1:03:11
I have been thinking seriously recently about the role we are expected to play as individuals and as a unit within the broader outlines of society.
1:03:13
Each of us, of course, feels very strongly as an individual, but l think we could all agree that there is something here that binds us all together. In this way, we are a whole made up of different parts. But in the way that each of us relates to all of us together, all of us together are but a part of society as a whole.
1:03:16
Now l come to my point: each one of us can be in unity with the rest only if there is a leader who can the unifying. When Posterity judges our actions here it will perhaps see us not as unwilling prisoners, but as men who, when faced with the choice, preferred, for whatever reason, to remain as non-contributing individuals on the fringe of society. We must not let this happen, gentlemen. The choice is there, make no mistake about it!
1:03:20
We must first choose a leader to unite us together, and then venture out and return once more as contributing and vital members of the greater organism of society.
1:03:24
Aha!
1:03:29
... because of the great pressure and bad air, they never attain a height greater than four feet although some of them are ferocious fighters and show great courage and skill. Whether they are descendants of those who lost themselves in the superstructure, or whether they are actually a separate race, no one can tell. They depend on their strange appearance and peculiar smell to fend off any intruders, and they make the city shell a most unpleasant place in which to be lost. The authorities tolerate a moderate amount of them at any one time, but they must be kept under control with occasional sweep campaigns, which is probably where this one came from.
1:03:38
Because of the great pressure and bad air, they never attain...
1:03:42
I've got it! Astounding!
1:03:45
What?
1:03:51
No one could have imagined anything one-thousandth as fantastic as the sober facts uncovered by patient inquiry. This world is in a state of static-mobility:we are at the same time moving and standing still.
1:03:56
That's the most ridiculous thing l've ever heard.
1:04:00
It may seem ridiculous to the untrained mind, but if you were able to interpret the calculations you would see that an apparent paradox is actually a perfect and elegant system in concept and design.
1:04:02
However, for myself there is a great deal more that l would like to know. Why is this world as it is and not something else. Why is this world here at all. It is true that at present l have no clue to the answers to questions such as these, but...
1:04:08
There goes another of your disciples.
1:04:11
It seems l am destined to endure many frustrations... but at the same time l am secure in the knowledge that the thrust of my studies has been in the right direction, and that even if it remains incomplete, my search has not been in vain.
1:04:14
Our life is brief and powerless. On all of us, the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent authority rolls on its relentless way. Condemned today to lose our friends, tomorrow ourselves to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only for us to cherish, before the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble this little day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of fate, to worship at the shrine that our own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules our outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a moment, out knowledge and our condemnation, to sustain alone, weary but unyielding, the world that our own ideals have fashioned despite the trampling march of unconscious power.
1:04:16
What is the Freak doing? He chews, but he doesn't seem to eat. The longer it stays, the greater the mess. Nobody lifts a finger. Isn't anybody going to get rid of the damn thing?
1:04:21
All of its leavings are piling up.
1:04:25
I can't do a good job. As soon as l get things cleaned up... it's hopeless, a hopeless task.
1:04:31
LUH 9998
1:04:36
LUH!...
1:04:41
What happened to her? Do you know where she is? Why isn't she here...
1:04:44
What are you thinking?
1:04:47
I'm leaving.
1:04:51
What?
1:04:54
I'm leaving.