Контекст: пилот пытается переварить философскую цитату, которая вывела его из себя. Вот эта цитата:
If there were no beings capable of reason, it is the sense in which there would be no food where there are no organisms and no teacups, if there were no tea drinkers.
There could be things that look like what in our world teacups look like.
There could be things that could be used to drink tea from: buckets, shells and so, but teacups are the things that we use to drink tea and in that sense they're as much a cultural object as chess or the polonaise.

Заранее спасибо!

A monologue scene from the film 'It Couldn't Happen Here' (1988). Starring Neil Dickson as the Pilot in this scene. A lot of the script has been extracted from W.H. Newton-Smith's book 'A Structure Of Time' (1980). This piece isn't at all known on the internet under as a 'monologue' but the scene is performed by a single actor. When are Pet Shop Boys going to re-release this classic on DVD or even Blu-Ray? Below, I have listened to the video over and over again, typing the script out as I go. Feel free to copy and paste the script for your own uses. I had successfully used this monologue in my B4 BTEC Acting Unit in KS4 Year 11 at school. The music featured in the background is 'Nimrod' by Edward Elgar.

"But in this sense... there will be no time. If there were no be... if there were no beings capable of reason. It is the sense in which, there will be no food, were there no organisms, and no tea cups, if there were no tea drinkers. I say, what an extraordinary idea. A world with no tea cups. There could be things that look like what in our world, teacups look like, well I'll be damned! The dummy is a blasted existentialist. There could be things that could be used to drink tea from; Buckets, shells, and so on. But teacups are the things that we use to drink tea! And in that sense, we are as much a cultural object, as chess... or the Polonaise. Well... this puts things in jolly different light. Crushed ice and seaweed trimmings... of course! The thinly sliced buttered brown bread... and fingerbowls. That's it! I'll give them bloody seaweed fingerbowls, thinly sliced crushed brown ice! I'll give them bloody teacups! Buckets! And shells! Those silly buggers! Numbers must add up. Two and two is four. Right! Let's restore some bloody logic. Shells, buckets, and teacups. Silly buggers. What about mowing the lawn? Contact! What about... What about the mortgage! Two and two is either four, or two up, two down. Divided by, divided by, divided by"

00002 Ох, огромное Вам спасибо! Ура!))) Очень выручили :)
(А я-то думала, что книга, которую читал Нил Диксон в этом эпизоде это An Introduction to the Philosophy of Time and Space Баса ван Фраасена, у него тоже про чайные чашки отрывок есть).

но вообще, супер.