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Williams: [letter to Peter Wakeling] I wonder, Mr. Wakeling, if I may now turn to matters you may consider more personal. I have no wish to belittle our playground... but I put it to you that it was, all the same, a small thing. And that it will, before long go the way of most small things. It may fall into disrepair, or be superseded by some grander scheme. To speak plainly, we can not assume to have erected a lasting monument. Should there come days when it's no longer clear to you to what end you are directing your daily efforts, when the sheer grind of it all threatens to reduce you to the kind of state in which I so long existed, I urge you then to recall our little playground and the modest satisfaction that became our due upon its completion
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I wonder Mr Wakeling
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if I may now turn to matters you may consider more personal
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I have no wish to belittle our playground
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but I put it to you that it was all the same
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a small thing
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And that it will before long
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go the way of most small things
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It may fall into disrepair
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or be superseded by some grander scheme
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To speak plainly
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we cannot assume to have erected a lasting monument
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Should there come days when it's no longer clear to you
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to what end you are directing your daily efforts
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when the sheer grind of it all threatens to reduce you
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to the kind of state in which I so long existed
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I urge you then to recall our little playground
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and the modest satisfaction
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that became our due upon its completion
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Movie Summary
In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
