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Fitzgerald: Completely normal

Aug 23, 2006 12:46 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

“Fellow students describe the Lebanese man, who was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of terrorism, as ‘completely normal’…” — from this article

In Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” Clare Quilty (played by Peter Sellers) carries on a near-monologue, broken only by a few sentences uttered by Humbert Humbert, on the porch of The Enchanted Hunters:

Quilty:
“Tell me, I couldn’t help noticing when you checked in tonight…
It’s part of my job, I notice human individuals…
…and I noticed your face.
I said to myself when I saw you…

…there’s a guy with the most normal-looking face I ever saw in my life.

H.H.:
That’s very nice of you.

C.Q.:
Not a bit. It’s great to see a normal face, ’cause I’m a normal guy.
Be great for two normal guys…
…to get together and talk about world events, in a normal way.
H.H.:
There’s nothing I would like better than that, but I don’t have much time.

C. Q.:
It’s a pity, because, may I say one other thing to you?
I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
I noticed when you was checking in you had a lovely little girl with you.
She was really lovely.
She wasn’t so little, come to think of it. She was fairly tall…
Taller than little, you know, but she was really lovely.
I wish I had a pretty, tall, lovely little girl like that…

H.H.:

That was my daughter.

C.Q.:
Your daughter? Isn’t it great to have a lovely, tall…
…pretty, little daughter like that? It’s wonderful.
I don’t have any children or boys or little tall girls.

I’m not even… Are you married?

H.H.:
Yes, I’m expecting my wife, perhaps, to come here.

C.Q.:
May I say something? I thought you looked uneasy at the desk.
I was thinking that you want to get away from your wife.
I don’t blame you. If I was married I’d take every opportunity to get away!

H.H.:
Yes. No, that was not it at all.
As a matter of fact, it’s possible that my wife won’t join me because…
…when I left home she was not well.

C.Q.:
What was the matter with your wife?

H.H.:
It’s not important… She had an accident.

C.Q.:
She had an accident! That’s terrible! Fancy a normal guy’s wife having…
…an accident like that! What happened to her?

H.H.:
She was hit by a car.

C.Q.:
No wonder she’s not here. You must feel pretty bad about that.
What’s happening? Is she coming later, or something?

H.H.:
Well, that was the understanding.

C.Q.:
What, in an ambulance? I’m sorry I said that. I shouldn’t say that.

I get sort of carried away, being so normal and all.
When you were at the desk checking in with the night manager…
…Mr. George Swine, who I happen to know as a personal friend…
…I was wondering if he fixed you up with a good accommodation here.

H.H.:
Yes, they were extremely cooperative.

C.Q.:
You sure? Because I could easily have a word with George Swine.
He’s a really normal, nice sort of guy…
…and I’ve only got to have a normal word in his ear…
…and you’d be surprised what things could happen.
He’d probably turn some troopers out, so you could have a lovely room…
…a bridal suite, for you and your lovely girl.

H.H.:
I don’t want you to take any trouble on my account.
We’re perfectly comfortable.

C.Q.:
It’s his job to fix you up with something nice.
He gets paid for doing that and…
…when he sees a guy like you, all normal…
…with a lovely girl, he should say to himself:

“I got to give that guy a lovely sort of comfortable, foamy bed to sleep in”
I don’t like to hear things like that, ’cause I could go and take a swipe at him…
…for not giving you a lovely, comfortable, sleepy, movie-star bed.
You know what I mean?
What has he got you on the floor or something?

H.H.:
Well, the little girl is probably asleep already in the bed and…
…I don’t know why we’re discussing…

C.Q.:
Why don’t you let me have a look…
…at the accommodation that you have, and take it in for a second…
…then I can have a word with George Swine? It would be simple.

H.H.:
No, you really shouldn’t worry about either of us.
Which reminds me, I should go upstairs now.

C.Q.:
You’re going because you think that…
…me being a policeman, I’d think you were sort of suspicious?

H.H.:
I don’t think that at all. I think you’re really normal.

C.Q.:
– You don’t have to go because of that.

H.H.:
No. It’s been very nice talking to you.

C.Q.:
I don’t think that at all. I think you’re really normal.

H.H.:
We have to get up at the crack of dawn.

C.Q.:
We can have breakfast.

H.H.:
That’s very nice, but…

C.Q.:
I can arrange it with George Swine. He could have it laid out.

H.H.:
Well, thank you so much. Goodnight.

C.Q.:

You have a most interesting face. Goodnight.
__________________________________

“The most normal-looking face I ever saw in my life.”

“Be great to see a normal face, ’cause I’m a normal guy. Be great for two normal guys…to get together…”

“I get sort of carried away, being so normal and all.”

“He’s a really normal, nice sort of guy…
…and I’ve only got to have a normal word in his ear…
…and you’d be surprised what things could happen.”

“I don’t think that at all. I think you’re really normal.”

“I don’t think that at all. I think you’re really normal.”

………………………

“Fellow students describe the Lebanese man, who was arrested Saturday on suspicion of terrorism, as ‘completely normal.'”

“Normal.”

“Completely normal.”

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