1:15:02
Miss Bearing, Jason and I are here,
we'll insert a catheter to collect urine.
1:15:06
- It won't hurt, so don't worry.
- Like she can hear you.
1:15:09
- It's just nice to do.
- Eight cycles of Hex and Vin at full dose.
1:15:12
Kelekian didn't think it was possible.
1:15:15
I wish they'd all go full throttle,
then we'd have some data.
1:15:17
She's not what I imagined.
1:15:19
I thought someone who studied poetry
would be more dreamy.
1:15:22
Not the way she did it.
1:15:23
Her course was more like
boot camp than English.
1:15:26
John Donne was incredibly intense.
1:15:28
Your whole brain
had to be in knots before you could get it.
1:15:31
- He made it hard on purpose?
- It has to do with subject matter.
1:15:34
The Holy Sonnets we worked on mostly
were mainly about salvation anxiety.
1:15:37
That's a term I made up
in one of my papers...
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but I think it fits pretty well.
1:15:41
He's this brilliant guy, I mean brilliant.
1:15:43
He makes Shakespeare
sound like a Hallmark card.
1:15:46
And you know you're a sinner.
1:15:47
There's a promise of salvation,
the whole religious thing.
1:15:50
But you can't deal with it.
1:15:51
- How come?
- Because it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
1:15:54
But you can't face life without it,
so you write these screwed-up sonnets.
1:15:58
Like a game to make
the puzzle so complicated.
1:16:00
What happens in the end?
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- The end of what?
- To John Donne. Does he ever get it?
1:16:05
- Get what?
- His salvation anxiety.
1:16:07
- Does he ever understand?
- No way.
1:16:09
The puzzle takes over.
You're not even trying to solve it anymore.
1:16:13
Fascinating, really.
Great training for lab research.
1:16:17
Looking at increasing levels of complexity.
1:16:19
- Until what?
- What do you mean?
1:16:21
Do you ever get to solve the puzzle?
1:16:23
No. When it comes down to it,
research is just trying to quantify...
1:16:27
the complications of the puzzle.
1:16:28
- You help people, you save lives and stuff.
- Sure, I save a guy's life...
1:16:32
and the poor slob goes out
and gets hit by a bus.
1:16:35
Yeah, I guess so.
I just don't think about it that way.
1:16:39
I guess you can tell
I never took a course in poetry.
1:16:42
If there's one thing
we learned in 17th Century Poetry...
1:16:45
you can forget all about
that sentimental stuff.
1:16:48
Enzyme kinetics was more poetic
than Bearing's class.
1:16:50
Besides, you can't just go around...
1:16:53
thinking about that meaning-of-life stuff
all the time. You'd go nuts.
1:16:56
- Do you believe in it?
- Believe in what?
1:16:59
I don't know, the meaning-of-life stuff.