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present

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with support from

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in association with

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IN PRAISE OF NOTHING

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a whistleblowing documentary parody

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not exactly in prose

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wherein Nothing

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tries to defend its cause.

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[One day, Nothing runs away
from home, tired of being misunderstood.]

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[It crosses 8 mountains and 8 seas…

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...and arrives in our lost valley.]

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Finally-

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our first

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date.

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Not sure if I came

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early

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or late.

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I've got so much to tell you

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but I'm still wondering how.

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I don't wanna suck up to you

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nor make you bow.

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There has never been a less exciting time

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to be behind a camera,

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on that I agree,

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so let's set up this game
a little bit differently.

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We will skip talking heads
and expert analysis,

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special effects and
cultural paralysis.

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No classic twists,

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no money shots,

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no side characters,

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no subplots.

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No saving the world,

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no noble pretentions,

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just portraits of you and me

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in everyday situations

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And a few lines of comments

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to frame the debate,

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just to make sure

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that you will bite the bait.

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[Nothing slides down a blank page
and descends among us.]

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But who am I
to say "I" or "we"?

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Am I really Nothing

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or just my ego's mercenary?

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They say I can only be
hinted at and never shown

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unlike any other thing
currently unknown.

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But I am actually there in every shot

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If you bother to find me

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If you don't,

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imagine that what you see

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is what I see.

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Or just enjoy the scenery

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and let your mind roam freely.

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And don't worry -

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I certainly won't take it personally.

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[Nothing adjusts its belt.]

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I know I shouldn't start
my sentences with "I"

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and they warned me
not to ask too much "why"

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but I think it's nice
to be an "I" who asks "why"

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so I will try.

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I came from God knows where

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but I too now want everything quickly.

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Can't believe I'm losing my patience

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after being used to eternity.

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Seems like I've caught
a typical local malady -

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some strange sense of entitlement
has gotten hold of me.

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I suddenly feel I deserve more
than I deserved previously

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and I get bothered so easily,

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even my brand new self-image
is ashamed of me.

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I don't flinch at global misery

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but I get disturbed significantly

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by a stray bee
that invades my privacy.

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By a fat person that
dares to walk in front of me.

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By unsupervised
children playing loudly.

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By dishes that don't wash
themselves instantly.

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By a telephone that rings persistently.

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By the size of my best friend's salary.

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By the slightest awareness
of my own hypocrisy...

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I don't know how to deal with this,

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I hope that it's just temporary.

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I almost wish that
someone had warned me,

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but I guess that would have spoiled

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the wisdom

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of discovery.

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[Nothing admits its knowledge of our world
used to be exactly opposite to ours.]

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All I knew about love

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was from letters that were never sent.

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All I knew about faith

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was from scavenging leftovers of dissent.

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All I knew about you

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was from things that you didn't do.

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The words you never said.

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The books you never read.

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The ideas you never picked up.

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The possibilities you never knew.

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Now I see I have a lot to catch up.

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Don't you?

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[We don’t - and Nothing starts to feel rather unwelcome.]

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I feel stalked.

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I feel like a Stalker.

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I wanted to help,

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but you are boycotting my offer.

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Confusion,

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depression,

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emptiness,

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delusion,

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obsession,

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loneliness...

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You are wrong to accuse me
for every line in your psychiatric history.

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Sorry,

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there's no shortcut out of purgatory.

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No V.I.P.,

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no duty-free,

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no return policy,

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no money-back guarantee -

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Just a few lucky stars

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and your own personal gravity.

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Cruising altitude is a mirage,

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the battle rages on,

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whatever the paysage.

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So don't blame me

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when things get hard,

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all I am doing

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is letting you play in my backyard.

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[Nothing is starting to get judgmental.]

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I understand that it is hard to live

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either with or without opinions,

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alone among billions,

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on a tiny star surrounded by trillions.

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All your hopes of
persisting and transcending

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end up in anti-climactic forgetting.

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All your efforts to leave a mark

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become at best

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someone else's spark.

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Realizing how small and
insignificant you are

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cannot be compensated
by the size of your car,

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a big tab at the bar,

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a sexy avatar,

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a smashed guitar

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or one last cigar.

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All I know is that you are afraid,

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that your parking is paid,

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that you want to get laid,

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and that beyond this

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your brain is marmalade.

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[The truth is that Nothing is just as confused as we are,
but it eventually succeeds at grasping human nature.]

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Live a balanced depression

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Consume your fate

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Do what you're told to like

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Don't be late

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Blend your virtues and sins

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Insure your rise and fall

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Hang on to your future

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and broadcast it all.

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[Yet Nothing remains sympathetic to our weaknesses,
and even adopts a few on its own.]

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I like sweating

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I like doubting

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I like cabaret

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I like tabouleh

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I like worn out shoes

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I like prison blues

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I like rakija

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more than wine.

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I like beauty.

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Not necessarily great beauty,

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medium is fine.

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And I have only one thing to say to History:

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The question is not

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how can there be poetry after Holocausts,

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but how can there be Holocausts

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after poetry?!

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[Inspired, Nothing tries to adapt,
but things don’t go so smoothly.]

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I slid into a lake
which was perfectly quiet,

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but they kicked me out

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because all the lakes
are now private.

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I forged a bicycle path
across a new scenery

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but I crashed miserably
when I tried to do it hands free.

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I decided to travel light

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but I ran out of clean underwear
the very first night.

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I endured pain
in front of my buddies

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but the girl went for the one
with more monies.

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I reminded friends
of things that were free

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but they turned each of them
into a profitable industry.

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I wanted to help people
anonymously

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but the cops
shot at me.

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I tried to do everything

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and then something

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and then

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anything

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but it's hard to succeed

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when you are Nothing.

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[Yet Nothing feels too proud to go on welfare.]

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I think I am the ideal candidate
for this job because...

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I feel like a contemporary of
all the great minds in history

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and a resident of the most
photogenic places on earth.

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I think good and evil can't exist
without each other, and change,

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even small change is what keeps
our minds and economies squirt.

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I have no future, no past,
no friends and no money

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but I'm paying for your virtues
and your attempts to be funny.

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I am great at managing time

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and I can always jump in
when someone forgets their line.

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Team work is my specialty -

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the greater the challenge,
the more you can count on me.

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I'm willing to relocate
much more than you can anticipate

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and I will outdate
even your youngest candidate.

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I'm persistent, resistant,
always available,

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malleable, reliable,
never failable -

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I even know how the world will end and...
everything else that you couldn't have planned.

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[No replies.]

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I stole a tomato from a field in Italy

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and it still tasted like shit.

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In prison I tamed an ant

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but nobody could see it.

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I meditated for 62 years

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but not a tourist would tip.

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I tried not to care about the competition

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but ends-of-months made me flip.

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I shared all my possessions

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until the white men said stop.

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I empathized with nature

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but birds and bugs ate my crop.

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I lived up to what I believed in

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until I broke bad.

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I spent all my life doing good

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then I became mad.

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[For reasons not apprehendable to Man,
Nothing keeps talking in rhyme, all the time.]

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Not to be

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or to be?

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Why bother in all this banality?

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"If"

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is a space.

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"Why"

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is time.

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When you are happy or dead

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neither is worth a dime.

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If pictures create memories,

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what does a surplus of pictures create?

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The future of shopping will not be to buy

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but to eliminate.

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When your wife and kids want
something more than a full stomach

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take away something they already have

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then give it back.

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The most elegant gesture
of the human body

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is the act of refraining from action.

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The most elegant gesture
of the human mind

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is avoiding distraction.

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What do you mean -
I shouldn't talk, shouldn't formalize?

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Shouldn't suggest answers,
shouldn't verbalize?

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Too easy.

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Insist on any armimal or tree
and get philosophy?

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Make any shot too lengthy
and get poetry?!

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Fit your screenplay on a napkin
and claim humility?!

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Film simple people uncritically
and redeem modernity??

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Fuck that, baby.

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We're beyond that.

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Maybe.

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OK, I agree.

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Maybe it's just me.

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Maybe I'm just a sarcastic old fuck

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and life is as sweet as
you would like it to be.

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[Soon after, of course, Nothing falls in love.]

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Throw me a glove,

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cry me a dove,

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earthly love

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is impossible love.

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Particles and anti-particles
keep cancelling each other.

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Why would then men and women bother?

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Can't live with each other,

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can't do without,

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cool off

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or burn out.

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Your children will sell you
for a faster telephone

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Your parents, for the right
to be alone.

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Your partner, for a new hormone.

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You like strawberry,

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she likes quantumberry.

276
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,380
She wants to marry,

277
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,860
you want Tom and Jerry.

278
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,900
Faithful or not,

279
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,340
always an idiot.

280
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:08,460
The casting

281
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,300
rarely matches the plot.

282
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:30,300
[Nothing’s promiscuity draws international attention.
Americans spend a fortune trying to buy Nothing:]

283
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:40,380
"Listen,

284
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:42,940
we know you're right

285
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,860
but we can't let you win.

286
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,980
Come work for us

287
00:33:50,219 --> 00:33:53,246
and become the ultimate sin.

288
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,320
Our policy is simple:

289
00:33:59,329 --> 00:34:02,683
Decide and conquer.

290
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,660
We don't even hide it,

291
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:10,820
we are raw power.

292
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,939
Your job will be to generate fear

293
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:24,620
so that demand always beats supply
at the end of the year.

294
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,300
In the meantime,

295
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,260
we'll bullet-proof the boutique,

296
00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:34,740
assimilate all critique,

297
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,580
spread freedom with our armed forces,

298
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,500
trade entertainment for natural resources

299
00:34:46,534 --> 00:34:50,183
and blackmail the world
with paper value

300
00:34:51,775 --> 00:34:57,082
until the last patch of our lies
becomes true."

301
00:35:00,043 --> 00:35:02,991
To this I replied
with the following defence:

302
00:35:05,488 --> 00:35:07,702
Thank you, dear friends,

303
00:35:08,498 --> 00:35:10,749
you are my favorite clients.

304
00:35:12,212 --> 00:35:14,802
But in your Disneyland of the free,

305
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,980
allow me to disagree -

306
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,940
You are too fat
to fit my glass menagerie.

307
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:33,140
What you are imposing on your subjects
is a wrong therapy -

308
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,780
charging them for the placebo that is
- money.

309
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,620
OK, the pills and thrills and frills

310
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:50,740
but life shouldn't be printed
on fake dollar bills.

311
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,460
People would love
to try your dream

312
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,100
but only at their own steam.

313
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,820
Work to live,

314
00:36:03,855 --> 00:36:05,654
not live to work.

315
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,620
Press pause,

316
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:10,860
smell the cork.

317
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,940
There's nothing scary on a blank wall

318
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:21,700
nor in living life without a lucrative goal.

319
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,660
And talking about fear -

320
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,700
you're the ones
who should play the main role.

321
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,140
At the rate at which
you suck everything in,

322
00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:43,780
you are this planet's
black hole.

323
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:53,100
[Asians try to clone Nothing:]

324
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,000
"Listen,

325
00:37:04,074 --> 00:37:05,787
you're one of us

326
00:37:05,787 --> 00:37:07,737
and you've always been.

327
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,180
We were the first to treat you

328
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,620
as our next of kin.

329
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,740
Numbers always work out
to our advantage,

330
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,220
nevermind our
limited sleeping mileage.

331
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,780
We make up one half of the planet,

332
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,260
just wait 'til we all
discover the internet.

333
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:39,420
We have 99 ideograms for Nothing
and 69 holograms for vagina,

334
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:45,420
even the Emperor's new clothes
are now made in China.

335
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,460
Let us mass-produce you
with our 12D printers,

336
00:37:50,663 --> 00:37:54,707
with special pricing
for early-bird hipsters.

337
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,380
Too late now to erase the ego -

338
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,980
now it must be pleased
or face vertigo."

339
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:13,860
To this I replied
with the following defence:

340
00:38:16,653 --> 00:38:19,224
Thank you
numerous friends,

341
00:38:20,029 --> 00:38:22,142
I owe you my licence.

342
00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:28,242
I understand my position
is central to your being

343
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:36,060
but you know that on an absolute level
I neither oppose nor support anything.

344
00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:45,300
I appreciate the elegance
of your calligraphy,

345
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,540
the spirituality of your tea ceremony,

346
00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:53,340
the negative space in your painting,

347
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,660
your meditations on the verge of fainting,

348
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:02,580
your practical tips about breathing,

349
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,060
your casual flirting with non-being...

350
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,700
But with all due respect to your might,

351
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,540
just because you can do everything

352
00:39:19,565 --> 00:39:22,177
doesn't mean that you are right.

353
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,940
What you need, I think,

354
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,860
is to practice Kama Sutra

355
00:39:29,924 --> 00:39:32,841
in a version that's
a bit more platonic.

356
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,180
Unite with the cosmos

357
00:39:39,231 --> 00:39:41,257
in any single pixel

358
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,240
but sustain your lust

359
00:39:44,255 --> 00:39:46,549
against every daily tickle.

360
00:39:49,328 --> 00:39:52,744
Learn to let go off your omnipotence.

361
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,420
Take seriously your vow of balance.

362
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,420
And if other powers
want to make you sway,

363
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:09,940
dont worry.

364
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,900
Bruce Lee is alive

365
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,660
and he's on his way.

366
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:30,060
[Arabs try to re-tame Nothing:]

367
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,420
"Listen,

368
00:40:36,438 --> 00:40:38,152
you know that we are right,

369
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,500
no need to wait for the
thousand and first night.

370
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,460
We invented coffee,
clean shave and algebra

371
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,060
and even what would
later become your camera.

372
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,220
We also saved the
classical knowledge of Antiquity

373
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,980
and gave prominent importance
to the notion of virginity.

374
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,900
We've been both cursed
and blessed by nature,

375
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,780
this always results in
an unpredictable mixture.

376
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:22,300
There's no money now
that we cannot spend.

377
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,500
Our goal is to create life

378
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,740
out of sand.

379
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,380
Welcome to our big
traditional family.

380
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,660
You'll be treated as our
newest common luxury."

381
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,500
To this I replied
with the following defence:

382
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,020
Thank you
honorable friends,

383
00:41:59,102 --> 00:42:01,596
I admire your persistence.

384
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,300
Conjure me from a lamp,

385
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,180
anytime you need my stamp.

386
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,140
History has not treated you gently

387
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:20,500
but you are also
stretching time vigorously.

388
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,140
You gained my sympathy
by surviving in harsh conditions

389
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,940
but kinda disappointed me
with your current positions.

390
00:42:35,687 --> 00:42:39,150
I don't think you should
impose your point of view,

391
00:42:39,558 --> 00:42:44,205
neither upon the desert
nor upon the likes of you.

392
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,100
Feel free to advertise your alchemy

393
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,220
but don't take anyone else's
for blasphemy.

394
00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:00,100
People won't accept fasting
unless you call it detox -

395
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:07,300
promises of heaven are already
clogging up their mailbox.

396
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,260
I wish you happy existential battles

397
00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:18,740
in your sand and gold castles.

398
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,660
For anything else,

399
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,900
God have mercy,

400
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,340
but the final bill

401
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,180
is on me.

402
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:48,420
[Europeans are still discussing what to do with Nothing:]

403
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,740
"Listen,

404
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:05,900
let's first agree that we need
to set up a special committee.

405
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,300
Such a critical development
deserves outmost consideration -

406
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,740
it requires the consent of our entire
dysfunctional confederation.

407
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:27,660
We must establish a proper
explanatory framework for this question,

408
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,740
otherwise our policy will remain
just a vain suggestion.

409
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:40,060
Our goal is that everyone
feels they have gained something

410
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,460
but that we, of course,
remain on top of everything."

411
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,100
To this I replied with
the following defence:

412
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,500
Thank you old friends,

413
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,820
cheers to your eloquence.

414
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:02,180
You speak most fluently

415
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,860
but your verbal masturbation
fails me.

416
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:13,300
Dozens of alleged winners
and no proclaimed losers,

417
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:18,540
seems like you're jumping
into very tight trousers.

418
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,480
I didn't really get your proposal

419
00:45:24,559 --> 00:45:27,027
but I see your frustrations.

420
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:34,140
Futility should be the subject
of your next strikes and demonstrations.

421
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,280
Condemned to be free

422
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,734
but fearing the freedom of others.

423
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:45,260
Imitating obnoxiously

424
00:45:45,326 --> 00:45:48,005
your enemies and mothers...

425
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,380
Your noble arrogance
doesn't do it for me -

426
00:45:53,520 --> 00:46:00,660
only tourists can be fooled
by your complex of superiority.

427
00:46:00,704 --> 00:46:04,542
Each nation can be proud
of fragments of its history

428
00:46:05,416 --> 00:46:07,741
but none of its entirety.

429
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,900
And even fewer should claim

430
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,060
any monopoly on morality.

431
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,380
Your reluctance to assimilate me

432
00:46:21,404 --> 00:46:24,680
is in fact a key syndrome
of your drudgery.

433
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,100
Adopt me

434
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,740
or become your own failed colony.

435
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:46,860
[The rest of world believes Nothing can help them:]

436
00:46:50,925 --> 00:46:52,392
"Listen,

437
00:46:52,392 --> 00:46:54,763
we have nothing to offer you,

438
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,619
we just do what we are told to.

439
00:47:00,987 --> 00:47:04,794
Paper-wall democracy
and profits for the few -

440
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:10,420
they convince you grindingly
that it's good for you.

441
00:47:12,110 --> 00:47:15,495
Sometimes, if we are
particularly good,

442
00:47:15,703 --> 00:47:19,707
they clean our files
and gentrify our mood.

443
00:47:22,083 --> 00:47:24,879
They insist we're not screwed

444
00:47:24,879 --> 00:47:27,762
when they hybridize our food

445
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,180
and dismiss our proud beliefs

446
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,940
as a mere historical interlude.

447
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,060
Deep inside we know
we're nat so autistic

448
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,980
but our reply to this
is either agnostic

449
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,900
or fatalistic.

450
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,600
We feel that we know you
and that we can trust you -

451
00:47:57,215 --> 00:48:00,288
please advise us,
what should we do?"

452
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:07,020
To this I replied
with the following stance:

453
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,600
Well, global friends,

454
00:48:10,696 --> 00:48:13,332
it is time to make amends.

455
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,860
Never mind the size of your shoes -

456
00:48:17,763 --> 00:48:21,413
if you want to win,
you must not lose.

457
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,980
If you don't sacrifice yourself
no one will,

458
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:34,020
kicking history between the legs
requires no special skill.

459
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,140
We're all intelligent in different ways,

460
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,580
there are infinite possibilities
to get out of this maze.

461
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,740
Defend your territory,

462
00:48:51,820 --> 00:48:53,988
both mental and physical,

463
00:48:54,800 --> 00:49:00,140
all it takes is a few authentic,
non-CIA heroes

464
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,740
to set the example.

465
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,060
If that's not exactly you,

466
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,900
here's what else you could do:

467
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,100
Don't give them
what they want to hear -

468
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,940
just ignore them
when they come near.

469
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,620
Don't even bother to
challenge their prejudice,

470
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,980
even acknowledging it
would make you their accomplice.

471
00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:35,180
Over time they will choose
weaker nuts to crack -

472
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,020
resist radically

473
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,900
and never turn back.

474
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:16,540
[A Russian poet then came to the edge of the world
and spat at Nothing.]

475
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,700
That was actually...

476
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:26,860
nice!

477
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:29,380
Thanks twice.

478
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,900
Now I see the power of your brand

479
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:40,020
and that it is actually
possible to make a stand.

480
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,440
Skip auditions -

481
00:50:45,441 --> 00:50:47,208
dodge tuitions -

482
00:50:47,423 --> 00:50:49,425
discard permissions -

483
00:50:49,425 --> 00:50:51,510
shortcut ignitions -

484
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,360
ignore definitions -

485
00:50:54,404 --> 00:50:56,632
praise intuitions -

486
00:50:57,240 --> 00:50:59,560
invoke contradictions -

487
00:50:59,571 --> 00:51:01,804
embrace oppositions -

488
00:51:02,191 --> 00:51:04,803
and do keep your receipts -

489
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,400
One day I will really wash

490
00:51:09,446 --> 00:51:12,676
all this scum off the streets.

491
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,480
From now on,

492
00:51:18,573 --> 00:51:21,305
every thought must be tight.

493
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,260
It will be 20 tautologies

494
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,380
and 30 euphemisms every night.

495
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,980
Myth-busting for the shy and quiet -

496
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,860
an instant new post-ideological diet.

497
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,580
A smart cold digital heart.

498
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,380
Empathy -

499
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,860
only a la carte.

500
00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,780
You're talking to me?

501
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:07,740
[Once again, Nothing’s noble threats
get very little attention.]

502
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,020
Is it me you're talking to?!

503
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:23,500
Time is shrinking,

504
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,180
the angels are drinking,

505
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,060
the Gods stopped playing
punishment and crime.

506
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,980
Tom Waits is retiring,

507
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,580
deadlines are expiring,

508
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,860
for no one
the bells chime.

509
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,180
No matter how you feel touche,

510
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,900
all I say will one day be cliche.

511
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:18,660
No matter how sleazy,

512
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,500
we will always look up to the bourgeoisie.

513
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,420
And the wind of the north,

514
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,180
freezes my snort.

515
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,620
And the wind from the south,

516
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,140
blows sand in my mouth.

517
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,660
And the wind from the west,

518
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,620
failed the drug test.

519
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,260
And the wind from the east,

520
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,700
I caught

521
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:18,020
but I missed.

522
00:54:23,367 --> 00:54:29,404
[Desperate, Nothing starts a blog
on tactical pauses during sexual intercourse.]

523
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,380
These were actually
just notes from my diary

524
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,900
but someone took
them very explicitly.

525
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,740
Curved geometry
remains a mystery

526
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,660
unless you study the matter
a bit more deeply.

527
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,320
The intensity of the celebration

528
00:55:05,321 --> 00:55:07,962
is directly proportional

529
00:55:08,009 --> 00:55:11,405
to the period of
abstinence and stimulation.

530
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,740
The pauses between the notes

531
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,940
is what earned me the most votes.

532
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,140
Your preferences
they are like mine,

533
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,700
I heard it through
the grapevine.

534
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:51,540
Me.

535
00:55:51,586 --> 00:55:52,774
You.

536
00:55:52,874 --> 00:55:54,254
Library.

537
00:55:54,254 --> 00:55:55,737
Now?

538
00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:58,540
Wow!

539
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,060
Wow!

540
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:03,300
Wow!

541
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:05,780
Wow!

542
00:56:10,125 --> 00:56:16,157
[But all it took for Nothing's popularity to explode
was one explicit selfie.]

543
00:57:03,642 --> 00:57:09,680
[Success, though, comes at a price.]

544
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,460
Being famous and bitter

545
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,820
is worse than becoming
revolutionary litter.

546
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,060
I got trapped in my own curse -

547
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,180
I kept bullshitting,
but it filled my purse.

548
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,980
Vomiting my rhymes
as the agents advised -

549
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,340
Enough now?

550
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:12,060
We got prized.

551
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:20,060
Starring in docu-soaps
about fallen prophets,

552
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,460
baptizing galaxies,
comets and rockets,

553
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:33,020
Giving silent
motivational speeches,

554
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,740
bleaching sand
on polluted beaches.

555
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:44,780
Claiming copyright
on creativity in general,

556
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,500
on zero and infinity
and all things ephemeral.

557
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:57,100
Getting filthy rich
on apparitions of Nothing -

558
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:01,140
coining notoriously:

559
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,060
"Why something

560
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,740
instead of...

561
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:12,740
anything?"

562
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:25,940
[Despising itself more and more,
Nothing tries at least to be useful.]

563
00:59:31,478 --> 00:59:32,553
Ha!

564
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,220
Indulgence is very cheap these days

565
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:40,660
but I have always preferred
my own ways:

566
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:49,200
Recycling the energy
of fallen enthusiasts -

567
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:55,940
Licking the wounds
of broken iconoclasts -

568
00:59:58,584 --> 01:00:01,405
Granting sinners
essential silence -

569
01:00:03,517 --> 01:00:07,182
Fine-tuning your
work-and-family balance -

570
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:13,820
Extending, then shortening
waiting times -

571
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:20,780
Teaching people tricks
for queuing in lines -

572
01:00:26,551 --> 01:00:29,439
Making them lose
what they would later find -

573
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,180
helping them see
before they go blind -

574
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,780
Discouraging kids
from surplus toys -

575
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:49,100
Abolishing logos
and violent joys -

576
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:56,580
Insuring talents
against jury decisions -

577
01:01:01,473 --> 01:01:04,954
Macheting the jungle to
clear space for their visions -

578
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:16,060
Turning philosophical
when people ask for direction -

579
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:28,940
Crisis-managing death
to near-perfaction.

580
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,980
Pointing inside
your playboy gaze -

581
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,500
Enamoring you,
without the self-praise -

582
01:01:49,294 --> 01:01:52,554
Making you check twice
before you click SEND -

583
01:01:56,531 --> 01:01:59,903
Stopping movies
10 minutes before they end -

584
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,340
Mixing up price tags of riches and

585
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:17,020
[Too late. The industry has got Nothing by the balls.]

586
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,460
"Mr. Nothing!
Mr. Nothing!"

587
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,460
"Can you describe
a perfectly empty room?"

588
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:34,620
"Is old too old?"

589
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:39,140
"Do you have a personal opinion
on top of the corporate one?"

590
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,260
"You claim you came into being
like everyone else -

591
01:02:44,330 --> 01:02:46,729
by love
or misunderstanding.

592
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:50,180
What did you mean by 'love'?"

593
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:55,500
"You refuse to answer where you are coming from
and whether you exist at all.

594
01:02:55,920 --> 01:03:00,020
Can we call you an
'ontological nationalist'?"

595
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:03,820
"What do you think of the phrase:

596
01:03:03,829 --> 01:03:07,743
'We will sleep together one day,
but not tonight?'"

597
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,020
"We're making a festival of silence -

598
01:03:11,052 --> 01:03:12,661
will you come?"

599
01:03:13,096 --> 01:03:17,074
"Could you confirm that
there's Nothing after death?"

600
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:21,060
"Is cheap humor the
biggest threat to humanity?"

601
01:03:22,160 --> 01:03:24,620
"Do you have a tattoo?"

602
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:38,900
[At the height of its popularity, Nothing decides to step down.]

603
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:58,220
Ho, ho, ho!

604
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,580
So, so, so!

605
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:08,180
It's hunting season on the albatross -

606
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,580
Time for me to toss my cross.

607
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:20,340
A big day today,

608
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:25,620
mathematics are
finally swinging my way.

609
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:33,740
I have proven to myself
that my opposite is possible

610
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:38,260
and that the two
are actually compatible.

611
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:45,220
Everything and Nothing
converge in a vanishing point

612
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:50,500
which is itself
another starting point.

613
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,620
How's that
for a borderline checkpoint?!

614
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:04,560
Philosophers,

615
01:05:04,608 --> 01:05:06,295
priests,

616
01:05:06,543 --> 01:05:08,217
scientists,

617
01:05:08,217 --> 01:05:10,151
astronauts,

618
01:05:10,368 --> 01:05:13,234
I challenge you to a duel

619
01:05:13,602 --> 01:05:15,503
down in the footnotes.

620
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:23,300
You "saved" the world so mary times
it has grown immune,

621
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,500
restoring it right

622
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,020
is costing me a fortune.

623
01:05:35,784 --> 01:05:38,659
If this will make your
lives more bearable,

624
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,740
I can officially proclaim that

625
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:47,540
quality,

626
01:05:47,609 --> 01:05:49,498
passion,

627
01:05:49,798 --> 01:05:52,040
curiosity,

628
01:05:52,650 --> 01:05:55,363
consciousness,

629
01:05:55,691 --> 01:05:58,357
and chocolate crises

630
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,740
are NOT sustainable,

631
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,140
I will also stop subsidizing

632
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,520
forgetting,

633
01:06:11,612 --> 01:06:13,547
lying,

634
01:06:13,939 --> 01:06:16,012
crying,

635
01:06:16,012 --> 01:06:17,994
betting,

636
01:06:18,321 --> 01:06:20,074
petting,

637
01:06:20,074 --> 01:06:22,194
fleeing,

638
01:06:22,580 --> 01:06:25,981
and any other 'necessary being'.

639
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:36,020
I further renounce on the
idea of my own contingency

640
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:40,580
and on the contingency
of reality itself.

641
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,480
If you don't know what
that means,

642
01:06:48,550 --> 01:06:50,827
lucky you,

643
01:06:51,188 --> 01:06:54,915
you're one happy little self.

644
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:14,500
[Nothing gives a farewell speech.]

645
01:07:24,957 --> 01:07:29,414
Thank you for your hospitality,
ladies and gentlemen,

646
01:07:31,178 --> 01:07:35,808
I have to go now,
though I have no other plan.

647
01:07:39,927 --> 01:07:44,140
I have learned so much
from you over this weekend

648
01:07:44,702 --> 01:07:47,681
that I couldn't
have hoped for more.

649
01:07:50,255 --> 01:07:52,735
Please excuse me now,

650
01:07:55,407 --> 01:07:58,165
I have other worlds to explore.

651
01:08:04,347 --> 01:08:07,276
More than anything,
I will miss

652
01:08:08,648 --> 01:08:10,927
my first piss

653
01:08:12,565 --> 01:08:14,734
and our last kiss.

654
01:08:28,097 --> 01:08:29,765
That's it now.

655
01:08:31,778 --> 01:08:34,556
Nothing phone home.

656
01:08:43,967 --> 01:08:46,651
I'm leaving you as I came,

657
01:08:48,017 --> 01:08:50,732
without a big splash,

658
01:08:52,430 --> 01:08:55,132
taking with me a single thing

659
01:08:55,332 --> 01:08:57,565
- unstained -

660
01:09:00,045 --> 01:09:02,088
and that is...

661
01:09:06,066 --> 01:09:08,077
and that is...

662
01:09:12,900 --> 01:09:15,710
my moustache.

663
01:09:20,319 --> 01:09:26,340
[But Nothing finds no home to go back to,
so it pretends to have a few more things to say.]

664
01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,580
Did I just dream that I am you

665
01:09:41,279 --> 01:09:43,860
or did you imagine that you are me?

666
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:50,380
Was this my or your biography?

667
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:59,220
I wish I could forget
again what you know

668
01:09:59,261 --> 01:10:01,766
and re-learn what you don't

669
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:08,420
but the fog of experience
has blurred that battlefront.

670
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:16,780
A perfect man is inefficient -

671
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:22,340
A faulty Nothing

672
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:25,820
is insufficient.

673
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:30,860
I see now that I don't fit
neither here nor there,

674
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:37,300
nor for that matter - anywhere.

675
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:48,020
A baroque minimalist -

676
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:51,860
a cynical optimist -

677
01:10:52,880 --> 01:10:55,220
a gentle sadist -

678
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,540
an approximate perfectionist -

679
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:05,740
Pick any contradiction from the list...

680
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:17,700
If I have tried to run away
from myself,

681
01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:23,580
I have failed.

682
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,100
If I came to pose on your cross,

683
01:11:34,073 --> 01:11:36,630
I never got nailed.

684
01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:43,900
But I have no regrets whatsoever

685
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:47,300
and no further plan

686
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:54,060
for I have been both Nothing

687
01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:57,900
and for a while,

688
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:00,980
a Man.

689
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,100
I tried manhood,

690
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,540
now you try nothingness.

691
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,820
Embrace it daily

692
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,500
like a trendy new fitness.

693
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:58,900
[The takeaway, if any.]

694
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:08,300
Actually, there's no real conclusion
to what I had to say.

695
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:15,660
It's more about what went
through your mind along the way.

696
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:23,300
I give you back now
the mystery of life.

697
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:27,540
I'll be fine with the angel's share

698
01:13:28,480 --> 01:13:30,980
and my next wife.

699
01:13:33,920 --> 01:13:36,380
And falling asleep in cinemas,

700
01:13:36,450 --> 01:13:39,293
on books and under trees,

701
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:43,900
hypnotizing traffic cops

702
01:13:43,970 --> 01:13:46,714
into waiving your fees.

703
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:51,040
Helping bicycle passengers

704
01:13:51,083 --> 01:13:53,677
keep that smile on their face;

705
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,660
making kids accelerate

706
01:13:57,666 --> 01:14:00,380
the last few steps to your embrace.

707
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,040
Adding echoes and reverbs

708
01:14:06,076 --> 01:14:08,561
to your inner gospel choirs,

709
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:13,220
Feeling nostalgic of Buenos Aires

710
01:14:13,297 --> 01:14:15,949
even in Buenos Aires.

711
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,380
And provoking life

712
01:14:19,427 --> 01:14:22,107
in detail and in full;

713
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,840
Hiding in your pocket,

714
01:14:27,850 --> 01:14:30,501
like s Swiss-army tool.

715
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:37,460
Discarding warnings that
principles are irresponsible;

716
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:43,540
speaking in verse
just to prove that it's possible.

717
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:49,620
Indulging in art

718
01:14:50,440 --> 01:14:52,660
without trying to be smart.

719
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:57,060
Rhyming, for example,

720
01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,100
"fart"

721
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:01,820
and "fresh start".

722
01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:07,980
Understanding, finally,

723
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,220
my epitaph and legacy:

724
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,100
STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF NOTHING

725
01:15:25,800 --> 01:15:29,020
AND EVERYTHING THAT COULD BE

726
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:35,620
I'm not sure if there's
a Japanese word for this.

727
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:42,740
There probably must be.

728
01:15:44,998 --> 01:16:03,278
filmed by

729
01:16:03,303 --> 01:16:08,691
filmed in

730
01:16:08,691 --> 01:16:13,244
music by

731
01:16:13,343 --> 01:16:18,815
additional music by

732
01:16:18,815 --> 01:16:23,232
guest musicians
additional sound mix

733
01:16:23,232 --> 01:16:27,639
sound editing
re-recording mixer

734
01:16:27,639 --> 01:16:32,030
color grading

735
01:16:32,030 --> 01:16:35,481
online brainstorming platform
poster art

736
01:16:35,532 --> 01:16:40,807
co-producers
production assistants

737
01:16:40,807 --> 01:16:43,705
assistant director

738
01:16:43,705 --> 01:16:49,607
written, edited,
directed and produced by

739
01:16:49,645 --> 01:16:55,096
narrated by

740
01:16:55,170 --> 01:17:16,654
special thanks

741
01:17:19,869 --> 01:17:22,083
[Nothing gets so carried away
that it doesn’t notice

742
01:17:22,083 --> 01:17:24,724
the majestic monument in its honor
that we never built,

743
01:17:24,724 --> 01:17:26,465
with a caption that we never wrote:]

744
01:17:26,536 --> 01:17:32,855
[TO NOTHING,
THE HUMAN RACE IN GRATITUDE.]

745
01:17:35,989 --> 01:17:39,293
a production by

746
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:41,764
in association with

747
01:17:41,835 --> 01:17:44,277
with the participation of

748
01:17:44,329 --> 01:17:47,506
commissioning editors

749
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:51,586
with support from

750
01:17:51,676 --> 01:17:55,330
co-financed by

751
01:17:55,330 --> 01:17:58,207
presented at

752
01:17:58,248 --> 01:18:00,981
technical facilities

753
01:18:01,054 --> 01:18:03,529
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754
01:18:06,997 --> 01:18:10,007
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