The Singing Detective
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1:14:08
You're buffeted by this...
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by that, and it's nothing
to do with you.

1:14:14
You know,
someone you love dies or leaves.

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Then you get ill,
or you get better,

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and the whole time, everywhere,
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there's just this canopy
stretching out over you...

1:14:26
What canopy?
1:14:28
Fate--things as they are.
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lt's irrational,
impersonal.

1:14:34
The rain falls,
the sun shines, the wind blows,

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and if you're out there in it,
that's it.

1:14:42
Things.
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Accident.
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Call it what you like.
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There's damn all
you can do about it.

1:14:57
Well, physically,
you're on the up.

1:15:01
Well...
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Now we have a firm
grasp of the obvious.

1:15:06
Why do you still feel
so disappointed

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in things as they are?
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Things as they are...
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no concern of mine.
1:15:19
You object to the use
of the word ''things''?

1:15:22
Oh, there's a lot of words
l don't like.

1:15:25
Such as?
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Decaffeinated.
1:15:30
Hmm.
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Another?
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Oh, good, good, good.
lndoor games.

1:15:37
Yeah.
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-Word games?
-Yeah, sure.

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l throw you a word, you...
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l come back with
another word.

1:15:43
Yeah, that you associate
with the word that l...

1:15:46
Okay, wait-wait-wait-wait, yeah,
but we got to... agree...

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in advance
that it's meaningless.

1:15:52
Please, there's no diagnostic
value for any of it.

1:15:56
Fine.

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