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Knox is Alan Turing’s supervisor at Bletchley Park, the top secret home of English codebreakers during World War Two. Alan has come to work there due to his prowess as a mathematician. However, Alan’s favor with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, his flaunting of the rules and his selfish behavior has led him to being disliked by many of those working there. In this scene, Knox offers kindness to the younger man and tries to advise him on his ways to make his life easier.
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START: KNOX: Did I tell you what happened to my brother?
TURING: What was that?
KNOX: They were having a dinner party. It was some time ago, during the Blitz. Eddie was just about to open a bottle of claret when a bomb fell nearby. Tremendous explosion. Bang! Guess what happened?
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END: KNOX: I sat down there and then, with the book in my hand, and memorized what he had written. This is what he said: “We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely unanswered.”
Hugh Whitemore. Breaking the Code. Samuel French, 1988. pp.35-40.
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