:49:01
-So, we merely--
-Buy and sell.
:49:04
Buy and sell....
:49:05
Pardon me. Exchange.
:49:10
I see. Gold for ideas.
:49:13
There's something so simple
and naive about all this...
:49:17
...that I suspect there's been
a shrewd guiding intelligence somewhere.
:49:20
Whose idea was it? How did it all start?
:49:25
That, my dear Conway,
is the story of a remarkable man.
:49:29
Who?
:49:32
A Belgian priest
by the name of Father Perrault.
:49:37
The first European to find this place
and a very great man indeed.
:49:42
He is responsible
for everything you see here.
:49:44
He built Shangri-La, taught the natives...
:49:47
...and began our collection of art.
:49:51
In fact, Shangri-La is Father Perrault.
:49:55
When was all this?
:49:58
Way back in 1 713, I think it was...
:50:03
...that Father Perrault stumbled
into the valley, half-frozen to death.
:50:07
lt was typical of the man
that one leg being frozen...
:50:10
...and there being no doctors here,
he amputated the leg himself.
:50:16
He amputated his own leg?
:50:18
Oddly enough, when he had learned
to understand their language...
:50:22
...the natives told him
he could have saved his leg.
:50:25
lt would've healed without amputation.
:50:27
-They didn't actually mean that?
-Yes. They were very sincere about it, too.
:50:31
You see, a perfect body in perfect health
was the rule here.
:50:34
They've never known anything different.
:50:37
What was true for them, they thought
would be true for anyone else living here.
:50:41
Well, is it?
:50:43
Rather astonishingly so, yes.
:50:45
Particularly in the case
of Father Perrault himself.
:50:49
When he and the natives
had finished building Shangri-La...
:50:52
...he was 1 08 years old
and still very active...
:50:54
...in spite of having only one leg.
:50:56
1 08 and still active?
:50:59
You're startled.