Obselidia Page #3

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put it online, believe me.

So did you interview

any fishermen yet?

-Uh, fishermen?

-Well, there's practically

no fish left, so.

What about Lonesome George?

-Uh, who's Lonesome George?

-You never heard

of Lonesome George.

Well, Lonesome George

is quite likely

the last giant turtle

of the Galapagos.

He's like 75 years old

now and he'll probably

last another 100 years,

completely alone.

-Wow.

Is that true?

[kettle whistling]

-I think that's the water.

-Yes.

-So I'm going to this

museum this afternoon,

and I wondered if

you wanted to come.

-Which one?

-The Museum of

Jurassic Technology.

Do you know it?

GEORGE:
Jurassic Technology?

That's ridiculous.

-Yes, it's kind

of a weird place.

-So is it a hoax?

-I'm not sure, exactly.

-I'm kind of busy

this afternoon.

-Reading about the

end of the world?

-I have to post a letter.

-You still use snail mail.

-I don't think Mr.

Fordham has an email.

-The author of the book?

So we can post it on the way.

Come on, it'll be fun.

My car or yours?

[music playing]

[bells tinkling]

-Wow, they're beautiful.

-I think that's a

Delias eucharis.

-I always wanted

to be able to fly.

-Hm.

-"Telling the Bees.

If a member of the family

dies, the bees in their hives

must be told, or they will die.

The procedure is that as soon

as the master has breathed his

last, a member of the

household must visit the hives

and whisper three times, 'Little

brownies, little brownies,

your master is dead.'"

-Hm.

SOPHIE:
They look so real.

I'd love to live

in one of those.

GEORGE:
I prefer the

feeling of permanence

a real home gives you.

SOPHIE:
But what about freedom?

NARRATOR (ON RECORDING): In his

three-volume book, "Obliscence,

Theories of Forgetting, and

the Problem of Matter"--

-Can you hear anything?

NARRATOR (ON

RECORDING):
Sonnabend

departed from previous memory

research with the premise

that memory is an illusion.

-Mine doesn't work.

SOPHIE:
Share mine.

NARRATOR (ON

RECORDING):
Experience.

From this perspective,

we, amnesiacs all,

condemned to live in an

eternally fleeting present,

have created the most elaborate

of human constructions--

memory-- to buffer ourselves

against the intolerable--

-Do you understand this?

NARRATOR (ON RECORDING): Of the

irreversible passage of time.

-Mm-hm.

NARRATOR (ON RECORDING):

And the irretrievability

of its movements and events.

Sonnabend did not--

-Do you think it's true?

NARRATOR (ON RECORDING):

Deny the experience of memory

existed.

-What?

-That it's forgetting

that saves us?

NARRATOR (ON RECORDING):

Was predicated

on the idea that

what we experience--

-I don't think that's

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