00:00A CIDADE NO BRASIL
00:30Please, come in. Sit down.
00:35Do you know, I haven't been in this room for years.
00:38It was after my mother died. You visited us.
00:41Was it?
00:42My mother died quite suddenly, after my father. I don't know if you remember.
00:48Yes, you came to tea, for tea, with me and my sister, Elizabeth.
00:52We walked in the garden.
00:54You know, you probably had no idea at the time, but you made my whole world a little bit brighter that day.
01:02I remember it very distinctly. Very fondly.
01:06I do remember it. I remember everything.
01:10Oh, do you remember me running after you?
01:14Remind me?
01:14So embarrassed about it afterwards. I'm quite glad you don't remember.
01:18It was on the Lycliffe Road, and I spotted you and I raced after you to invite you to tea.
01:25Afterwards I thought, oh, how silly and foolish I must have seemed to you.
01:31Now you've said it, I only remember thinking how animated you looked.
01:38Shall I sit here?
01:49You must miss your sister.
01:51Yes, I do.
01:54She writes as often as she can, but she has three little ones now.
01:59Three?
02:00So, of course, she's very busy.
02:02Motherhood.
02:04What a delight.
02:08I'm very fond of children, but I'm not sure that I'd want to...
02:16What?
02:19Give birth.
02:20No.
02:22No, it's not something I've ever felt compelled to do.
02:26I dissected a baby once.
02:32Sorry?
02:32In Paris.
02:35It was dead, obviously.
02:38This was four years ago.
02:40I was...
02:41I am fascinated by the science of George Cuvier, the anatomist and paleontologist.
02:46I couldn't attend university officially being the wrong sex, so he gave me private instruction
02:53in my etic apartment, on my left bank.
02:54I've always been fascinated by the human body, how it works, especially the brain.
03:05The brain is the most extraordinary organ, and when you see one, it's just meat, awful like
03:11the rest of our corporeal form.
03:13And yet, what the brain does in one day, in one hour, in one second, right now, everything
03:21you see, hear, think, feel, desire in any one moment is all processed and retained in
03:28this one lump of stuff inside the skull.
03:31Your skull, my skull.
03:32You think about it.
03:34Isn't it exciting that we can think at all?
03:37The brain of even the smallest animal is ridiculously sophisticated, but the human brain...
03:43We have language, we invent, we analyse.
03:47We build cathedrals and cities and society.
03:51We write music and poetry.
03:55We fall in love.
03:56Aren't we lucky to be alive, to have life?
04:02Isn't every tiny moment an inexplicable delight, packed with potential?
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