:16:00
I see. Dry law.
Alcoholism is a scourge of mankind.
:16:06
All right, we'll drink beer.
:16:10
Is he with us?
:16:12
Never mind, he'll sober up.
He needs to go there, too.
:16:24
Are you really a professor?
:16:27
If you don't mind.
:16:28
Then let me introduce myself.
My name is...
:16:33
Your name is Writer.
:16:35
Well. And what is my name?
:16:37
Yours? Professor.
:16:41
I see. I'm a writer,
:16:44
so, naturally, everyone calls me
Writer for some reason.
:16:47
- And what do you write about?
- About the readers.
:16:51
Obviously, there's nothing else
one should write about.
:16:53
One should write about nothing at all.
:16:57
And what are you? A chemist?
:17:02
A physicist rather.
:17:04
That must be boring, too.
Searching for the truth.
:17:09
It's hiding and you keep searching
for it.
:17:13
You dig in one place -- eureka!
The nucleus is made of protons.
:17:17
You dig in another -- great!
:17:19
Triangle ABC equals
Triangle A-prim, B-prim, C-prim.
:17:24
With me it's quite different.
:17:27
While I am digging for the truth,
so much happens to it
:17:33
that instead of discovering the truth
:17:35
I dig up a heap of, pardon...
I'd better not name it.
:17:45
You're lucky!
:17:47
But imagine some antique pot
displayed in a museum.
:17:50
It was used at its time
as a receptacle of food leftovers,
:17:53
but now it's an object of
universal admiration
:17:57
for its laconic pattern
and unique form.