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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like when life's hidden. Gives you a chance to imagine nice things. Nicer than they are.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Men of vision! Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure. I'm amazed at your idealism, Colonel Cobb.

Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb Newspaper men are either drunkards or idealist, Miss Rutledge. I'm afraid I'm both. However soiled his hands the journalist goes staggering through life with the beacon raised.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge I like the fog. I like this new world. I like the noise of something happening. No, San Francisco is no place for a bad loser, man or woman. Dan Morgan was a bad loser. I'm not. I'm staying. I'm tired of dreaming, Colonel Cobb. I'm staying. I'm staying and holding out my hands for gold. Bright yellow gold.

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Jim Carmichael Aren't I ever gonna see you again?

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Please, I'd like to remember it just like this: the rain, the fog, and a poet from Gramercy Park, with his bags of gold. Let's just leave it that way.

Jim Carmichael It's awfully hard to live poetry.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge So, with a bag of gold, the prodigal returns to Gramercy Park. Licked!

Jim Carmichael Well, there won't be any bands to play, if that's what you mean, Ma'am.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Or any poems to write?

Jim Carmichael No, I guess not. I won't have much time for writin' poetry. Anyhow, I kinda run out of subject matter.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Write about a harpy who smiled at you and cheated you. Write about that!

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Old Atrocity Sufferin' snakes, a white woman!

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Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb Rome wasn't built in a day, gentleman. The paths of Empire have always started in the mud and they ended in glory.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Just one thing more, Mr. Chamalis. I suggest you get used to knocking on doors.

Chamalis All right, Swan.

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Knuckles Jacoby No Chinamen allowed in here.

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Chamalis Ah Wing!

[Chamalis' bouncers grab Ah Wing]

Chamalis Knuckles.

[Chamalis gives Knuckles some scissors, who walks towards Ah Wing]

Knuckles Jacoby I'm just gonna cut your pigtail off. What are ya yellin' about? There's nothin' to wash in heaven. What do you wanna go there for?

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge It can speak, Colonel. Let it speak the language of the town. Lies! Hypocrisy! And more lies!

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Chamalis You haven't thanked me yet for letting the Colonel have his paper.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Thank you? You seemed almost human for a moment.

Chamalis Well, then, how about you being human for a change, huh?

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge I'd like another drink, please.

Chamalis Swan, why don't you ever kiss me of your own accord, huh? Why don't you ever put your arms around me and kiss me like you meant it?

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Wait'll I have my drink.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Look at me Louie. Look in my eyes. What do you see? It isn't pretty, is it? Well, I'm just what you see there. Oh, take what you can get and let it go at that. Let's enjoy our mud puddle!

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge What's the matter?

Jim Carmichael I can't get over it.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Over what?

Jim Carmichael How beautiful a woman is. I'd almost forgotten, so help me.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge You're the most peculiar desert rat I've seen yet.

Jim Carmichael Would you mind very much if I looked at you if I promise not to faint. Say, you're pretty wet, Ma'am. Don't you think you ought to hang those clothes of yours in front of the fire to dry?

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Well...

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge I don't think you know me. I was raised under a bell jar with forget-me-nots in my hair.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Oh, you're leaving the West?

Jim Carmichael Yes. Shipping out like Sinbad with his loot. Here it is. You know, I've been pokin' around for this silly stuff for about two years. I keep expecting it to vanish like the figments of a dream. But, its safe now. That is, if I can get by the harpies of San Francisco.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge The harpies?

Jim Carmichael Yes, Ma'am. Although, some people call them by other names.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge What does a harpy look like?

Jim Carmichael Oh, they got snakes in their hair and cat's eyes and no hearts at all. You can always tell 'em, easy.

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Jim Carmichael Hey! You don't want a couple of jackasses to remember me by?

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Chamalis I found this under your pillow. Who gave it to ya? It's about love! Poems! Who gave it to ya?

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Do you want me to take the little wheel tonight?

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge You stupid fool! Nobody's touched me! Nobody's going to.

Chamalis Cause he kissed you.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge You and nobody else.

Chamalis He kissed you.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Nobody! You understand?

Chamalis And you kissed him back - like you never done to me. Throwing yourself free - at some rat!

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge I wish I had! I wish I could tell you something that could make you howl and shoot!

Chamalis I'll do the shooting. But, somebody else is gonna do the howling.

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Chamalis Stand up, rubber knees!

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Chamalis This is my town. It's gonna stay my town!

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Old Atrocity I'm a no good, terrible old man, with a heart of a coyote!

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Old Atrocity A purty decent thing I done in my whole black life! Sort of overwhelms me. I feel like a - like a little white kitten reborn.

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Old Atrocity I kinda hate to see you go, son. But, things'll be more suitable in the East.

Jim Carmichael For poets - and failures.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Go on, go away, thinking that I stole your money and that I'm sending you back - licked and broke.

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Mary 'Swan' Rutledge You'll write something about the fog, won't you? About how people forget - where they are and - who they are.

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Jim Carmichael Ma'am I don't know quite what to say.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Well, say it to somebody else! Not me. I've seen quite enough of you for one day or for one lifetime!

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Jim Carmichael I'm stupid. Love's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I've always dreamed of. Of meeting somebody and falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours, about how her heart's an angel's wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead, I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy. I'm pretty stupid.

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Jim Carmichael Listen to me. There's something inside of people that can't be touched. They can stand in mud up to their necks, but, that thing inside stays bright and shiny.

Mary 'Swan' Rutledge Oh, I want to believe you!

Jim Carmichael Oh, you must believe me, because it's true. Loving wipes everything else! All this never existed. You'll see.

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Man on the Dock 1 Who ya got there?

Old Atrocity A white woman!

Man on the Dock 2 Ah, yer lyin'!

Old Atrocity No, I ain't! She's a New York white woman. Whiter than a hen's egg!

Man on the Dock 1 Man on the Dock 1, Man on the Dock 2: Yeah!