:47:01
Well, could they not train a tall chimpanzee to do that?
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Or, a small chimpanzee with a bigger gizmo?
:47:07
I suppose they could, yes.
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What's your name, son?
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- Brian.
- Hallo Brian - Johnny.
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Well, Brian, congratulations, you've succeeded in convincin' me
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that you do 'ave the most tedious fuckin' job in England.
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Come on.
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- Yes! It is a boring job! Bloody boring, actually.
- All right! All right!
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But all you can see is the tip of the iceberg.
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The present. The tedious here and now.
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What you're not capable of seeing is the rest of time - the rest of the iceberg.
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The past and the future.
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My future. Which is a very interesting place to be.
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And the good thing about this job is that it gives me time and space
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to contemplate the future at my leisure.
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Whilst the city sleeps.
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Free from cacophonous curiosity of the hoi polloi.
:48:00
So you see, it's not a boring job.
:48:04
And I'm not boring, either.
:48:06
Am I allowed to smoke on the stairs?
:48:08
No. There's alarms all over the building.
:48:12
So you think you can make the present palatable by projectin' into the future?
:48:15
You're living in the past, pal. It's the future that fucks you up, Brian.
:48:18
It's the maggot in the apple.
:48:21
See, you're all pissed off with the present, Bri, and there's nothing wrong with the present.
:48:24
The present's fine. The present's perfect.
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The present's peachy-fuckin'-creamy.
:48:28
The only thing wrong with the present is the bastard doesn't exist,
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Because the present is the future, and the future is the past.
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And it's all the same fuckin' bag of bones anyway.
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It's a constant process of comin' into bein' and passin' away, comin' into bein' and passin' away.
:48:41
The future is now.
:48:42
But the present does exist. We're in it, now.
:48:44
You were just then when you said it, but you're not in it now, you're not in it now, you're not in it now. You're forever being kicked up
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the arse by the future. Are you with me?
:48:50
That's what I mean. See, I'm in the present.
:48:54
But I'm not in the present. I'm in the future.
:48:58
Exactly.