. That's exactly how he treated it.
    D: He treated it as an art, he was inventive . . .
    C: . . . yes.
    D: . . . he was . . .
    C: . . . he . . .
    D: . . . he was dependable . . .
    C: When he got out he came to me and asked me would I try him again. Which of course I did . . .
    A: And he was fine?
    C: Yes.
    A: Mm.
    C: Fade out, fade in . . .
    D: Four years later.
    C: Mm.
    D: So: when he called I said:
    C: He said to call me.
    D: I couldn't talk to him . . .
    C: Waal, it couldn't have helped in any case. ( Pause. ) He . . .
    A: He didn't want to confess . . . He
    D: He wanted to be helped. Yes.
    C: He . . . he came to me. He said, “I need a rest.” I said, “Jim. You don't need a rest. You need serious help.” ( Pause .)
    B: I'm sure that he felt incredibly lonely or he would never have done what he did. ( Pause .) I know I would feel very lonely if that happened to me. ( Pause. )
    C: Well. ( Pause .) He asked me to call his father . . .
    D: The fellow, all his friends, he picks them up at four A.M . on the streets . . .
    C: . . . and so I did, and he . . .
    D: . . . this is the interesting part:
    C: He says, “He's no good. He never was any good. He's a bum. He always . . . ”
    D: This, this is his father talking . . .
    C: “And he always was. He never should have come down to New York. Since he got there he . . . ”
    D: Mmm . . . ?
    C: “He's done nothing? ” I said. “Sir. Your son has a thriving business. On the contrary: he's . . . I've seen his accounts. He's organized. ( Pause .) He's meticulous . . . he does his job superlatively . . . ( Pause. ) He's reliable . . . he's not a bum. He's ill. ( Pause .) He's ill. He needs help. ( Pause. )
    A: Did the father come down?
    C: No. We took him to . . .
    D: We took him to Bellevue. ( Pause. )
    A: Will they take good care of him there?
    D: Yes. I think they will. Yes.
    C: Yes. They will. ( Pause. )
    A: Do you think that's treatable?
    C: Yes. I think that it is. Yes. And I don't, I'll tell you something, I don't think it's in the mind, either . . .
    B: What?
    C: Schizophrenia.
    A: Schiz . . .
    C: No. I think it's cau . . .
    A: It isn't in the mind . . . ?
    C: I'm saying that it's cause . . . I think the cause is not. ( Pause. ) That the true cause of it is not trauma . . . or . . . Infantile trauma or . . . say what I'm saying . . .
    D: That the cause is something simple. Diet or genetic . . .
    C: Yes.
    D: Genetic pre . . .
    A: Predisposition.
    D: Yes.
    C: And I'll tell you what else: I think someday someone's going to find how to cure schizophrenia with a . . . say, with a simple touch . . . with . . . ( Pause .) with . . . a small change in diet . . . ( Pause .) With . . .
    D: Mm hmm . . .
    C: . . . with a pressure point . . . with . . .
    D: . . . with a simple touch. ( Pause. )
    C: Yes. ( Pause .) Absolutely. ( Pause .)
    A: Will he be in there long?
    C: I don't know.
    A: Will you take him back when he comes out?
    C: Certainly.
    D: Absolutely.
    C: Absolutely. ( Pause. )
    Two
    After dinner conversation. A and B, two men.
    A: . . . the way I understand it . . . the way I understand it . . . I'll tell you what the Antichrist is . . .
    B: What?
    A: I'll tell you, and I believe it will come. Although I don't believe we've seen it yet. When we'll see it, when we'll see it is in the hard . . . in the true . . . eh? In the true, true hard times. And what I think the Antichrist is is, the way that we can understand it's if we say “The False Girlfriend.” ( Pause .) Mm. When one is ready to be married. Then you say that this one has something unique which until now you longed for but . . .
    B: . . . yes . . .
    A: But you couldn't find. So now you've found it, now you can . . .
    B: Um hmm . . .
    A: Get married . ( Pause .)
    B: So now you can get married.
    A: But it's just the time is right. That's all. The time is right; and when it is you see someone and say, “She is the One.” Now: Full of our old habits, the