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and acute fuckin' neuralgia!
:52:03
What about these toilets - can I smoke in 'ere?
:52:05
No, you fuckin' can't!
:52:07
Let me ask you a question.
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Have you ever had the sense that you've lived in a time different from this one?
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- What you mean like in a past life?
- Could be, yeah.
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Yeah, well, in my past life I was dead.
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Ah, well, you see - I wasn't.
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I know I was here in the past, before I was born.
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So I know I'm gonna be here in the future after I've died.
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I see.
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And in this alternative existence,
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did you still 'ave the same noxious body odour?
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There's no need to be personal. It's what I believe.
:52:30
Shall I tell you what I believe?
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You don't believe anything.
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Oh, I do, Brian.
:52:33
Yeah? What do you believe?
:52:35
Do you think the amoeba ever dreamed that it would evolve into the frog?
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Of course it didn't.
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And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed it's vocal chords
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in order to attract a mate or to retard a predator,
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do you think that that frog ever imagined that that incipient croak would evolve into
:52:50
all the languages of the world,
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into all the literature of the world?
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'Course it fuckin' didn't.
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And just as that froggy could never have possibly conceived of - of Shakespeare,
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we can never possibly imagine our destiny.
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I know what my destiny is.
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Yeah but what you're experiencing, as far as I can gather what with all these manifestations of
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regression and precognition
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and transmigratory astral fuckin' chatterin's,
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is just the equivalent of that first primeval grunt.
:53:17
Because evolution isn't over.
:53:19
Man isn't the fuckin' be-all and fuckin' end-all.
:53:23
Look. If you take the whole of time represented by one year,
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we're only in the first few moments of the 1st of January.
:53:29
There's a long way to go.
:53:31
Only now we're not going to sprout extra limbs and wings and fins
:53:34
because evolution itself is evolving.
:53:36
And whereas you, through some process of extra-sensory recall,
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might imagine that you were some -
:53:42
I dunno, some 17th century little Dutch girl livin' in a windmill in Old Amsterdam,
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one day you'll realize that you've had not just one or two
:53:48
past or future existences,
:53:50
but that you were, and are, everybody and everything that 'as ever been,
:53:54
or will ever be.
:53:56
Hang on a minute. You've just contradicted yourself.
:53:59
Oh, and 'ow'd you make that out?