:25:02
Charming. How do you do.
I'm also in the business.
:25:06
My name is Calvero.
Perhaps you've heard of me.
:25:09
You're not the great comedian?
:25:11
I was.
However, we won't go into that.
:25:14
Whatever brought you
to this state of affairs?
:25:17
Ill health, mostly.
:25:18
Then we'll have to get you well.
:25:22
It isn't the ideal spot
for convalescing,
:25:25
but you're welcome to it,
:25:27
if you can put up with being
Mrs. Calvero. In name only!
:25:31
It won't inconvenience you?
:25:33
Not at all.
I've had five wives already.
:25:35
One more or less
makes no difference.
:25:37
Moreover, I've arrived at the age
:25:39
where platonic friendship can be
sustained on the highest moral plane.
:25:48
Now let me see, your mother was
a dressmaker and your father a lord?
:25:54
The fourth son of a lord.
That's quite different.
:25:59
How is it he married your mother?
:26:00
She was
one of the family housemaids.
:26:03
Sounds like a novelette.
:26:05
- Did he have any money?
- No, the family cut him off.
:26:09
So your sister's
the only one living?
:26:11
Yes, and she's in South America.
:26:15
Tell me, was it just ill health
that made you do what you did?
:26:20
- That, and...
- And what?
:26:24
The utter futility of everything.
:26:28
I see it even in flowers,
:26:31
hear it in music.
:26:33
All life aimless,
without meaning.
:26:36
What do you want a meaning for?
:26:39
Life is a desire, not a meaning.
:26:41
Desire is the theme of all life!
:26:44
It makes a rose want to be a rose,
and want to grow like that.
:26:48
And a rock want to contain itself
and remain like that.
:26:55
What are you smiling about?
:26:57
Your imitation
of a rose and a rock.