:06:00
Oh, yes, the rising tide.
:06:03
I only hope to God he's right...
:06:05
by God.
:06:13
Come, Victoria. Come.
:06:19
Wagner's utter rubbish.
Fat women with horns on their heads...
:06:22
singing at the tops of their voices...
:06:24
about how happy they are to be dying.
:06:26
It's a horrible noise. And it's unhealthy.
:06:28
But music is about death. It always has been.
:06:30
I think he's trying to provoke us.
:06:32
Go on then, Risley. Enlighten us.
:06:34
A superior mind wouldn't need enlightening.
:06:37
Music is the highest of the arts.
:06:40
It needs no reference to the figurative...
:06:42
or the corporeal.
:06:44
It is therefore, of all the arts,
the closest to death.
:06:48
Wagner's by no means unhealthy.
:06:51
He's merely expressing
most exactly the state of things.
:06:54
Help yourselves to potatoes, Hall.
Don't stand on ceremony.
:06:58
I can't stand music.
:07:00
Or concert halls.
I don't go in for being superior.
:07:03
- Don't you? I do.
- Come along, Chapman. You're in need of food.
:07:08
I expect Lord Risley isn't.
:07:10
I've put him off with my low talk.
:07:15
I simply can't think of a reply to that.
:07:18
What about saying nothing?
:07:21
Say nothing? Horrible.
:07:23
He must be mad.
:07:25
What you do
is more important than what you say.
:07:29
Your deeds are more important
than your words.
:07:32
What is the difference?
Words are deeds.
:07:35
Are you trying to say
that these few minutes talking...
:07:38
in the dean's rooms
have done nothing for you?
:07:43
Will you, for instance,
ever forget that you've met me?
:07:45
You're confusing what is important...
:07:49
with what is impressive.
:07:52
Chapman and Hall will always remember
they've met you. Of that I have no doubt.
:07:56
Exactly. Because of my conversation.
:07:58
Oh, they'll forget that they were engaged
in the act of eating a cutlet.