A Brilliant Young Mind Page #7

to cheer on Team Nathan.

Go, Nathan!

Anyway, um, I'll be

waiting outside and...

Best of luck, darling.

There's no such thing as luck.

No.

Nathan.

I'm gonna be circling, so I'll try and

slip you some of the answers, all right?

That's cheating.

You know I was joking.

You're gonna be all right.

Four hours and 30

minutes. You may begin.

"4n squared trains are

arranged in a 2n x 2n square"

"and each is painted with

one of four colours."

"Every 2 x 2 square of trains

involves each of the four colours."

"Every 2 x 2 square of trains..."

"Every 2 x 2 square of trains

involves each of the four colours."

"Prove that the trains..."

"Prove that the trains on the

corners of the 2n x 2n square"

"are painted with

different colours."

It must be hard to lose someone

that you love so much.

What's the matter, mate?

Nathan?

Nathan!

Nathan!

Open the door.

Martin, open the door!

Open the door, Martin. Martin!

Martin!

Nathan?

Nathan!

- Where's he going?

- I don't know.

He just wanted to go, Julie.

I could see it in his eyes.

And I'm sorry, I didn't

wanna stop him. I'm sorry.

It's okay.

Nathan?

Nathan?

Zhang Mei said

that she liked me.

Right.

That's a...

That's a good thing, isn't it?

And do you... Do you

think that you might

have those kind

of feelings, too?

I don't know.

I've been trying to

work it out. But...

I found a formula. I

just can't understand it.

Well, as far as I know,

Nathan, no one ever has.

I know that when...

When I'm around her,

my brain works differently.

And my body feels strange and I don't

know what it means or why it matters.

Why it matters?

It matters because...

Well, when...

When somebody loves you,

it means that they see

something in you...

That they think is worth

something. So it sort of...

It adds value to you.

But it can be hard...

You know, when you

love someone and they...

They show no sign that they

love you back, then it's

Then it's unequal. Or, um...

When... When

someone you love...

Is subtracted from you...

Then it feels like, you know, that

your value is less than it was.

Does that make sense?

Why did he have to go?

I don't know.

- It just doesn't make sense.

- I know.

It never will. It

was an accident.

Things made sense

when I was with him.

But why? Why...

What did he do that I don't?

How did he make sense

of things for you?

Nathan?

I don't know, he

made me laugh and...

He stuck chips up his nose.

What?

He stuck chips up his nose?

Okay, well, I'll stick

a chip up my nose.

Talk to me now?

Nathan?

Nathan.

Nathan, it's all right. It's okay.

It hurts.

I know, darling. Me, too.

Come here.

It's all right.

It's all right, it's all right,

good boy. It's okay.

Hey, hey.

Where is Zhang Mei now?

She... She's gone to the station.

Do you wanna fetch her back?

Yeah.

Okay, we'd better be quick.

What?

Nothing.

Miss you terribly already Miss

the space between your eyelids.

Where I'd stare through

awkward sentences

And avoid through awkward silence

Miss your teeth when they chatter

when we smoked out in my garden.

When we couldn't sleep

for all the heat.

Soft talk began to harden

Miss your small hands

in the palm of mine

The fact they're good at making

Miss your sitting up incessantly

And the fact you're always

waking in the night.

The night

And I

I hope for your life

You forget about mine

Forget about mine

Miss your teeth dug

in my shoulder

As we rolled in early mornings

Miss your arm dying beneath me.

As I lay there, simply yawning

Please forget me

You were right, dear

I am cold and self-involved

And though I'll miss

you, recent lover

I am weak and therefore cold

Get distracted by my music

Think of nothing else but art

I'll write my loneliness in poems

If I can just think how to start

Dot my I's with eyebrow pencils

Close my eyelids, hide my eyes

I'll be idle in my ideals

Think of nothing else but!

And I

And I

And I

I hope for your life.

You can forget about mine

Just forget about mine

And mine

Mine

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