:11:05
And now, now I'm ready.
:11:09
The downside of coming off junk
was I knew...
:11:12
I would need to mix
with my friends again...
:11:14
in a state
of full consciousness.
:11:16
It was awful.
:11:18
They reminded me so much of myself
I could hardly bear to look at them.
:11:21
Take Sick Boy, for instance.
He came off junk at the same time as me.
:11:24
Not because he wanted to,
you understand, but just to annoy me.
:11:27
Just to show me how easily
he could do it.
:11:29
Thereby, downgrading my own struggle.
:11:32
Sneaky fucker,
don't you think?
:11:34
And when all I wanted to do was
lie there and feel sorry for myself...
:11:37
he insisted on telling me once again
about his unifying theory of life.
:11:41
It's certainly a phenomenon
in all walks of life.
:11:44
What do you mean?
:11:46
Well, at one point, you've got it,
then you lose it.
:11:51
And it's gone forever.
All walks of life.
:11:54
Georgie Best, for example,
had it, lost it.
:11:57
Or David Bowie or Lou Reed.
:12:00
Lou Reed.
Some of his solo stuff's not bad.
:12:02
No, it's not bad,
but it's not great either, is it?
:12:05
And in your heart you kind of know
that although it sounds all right...
:12:08
it's actually just shite.
:12:13
So, who else?
:12:16
- Charlie Nicholas, David Niven,
Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley -
- Okay, okay, okay.
:12:21
So what is the point
you're trying to make?
:12:23
All I am trying
to do, Mark...
:12:27
is to help you understand that "The
Name of the Rose" is merely a blip...
:12:31
on an otherwise uninterrupted
downward trajectory.
:12:34
What about
"The Untouchables"?
:12:37
- I don't rate that at all.
- Despite the Academy Award?
:12:42
That means fuck-all.
It's a sympathy vote.
:12:48
So, we all get old.
We can't hack it anymore and that's it?
:12:52
- Yeah.
- That's your theory?
:12:56
Yeah.
:12:59
Beautifully fucking illustrated.