:02:02
Mind you, if you're kinky
for northern hygiene which l am...
:02:05
you can hardly find anything more
compelling than a Scottish lady dentist.
:02:08
lt's you who are wicked, you know.
:02:11
Not at all.
:02:12
She got exactly the same from me.
Antiseptic proficiency.
:02:16
l was like that in those days.
:02:18
l see us in our wedding photograph...
:02:21
Dr. and Dr. MacBrisk.
:02:23
We were brisk in our wooing, brisk in
our wedding, brisk in our disappointment.
:02:27
We turned from each other briskly
into our separate surgeries.
:02:31
And now, there's a nice, brisk nothing.
:02:35
You never had children, did you?
:02:41
No.
:02:43
We did not go in for them.
:02:48
lnstead she sits and knits things
for orphans in some home...
:02:51
and l sit opposite turning over the pages
of books on mythical Greece.
:02:55
Mentally, we're in different parts
of the world.
:02:58
She's forever in some drizzly chapel
of her own inheriting...
:03:01
and l'm in some Doric temple,
clouds tearing through the pillars...
:03:04
eagles bearing prophesies out of the sky.
:03:06
She finds all that repulsive.
:03:08
All that my wife has ever taken
from the Mediterranean...
:03:11
from that whole, vast, intuitive culture...
:03:15
are four bottles of Chianti
to make into lamps...
:03:17
and two china condiment donkeys
labeled Sally and Pepe.
:03:22
Now you're being cruel.
:03:35
l wish...
:03:36
there was somebody in this life
l could show...
:03:40
one...
:03:41
instinctive, absolutely unbrisk person
that l could take to Greece...
:03:45
and stand in front of certain shrines
and sacred streams and say:
:03:50
''Look...
:03:52
''life is only comprehensible
through a thousand...
:03:55
''local gods.
:03:57
''Not just the old, dead gods,
with names like Zeus...