Goldfish Memory
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:01:14
You know goldfish have only
a three second memory.

:01:18
That means if it takes 3 seconds
to swim around the bowl...

:01:21
everything is new.
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Each time two goldfish meet
it's like it's the first time.

:01:26
It's just like humans really.
:01:29
Each time we fall in love it's as
if we're doing it for the first time.

:01:32
Some kind of chemical reaction
kicks in and wipes out...

:01:35
all the memories of how painful
the last heartbreak was...

:01:38
and we think, "Wow! This is great,
this is new, this is different!"

:01:45
Like women,
forgetting the pain of childbirth.

:01:47
Lovely, so we never change,
or learn, or grow.

:01:51
We simply go round and round
repeating the same mistakes...

:01:53
until we die?
What's the point?

:01:56
- Love.
- What is love?

:02:00
I brought you a present.
:02:03
Tom...
:02:05
- Rilke's poems?
- Yes.

:02:08
In German?
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Yes. With facing translations.
:02:13
- Thanks.
- Here, look at page 23.

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"Again and Again".
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"Again and Again
Even knowing the landscape of love

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And the little churchyard there
With it's sorrowing names

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And the hauntingly silent abyss
Into which the others descend..."

:02:31
I would think something more like...
:02:34
...champagne.
- I know, bubbles.

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Coo-coo!
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- Holy Mother of God!
- I'm so sorry! I'm sorry.

:02:48
Yeah, look, you're fine.
:02:51
Sorry.
:02:55
Typical.

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