:45:01
I went on that train
expressly to play dice.
:45:04
I tried to persuade a business colleague
of mine to take me to a cockfight.
:45:08
No, he refused, but...
:45:11
- I would have gone.
- Mm-hmm.
:45:13
I set up the table here
like this...
:45:15
as a trap for the stewards
who I know to play... poker.
:45:22
I wished to play with them.
:45:25
The-The-The dice...
:45:27
The dice that you
played on the train...
:45:29
was it Dutch hazards?
:45:33
Yes, it... it was.
:45:38
- We also played another game.
- Old British, perhaps?
:45:42
No. In New South Wales,
it is known as seventh man.
:45:44
- And who provided the Peter?
- The Peter?
:45:48
- The term is unknown to you?
- No, no. I... think it's quite familiar.
:45:53
I thought so.
:45:55
Uh...
:45:57
These, uh, terms,
Mr. Hopkins...
:46:02
Are they also, uh,
familiar to you?
:46:05
- Look, I'm afraid so.
- Well...
:46:08
- This is most improper.
- I don't think so.
:46:11
Um, you have not
absolved me.
:46:13
Where is the sin?
:46:16
We bet!
:46:18
It is all in Pascal, you know.
We bet that there is a God.
:46:20
We bet our life on it.
We calculate the odds, the return...
:46:23
that we shall sit
with the saints in paradise.
:46:26
Our anxiety
about our bet...
:46:28
wakes us before dawn
in a cold sweat...
:46:30
and God,
God sees us suffer.
:46:33
I cannot believe
that such a God whose...
:46:35
whose fundamental requirement
of us is that we gamble our mortal souls.
:46:38
It's true, no, we stake everything
on the fact of his existence.
:46:42
I cannot believe that such
a God can look unkindly on a chap...
:46:45
wagering a few quid
on the likelihood of a dumb animal...
:46:48
crossing the line first,
un-unless...
:46:51
unless it-it-it might
be considered a...
:46:55
a blasphemy to apply
to common pleasure...
:46:58
that which is divine.