:44:00
I adore simple pleasures.
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They are the last refuge
of the complex.
:44:05
But, if you wish,
let us stay here.
:44:07
Yes, let us stay here.
:44:09
The Book of Life begins
:44:10
with a man and a woman
in a garden.
:44:13
It ends with Revelations.
:44:15
Yes. Mr Tree, may I?
:44:17
I'm delighted that you find
my lines funny.
:44:19
But please don't try and make
the audience laugh with them.
:44:22
They should sound completely
spontaneous and natural,
:44:25
as though people spoke
like that all the time.
:44:27
Yes, of course.
:44:30
Let's try again.
:44:31
You should break
with Bosie more often, Oscar.
:44:34
Then we'd have more
:44:36
of your spontaneous
and natural plays.
:44:39
Bosie was envious.
:44:41
That's why
he stopped Oscar working.
:44:43
- That's not true.
- 'Course it is.
:44:45
His poems aren't nearly
as good as you pretend.
:44:48
And he knows it.
:44:49
He's just a shallow little...
:44:51
Rivulet.
:44:54
Bosie's a child.
A vulnerable child.
:44:56
He needs love.
:44:58
We all need love.
:45:00
But which of us can give it?
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# We wish you a merry Christmas
:45:11
# And a happy New Year
:45:13
# Good tidings we bring
:45:15
# To you and your kin
:45:18
# We wish you a merry Christmas
:45:20
# And a happy New Year! #
:45:24
Cracker time!
:45:25
It is cracker time.
:45:27
Oh, I won this time!
:45:29
And the giant's heart melted
:45:31
as he looked out.
:45:32
"How selfish I have been,"
he said.
:45:35
"Now I know why the Spring
would not come here.
:45:38
"I will put that little boy
on top of the tree
:45:40
"and I will
knock down the wall
:45:42
"and my garden shall be
the children's playground
:45:45
"for ever and ever. "
:45:46
He was really very sorry
:45:48
for what he had done.
:45:51
This is really nice.
:45:53
So he crept downstairs
:45:54
and opened the front door
quite softly
:45:57
and went out into the garden.
:45:59
The little boy
did not run away