French Postcards (1979)

David Marshall Grant: Alex

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• Alex : [recalling his trip]  Oh yeah, the bullfight was great. I watched a horse get gored. El Cid captured Valencia, I picked up dysentery there. I spent a week in Grenada mostly watching the famous rain in Spain. All in all the trip was incredibly - it was - lonely. But don't tell Joel that, ok. I just told him the trip was great.

  Laura : Yeah, I was going to say that about my trip. But it's hard when they bring you back in an ambulance.

• Alex : I've had enough experience - plenty. Right now I'm just going to travel a little this summer and then I'm going back to Ohio. It's quiet there. I can recuperate from all my experience.

• Madame Catherine Tessier : Why did you sing me this song?

  Alex : Well, uh, you know that 19th Century literature essay we were supposed to do? The - comparison between romanticism and classism?

  Madame Catherine Tessier : Sure. It's very important.

  Alex : My song's kind of a romantic look at a classic situation.

  Madame Catherine Tessier : You wrote a song instead of the essay?

• Madame Catherine Tessier : Oh, a - Alex, you - you must not rush things. Moving slowly can be very erotic too.

  Alex : I suppose you've had a lot of - I mean, uh, you know a lot about erotic things.

  Madame Catherine Tessier : Oh! It's almost instinctive with the French, you know.

• Alex : This car must be very expensive in France.

  Madame Catherine Tessier : Oh, yes. It cost 10 million francs. Old francs.

• Alex : Do you think he'll get violent? I've seen him get very violent. Shit.

  Madame Catherine Tessier : Don't worry. Maybe this is good. I have nothing to hide.

  Alex : Nothing to hide? What about me?

• Madame Catherine Tessier : There are not many hot tubs in France. This is to relax you before we do it.

  Alex : Do what? Oh, yeah, that.

• Alex : I guess I'm not as experienced as you are in this kind of, uh, experience.

• Alex : I'm not talking about school. I'm talking about life!

• Alex : [on stage, in the school play]  The leads were skimpy. The case was very sleazy. But, I've been down these mean streets before. You see, I'm a private dick.

• Alex : [on stage, in the school play]  Last Fall, 65 American students suddenly disappeared, like money into a whore's stocking.