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What do you think's in them?

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I don't know. They sure are heavy.

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Can't we open just one? No, it's for
your mom.

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What's for me? All this?

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What? From your mother.

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Can I open one? Me too.

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I don't think you'll need Sally to help
you.

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Look at all these.

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Why did your mom get so many books?

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They're from my father's library.

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My mother says the books have been
gathering dust for some time and she

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to have them.

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As an endowment to help civilize the
Colorado wilderness.

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What are we supposed to do with them?

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Read them, silly.

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Where are we going to keep all these
books?

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Next to my bed, in the barn.

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I don't think that's a very good idea.

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Why not?

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All books are too special to be hidden
away in the barn. Books are meant to be

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shared. We should keep them in the
house.

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I remember when people used to stop by
my father's house to borrow these.

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Like a library?

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Yes, that's what it was.

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My father loved to help people learn.

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We could do something like that.

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That's a lovely idea, Brian.

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Don't you think that the homestead's a
little far for people to be coming up

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just to get a book?

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We wouldn't have to keep them at the
homestead. We could keep them right here

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where people could borrow them whenever
they wanted.

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But we don't live in town.

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We wouldn't have to live in town to keep
these books for use the way my father

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would have wanted.

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How's that?

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We're going to open this town's first
public library.

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The time was we had to paint a sign that
said library outside this building and

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pretend we had some books inside.

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Not anymore.

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Now we got us a library as good as any
back east.

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As mayor. Why don't you let Dr. Mike
speak?

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I'm getting to it. They're her books.

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All right.

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Here's Dr. Mike.

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A

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long

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time ago when I was little,

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took a trip to England.

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I wrote to tell him how much I missed
him, and in his return letter, he said

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that whenever I was thinking of him, I
should go into his library and read it,

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that he wouldn't seem so far away so
long as I had all of his books around

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Well, he was right.

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He didn't seem so far away back then,
and he doesn't seem so far away right

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We hereby dedicate this building the
Joseph Quinn Memorial Library Memorial

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Library

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Colleen, who's volunteered to be our
librarian.

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She's going to be here an hour after
school each day and two hours on

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morning. Who'd ever thought?

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Our very own library.

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I'd forgotten how much I meant to have
him all these books around.

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Hey, Mom, I found a great book. Can I go
outside and read it? Did you have

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Colleen check it out?

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Do I have to?

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Yes, everyone does.

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Oh, it makes me wish I'd had some books
for my boys when they were his age.

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Brian's going to get so much out of this
library.

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This library's going to be helpful for
all the children.

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I know. These books help me a great
deal.

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Thank you.

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For what?

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For letting me read your book.

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Don't you want to take it home?

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I ain't got the money to pay.

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You don't have to pay, Charles.

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The library will lend it to you.

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How come?

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Because that's what the library's for.

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Lending out books.

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You get to take it home and read it, and
then you have to bring it back in three

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weeks. Lana, well, first I've got to
write down your name, next to the name

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the author, the title of the book, and
the date to do back.

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Can I take it home now?

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Yep.

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You leaving already, Jay?

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There's nothing else to say.

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There could be if you learned how to
read.

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I ain't got time for reading. Ain't got
time or ain't got the courage?

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Are you saying I'm scared?

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Sure looks like that to me.

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I can learn any time I want. How about
tonight?

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Let's say them again.

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A. Thank you, ma 'am.

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We're just starting.

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Now, look.

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You've got to learn what each letter
looks like.

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Look.

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A.

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A.

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B.

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B.

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B.

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C. What are you doing? What's that look
like I'm doing? I'm dusting.

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You dust someplace else.

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Dorothy, this is not a schoolhouse.

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It's a store, and people expect it to be
kept tidy.

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What's this letter right here?

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D.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Now, what's this?

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What's this letter here?

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This is amazing.

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You can really teach a frog how to jump.

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Did you know that?

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Want to read about how to make a frog
jump, Ma?

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Perhaps when I finish reading the
surgical textbook.

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How about you, Sully?

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Oh, I like the book I got.

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I'm going to do some reading outside.

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I think it's time for you to close your
books and go to sleep.

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Just a little longer.

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Hold on. You can read more tomorrow.

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Good night.

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May I join you?

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Are you keeping your book a secret?

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Keeping it a secret?

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What is it?

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It's poetry.

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Poetry?

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You don't like poetry?

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Oh, I love poetry.

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My father always used to read it to us.

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It's been a long time since I heard
poetry.

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Because you always got your nose buried
in those medical books.

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Well, now's your chance to read me
something different.

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You see,

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I resign myself to you also.

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I guess what you mean.

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I behold from the beach your crooked and
writing fingers.

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I believe you refuse to go back without
feeling of me.

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We must have a turn together.

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I undress, bring you out of the sight of
land.

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Clip me soft, rock me in a billowy
drowse.

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Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay
you.

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Who wrote that?

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Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman wrote that?

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Yes.

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Well, it's not appropriate.

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What's not appropriate about it?

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Well, there are certain things that
aren't meant to be written about.

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What things?

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I think you know what I mean.

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You don't like poetry about the ocean?

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I'm not writing about the ocean, Sally.

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That book around the house where the
children might find it.

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They won't find it.

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Oh,

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it was a nice idea anyway.

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Maybe we can try it again sometime.

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You might have a change of heart.

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And he teaches them how to be the best
jumping frog in the county. How can

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anybody want to teach a frog how to
jump?

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Well, in the story, the man does it so
he can win lots of money in a frog

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jumping contest.

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We could do that.

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Not until we get our own.

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Look.

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There's another one.

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I'll get that one.

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We're teaching the young.

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Sorry, Reverend. I didn't see you.

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No need to apologize.

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The way you read's a real example for
the other children.

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Reading's my favorite thing to do.

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Every time I start a book, it's like
going to a whole new place, meeting lots

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interesting people and doing all sorts
of exciting things.

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What's this one about?

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The man who's never happened.

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So he tells his soul to the devil that
the devil can never make him say that

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he's satisfied with anything.

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The devil?

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And the devil does all these things for
him, but the man... May I see that?

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Do you know what book Colleen's reading?

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Faust.

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I remember reading this when I was
around Colleen's age.

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You approve of this book?

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Approve?

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This is a book about a man who sells his
soul to the devil.

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It's about more than that, Reverend.

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That's what the devil would like to have
us think, Dr. Mike. That's how he

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confuses us. That's how he leads us away
from God.

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It's just a story.

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The devil's words are never just a
story, Dr. Mike.

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This is how people start to lose their
way, by reading things that they

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shouldn't. I will not allow a book like
this in the library.

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Forgive me, Reverend, but I don't
believe that you're concerned what books

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have in this library.

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Just as it is your responsibility as a
doctor to look out for the physical well

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-being of this community, it is my
responsibility as a minister to look out

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their spiritual concerns.

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You do a fine job, Reverend.

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But confiscating fiction isn't going to
do you or the town any good.

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Colleen should be free to read whatever
she chooses from this library.

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Are you going to give this back to me?

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I do not believe that children should be
allowed to read whatever they wish.

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There must be something. You wouldn't
want your children to read.

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Well, of course there is.

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It's a matter of choice.

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And whose choice would that be, Dr.
Mike?

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What's this?

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I want you to publish that as an
editorial in the Gazette.

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Well, I usually write them myself,
Reverend.

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I think you'll agree with everything
I've written.

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Something the matter, Reverend?

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Yes, something is the matter.

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Yesterday, I found Colleen reading a
book about a man who sold his soul to

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devil.

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And I've heard about a lot of other
books at that library that sound just as

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bad.

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An English woman writing about
prostitutes.

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And a Russian man who writes about
nihilists, which are people that don't

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believe in anything, God included.

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I tell you, that library's going to wind
up in more trouble than it's worth.

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You said you liked the library.

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Well, it was before people stopped
buying my books.

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Why, they come in here and expect me to
lend them to them for free.

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You sure you want to print this,
Reverend?

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Yes, I'm sure.

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I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't
speak up now. I agree with the Reverend.

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Print the editorial.

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But, Jake, you can't even read it.

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I don't have to read it to know that
those books are trouble.

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Can you put it in this week's edition?

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Well... I got the best jumping frog in
town. We both got

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the best jumping frogs in town.

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Do not. Do to.

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I got frogs around my house.

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jump clear over my head. You want to
bet?

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Yeah. You can bring your frogs on
Sunday, and we'll see.

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All right.

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Anybody else want to bet?

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Bring your frogs, bring your money.

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Let's see who's got the best jumper in
town.

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Colleen? Reverend?

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I'll take that.

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Dr. Mike said I could read it.

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Dr. Mike said you could read it in the
library.

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But you're at school now, and as your
teacher, I'm telling you to give me that

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book.

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I may not run the library, but I do run
the school.

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And I will not have a book about the
devil on school grounds.

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You can have it back at the end of
the...

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Any such book is a threat to the
spiritual well -being of our town.

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It should not be allowed in our library.

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I say he's got a point.

255
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Books like that just ain't decent.

256
00:17:02,961 --> 00:17:06,318
He might have a point, but we're going
to have to do a whole lot more than

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a bunch of editorials if we want to keep
those books out of town.

258
00:17:09,380 --> 00:17:12,280
That's why we're having the town
meeting, Jake.

259
00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,740
I don't see why we need a town meeting
for a bunch of books.

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Because books can give folks bad ideas.

261
00:17:21,410 --> 00:17:26,109
And whatever we end up doing, I know
you're going to support us, right,

262
00:17:26,869 --> 00:17:32,029
Well, I don't think Dr. Mike's going to
be so happy about the idea of folks

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getting rid of her father's books.

264
00:17:34,070 --> 00:17:37,010
I'd say she looks a little more than
unhappy.

265
00:17:44,150 --> 00:17:45,650
Do you really mean this?

266
00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:50,820
Michaela, the Reverend wrote that
editorial. And you printed it.

267
00:17:51,180 --> 00:17:53,170
Well, it's my job to print what I see
fit.

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Book publishers have the same job,
Dorothy. Oh, no, they don't. No, they're

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publishing all sorts of things.

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Newspapers print only facts.

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They report the truth.

272
00:18:03,140 --> 00:18:06,690
But this isn't the truth. It's an
opinion. It's an opinion based on fact,

273
00:18:06,691 --> 00:18:10,199
Michaela. There are books in that
library that have no business being

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They all belong here.

275
00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:12,680
Oh, no, not all of them.

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00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,400
You've got a book in there called the
Koran.

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About some strange kind of religion.

278
00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:23,199
And something else called civil
disobedience. Now, what kind of

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civil? And I've heard that there's even
a copy of those dirty poems by that

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Whitman fella.

281
00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:36,100
Well, it's... Oh, I mean, Walt Whitman
isn't someone that I would care to read,

282
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but I wouldn't stop someone else from
reading it.

283
00:18:38,660 --> 00:18:40,360
We can't be legislating morality.

284
00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:44,520
Those books aren't only morally wrong,
they're legally wrong.

285
00:18:44,780 --> 00:18:46,080
What law states that?

286
00:18:46,990 --> 00:18:51,730
Right here. Right here in this article
from the Denver paper.

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00:18:53,370 --> 00:18:59,669
Here. The question whether a publication
is obscene does not depend upon its

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being true or false, but upon its
tendency to inflame the passions and

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debauch society.

290
00:19:08,090 --> 00:19:09,170
Can you see that?

291
00:19:09,590 --> 00:19:15,050
We don't need books like Mr. Whitman's
to give people ideas and stir up

292
00:19:15,980 --> 00:19:17,060
What kind of trouble?

293
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,700
We don't know, but better safe than
sorry.

294
00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:23,920
Books don't start trouble, Dorothy.

295
00:19:24,620 --> 00:19:25,840
Books help stop it.

296
00:19:43,060 --> 00:19:45,230
I hear there's a book all about
witchcraft.

297
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,050
Massachusetts. He teaches about
witchcraft.

298
00:19:52,140 --> 00:19:58,959
The library can be a great addition to
our town, but I think we can all agree

299
00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,900
we need to close it down for a while. I
don't agree.

300
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,240
Just so as we can figure out which books
to get rid of and which ones to keep.

301
00:20:06,241 --> 00:20:08,019
Who's going to do the choosing?

302
00:20:08,020 --> 00:20:12,459
The reverend. How can you allow one man
to decide what an entire town should

303
00:20:12,460 --> 00:20:13,459
read?

304
00:20:13,460 --> 00:20:14,510
Not anybody.

305
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,050
He's a reverend.

306
00:20:16,410 --> 00:20:19,120
What makes his judgment better than
anybody else's?

307
00:20:19,590 --> 00:20:21,710
I'm not going to do anything rash, Dr.
Mike.

308
00:20:22,230 --> 00:20:23,670
I'm going to use common sense.

309
00:20:23,671 --> 00:20:27,089
So would you let my father's medical
books stay in the library?

310
00:20:27,090 --> 00:20:28,089
Of course.

311
00:20:28,090 --> 00:20:31,669
Then according to a story I read in the
Denver paper, you'd be doing something

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00:20:31,670 --> 00:20:32,790
illegal, Reverend.

313
00:20:34,730 --> 00:20:35,780
Settle down.

314
00:20:35,781 --> 00:20:41,549
There's a law that says that even
medical textbooks can be judged obscene.

315
00:20:41,550 --> 00:20:44,450
Oh, we ain't talking about medical
textbooks, Dr. Mike.

316
00:20:44,451 --> 00:20:47,619
You know what kind of books you've got
in that library.

317
00:20:47,620 --> 00:20:50,779
It's going to cause so much trouble. I
ain't so sure we need a library after

318
00:20:50,780 --> 00:20:53,419
all. I'm beginning to think that we need
a library more than ever.

319
00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:54,740
What makes you think that?

320
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,999
Because a library is a place where you
open your mind to new ideas, different

321
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,670
cultures. We don't want to know about a
bunch of atheists and prostitutes.

322
00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:07,940
There are certain things that you should
not open your mind to, Dr. Mike.

323
00:21:08,180 --> 00:21:09,230
Let's vote already.

324
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,480
Those in favor of closing the library,
raise your hand.

325
00:21:22,060 --> 00:21:23,980
Council votes 4 -1 to close the library.

326
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:39,500
Please don't do this. We voted, so...

327
00:21:50,391 --> 00:21:52,419
What are you doing?

328
00:21:52,420 --> 00:21:55,910
Got the names of all the library books
in it, so I'm confiscating them.

329
00:21:56,180 --> 00:21:59,130
Are you going to give that back, or do I
have to take it away?

330
00:22:00,540 --> 00:22:01,660
We took a legal vote.

331
00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:05,950
It's rightfully.

332
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,250
We're not going to solve anything this
way.

333
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,920
We're going to reopen this library
legally, with all the books in it.

334
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:20,730
Where'd Jake...

335
00:22:20,731 --> 00:22:24,119
What are you going to do with that
ledger? It's none of your business. I

336
00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,559
it's everyone's business because
everyone's name is in that book.

337
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,259
It might have been everybody's business
when this library was opened. This

338
00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:30,940
library is now officially closed.

339
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,370
Who is that?

340
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:47,620
It's Jack. Open up.

341
00:22:51,530 --> 00:22:55,270
For the sake, Reverend, sorry to disturb
you, Horace.

342
00:22:57,550 --> 00:22:59,810
But, um, we're looking for a book.

343
00:22:59,811 --> 00:23:02,189
Can't it wait till the morning?

344
00:23:02,190 --> 00:23:05,260
Nope. It's a book called The Scarlet
Letter, and we need it now.

345
00:23:06,230 --> 00:23:07,970
Well, I don't think I have that book.

346
00:23:08,110 --> 00:23:09,160
I do.

347
00:23:11,690 --> 00:23:13,010
Yes, that's right.

348
00:23:13,270 --> 00:23:16,490
And it says here you took it out of the
library last week.

349
00:23:16,910 --> 00:23:17,960
What about it?

350
00:23:18,570 --> 00:23:19,990
Well, Myra, we've...

351
00:23:19,991 --> 00:23:21,799
heard some things about that book.

352
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,720
It's a moral and we're confiscating it.

353
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,220
Not a moral?

354
00:23:26,660 --> 00:23:29,910
Well, maybe not to somebody like you.
You watch what you say, Jake.

355
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,220
Myra, it's about an unwed mother, isn't
it?

356
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:41,399
Well, it's about a lady who doesn't want
to tell anybody her baby's father's the

357
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,450
town reverend.

358
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,130
Yeah.

359
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,640
Well, we just need the book.

360
00:23:50,730 --> 00:23:51,780
You can't have it.

361
00:23:52,530 --> 00:23:54,760
Myra, that book is a danger to our
community.

362
00:23:55,570 --> 00:23:56,670
How is it dangerous?

363
00:23:57,110 --> 00:23:58,310
It gives people ideas.

364
00:23:58,311 --> 00:24:02,909
I think you'd be the last person in town
to want to see some little girl get the

365
00:24:02,910 --> 00:24:06,050
wrong idea with the way the world works,
if you know what I mean.

366
00:24:06,350 --> 00:24:07,570
No, I don't, Jake.

367
00:24:08,090 --> 00:24:13,209
Now, Myra, Jake is the mayor, and
Reverend's always looking out for our

368
00:24:13,210 --> 00:24:16,220
interests. Why, sneaking around in the
middle of the night?

369
00:24:16,221 --> 00:24:17,929
Taking people's books away?

370
00:24:17,930 --> 00:24:21,610
The town council voted to close the
library, and you still got a book out.

371
00:24:22,110 --> 00:24:23,190
That's why we're here.

372
00:24:24,990 --> 00:24:28,190
Oh, you... I like this book.

373
00:24:28,670 --> 00:24:31,090
I like reading about interesting ladies.

374
00:24:31,091 --> 00:24:35,889
Well, Myra, when we reopen the library,
I'm sure you'll find lots of books about

375
00:24:35,890 --> 00:24:38,130
interesting and proper women.

376
00:24:41,690 --> 00:24:44,940
Myra, honey, I... I thought you were
through with your old boy alive.

377
00:24:46,220 --> 00:24:47,460
No ham, Horst.

378
00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:51,300
Then how come you're still reading about
it?

379
00:25:02,340 --> 00:25:03,390
Oh,

380
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:06,930
Beth, honey.

381
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,340
We'll take your book, too, Horst.

382
00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:12,250
Oh, my book? I'm just reading a plain
old story.

383
00:25:12,251 --> 00:25:15,849
I think you better let us be the judge
as to whether a book called...

384
00:25:15,850 --> 00:25:18,790
The vampire is just a plain old story,
Horace.

385
00:25:19,610 --> 00:25:22,370
Oh, well, guess right.

386
00:25:23,350 --> 00:25:24,610
Let me go find it.

387
00:25:33,750 --> 00:25:34,830
They're not jumping.

388
00:25:34,901 --> 00:25:39,369
What's the book say about getting them
to leap?

389
00:25:39,370 --> 00:25:44,249
Like I told you, the man in the story
holds out a fly and says flies, and the

390
00:25:44,250 --> 00:25:45,300
frog jumps.

391
00:25:57,390 --> 00:25:58,440
Hey, look at that.

392
00:25:59,010 --> 00:26:00,110
They ate the flies.

393
00:26:00,530 --> 00:26:03,000
That's because they didn't have to jump
for them.

394
00:26:04,290 --> 00:26:07,660
Maybe if we feed them more, they'll have
more strength for jumping.

395
00:26:07,870 --> 00:26:08,920
You think?

396
00:26:09,670 --> 00:26:10,890
Of course they will.

397
00:26:11,310 --> 00:26:13,540
Just like we get more strength after
eating.

398
00:26:13,970 --> 00:26:18,369
Let's give them the flies and the worms.
And another whole jar every day until

399
00:26:18,370 --> 00:26:19,420
Sunday.

400
00:26:20,410 --> 00:26:23,060
We'll have these frogs jumping over
everybody then.

401
00:26:58,691 --> 00:27:02,859
Anybody but Lauren know you're coming
here?

402
00:27:02,860 --> 00:27:05,390
My goodness, Jake, there's nobody even
out there.

403
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:09,320
Now, shall we pick up where we left off?

404
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,420
That sounds like a good idea.

405
00:27:11,820 --> 00:27:13,020
I'm with the book.

406
00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:15,319
Oh, that.

407
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,610
Yes, that. The reason that we're meeting
here.

408
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,150
Now, you were saying your letters were
pretty good by the end of last time.

409
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,780
So, let me hear them again.

410
00:27:32,780 --> 00:27:33,830
B.

411
00:27:35,260 --> 00:27:36,310
C.

412
00:27:37,620 --> 00:27:38,670
D.

413
00:27:39,820 --> 00:27:40,870
E.

414
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:42,460
E. Up.

415
00:27:43,540 --> 00:27:44,590
Look closer.

416
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,080
That's a different letter.

417
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,840
This is a waste of time. No, it's not.
You know that letter.

418
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:55,650
It's F.

419
00:27:56,180 --> 00:27:59,240
Now, think of a word that begins with F.

420
00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:01,270
Friend.

421
00:28:01,271 --> 00:28:05,349
Flower? How about fool, which is what I
feel like, because I can't do something

422
00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:08,889
even little kids know how to do. You're
going to be reading in no time, as long

423
00:28:08,890 --> 00:28:11,190
as you keep learning your letters.

424
00:28:11,390 --> 00:28:13,130
Lauren's right. I'm too old for this.

425
00:28:13,970 --> 00:28:18,909
Well, anyone who thinks they're too old
to learn how to read is too old for me

426
00:28:18,910 --> 00:28:20,230
to be keeping company with.

427
00:28:20,450 --> 00:28:21,950
So I guess I'd better leave.

428
00:28:23,730 --> 00:28:24,780
All right.

429
00:28:27,070 --> 00:28:28,120
Fucking hell.

430
00:28:31,130 --> 00:28:32,180
Start with G.

431
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:41,330
G. H.

432
00:28:42,340 --> 00:28:43,390
I.

433
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:45,650
J.

434
00:28:45,860 --> 00:28:46,910
K.

435
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:48,680
I know a word starts with K.

436
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,560
Oh, now you're getting the hang of it.
What starts with K?

437
00:29:08,170 --> 00:29:09,220
Very good.

438
00:29:11,150 --> 00:29:12,330
Now, keep on going.

439
00:29:17,990 --> 00:29:19,040
Yeah.

440
00:29:19,770 --> 00:29:21,650
Not fair. Those books belong to me.

441
00:29:22,430 --> 00:29:24,270
The building belongs to the town.

442
00:29:27,770 --> 00:29:30,180
What if we moved the books to another
building?

443
00:29:31,470 --> 00:29:32,520
Where?

444
00:29:33,730 --> 00:29:35,470
One of the extra rooms at the clinic.

445
00:29:37,020 --> 00:29:39,250
It'd be small, but no one could close it
down.

446
00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,080
It's still the same library.

447
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,170
But it wouldn't be one of the town's
buildings anymore.

448
00:29:45,660 --> 00:29:50,059
If someone wanted to borrow a book, all
they'd have to do is borrow it from me

449
00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:51,110
personally.

450
00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:54,230
It was what my father used to do in
Boston.

451
00:29:55,060 --> 00:29:58,310
It would be my library, and anyone could
read whatever they want.

452
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,680
Would I be able to read Walt Whitman?

453
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,060
I'd only worry about...

454
00:30:06,429 --> 00:30:07,929
Having it around the children.

455
00:30:11,150 --> 00:30:14,850
Are you worried about the children or
are you worried about yourself?

456
00:30:19,450 --> 00:30:20,730
I'm not like you, Sully.

457
00:30:23,010 --> 00:30:26,610
I can't just sit down and read.

458
00:30:31,570 --> 00:30:33,250
I'm not asking you to read it alone.

459
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,640
I'm asking you to let me share it with
you.

460
00:30:40,340 --> 00:30:41,540
I don't know if I can.

461
00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:48,360
I've never really... Different?

462
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,480
It's kind of like thinking about being
married, ain't it?

463
00:31:02,180 --> 00:31:04,770
There are things that... still frighten
me sometimes.

464
00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:07,860
You're getting ahead of yourself.

465
00:31:09,180 --> 00:31:11,680
What if I can't? It's not time yet,
Caleb.

466
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,160
Courting's like reading a book.

467
00:31:16,220 --> 00:31:18,880
You gotta take each chapter in order.

468
00:31:21,740 --> 00:31:24,390
Some chapters are harder to get through
than others.

469
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:27,650
But you read them all.

470
00:31:28,660 --> 00:31:31,730
Otherwise, you'd be cheating yourself
out of the whole book.

471
00:32:31,139 --> 00:32:32,699
What do you think you're doing?

472
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,940
Moving my book. The town council voted
to close the library.

473
00:32:35,941 --> 00:32:38,979
We'll keep the building closed. We're
here for the books.

474
00:32:38,980 --> 00:32:43,019
These books belong to the town now. You
donated them, Dr. Mike. I changed my

475
00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:44,820
mind. I'm taking them back.

476
00:32:44,821 --> 00:32:48,939
I'm starting my own private library. If
anyone wants to read a book, all they

477
00:32:48,940 --> 00:32:49,990
have to do is ask me.

478
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:51,780
This is going too far.

479
00:32:52,060 --> 00:32:53,110
I agree.

480
00:32:53,111 --> 00:32:56,359
It's gone too far. I hear you've been
sneaking around in the night,

481
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,359
books from people.

482
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:58,619
That's not what we're doing.

483
00:32:58,620 --> 00:33:00,799
That's exactly what you've been doing,
Reverend.

484
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,799
And I expect you to return every one of
those books you've taken.

485
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,210
You're the one who's stealing the town
of books.

486
00:33:07,020 --> 00:33:08,070
We've got work to do.

487
00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,590
And I'd appreciate it if you'd let us
get to it.

488
00:33:32,140 --> 00:33:33,820
Folks, ain't nothing but trouble.

489
00:36:07,030 --> 00:36:08,080
I love you

490
00:36:35,850 --> 00:36:36,990
You coming, Dr. Mike?

491
00:36:40,270 --> 00:36:41,770
No, Reverend, not this Sunday.

492
00:36:47,650 --> 00:36:48,710
No saving this one.

493
00:36:51,190 --> 00:36:52,240
It's not stable.

494
00:36:54,210 --> 00:36:56,130
It's always my favorite bedtime story.

495
00:36:57,850 --> 00:36:59,470
A lot of these are worse than that.

496
00:36:59,850 --> 00:37:02,560
How are you going to replace all these
books you lost?

497
00:37:03,810 --> 00:37:04,860
I can't.

498
00:37:05,450 --> 00:37:06,500
Never?

499
00:37:08,970 --> 00:37:11,200
It takes a lifetime to collect so many
books.

500
00:37:12,110 --> 00:37:13,690
How can people be so stupid?

501
00:37:14,990 --> 00:37:16,490
You mustn't say that, Colleen.

502
00:37:16,650 --> 00:37:17,700
But it's true.

503
00:37:17,910 --> 00:37:18,960
They're stupid.

504
00:37:19,250 --> 00:37:21,830
No, they just don't know better.

505
00:37:23,390 --> 00:37:24,650
That's called ignorance.

506
00:38:02,610 --> 00:38:03,660
Dr. Mike?

507
00:38:05,830 --> 00:38:11,829
And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another,

508
00:38:11,830 --> 00:38:14,390
God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven
you.

509
00:38:20,170 --> 00:38:22,130
Have you decided to join us, Dr. Mike?

510
00:38:25,170 --> 00:38:26,220
Yes, I have.

511
00:38:27,250 --> 00:38:28,300
I'm glad to hear that.

512
00:38:29,870 --> 00:38:31,250
And I brought you something.

513
00:38:32,029 --> 00:38:34,919
I think we've had enough to do with
those books for a while.

514
00:38:35,810 --> 00:38:37,610
You're absolutely right, Reverend.

515
00:38:37,890 --> 00:38:41,380
But I brought this because I think we
can all agree on what to do with it.

516
00:38:42,170 --> 00:38:45,120
I'm glad to see you've had a change of
heart. How could I not?

517
00:38:45,750 --> 00:38:49,830
With a book that tells of a father who
sacrificed his own daughter.

518
00:38:50,290 --> 00:38:54,109
A book that tells of a man who is
married to more than one woman at the

519
00:38:54,110 --> 00:38:55,160
time.

520
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:59,810
Why, this book even has a passage in it
describing how God...

521
00:39:00,220 --> 00:39:01,660
accepted a bet from the devil.

522
00:39:03,620 --> 00:39:06,760
You're right, Dr. Mike. That's a book
that we can all agree on.

523
00:39:08,060 --> 00:39:12,599
And handing it over to me is the kind of
gesture that will help heal the spirit

524
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:13,650
of our town.

525
00:39:14,940 --> 00:39:16,740
I thank you for showing so much faith.

526
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:19,370
Not at all, Reverend.

527
00:39:22,820 --> 00:39:23,870
What is it?

528
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:31,650
The Holy Bible.

529
00:40:36,970 --> 00:40:42,809
contest not when you lose all your money
betting on it you boys gambled and

530
00:40:42,810 --> 00:40:48,089
frogs i read about how to make lots of
money having frog jumping contest in

531
00:40:48,090 --> 00:40:54,489
book it sounded like a real good idea
sounds like a real good lesson you boys

532
00:40:54,490 --> 00:40:59,309
learned something about making your own
decisions how'd we learn that well you

533
00:40:59,310 --> 00:41:01,799
tried something from the book that
didn't work out

534
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,200
So next time you read about an idea that
sounds like an easy way to make money,

535
00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:09,820
you might say to yourself, well, that's
not for me.

536
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,920
You mean not just do it because you read
about it.

537
00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,970
Exactly. Well, that's what learning's
all about.

538
00:41:16,971 --> 00:41:21,399
Reading about lots of different things
and then deciding for yourself what you

539
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:22,450
believe.

540
00:41:24,820 --> 00:41:25,870
Gambling's no good.

541
00:41:26,751 --> 00:41:32,439
And perhaps you'd feel better if you had
something to eat.

542
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:33,500
Nah, I'm not hungry.

543
00:41:33,860 --> 00:41:34,910
Me neither.

544
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,020
Well, if you change your minds.

545
00:41:37,021 --> 00:41:43,439
I'll tell you something else that we
know now that we didn't know before.

546
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:47,320
Never feed a frog five jars of flies and
worms if you want him to jump.

547
00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:25,800
What are you doing?

548
00:42:25,801 --> 00:42:29,009
Well, we'll have to dry out all these
books. I want to open the library by

549
00:42:29,010 --> 00:42:30,060
tomorrow.

550
00:42:31,350 --> 00:42:32,400
With all the books?

551
00:42:34,490 --> 00:42:35,540
With all of them.

552
00:42:36,510 --> 00:42:38,430
You look like this would need some help.

553
00:43:31,050 --> 00:43:32,790
It helps to spell it out.

554
00:44:16,620 --> 00:44:18,160
I sing the body electric.

555
00:44:19,180 --> 00:44:22,780
The armies of those I love engirth me,
and I engirth them.

556
00:44:23,540 --> 00:44:28,239
They will not let me off till I go with
them, respond to them, and discorrupt

557
00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:31,640
them, and charge them full with the
charge of the soul.

558
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,419
The bending forward and backward of
rowers and rowboats, the horsemen of his

559
00:44:44,420 --> 00:44:45,469
battle.

560
00:44:45,470 --> 00:44:50,020
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