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The Professor and the Madman

I've lost everything.Everything is broken

I've lost everything.
Everything is broken

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I've lost everything. Everything is broken.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
01:40:12
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
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Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William M...
I wanted to document the history of each and every thing. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
I wanted to document the history of each and every thing.
To offer the world a book that gives the meaning... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
To offer the world a book that gives the meaning...
Or at least the English part of it, but it has defeated me. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
Or at least the English part of it, but it has defeated me.
You know, there is another book that purports to do just that. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
You know, there is another book that purports to do just tha...
But it has already beaten you to the punch. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
But it has already beaten you to the punch.
Come with me. Come, I want to show you something. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Come with me. Come, I want to show you something.
How many new words for things that have yet to be imagined? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
How many new words for things that have yet to be imagined?
How many of them in your all encompassing book? - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
How many of them in your all encompassing book?
No language can ever be permanently the same, James. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
No language can ever be permanently the same, James.
But how can the work be ended if not ever completed? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
But how can the work be ended if not ever completed?
You have given us its heart along with a great jolt... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
You have given us its heart along with a great jolt...
Generations after you will continue this work... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Generations after you will continue this work...
Because you have showed them the way. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Because you have showed them the way.
Tend to yourself, leave the project to me. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Tend to yourself, leave the project to me.
With Bradley in charge and the University press... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
With Bradley in charge and the University press...
To our desired target of 704 pages a year... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
To our desired target of 704 pages a year...
Sufficiently informed to put the motion to a vote. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Sufficiently informed to put the motion to a vote.
I'm sorry my husband is unable to attend. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
I'm sorry my husband is unable to attend.
I would like to ask permission to say a few words in his stead. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
I would like to ask permission to say a few words in his ste...
My family and I have given much for the glory of the delegates.. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
My family and I have given much for the glory of the delegat...