:55:02
don't just stand there grinning
like monkeys. Do sit down.
:55:13
- Professor...
- Please, call me Catherine.
:55:16
- What 's your name?
- Strother. Michael Strother.
:55:21
Are you famous?
:55:23
No.
:55:25
Pity. Is she?
:55:28
No, I'm not famous, either.
:55:29
We're doing some research.
We've been reading your book.
:55:32
- Oh, yes? Which one?
- "The Hidden Light".
:55:36
Not my best.
:55:38
We are specifically interested
in Francis Paladine.
:55:42
A great man.
:55:45
Greatly misunderstood.
:55:48
Do you know of any active
followers of his ideas?
:55:52
Half the population
of Silicon Valley.
:55:55
I'm sorry?
:55:57
Naturally none of them
have ever heard of him...
:55:59
but they're all trying to download
their consciousness into computers.
:56:03
Or so I read.
:56:05
Paladine was after
the same kind of transfer.
:56:10
5OO years ago.
:56:13
Well, only his method was supposed
to work from man to man.
:56:18
Why?
:56:21
How old were you when you first
realized that one day you would die?
:56:29
We'd also like to ask you about
a19th century church architect...
:56:32
called Lippard-Smith.
:56:36
Not a great man.
:56:39
He built ten indifferent
churches around London.
:56:42
Was he interested in the occult?
:56:46
Not as much as he was
in prostitution.
:56:48
Was Lippard-Smith
a follower of Paladine?
:56:56
I'm tired.