Insignificance Page #7

when he's got to figure out

what is more important...

what he thinks or what he does.

Professor, what...

You out of your mind?

Oh, God!

You lost your life's work.

Your life's work. Are you crazy?

Well, besides that,

I seem to have lost my shoes.

Oh, sh*t.

I don't believe it.

Every time I turn around,

there's a different man in my wife's room.

- Don't I know you?

- Yes, you do.

- Who are you?

- Me? I'm a senator,

and I'm a friend of the professor's.

- You are?

- Yeah.

- Well, then come inside.

- No, you see, I'm in a bit of a hurry.

Listen! Until I talk to my wife about this,

you're gonna come in here unaided...

or I'm gonna knock the sh*t out of you

out here in the hall.

Are you threatening me?

No. I've never had to hit

an intelligent man.

But I'll knock your block off

if you don't get inside.

- Now wait a minute.

- I want to know who you are...

- Professor! Professor!

- What you're doing here.

Professor, will you talk some sense

into this man? Please!

Talk some sense? Between the two of you,

I don't know if sense is possible.

- Who are you?

- Tell this man we're civilized people. Please.

- Well, there shouldn't be violence...

- No.

even against you.

Excuse me. Please. Please.

Do let him go.

His business really was with me. Please.

- Yes. Yes.

- Do. Do let him go. Do let him go.

Honey?

- Honey?

- Yeah?

It's okay. Take your time.

I got it figured out.

I been on a long walk, been thinkin'.

Now, I want a kid, you want a kid.

You know, most of the time...

The problem is you can't stand me

most of the time, right?

Reason is you think I'm stupid. Right?

Well, let me let you in on a little secret.

I am not stupid.

I just enjoy

giving the appearance of being stupid.

You see, from an early age, I've revelled

in the appearance of stupidity...

which has given me

a great deal of time to think.

So I've been thinking.

I got it figured out.

If you want me to smarten up,

I figure you're worth it.

So you go do your movies.

I'II sit at home, I'll read a few good books.

You can come home and quiz me.

How does that sound?

No more TV.

No more TV dinners.

If you like, no more baseball.

You come home. I'II smarten up.

We'll have a couple kids.

Ugh. No more chewing gum.

Oh, honey.

Yeah?

Hey.

It's over.

You think so?

Yeah.

You better call

that laeyer friend of yours.

Yeah, I think so too.

Maybe I am that smart.

You want some advice?

You got to figure out what you want.

Well...

I don't want you.

Well, what do you want?

I don't want to want.

What do you want?

I just want to go.

Don't you understand?

I just want to go.

Hey.

Every five or six packs.

- Thank you.

- Huh?

Let's go down.

- Hi.

- Hello.

Mmm, there was this man.

I know. It was that obnoxious one

from last night.

Did he take your work?

I think he took your work.

- He didn't.

- Thank God.

I threw it out of the window.

What? Oh, you're joking.

No. I did.

And it was great fun.

- You're serious? You threw it away?

- Yes.

- The only copy.

- No.

The fifth.

I don't understand.

It was the fifth copy.

Oh. Then you mean you have more.

Oh, God.

No, I don't have any copies,

because I destroyed all four copies...

all five copies.

But... I'm sorry. I'm not following you.

Uh, each time I've finished the work...

and I've destroyed it and I started over.

Uh, each time,

I remember a little bit more, but...

It's mechanical mathematics.

It's impossible to remember most of it, so...

Now I've destroyed it the fifth time, so...

It's all gone. It's all destroyed.

But... if you've finished it...

and so much as you've studied it...

you'd know how it all fits,

how it all works.

In fact, you'd know everything.

I'm an old man.

I wouldn't survive the publicity.

What I would like to do

is to go to some quiet place and...

just slip over the edge of the world...

the way Columbus never did, unfortunately.

And what your husband said...

if Columbus had done it,

we'd all be Indians.

Cherokee.

But instead, what are we? Americans.

And look at us.

He's the most knowledgeable.

I'm this much knowledgeable.

He's got the most power.

I have very little power.

She's that beautiful.

I'm this beautiful.

Excuse me. Can I have your autograph?

Yeah, sure.

- Do you have something to write on?

- Yeah, sure. You wanna write that out to...

They will not take responsibility

for their world.

They want to put it all

on the shoulders of a few.

And I tell you, the weight

of all those worlds...

Look. What...

Stop talking so goddamn smart.

I've heard enough.

It... It just sounds like words.

I've heard enough of your words.

I came here to know you,

and all you've done is hide behind words!

Now, what are you hiding from?

- Nothing.

- Don't lie to me.

- Listen. It's...

- What are you hiding from?

- What are you afraid of?

- Nothing.

Liar! What are you afraid of?

Tell me!

The center of the impact

was in the center of the city.

And the boiling continued

several minutes as we watched.

Then the mushroom of smoke broke off,

and another developed beneath it.

- There is something.

- What?

- A thought.

- Tell me.

- Please.

- No.

Tell me.

We made vast distance

between the target and ourselves.

We breathed a sigh of relief

when we knew it had worked.

The explosion was a big ball of fire.

One of the crew members said, "My God"...

We burned children.

No.

You're not responsible for that.

You don't believe

you're responsible for that?

Tell me the truth.

There's something even worse.

What could be worse?

I... I don't know...

but I must not think about it.

I gotta go.

Hey.

- Do you wanna hear my lines?

- Hmm?

Okay.

l, er... I take the pot roast from the oven.

I hear the doorbell.

I run across the apartment,

removing my apron.

I kiss the man...

I disappear?

No words.

Look, It's over.

They'll never use those things again.

They simply never will.

They always have.

No, it's different now.

I mean, figure it out.

All those people

with their fingers on the button...

are the same people who own

all the stuff that'd get blown to blazes.

- So they'll never do it.

- Hmm.

Unless, of course, they figured out a way

to blow up the people...

and leave the buildings standing...

which they can't.

Bye.

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