1 00:00:58,309 --> 00:00:59,728 Aragon. 2 00:00:59,978 --> 00:01:03,356 I'm filled with the deafening silence of loving 3 00:01:03,565 --> 00:01:05,984 The deafening silence of loving 4 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:11,865 I'm filled with the deafening silence of loving 5 00:01:16,911 --> 00:01:20,498 The deafening silence... 6 00:01:21,499 --> 00:01:23,001 of loving 7 00:01:49,903 --> 00:01:52,614 - Do you know Elsa? - I don't believe so. 8 00:01:52,947 --> 00:01:55,492 I keep thinking I know her well, 9 00:01:55,617 --> 00:01:59,913 but Elsa keeps changing the way I think about her, 10 00:02:00,038 --> 00:02:04,083 so I'm always thinking I can't quite pin her down. 11 00:02:05,210 --> 00:02:07,754 Yet I've been thinking that 12 00:02:07,921 --> 00:02:10,340 for the past 37 or 38 years. 13 00:02:10,465 --> 00:02:12,967 It's strange you should think that. 14 00:02:13,384 --> 00:02:17,472 I remember Elsa's hat and fur coat 15 00:02:17,597 --> 00:02:19,808 the day I met her. 16 00:02:19,974 --> 00:02:22,811 But the rest can't be pinned down. 17 00:02:23,186 --> 00:02:27,148 Well, I have quite precise memories. 18 00:02:29,901 --> 00:02:34,572 Louis looked like a dance-hall dancer. 19 00:02:35,657 --> 00:02:38,159 His hair was incredibly dark, 20 00:02:38,284 --> 00:02:41,996 which no one can believe now, with his blue eyes. 21 00:02:42,247 --> 00:02:46,459 And his hair has gone white, so people think he was blond. 22 00:02:46,584 --> 00:02:50,004 But he was ever so dark. 23 00:02:50,463 --> 00:02:55,051 He was very thin and very handsome — 24 00:02:55,301 --> 00:02:57,178 a bit too handsome. 25 00:02:58,429 --> 00:03:03,226 It made him look like those young men... 26 00:03:04,227 --> 00:03:07,021 one would meet in dance halls. 27 00:03:07,146 --> 00:03:09,941 The first time I saw Louis from behind, 28 00:03:10,066 --> 00:03:12,360 he was dressed in black, 29 00:03:12,527 --> 00:03:15,488 and his suit was all shiny. 30 00:03:16,865 --> 00:03:18,950 Like a piano. 31 00:03:22,036 --> 00:03:25,790 I was sitting on this stool. A friend said to me... 32 00:03:26,374 --> 00:03:28,710 "You should meet that woman." 33 00:03:28,877 --> 00:03:30,712 I was playing dice by myself. 34 00:03:31,170 --> 00:03:35,133 I turned and saw the corner table, where the day before... 35 00:03:35,258 --> 00:03:38,303 November 4, 1928... 36 00:03:38,469 --> 00:03:41,055 there'd been lots of people, and one had said... 37 00:03:41,306 --> 00:03:46,895 "The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky asks you to join him at his table." 38 00:03:47,103 --> 00:03:50,356 A Mayakovsky like this. 39 00:03:50,565 --> 00:03:52,525 And quite independently, 40 00:03:52,650 --> 00:03:54,861 the next day, November 5, 41 00:03:55,069 --> 00:03:59,198 you walked into the café through that little swinging door. 42 00:04:12,712 --> 00:04:16,549 And from that day on, we've never been apart. 43 00:04:16,674 --> 00:04:19,010 What would I be without you? 44 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:21,429 You who took the first step 45 00:04:21,596 --> 00:04:26,351 What would I be without you but a heart turned to stone? 46 00:04:27,685 --> 00:04:32,106 Or time fixed forever on this watch face? 47 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:37,403 What would I be without you but this stammering and stuttering? 48 00:04:37,528 --> 00:04:41,950 From you I learned everything about human affairs 49 00:04:42,116 --> 00:04:45,995 Now I see the world your way 50 00:04:46,371 --> 00:04:48,623 From you I learned 51 00:04:48,831 --> 00:04:51,125 How to drink from fountains 52 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:54,963 How to read the distant stars in the sky 53 00:04:55,088 --> 00:04:59,133 How to take up a passerby's song 54 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:01,260 I learned everything from you 55 00:05:01,469 --> 00:05:04,013 The true meaning of a thrill 56 00:05:26,244 --> 00:05:28,496 In Le grand jamais you write... 57 00:05:28,746 --> 00:05:32,959 "In life you never know what people think. You only imagine it." 58 00:05:33,167 --> 00:05:36,587 I try to imagine your life... 59 00:05:37,463 --> 00:05:39,298 and imagine you. 60 00:05:39,424 --> 00:05:42,010 All I can do is imagine you. 61 00:05:42,468 --> 00:05:44,512 A little girl... 62 00:05:44,804 --> 00:05:47,515 In Russia there was once a little girl 63 00:05:47,849 --> 00:05:50,018 called Zemlianichka, 64 00:05:50,184 --> 00:05:52,186 or "wild strawberry." 65 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,024 It was the era of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 66 00:05:56,190 --> 00:05:59,944 and at school, for a staging of a Chekhov story, 67 00:06:00,236 --> 00:06:04,157 Wild Strawberry had been given an important role. 68 00:06:04,824 --> 00:06:08,703 A little girl wakes up pointing at the floor and screaming... 69 00:06:08,870 --> 00:06:10,538 "Oy proosak!" 70 00:06:10,705 --> 00:06:14,667 Meaning "Oh, a cockroach!" That was all. 71 00:06:15,668 --> 00:06:17,503 The little girl grew up. 72 00:06:18,046 --> 00:06:19,839 She's 16. 73 00:06:20,173 --> 00:06:21,674 She has Elsa's eyes. 74 00:06:21,799 --> 00:06:23,217 Elsa's Eyes 75 00:06:23,843 --> 00:06:26,012 Your eyes are so deep that as I bend to drink 76 00:06:26,137 --> 00:06:28,723 I saw every sun reflected in them 77 00:06:28,931 --> 00:06:30,892 And desperate souls plunging in to die 78 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:33,853 Your eyes are so deep I lose all memory there 79 00:06:35,063 --> 00:06:38,524 Shadows of birds, a murky ocean Then the sun and your eyes change 80 00:06:38,691 --> 00:06:42,195 Summer carves the clouds into angels The sky's never bluer above the grain 81 00:06:43,029 --> 00:06:45,740 Enchanted by beauty, the child's eyes widen 82 00:06:45,865 --> 00:06:49,660 When you open yours, they're like wildflowers laid open by the rain 83 00:06:50,661 --> 00:06:53,372 Is lightning hidden in the lavender? 84 00:06:53,581 --> 00:06:57,168 I'm caught in a net of shooting stars like a sailor dead at sea in August 85 00:06:57,919 --> 00:07:01,047 O Paradise, a hundred times lost and found 86 00:07:01,172 --> 00:07:04,592 Your eyes are my Peru, my Golconde, my Indies 87 00:07:05,009 --> 00:07:07,929 One fine night the universe ran aground 88 00:07:08,096 --> 00:07:11,766 On the reefs the wreckers had set ablaze 89 00:07:11,933 --> 00:07:13,768 But I saw shining above the sea 90 00:07:13,935 --> 00:07:17,772 Elsa's eyes, Elsa's eyes, Elsa's eyes 91 00:07:22,610 --> 00:07:26,906 That's when you introduced that strange fellow to your parents, 92 00:07:27,073 --> 00:07:29,784 a fellow no one had yet noticed, 93 00:07:30,076 --> 00:07:34,288 who decked himself out in a yellow coat — 94 00:07:34,622 --> 00:07:37,291 Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky. 95 00:07:37,416 --> 00:07:40,336 Not the one in that picture. 96 00:07:40,753 --> 00:07:44,006 A young man resembling Belmondo... 97 00:07:44,882 --> 00:07:47,593 a six-foot-four Belmondo. 98 00:07:54,142 --> 00:07:55,852 What are you thinking? 99 00:07:55,977 --> 00:07:58,146 One never knows what you're thinking. 100 00:07:58,396 --> 00:08:02,191 How can one even try to trace your semblance in words? 101 00:08:02,358 --> 00:08:04,485 You who are so different, so fleeting 102 00:08:04,652 --> 00:08:07,238 Always changing and transformed 103 00:08:07,488 --> 00:08:09,198 Whom nothing could fix in my eyes 104 00:08:09,323 --> 00:08:11,325 Neither passion nor the years 105 00:08:11,659 --> 00:08:13,661 Always new and surprising 106 00:08:13,828 --> 00:08:15,496 Love, love 107 00:08:15,830 --> 00:08:19,667 You whose portrait evades the stroke of pen and brush 108 00:08:20,168 --> 00:08:23,838 Like the indefinable form of laughter, as indefinable as a sob 109 00:08:24,130 --> 00:08:26,299 Memory without recollection 110 00:08:26,465 --> 00:08:29,093 And wound without dagger 111 00:08:31,846 --> 00:08:33,181 Imagine you... 112 00:08:33,472 --> 00:08:35,975 All I can do is imagine you. 113 00:08:42,607 --> 00:08:45,401 One day you went off to join that Frenchman 114 00:08:45,526 --> 00:08:47,028 you'd met back then. 115 00:08:47,653 --> 00:08:49,530 There were Frenchmen then in Russia. 116 00:08:49,739 --> 00:08:53,201 He's the one who gave you your pen name. 117 00:08:55,995 --> 00:08:58,372 With that Frenchman you went to Tahiti. 118 00:08:58,623 --> 00:09:00,833 And to evoke distant Tahiti, 119 00:09:00,958 --> 00:09:04,962 you later chose to use a painting of it 120 00:09:05,087 --> 00:09:08,174 in our strange Oeuvres Romanesques Croisées 121 00:09:08,299 --> 00:09:10,551 which began coming out last year. 122 00:09:10,885 --> 00:09:13,221 This painting by Rousseau, 123 00:09:13,346 --> 00:09:16,891 who had never traveled to tropical countries. 124 00:09:17,558 --> 00:09:21,646 By 1923 you had left your Frenchman. 125 00:09:21,854 --> 00:09:24,899 You were in Berlin, among all kinds of people. 126 00:09:25,149 --> 00:09:28,736 And as I walked into this café on the Kurfürstendamm, 127 00:09:28,945 --> 00:09:32,490 you were walking out through the same door. 128 00:09:32,657 --> 00:09:34,492 We didn't meet. 129 00:09:35,326 --> 00:09:37,787 There were Russians in Berlin, all kinds. 130 00:09:37,954 --> 00:09:40,248 Writers like Gorki, Remizov, 131 00:09:40,414 --> 00:09:43,251 and Chklovski, who was in love with you. 132 00:09:44,085 --> 00:09:45,962 He showed his book to Maxim Gorki, 133 00:09:46,087 --> 00:09:48,923 and as there were six of your letters in the book, 134 00:09:49,090 --> 00:09:53,594 Gorki wanted to meet you and persuade you to write. 135 00:09:53,761 --> 00:09:55,680 In Russian, of course. 136 00:09:55,930 --> 00:10:00,601 This is the Elsa who, in Moscow in 1925, 137 00:10:00,726 --> 00:10:02,728 published In Tahiti. 138 00:10:03,062 --> 00:10:06,607 You wrote a second book, Wild Strawberry, 139 00:10:06,857 --> 00:10:08,859 the story of that little girl. 140 00:10:09,151 --> 00:10:11,737 But you'd already returned to France, 141 00:10:11,904 --> 00:10:14,115 intending to stay just a short while, 142 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,702 when, in this empty bar... 143 00:10:26,085 --> 00:10:28,838 Caressed by kisses, the years race into the void 144 00:10:29,005 --> 00:10:32,216 Avoid, avoid, avoid shattered memories 145 00:10:32,341 --> 00:10:34,844 The sun is the same to the pale pianist 146 00:10:34,969 --> 00:10:37,471 Who sang a few words, always the same 147 00:10:37,722 --> 00:10:40,725 Darling, do you remember those carefree days 148 00:10:40,975 --> 00:10:43,436 When we lived together in Montparnasse? 149 00:10:43,644 --> 00:10:46,230 Life slipped by without our noticing it 150 00:10:46,397 --> 00:10:49,066 Evenings are already turning cold 151 00:10:49,191 --> 00:10:51,068 The heart runs late 152 00:10:51,944 --> 00:10:54,113 Caressed by kisses, the years race into the void 153 00:10:54,238 --> 00:10:56,991 Avoid, avoid, avoid shattered memories 154 00:10:58,993 --> 00:11:01,787 We lived here in Montparnasse. 155 00:11:01,996 --> 00:11:05,041 We didn't have a penny. How would we manage? 156 00:11:05,166 --> 00:11:07,335 Elsa thought of making necklaces. 157 00:11:07,501 --> 00:11:11,797 She told the story in her last book in Russian... 158 00:11:12,006 --> 00:11:15,009 and as I did later in Le Cantique à Elsa. 159 00:11:15,468 --> 00:11:18,054 You made jewelry for daytime or evening wear 160 00:11:18,220 --> 00:11:20,848 Everything became a necklace in your lyrical hands 161 00:11:21,015 --> 00:11:23,392 Pieces of rags, pieces of mirrors 162 00:11:23,517 --> 00:11:27,063 Necklaces as fine as glory, unbelievably fine 163 00:11:27,271 --> 00:11:30,691 Elsa waltzes and keeps on waltzing 164 00:11:31,233 --> 00:11:33,152 Early in the morning... 165 00:11:33,277 --> 00:11:36,864 I'd set out with a suitcase filled with your necklaces. 166 00:11:37,239 --> 00:11:38,991 I sold to merchants 167 00:11:39,116 --> 00:11:41,786 From New York and Berlin, Rio, Milan, Ankara 168 00:11:41,994 --> 00:11:44,997 The jewels your gold-washer's hands created 169 00:11:45,164 --> 00:11:48,709 These rocks like flowers bearing your colors 170 00:11:48,918 --> 00:11:52,546 Elsa waltzes and keeps on waltzing 171 00:11:53,506 --> 00:11:56,509 We lived like that for two or three years. 172 00:11:56,675 --> 00:12:01,097 We felt rich, until one day you'd had enough. 173 00:12:01,389 --> 00:12:05,142 So I became a journalist for 1,300 francs a month. 174 00:12:05,393 --> 00:12:08,062 That was in '33 or '34. 175 00:12:12,274 --> 00:12:15,152 Berlin, the Reichstag fire. 176 00:12:18,989 --> 00:12:21,742 Paris, February 6, 1934. 177 00:12:25,371 --> 00:12:29,750 And then we lived here, in the heart of Paris. 178 00:12:30,084 --> 00:12:32,878 It was the time of the Spanish Civil War. 179 00:12:33,003 --> 00:12:37,425 "Writing a life story means going beyond this life, beyond history." 180 00:12:37,591 --> 00:12:40,010 We went to Madrid in a truck, 181 00:12:40,136 --> 00:12:42,763 bearing gifts for the Republic's writers. 182 00:12:42,930 --> 00:12:45,516 "Just as a train speeds through the landscape 183 00:12:45,641 --> 00:12:50,438 with its stops, switches, signals, bridges, tunnels, catastrophes." 184 00:12:52,815 --> 00:12:54,442 Munich. 185 00:12:55,734 --> 00:12:57,278 Prague. 186 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:05,411 And around this time, though you kept it from me, 187 00:13:05,536 --> 00:13:07,371 you wrote in French. 188 00:13:08,289 --> 00:13:11,208 A miracle! In French. 189 00:13:12,001 --> 00:13:13,711 But who was Thérèse? 190 00:13:15,129 --> 00:13:18,424 A name heard on the radio in a quiet voice 191 00:13:18,549 --> 00:13:20,217 that wasn't destined for us. 192 00:13:20,885 --> 00:13:22,261 Thérèse? 193 00:13:22,428 --> 00:13:23,679 Here's how Max Ernst saw her 194 00:13:23,888 --> 00:13:26,223 for our Oeuvres Croisées. 195 00:13:26,348 --> 00:13:28,476 But who were you talking about? 196 00:13:28,642 --> 00:13:32,646 For me, Thérèse is who you were then. 197 00:13:32,938 --> 00:13:35,399 Your soft hand on your cheek. 198 00:13:35,649 --> 00:13:37,818 "Good evening, Thérèse." 199 00:13:39,695 --> 00:13:41,322 Am I interrupting? 200 00:13:41,447 --> 00:13:43,657 Not at all. Come sit down. 201 00:13:44,658 --> 00:13:47,328 In fact, you can give me a hand. 202 00:13:49,455 --> 00:13:52,958 I've got myself all tangled up 203 00:13:53,209 --> 00:13:56,253 in these proofs. 204 00:13:58,297 --> 00:14:02,384 Of course, if I'd asked you, "Am I interrupting?" 205 00:14:02,676 --> 00:14:07,515 you'd have said, "Yes, I'm writing a poem about Elsa." 206 00:14:08,182 --> 00:14:10,851 I enter this country she opens up to me 207 00:14:11,018 --> 00:14:13,896 Where everything throbs with her presence 208 00:14:14,146 --> 00:14:17,191 Her hand opens the shutter overlooking the garden 209 00:14:17,358 --> 00:14:20,027 Where one hears the sound of invisible things 210 00:14:20,569 --> 00:14:22,988 I'll invent for you, my rose, as many roses 211 00:14:23,113 --> 00:14:25,616 As there are diamonds in the sea 212 00:14:25,741 --> 00:14:28,869 As many roses as there are centuries in stardust 213 00:14:29,078 --> 00:14:32,248 As there are dreams in a child's head 214 00:14:32,414 --> 00:14:36,043 As there is light in a sob 215 00:14:36,377 --> 00:14:38,879 I will invent for you the rose. 216 00:14:40,381 --> 00:14:42,591 I will invent for you the rose 217 00:14:43,092 --> 00:14:45,678 You looked at me with your eyes of pure oblivion 218 00:14:45,803 --> 00:14:48,681 You looked at me over memory, over wandering choruses 219 00:14:48,847 --> 00:14:50,558 Over faded roses 220 00:14:51,225 --> 00:14:54,520 Over thwarted joys, over abolished days 221 00:14:54,812 --> 00:14:58,399 You looked at me with your eyes of blue oblivion 222 00:15:00,234 --> 00:15:03,028 All the roses I sing of All the roses I choose 223 00:15:03,153 --> 00:15:06,198 All the roses I invent I vaunt in vain with my voice 224 00:15:06,323 --> 00:15:08,576 Before the rose I see before me 225 00:15:08,909 --> 00:15:12,454 Readers of these poems expect me 226 00:15:12,580 --> 00:15:15,749 to be 20 years old forever. 227 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,461 And since I can't satisfy... 228 00:15:20,129 --> 00:15:25,342 that need for beauty and youth that readers have, 229 00:15:25,759 --> 00:15:29,513 I feel guilty, and it makes me unhappy. 230 00:15:32,558 --> 00:15:35,853 That's what's terrible. They're not just for me. 231 00:15:36,061 --> 00:15:38,397 That's why I speak... 232 00:15:39,940 --> 00:15:42,651 of other poems, other texts. 233 00:15:43,319 --> 00:15:47,197 At least I know what they're about, 234 00:15:47,615 --> 00:15:50,326 and all that remains a secret to others. 235 00:15:50,451 --> 00:15:53,203 Maybe I'm not very good at sharing. 236 00:15:53,662 --> 00:15:57,124 Aragon always says he's a shadow at your feet. 237 00:15:57,916 --> 00:15:59,543 He's wrong. 238 00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:01,754 He's doing me wrong. 239 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,799 He's always belittling himself compared to me. 240 00:16:06,008 --> 00:16:07,801 It annoys people... 241 00:16:08,302 --> 00:16:10,763 and they're right. 242 00:16:11,722 --> 00:16:15,100 For thirty years I have been this shadow at your feet 243 00:16:15,267 --> 00:16:18,937 For thirty years my thought has been the shadow of your thought 244 00:16:19,229 --> 00:16:22,983 "You think all this is an allegory. You don't hear me..." 245 00:16:23,984 --> 00:16:27,946 I know I've done a lot for Aragon, 246 00:16:28,113 --> 00:16:32,785 because we were made for one another. 247 00:16:33,535 --> 00:16:38,791 I've greatly influenced his writing. 248 00:16:40,042 --> 00:16:43,003 He's very grateful to me, I think. 249 00:16:43,170 --> 00:16:48,342 Because in the end, it went the way he wanted it to go. 250 00:16:48,467 --> 00:16:50,511 There was a time 251 00:16:50,678 --> 00:16:55,015 when he was really struggling to find himself. 252 00:16:55,349 --> 00:16:59,687 He'd completely lost his way as a writer. 253 00:17:02,231 --> 00:17:05,442 And having me at his side — 254 00:17:06,777 --> 00:17:09,655 and I say this without false modesty — 255 00:17:09,822 --> 00:17:14,535 probably made him feel like his path was mapped out. 256 00:17:17,329 --> 00:17:20,124 He's always thanking me for that. 257 00:17:20,457 --> 00:17:22,835 He never stops thanking me. 258 00:17:23,836 --> 00:17:26,547 What a miracle to be together 259 00:17:26,964 --> 00:17:30,509 The light on your cheek, the wind playing around you 260 00:17:30,676 --> 00:17:32,803 When I see you, I still tremble 261 00:17:32,928 --> 00:17:36,306 Like a young man resembling me trembled on his first date 262 00:17:36,432 --> 00:17:38,100 Blame me if I cannot cope 263 00:17:38,267 --> 00:17:40,185 Can one adjust to flames? They've killed before 264 00:17:40,394 --> 00:17:42,229 The soul's eyes gouged, adjusting to dark clouds 265 00:17:42,396 --> 00:17:44,064 For the first time your mouth, your voice 266 00:17:44,231 --> 00:17:46,400 From wing to mountaintop, the tree trembles 267 00:17:46,567 --> 00:17:49,153 It's always the first time when your dress touches me 268 00:17:49,319 --> 00:17:51,113 Take this heavy fruit Discard the rotten half 269 00:17:51,321 --> 00:17:53,741 Bite into the sweet half, thirty lost years 270 00:17:53,907 --> 00:17:56,577 Sink your teeth in I give my life to you 271 00:17:56,744 --> 00:17:59,997 My life truly began the day I met you 272 00:18:00,414 --> 00:18:02,416 Your arms barred the path of my insanity 273 00:18:02,583 --> 00:18:04,877 Showed me a land where bounty is sown 274 00:18:05,002 --> 00:18:06,962 In the confusion you cooled my fevers 275 00:18:07,171 --> 00:18:09,256 And I ignited like gin at Christmas 276 00:18:09,465 --> 00:18:11,383 I was born from your lip 277 00:18:11,592 --> 00:18:14,094 My life begins with you 278 00:18:22,770 --> 00:18:25,105 All these poems are for you. 279 00:18:25,230 --> 00:18:27,524 Do they make you feel loved? 280 00:18:27,649 --> 00:18:30,819 No, they aren't what makes me feel loved. 281 00:18:31,612 --> 00:18:33,447 Not the poetry. 282 00:18:34,406 --> 00:18:36,909 It's the rest. Life. 283 00:18:40,454 --> 00:18:43,957 "Writing a life story, with its stops, switches, 284 00:18:44,082 --> 00:18:46,960 signals, bridges, tunnels, catastrophes..." 285 00:18:52,299 --> 00:18:56,136 Here only this world ends, and this film. 286 00:18:56,303 --> 00:18:58,347 Here we are separated, 287 00:18:58,472 --> 00:19:01,600 but here begins Elsa's second life, 288 00:19:01,725 --> 00:19:04,102 in which she is Elsa Triolet, 289 00:19:04,228 --> 00:19:08,482 the Elsa Triolet of today, author of some 17 books. 290 00:19:08,732 --> 00:19:11,485 No longer only the woman I imagine, 291 00:19:11,652 --> 00:19:13,821 but the woman who imagines, 292 00:19:13,987 --> 00:19:16,490 who has given life to dreams 293 00:19:16,657 --> 00:19:20,994 and characters I have lived among for a quarter century, 294 00:19:21,203 --> 00:19:25,415 watching them be born, I myself being one of them. 295 00:19:25,582 --> 00:19:30,003 A long story that I'll tell you some other time. 296 00:19:30,838 --> 00:19:35,592 For now, be content with this fairytale with its pat ending. 297 00:19:35,717 --> 00:19:39,096 They married and lived happily together... 298 00:19:39,346 --> 00:19:41,974 as in every fairy tale. 299 00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:46,395 When I learned in your arms that I was a human being 300 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,982 When I stopped pretending and became myself at your touch 301 00:19:50,232 --> 00:19:53,443 Take these books from my soul Open them everywhere 302 00:19:53,610 --> 00:19:56,530 Tear them apart to better understand their perfume and secret 303 00:19:56,655 --> 00:19:59,825 Brutally rip open the pages Crumple and tear them 304 00:19:59,950 --> 00:20:04,246 You'll retain but one thing A single murmur, a single chorus 305 00:20:04,413 --> 00:20:07,541 A long, babbling thank-you This happiness like a meadow 306 00:20:07,708 --> 00:20:11,712 Child-god, my idolatry The endless Ave of the litanies 307 00:20:11,879 --> 00:20:14,464 My blossoming, my growing beauty My reason, my folly 308 00:20:14,673 --> 00:20:17,509 My month of May, my melody My paradise, my blazing fire 309 00:20:17,634 --> 00:20:20,220 My universe, Elsa, my life 310 00:20:20,554 --> 00:20:22,890 My universe, Elsa, my life.