:11:01
Anything but.
:11:03
My father was an aeronautical engineer.
My mother, a clinical psychologist.
:11:07
What happened?
:11:08
I mean, how did a little kid who saw
visions of Christ turn into a physiologist...
:11:12
...teaching at the Cornell Medical College?
:11:15
I stopped believing.
:11:17
It was very dramatic.
:11:18
My father died a protracted
and painful death of cancer.
:11:24
I was 16 years old
and very fond of my father.
:11:27
I used to race to the hospital
every day after school...
:11:31
...and sit in his room doing my homework.
:11:33
He was very heavily sedated.
:11:36
The last few weeks he was in coma.
:11:42
One day I thought
I heard him say something.
:11:45
I got up and leaned over him...
:11:48
...my ear an inch away from his lips.
:11:51
''Did you say something, Pop?''
:11:56
Then I heard the word he was desperately
trying to say, a soft hiss of a word.
:11:59
He was saying...
:12:04
''...terrible...''
:12:14
''...terrible.''
:12:19
So the end was terrible,
even for the good people like my father.
:12:22
So the purpose of all our suffering
was just more suffering.
:12:28
By dinner time, I had dispensed with God
altogether. I never saw another vision.
:12:37
I haven't told anybody
about this in 10 years.
:12:42
I'm telling you now
because I want you to know...
:12:45
...what sort of a nut
you might be getting mixed up with.
:12:51
Arthur was right.
:12:53
You are a fascinating bastard.