The Wisdom of Crocodiles
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so you can tell us if there's anyone
we should talk to.

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- Of course.
- One thing, though.

:22:06
If you wouldn't mind
clearing it up,

:22:11
we couldn't find
any social security records.

:22:14
Your name didn't
bring up a number.

:22:19
Could you give it to us,
please?

:22:42
So you tracked me down.
:22:46
Is this why you, uh,
canceled dinner?

:22:48
Concrete. It's a new,
waterproof kind.

:22:51
The drying temperature
is critical.

:22:53
- If you want the job done properly...
- Looks like a lot of work.

:22:57
Yeah.
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Have you noticed with Chinese
restaurants how, the better the food,

:23:07
the more bad-tempered
the waiters?

:23:12
So much for my efforts
to impress you.

:23:15
I should have asked them
to give me a spoon. Look at you.

:23:18
Mmm.
:23:21
My grandfather used
to tell me a story about chopsticks.

:23:25
One night Confucius dreamt that he was
taken to visit the damned in hell.

:23:29
He was very surprised to see that hell
was a beautiful banqueting room...

:23:33
with the damned
sitting around the table,

:23:35
groaning under the weight of the most
delicious food he had ever seen.

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They were allowed to eat anything they
liked, but they had to use chopsticks,

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and the chopsticks
were five foot long.

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The damned were starving,
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staring in agony
at the uneaten food before them,

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knowing that even with all eternity
in which to solve the problem,

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it could not be done.
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And then Confucius
is taken to heaven.


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