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BICYCLE
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Hey, how far are you going?
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Want a lift home?
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Could you kidnap someone?
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Who?
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Me.
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Why?
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I don't want to go home.
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Why not run away?
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I need money.
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Then work.
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But I'm not old enough.
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So you've just met a total stranger...
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...and you're trying to get them to kidnap you?
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I thought it would be
alright if there wasn't any trouble.
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Is your family rich?
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Not really.
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You kidnap me then.
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- Your family's rich?
- Yeah.
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We can split the ransom 50-50.
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Fine.
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Let's go up on the Metropolitan
Government Building or Tokyo Tower.
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Why?
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To call in the demand.
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Don't you think doing it from a high place is best?
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I don't.
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Then...
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...a river! Let's go someplace near a river.
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A river?
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I want to see a river.
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I can't stop panicking.
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What do you mean?
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Well...
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Are you going to have the baby?
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- A baby's a lot of trouble, isn't it?
- That doesn't mean you should have an abortion.
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I wonder if it's really alright...
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I just don't know.
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I have AIDS.
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- You're kidding me!
- It's true. I was surprised myself.
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So I'll never be able to
have the same problem as you.
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But you're in good spirits.
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There was no point in worrying.
I know I'll get sick eventually.
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Have you told anyone?
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I can't do it.
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So I'm the first.
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Have you told anyone about your pregnancy?
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Not yet.
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But we could each tell a random passerby.
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That's just the way it is.
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I wonder...
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Why don't we go to another river?
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I just felt like I turned ten years old.
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Huh?
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You don't have similar feelings?
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What?
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A feeling of becoming younger or older...
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When I wake up, I'm my true age of 22.
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But when I'm trying to keep my
legs planted on a crowded train
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I feel like I'm in my thirties.
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And...
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When I'm talking to someone younger than me
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it feels kind of like I'm a women in my forties.
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And...
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When I'm acting like a spoiled kid
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I become a seventeen year old in my heart.
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The trains at night are the worst.
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Everyone's tired and on their
way home from work, right?
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Their influence makes my heart
grow older, older, and older.
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To what age?
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To that of an eighty year old granny.
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Since I'm able to feel younger or older,
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I'm planning on feeling like
a senile old person when I die.
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I wonder if the baby in my
belly can have feelings like that...
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It's the nostalgia of the genes, isn't it?
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What are you, an intellectual or something?
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This is it.
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How old do you feel now?
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My real age, 22.
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Thanks.
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Well...
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Hey...
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The story about you being sick... Was it true?
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That's up to you.
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Take care.
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HOLE
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What do you remember?
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Any clues?
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No matter how insignificant they might seem.
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Hole...
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Hole?
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Hole?
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A...hole.
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Hole.
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Hole.
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A hole.
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A hole?
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This one?
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This hole?
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No.
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Not that.
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This one?
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This one?
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This?
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Do you feel anything when you look at this hole?
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Large Hole
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No.
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This?
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This hole, right?
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Close, but not quite.
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- This?
- No.
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This hole?
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- No.
- This, right?
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- Then how about this?
- No.
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This?
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- This one?
- No.
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Isn't this it?
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- This?
- No.
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- This isn't it?
- No.
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- This is it, right?
- No.
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This?
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- This is it, right?
- It's not.
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It's like that...
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A chimney?
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Seems like a clue.
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It's similar.
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I think it's a shaft.
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A shaft?
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A shaft.
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He must have fallen down a shaft.
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It's the shock from the fall.
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Can you remember anything else?
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I was...
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like...
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like this...
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That pose...
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I was doing something like this.
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A construction worker.
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You were a construction worker, weren't you?
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Hole.
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Hole.
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How was it?
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Today's hole...
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Everyone...
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It's time to die.
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I wonder how long it's been since it started...
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By the time it was noticed it was already too late.
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It began when a voice was heard.
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They didn't understand what it was.
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When a certain person touched a
certain stone, a certain voice was heard.
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People said it was nothing but noise.
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People said it was a message.
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People said it was the voice of
their ancestors or the voice of god.
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In any case, as soon as a person touched the
stone, they felt it resonate with their senses.
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When touching the stone, people
became able to resonate with others,
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like a form of mutual telepathy, without regard
for distance, language, race, or state of mind.
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It was a wonderfully moving experience.
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The religion of the stone quickly gained
a tremendous amount of followers.
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But soon, for those of us who had been
awakened to the resonance by the stone,
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it became possible via stones
of no particular importance.
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Then, people shared a distinct vision.
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They saw things like stone circles on ley
lines and historic sites, including Stonehenge.
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People near those acupuncture points on the
face of the earth had a more intense experience.
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It soon became clear.
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It was a warning.
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It spread across the earth in a flash, like AIDS.
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Strange outbreaks of calculi,
hardened vessels and lymph nodes...
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The stone disease began with the human body becoming just like a stone.
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Using completely new silicon compounds,
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high-speed LSI chips that didn't require
extreme cooling measures were created.
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Around the time they became ubiquitous,
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the electromagnetic waves from the chips
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finally began to have a
negative effect on the human mind.
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Tens of tons of plant life were
being destroyed every second,
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and the earth's precious water was drying up.
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This had a great effect on the ecosystem,
accelerating the desiccation of the land.
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No one thought it had
anything to do with them directly.
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But it was clear that it was the
accumulation of multiple effects.
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People feared the stone disease,
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but if they could at least save
consciousness, memory, and wisdom...
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That is, preserving personality, the mind,
the self in a semi-permanent state
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by replicating it onto a computer chip.
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People became determined to
preserve humans and their cultures
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after their water-based bodies were gone.
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If people could develop
self-managing, self-repairing,
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self-replicating and immortal
computers, as well as robot technology,
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then they could evolve, changing
into totally new forms of life.
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With that simple wish, a final glimmer of hope,
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a cycle of technology development races began.
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It seems that human bodies hadn't
changed in the last million years,
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and the brain had changed
little in the last 40,000 years.
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Without the outbreak of stone disease,
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human evolution would be
over. We'd be living fossils.
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50 million years ago, our dolphin and
whale companions returned to the sea
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from their terrestrial lives, and their
minds and bodies changed again.
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Perhaps if we had humbly and
sincerely followed their advice,
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drawing closer to the water of life,
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the possibility could have existed for us.
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But the dinosaurs once ruled the earth
for a time and disappeared in a flash.
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It wouldn't be strange for humans to do the same.
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The me that exists as a replication on a chip...
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It has no body. It's like a ghost.
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My memory, which knows every single cell
in detail, travels back and forth in an instant
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from the beginning of the
universe, time and time again.
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A long, long journey in the blink of an eye...
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I no longer understand my self.
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Is it the original me, turned to stone?
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Is it the me replicated on the chip?
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It doesn't matter whether it's a dream or
a memory. It's doesn't matter what the truth is.
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I can't say, nor can anyone.
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But for some strange reason, I feel so alive.
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Even though I have no body.
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I taste the air, bathe in the sun's
radiance, and feel the chill of the night.
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And, like a paramecium that
is beyond the light's reach,
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yet still in sync with the cycle of the sun,
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so does my stone self live in
rhythm with the sun and the universe.
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I feel the joy of being a child
of the sun and the universe.
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Tatsuo Yamada
Masashi Kojima
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Chiemi Tachihara
Sumiko Ōyama
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Tomorowo Taguchi
Toshiya Sakai
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Suzuki Matsuo
Hairi Katagiri
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Mai Hōshō
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Produced by Takenori Sentō and Masaetsu Satō
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Written by Sōgo Ishii and Isamu Uno
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Cinematography by Norimichi Kasamatsu
Music by Tokyo Dowser
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Directed by Sōgo Ishii
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Subtitles by nitroblast