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So you see, it's not a boring job.
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And I'm not boring, either.
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Am I allowed to smoke on the stairs?
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No. There's alarms all over the building.
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So you think you can make the present palatable by projectin' into the future?
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You're living in the past, pal. It's the future that fucks you up, Brian.
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It's the maggot in the apple.
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See, you're all pissed off with the present, Bri, and there's nothing wrong with the present.
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The present's fine. The present's perfect.
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The present's peachy-fuckin'-creamy.
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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.
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The future is now.
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But the present does exist. We're in it, now.
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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?
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That's what I mean. See, I'm in the present.
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But I'm not in the present. I'm in the future.
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Exactly.
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Has nobody not told you, Brian,
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that you've got this kind of gleeful preoccupation with the future?
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I wouldn't even mind, but you don't even 'ave a fuckin' future.
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I don't 'ave a future. Nobody 'as a future. The party's is over.
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Take a look around you, man. It's all breaking up.
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Are you not familiar with the book of Revelation of St John,
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the final book of the Bible, prophesying the Apocalypse?
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Yes. As it happens, I'm familiar with all the books of the Bible.
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I'm very happy for you
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"He forced everyone to receive a mark on his right hand, or on his forehead,
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so that no one shall be able to buy or sell,
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unless he has the mark, which is the name of the beast.
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Or the number of his name; and the number of the beast is six-six-six.
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- Six-six-six. I know about it
- Great!
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I know about Nostradamus.
Nostradamus talked about three brothers.
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Now, did he mean the Kennedy brothers, or was he talking about three bits of the Soviet Union?
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You see, you just can't tell.
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Fuck Nostradamus! I'm not talking about Nostradamus
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or Mother Shipton or Russell Grant of Mystic fuckin' Meg -
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I'm talking about a Holy fuckin' Book!
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What can such a specific prophecy mean?
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What is the mark?
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Well the mark, Brian, is the bar code,
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the ubiquitous barcode that you'll find on every bog-roll, on every packet of johnnies,