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:22:09
Sylvia just told me
you're getting a divorce.

:22:13
We're getting separated.
:22:14
We probably won't get around
to the divorce until next year.

:22:17
I know it's none of my business, but why?
:22:21
You're married to a great woman
who adores you.

:22:24
My God, if anybody has it made, you have.
:22:27
You're a respected and admired figure...
:22:29
...a full professor on the faculty
of the Harvard Medical School.

:22:33
For God's sake, is that how you imagine
me? A respected and admired figure?

:22:38
A devoted father? A loving husband?
:22:40
Well, I've also published nearly two papers
a year for the last seven years...

:22:44
...and not a fundamental piece of work
in the lot.

:22:46
I sit around the living rooms
of other young married faculty members...

:22:50
...talking infantile masturbation, who's
sucking up to the head of the department...

:22:54
...whose tenure is hanging by a thread.
:22:58
Emily is content to go on with this life.
:22:59
She insists she's in love with me,
whatever that is.

:23:02
What she means is
she prefers the senseless pain...

:23:05
...we inflict on each other to the pain...
:23:07
...we would otherwise inflict on ourselves...
:23:10
...but I'm not afraid of that solitary pain.
:23:14
If I don't strip myself of all this clatter
and clutter and ridiculous ritual...

:23:18
...I shall go out of my fucking mind!
:23:22
Does that answer your question, Arthur?
:23:24
What question was that?
:23:25
You asked me why I was getting divorced.
:23:27
Listen, it's your life.
:23:30
I'm sorry I even asked.
:23:33
Why don't I call Eccheverria
and we'll all go out and have some dinner?

:23:39
As a matter of fact, Eduardo,
my year in India was disappointing.

:23:43
No matter how you slice it...
:23:44
...yoga's a state-specific technology
operating in the service of...

:23:47
...an a piori belief system....
:23:48
We scientists have a moral obligation to
the public as well as to our own research.

:23:53
It just never occurred to baboons...
:23:54
...that they could shorten that time
to five minutes if they used a stick.

:23:58
Originally, man was just another
savanna-living primate like the baboon.


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