Transcript:
Do you mind if I sit here?
No, go ahead.
Did you see that article
about the magnetised babies?
No.
What about those missing brains?
What paper was this in?
The National Enquirer.
- l don't read the Enquirer.
- Well, l do...
..sometimes...for a joke.
Those guys have some imagination.
l'm George.
Joyce.
l've seen you somewhere before.
l don't think so.
Are you from the city?
l grew up in a little northern town.
You probably wouldn't have heard of it.
- What's it called?
- Novar.
Really? l grew up there too.
What part of Novar?
East Lake. Er...right out near the filling station.
- You went to school there?
- Sure.
- What did you say your name was?
- George Barber.
- lt's funny, l don't remember you.
- Well, l looked...
very different back then.
You must have. There were only
a hundred people in the high school.
l remember you.
You used to swim in the regatta.
You could hold your breath longer than anyone.
Do you work around here?
l teach at the university.
Neurology?
That's right.
How did you know?
(Thunder rumbles)
Just a feeling.
What do you do? Read minds?
No, l...
advise companies...er...on the risks
of investing in various countries.
You must travel a lot.
l've been everywhere.
You're very beautiful.
Oh, please...
You should've been a model.
Well, that's the last thing l would want to do.
Do you ever think you might have
done something different?
No.
Why not?
When people think of their lives
as being different,
they always make the most trivial changes.
''lf only l'd been to that party or taken that job.''
They never say,
''lf only l'd had two brains
or been able to photosynthesise my food.''
lt's as if they think the smaller changes
are more likely to have occurred.
That God might have overlooked them.
How could anything be different from what it is?
But surely you've wished
you could do things over.
You only have one life.
Why waste it dreaming about things
that could never have happened?
Well, do you ever fantasise
when you make love?
What?
l mean, um...
Surely you must use your...
- sometime.
- No.
l don't believe in promiscuity.
Neither do l.
l've got to get back to the lab.
How about a show tomorrow night?
- l'm working.
- What about the weekend?
l'm going to Novar.
- Well, maybe l'll see you here again.
- l doubt it.
