Metamorphosis Page #2

Now, as far as my experiments

are concerned,

they are based on

the theory of the mechanism

of auto-destruction by Brunet.

A ridiculous theory which was

abandoned by Brunet himself!

He abandoned it because, at the time,

technology for proving it

didn't yet exist.

Today, it is possible.

And you have been successful?

Yes, even if further

experiments are needed.

You mean to say you've successfully

identified the genetic sequence?

- Yes.

- But that's magnificent!

Undoubtedly.

Now, let me see if I have

this right, Dr. Houseman.

If you inhibit that protein,

canceling the genetic code

which creates it,

in practice the cells will

reproduce themselves integrally

and in a constant manner, hmm?

- Yes.

- So then,

the organs would no longer

become diseased.

The cells of the liver, brain,

bones, the skin would

reproduce themselves forever.

Which means that old age

would be defeated.

- And even death.

- Perhaps.

You are not only arrogant

and megalomaniacal,

you're also stupid.

- May I go now?

- Dr. Houseman,

your experiments carried out to date,

on what have they been performed?

On cell cultures.

This I took for granted.

But of what parasite?

No parasites.

On rats, monkeys?

Human embryos.

Those sons of b*tches!

Those bureaucrats!

The only thing they care about

is their soft job,

and that pig Lloyd would trade

his only remaining leg

to see me with my back against the wall.

Perhaps a more

detailed research. One with...

With all the results of the experi...

No!

I want to finish the experiment

and then report on it

when it's unequivocally successful.

Only then will I publish everything.

Don't worry.

We'll find the money somehow.

Even if I have to trade my shoes in.

Well, I certainly hope

it doesn't come to that.

I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

Look for the receipts, Willy,

with the bookkeeper's here.

Forget it, Willy.

I am not the bookkeeper.

Excuse the interruption.

That you are here?

Excuse me, I have some

things I have to do.

I got things I got to do, too.

From the little I understand of your

experiments, they're really extraordinary.

What's that?

That's a computer I supply

with molecular anatomy.

Fantastic. I know as much

about it as I did before.

What does it do?

Are you really interested?

Well, I am going to be 30.

I'd like to stay that way.

Every living organism,

from the moment it is born

begins a slow

and inexorable deterioration,

which I believe is predetermined

by genetic information.

Why predetermined?

From the moment that life

stirred in an organism,

it has no more or no less evolved.

Always adapting itself into

the environment in which it found itself.

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