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Rose is very kindly giving us a ride
into town this afternoon
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to see how long it's going to be.
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These flies are
remarkably persistent.
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I just...ate one, I think.
Came in on me honey.
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Made me feel funny...
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in me tummy.
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- May I speak?
- Briefly.
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I just wondered if you'd be
interested in today's editorial?
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I try to ignore the press
as much as I can.
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Isn't it hard
to sustain your vision
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when it flies so completely
in the face of public opinion?
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So the arrows of your detractors
bounce off, do they?
:26:48
Vanity is a formidable armour.
:26:54
Oh, here we go.
:26:56
"The excesses of Lindsay have
long been a source of consternation
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"to clean-living citizens
of this country.
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"He paints people who seem to be
slaves of cocaine or similar,
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"which has reduced them to
frenzied and shameless morbidity.
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"Today, however, not content with
scorning standards of public decency,
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"he profanes the most sacred image
of Christianity, the Crucifixion."
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As if I give a damn about
these Wesleyans, these wowsers.
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Well, it's quite a lot of people
who hold the Crucifixion sacred.
:27:28
- Anyway, you're busy.
- Mr Campion, I am an artist
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and I refuse to be compromised by
the scruples of the public!
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- Scruples or beliefs?
- And this Crucifixion business.
:27:39
When I was a boy,
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my mother used to try to instruct us
on the sad story of Jesus,
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how He died on the cross for us.
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My whole being rose in revolt
against the idea!
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It's a vile notion
that a god should sacrifice himself
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for the sins of mankind,
it's a pestilent notion.
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- Well, I couldn't agree with that.
- Hang on.
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As for the suffering my poor pictures
will cause a few people,