Six Degrees of Separation
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1:44:01
He's in trouble, and we don't
know how to help him.

1:44:04
Help him? My God! We could
have been killed. Throats slashed.

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You were attracted to him.
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Oh, please. Cut me out
of that pathology right now.

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Attracted by his youth, his talent,
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and the embarrassing prospect
of being in the movie of Cats.

1:44:21
Well... that, yes. Yes.
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Did you put that in your Times piece?
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And we turn him into an anecdote
to dine out on, like we're doing right now!

1:44:32
But it was an experience.
I will not turn him into an anecdote.

1:44:37
How do we keep what happens to us?
1:44:40
How do we fit it into life
without turning it into an anecdote?

1:44:45
With no teeth, and a punch line
you'll mouth over and over for years.

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"Oh, that reminds me of that impostor."
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"Oh, tell the one about that boy."
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And we become these human jukeboxes,
spilling out these anecdotes.

1:44:59
But it was an experience.
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How do we keep the experience?
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That's why I love paintings.
1:45:13
Cézanne, the problems he brought up then
are the problems painters still deal with.

1:45:18
Colour. Structure.
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Those are problems.
1:45:23
There is colour in my life,
but I'm not aware of any structure.

1:45:27
What are you saying, darling?
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Cézanne would leave
blank spaces in his canvases

1:45:35
if he couldn't account
for the brush stroke...

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couldn't... give a reason for the colour.
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Then I am a collage
of unaccounted-for brush strokes.

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I... am all...
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random.
1:45:52
- Excuse me.
- Ouisa!

1:45:54
- Do sit down!
- Excuse me, please.

1:45:57
Ouisa!

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