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:03:00
Just keep tight hold of me,
and it'll be all right!

:03:03
You won't keep still!
:03:05
I "can't" keep still!
:03:06
I can't catch up
with you!

:03:08
Speed up!
:03:09
Oh!
:03:11
Whoo!
:03:30
Iris, you've got bicycle oil
on your ankle.

:03:33
- I don't care, John.
- Oh.

:03:35
Those of you,
our guests,

:03:37
on whose magnificent
generosity we depend...

:03:40
we really are most
frightfully grateful...

:03:43
will need no introduction
:03:45
to one of our most
distinguished graduates

:03:48
and an honourary fellow,
Dame Iris Murdoch.

:03:51
She's a noted philosopher
:03:53
as well as author
of some 26 novels,

:03:57
and we are honoured
to have her with us today,

:04:00
as well as the distinguished
Wharton professor of literature,

:04:04
who has the great good fortune
of being married to her.

:04:08
I need to say no more about her
for good wine needs no bush.

:04:12
But she will not
mind comparison

:04:15
with, say, a really fine
vintage Claret.

:04:19
Dame Iris will speak to you
:04:22
about the importance
of education.

:04:35
Education doesn't
make you happy,

:04:38
and nor does freedom.
:04:42
We don't become happy just
because we're free, if we are,

:04:46
or because we've been educated,
if we have,

:04:50
but because education
may be the means

:04:52
by which we realise
we are happy.

:04:55
It opens our eyes,
our ears...

:04:58
tells us where delights
are lurking...


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