A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman Page #3

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that moved downstairs

next door to the chemist in Wimbledon,

nearly opposite the Gantleys.

Shut up.

Do you realise that if you look out there

on a very clear day,

you can't quite see Denmark?

I think we should get the haddock.

Will you shut up

about the bloody haddock?

- Why is it that every bloody year...

- Language.

Every year our summer holiday

consists of two weeks

in Scarborough, Filey or Bridlington,

sitting in a car in the rain, bickering.

- Why don't we go to bloody Denmark?

- Language!

- We did promise haddock.

- Oh, all right!

We'll go and get your bloody, flaming,

bloody haddock!

Trouble with you two is you don't

appreciate the beauties of nature.

What's that you've got back there?

It's a book.

"I, Biggles", by Captain W E Graves.

Captain, eh?

Mm. That sounds better.

Everything OK, skipper?

Tell you what, old man.

Having a bit of trouble with this.

Could you just pop your hand down

my Mae West, old tapir?

Well, if that's an order, old guillemot.

- It is.

- Righty-O.

Here it comes, old bison.

- Don't stop now! I'm nearly there.

- So am I!

- What about me?

- Oh, f*** off, Ginger.

To heck with the lot of them.

I'll just jolly well sit down here

and improve the bally old mind a little,

don't you know.

"The Complete Works

of Captain W E Johns".

"How to speak English

in other languages".

"The Interpretation of Dreams",

by Sigmund Freud.

In the following lecture,

I, Sigmund Freud,

shall prove the entire psychology

of man can only be understood

with a reference

to the science of navigation.

Spot on.

In relation to this,

I remember a young adolescent

who was having reoccurring dreams

about flying.

A fictional aviator called Bigglesworth

and his companions

are attempting to escape

from a Focke-Wulf

which is pursuing them

and shooting at them.

A typical dream recall of a particularly

exciting episode

of an adventure story for boys.

Or so it would seem.

Let's look at the dream more closely.

The first thing we notice

is that throughout the scene

we see navigational elements

hidden not so far below the surface.

A compass, indicating

the plane's direction of travel.

A map behind the aviators

telling them where they are going.

All unmistakable symptoms

of a navigational obsession.

Note also the use

of zoological terminology

in their navigational exchange

with one another.

"Old bison," "old tapir"

and even "old guillemot"

clearly indicates a yearning for a

pre-rational animal state of existence

in which navigation

is not yet distinguishable

from simply running around.

The boy patient clearly identifies himself

with the minor character, Ginger,

who is excluded from the adventure

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