The Loved One (1965)

Anjanette Comer: Aimee Thanatogenous

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• Dennis Barlow : Aimee, wait. Now, my dear girl, don't you realize, it's only been money that's been holding me back?

  Aimee Thanatogenous : An American would despise himself for living off his wife.

  Dennis Barlow : Yes, but you see, I'm English, and we have none of these prejudices in the older and more developed civilizations.

• Aimee Thanatogenous : And here we have the Falls of Xanadu.

  Dennis Barlow : The Falls of Xanadu, funny that Coleridge never mentioned them.

  Aimee Thanatogenous : I beg your pardon?

  Dennis Barlow : Coleridge, the man who wrote the poem.

  Aimee Thanatogenous : I never heard there was a poem. All the names in Whispering Glades were created by the Blessed Reverend.

• Aimee Thanatogenous : I'm afraid my memory's very bad for live faces.

• Aimee Thanatogenous : This entire place is a dream. If the Blessed Reverend had not dreamed it, it would not exist.

  Dennis Barlow : [reading a sign]  "This building, like all others in Whispering Glades is built of cast iron and reinforced concrete.It is certified protection against fire, earthquake and nuclear fission."

  Aimee Thanatogenous : The Blessed Reverend always builds for eternity.

• Aimee Thanatogenous : This is the entire missionary staff of the St. Francis Theological Seminary of Burbank. All massacred.

  Dennis Barlow : All of them?

  Aimee Thanatogenous : Yes, in different parts of the world, over the years, by the regional savages there.

• Dennis Barlow : Tell me, what do you think about when you're out here all by yourself?

  Aimee Thanatogenous : Oh, just death and art.

• Mr. Joyboy : That's the storage room over there. We're gonna enlarge that a bit to put in Mom's big tub, you see.

  Aimee Thanatogenous : Big tub?

  Mr. Joyboy : Yes. A big tub for Mom. I give her sponge baths. I'm going to continue doing that. But I've saved my money and I've ordered a great big tub for Mom.

• Dennis Barlow : Aimee, a poet, an artist, he draws his inspiration from beauty in many forms.

  [gives Aimee a kiss] 

  Aimee Thanatogenous : Dennis, don't! That's not an ethical thing to do.

  Dennis Barlow : Why? Don't Americans kiss?

  Aimee Thanatogenous : Well, of course they kiss. But, what has that got to do with us?

  Dennis Barlow : Everything. You're an American girl. And I'm a man.

  Aimee Thanatogenous : And anyway, this certainly wouldn't be the time or place - for that sort of thing.

  Dennis Barlow : What better time and place could there be? Here we are together. Aimee. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

  Aimee Thanatogenous : Did you just write that?