:22:01
But life can be quite abstract
at times, wouldn't you agree?
:22:05
How do you mean?
:22:07
Sometimes "life," as you say,
won't be captured
:22:11
by the forms and lines
of traditional representation,
:22:14
- especially not these days.
- I disagree completely.
:22:18
Art should only ever reflect
the eternal values
:22:21
and the natural laws,
especially these days.
:22:25
But aren't these eternal values
:22:27
and natural laws
in flux these days?
:22:30
Aren't they meant to be
shrinking and expanding?
:22:33
What are you, some kind
of intellectual wet fart?
:22:37
The eternal values are:
harmonious proportions;
:22:41
nobility and dignity;
:22:43
and the continuation
of the cultural evolution,
:22:46
where each generation stands
upon the shoulders of the next
:22:50
and improves the work
of the last.
:22:54
But this is...
:22:57
10,
:22:58
no, 100 steps backwards.
:23:01
This is the undoing
of the previous generations.
:23:05
This is filth!
This is blood poisoning.
:23:08
Are you a friend
of Marinetti's?
:23:10
ls that what this is about?
:23:12
Yes? Some sort of mad
reverse futurist?
:23:17
- Futurists?
- Yes, ltalians.
:23:19
They experienced the war
"pictorially."
:23:22
Like you, l'm hoping.
:23:26
Some of the ltalians
fought well.
:23:34
He served, right?
:23:36
Grosz? Yes he did,
Grenadier Guards, I think.
:23:39
- Bolshie, huh?
- No, not really.
:23:42
- Just pissed off.
- Oh, yeah.
:23:45
What's he pissed off about?
:23:47
He thinks people should have
the right to strike.
:23:50
And you, Rothman?
:23:52
- Are you pissed off?.
- About the right to strike?
:23:56
No, about your arm.
:23:59
You were gonna
be a painter, right?