:04:00
Excellent.
:04:11
I should have asked more questions.
:04:13
Because I knew
there was going to be a test.
:04:19
- Hi, how you feeling today?
- Fine.
:04:23
Great. That's just great.
:04:29
This is not my standard greeting,
I assure you.
:04:33
I tend toward something
a little more formal...
:04:35
a little less inquisitive.
:04:37
Such as, say, "Hello."
:04:41
But it is the standard greeting here,
so I just say, "Fine."
:04:46
Of course, it is not very often
that I do feel fine.
:04:52
I've been asked, "How are you feeling?"
while throwing up into a plastic basin.
:04:58
I have been asked...
:04:59
as I was emerging
from a four-hour operation...
:05:03
with a tube in every orifice:
:05:06
"How are you feeling today?"
:05:08
I'm waiting for the moment when
I'm asked this question and I'm dead.
:05:13
I'm a little sorry I'll miss that.
:05:20
I have cancer.
:05:22
Insidious cancer,
with pernicious side effects.
:05:25
No, the treatment
has pernicious side effects.
:05:32
I have stage four
metastatic ovarian cancer.
:05:37
There is no stage five.
:05:41
And I have to be very tough.
:05:45
It appears to be a matter,
as the saying goes...
:05:48
of life and death.
:05:51
I know all about life and death.
:05:54
I am, after all,
a professor of 17th century poetry...
:05:59
specializing in
the Holy Sonnets of John Donne...