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He has gone

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and is walking among men.

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He is taking the road of the valleys,

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and stops
among the vineyards or by the sea shore.

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Sometimes
he presses on up to the gates of a city.

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No one would say

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that he is Lord and Master.
I ask myself from time to time

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what he wants, what he seeks.
After so much struggle to give him

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the world - the countryside, the peaks
and the clouds - in his hands. He could

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sit up there undisturbed.
No, sir. He is walking.

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Why is that strange? He who is Lord
indulges his whims.

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Far from the Mount and from us,

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do you understand that?
And he owes it

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to us others, his servants,

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that he is Lord.

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Let him be content that the world
fears him and prays to him.

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What do those little men do to him?

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They, too, are part of the world,

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my dear.

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I don't know,
something is no longer as it was before.

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Our mother said:
"He will come like the storm,

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and the seasons will change."

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This son of the Mount
who commands with signs is no longer

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like the old lords - the night,
the earth, the old sky and chaos.

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One would say that the world

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is divided. There was a time
when things happened.

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Everything came to an end
and was a whole

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that lived.

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Now on the contrary
there is a law and there is a mind.

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He has made himself immortal
and with him

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us his servants.

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Even the little men think of us;
they know they must die

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and they gaze upon us. And that far
I understand them: it is for this

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that we fought the Titans.

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But that he the Celestial One
who on the Mount promises us these gifts

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should leave the peaks and go off
to indulge his whims at every moment,

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and to make himself a man among men,

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does not please me.
And you, sister?

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He would not be Lord
if he could not break

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the law he made.
But is he truly breaking it?

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I don't understand him, that is the fact.
When we threw ourselves onto the mounts,

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he smiled
as though he had already won.

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He fought with signs
and with brief words.

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His enemy was already
lying on the ground and he

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was still smiling.

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That is how he crushed
Titans and men.

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He pleased me then; he had no pity.
And he smiled like that one other time:

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when he thought of giving men
the woman Pandora,

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to punish them for the theft of fire.

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How is it possible
that he now takes pleasure

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in vineyards and cities?

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Perhaps the woman, Pandora,

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is not only a misfortune.
Why do you not want

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him to take pleasure in her,
if she was his gift?

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But you know what men are?
Wretched things that will have to die,

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more wretched than worms
or last year's leaves

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which died without knowing it.

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They on the contrary know it and say so,

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and never cease to invoke us,
to want to tear a favour

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or a look, to light fires for us,

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precisely those fires which they stole
in the hollow of the reed.

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And with women, with offerings,

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with songs
and beautiful words, they obtained

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that we others, the immortals,
that one of us

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would descend among them, look at them
benignly, have children with them.

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Do you understand the calculation,
the wretched and brazen astuteness?

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Are you convinced
as to why I am getting heated?

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Our mother said
and you yourself say that the world

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has changed. It is not only today

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that the lord of the mounts
is descending among men.

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You forget that in time past he lived
as a fugitive on an island of the sea

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and there died and was buried,

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as befell the gods then.

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These things are known.

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But it doesn't follow that his sign
has fallen. Those who have fallen

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are the lords of Chaos, those who
for a time ruled without law. Before,

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man, the wild beast
and also the rock were god.

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Everything happened
without a name and without a law.

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It needed

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the flight of the god,
the great impiety of his confinement

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among men when he was still
a small child and was suckling on a goat,

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and then his growing up on the Mount

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among the forests, the words
of men and the laws of the people

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and pain death and regret,

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to make the son of Kronos into the Good
Judge, the immortal and restless mind.

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You think you helped him
to crush the Titans?

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You said so yourself: he fought

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as though he had already won.
The reborn child became Lord

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by living among men.

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And so be it.

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The law was worth it.
But why does he insist

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on returning there

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now that he is king of us all?

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Brother, brother will you understand

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that the world, even if
it is no longer divine, precisely for that

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is always new and always rich for him

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who descends from the Mount?

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The word of the man

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who knows he is suffering,
and is exhausted and possesses the earth

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reveals marvels to him who listens to it.

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The young gods,
who have come after the lords of Chaos,

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are all walking on the earth
among men.

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And if someone nevertheless conserves
a love for the mountainous places,

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the caves, the wild skies,
they do so

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because men have now
reached there too

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and their voices
love to violate those silences.

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If the son of Kronos
were only to wander.

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If he only listened and punished according
to the law. But how can he resolve

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to enjoy them and be enjoyed by them,
to rob these mortals of women and sons?

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If you had known some of them,

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you would understand. They are
poor worms but among them everything

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is a surprise and a discovery.

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One can know a beast,
one can know a god, but no one,

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not even we others,
knows the bottom of those hearts.

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There are even, among them,

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some who dare set themselves
against fate.

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Only in living with them and for them
does one relish the flavour of the world.

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Or of the women,
the daughters of Pandora,

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those beasts?

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Women or beasts,

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it's all the same.
What do you think you are saying?

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They are the richest fruit
of mortal life.

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But does Zeus

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approach them as a beast or as a god?

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Fool,

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he approaches them as a man.
That is all.

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These mortals

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are truly amusing.
We know things

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and they do them. Without them

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I wonder what the days would be like.
What we Olympians would be like.

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They call to us with their little
voices and give us names.

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I was before them, and can tell you

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that we were lonely.
The earth was forest, snakes, tortoises.

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We were the earth, the air, the water.

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What could we do?

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It was then that we became
accustomed to being eternal.

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With men
that never happens.

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That's true. Everything they touch
becomes time, becomes action.

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Waiting and hope.

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Even their dying is something.

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They have a way
of naming themselves and things

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and us others

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that enriches life. Like the vineyards
they have learned to plant on these hills.

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When I brought the vine shoots to Eleusis

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I did not think that out of these ugly
rocky slopes they would have made

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such a sweet country.

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It is the same with the corn,
the same with the gardens. Wherever

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they expend labour and words

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there arises a rhythm,
a meaning, a repose.

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And the stories
they can tell about us?

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I wonder sometimes
if I am truly

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Gaia, Rhea, Cybele,

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the Great Mother, as they say I am.

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They can give us names

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that reveal us to ourselves,
Iacchus, and tear us away

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from the heavy eternity of fate

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to give us the colours of
the days and the countries where we are.

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For us

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you are always Deo.

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Who would have said
that in their wretchedness

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they have such riches? For them

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I am a wooded and ferocious mount,

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I am cloud and cave, I am

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lady of the lions,
of the grain and the bulls,

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of the walled fortresses,

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cradle and tomb,
the mother of Kore. Everything,

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I owe to them.

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They are always talking
about me, too.

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And should we not, Iacchus,

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help them more,
compensate them in some way,

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be by their side
during the brief day they enjoy?

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You
gave them the grain, I

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the vine, Deo. Let them be.

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What else do they need?

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I don't know how,
but what comes out of our hands

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is always ambiguous. It is an axe
with two blades. My Triptolemus

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nearly had his throat slit

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by the Scythian host to whom
he brought the wheat. And you too,

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I hear, cause innocent blood to flow.

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They would not be men

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if they were not sad. Their life

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has to die, nevertheless. Their whole
richness is death, which constrains them

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to be industrious,
to remember and to foresee.

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And don't think, Deo, that their blood

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is worth more than the wheat or the wine
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Blood is vile, dirty, shabby.

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You are young, Iacchus,
and you don't know that

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it is in blood
that they found us.

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You hurry restlessly
through the world and death

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for you is like stimulating wine.
But you don't think

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that the mortals have suffered everything

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they recount about us. How many
mortal mothers have lost their Kore

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and have never seen her again.

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Still today the richest homage
they can make to us

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is to shed blood.

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But is it a homage, Deo?

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You know better than me
that in killing the victim

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they believed for a while
that they were killing us.

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And can you hold it against them?

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It is for this that I tell you they
found us in blood. If for them

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death is the end and the beginning,

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they had to kill us
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They are very unhappy, Iacchus.

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Do you think so?

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To me they seem clumsy.
Or perhaps not.

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Since they are mortal anyway,

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they give meaning to life
by killing themselves. Their stories,

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they have to live them and die them.
Take the case of Icarius...

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That poor Erigone...

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But Icarius got himself killed
because he wanted to.

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Perhaps he thought his blood

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was wine. He harvested and pressed the
grapes and drew wine like a madman.

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It was the first time
that on a threshing-floor they saw

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wine-must foaming. They spattered
the hedges, the walls, the spades with it.

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Even Erigone immersed her hands in it.

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Then why does this clumsy old man
go into the fields, among the shepherds,

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to make them drink? They,

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drunk, poisoned, enraged,

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tore him to pieces
on the hedge like a goat,

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and then they buried him
so that there would be more wine.

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He knew it and wanted it.

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Should it have surprised his daughter,

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who had tasted this wine?
She, too, knew it.

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What else could she do,
to finish this story,

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but hang herself in the sun
like a bunch of grapes?

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That's nothing sad. The mortals
tell stories with blood.

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And does it seem to you
that this is worthy of us?

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Have you even wondered

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what would become of us
without them, you know that one day

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they could grow tired of us gods.

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So you see that blood,

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this shabby blood,

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is important to you.

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But what do you want us to give them?

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Whatever it is,
they will always turn it into blood.

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There is only one single way
and you know it.

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To give meaning to their dying.

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To teach them the blessed life.

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But that is tempting fate, Deo.
They are mortals.

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Listen to me. The day will come

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when they'll think about it themselves.
And they will do so without us,

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with a story. They will tell
of men who have vanquished death.

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Already someone among them,

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has been placed in heaven,

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someone

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goes down into hell every six months.

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One of them has fought with Death

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and has torn a creature from it.

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Understand me, Iacchus.
They will do it alone.

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And then we will go back
to what we were:

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air, water and earth.

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They will not live
longer because of that.

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Foolish boy, what do you think? But
to die will have meaning. They'll die

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to be born again, and they
will no longer need us others.

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What do you want to do, Deo?

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To teach them that they can

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equal us beyond pain and death.

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But to tell them ourselves.

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Just as the corn and the grape
go down to Hades to be born,

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so to teach them that
death, too, is new to them.

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To give them this story. To lead them
through this story. To teach them

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a destiny that is intertwined with ours.

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They will die all the same.

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They will die
and they will have vanquished death.

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They will see
something beyond blood.

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They will see the two of us.
They will no longer fear death,

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and they will no longer need
to placate it by shedding other blood.

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It can be done, Deo.
It will be the story of eternal life.

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I almost envy them. They will know
nothing of destiny and will be immortal.

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But don't hope
that the blood will be staunched:

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They will think only of eternity.

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At worst,

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there is the danger
that they will neglect these rich regions.

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For a while.

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But once the corn and the vine
have the meaning of eternal life,

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do you know what men will see
in bread and in wine?

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Flesh and blood,
like now, like always.

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And flesh and blood will flow,

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no longer to placate death,

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but to attain the eternity
that awaits them.

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One might say you see the future.
How can you say that?

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It is enough to have seen the past,
Deo, believe me.

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But I agree with you.
It will always be a story.

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I wonder what they say
about this water,

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the mortals.

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What do they know about it?
They take it.

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Perhaps someone even hopes
for a better harvest from it.

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At this hour the swollen rivers
have begun to uproot the trees.

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From now on
it is raining on the water everywhere.

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They are huddled in the caves
and in the huts on the mounts.

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They listen to it raining. They think of
those in the valleys fighting the water,

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and they delude themselves.

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As long as night lasts

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they delude themselves.
But tomorrow in the frightening light

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when they see
a single sea as far as the sky

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and the mountains shrunk,

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they will not go back into the caves.
They will look.

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They will throw a sack on their heads
and will look.

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You are confusing them
with the beasts of the forest.

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No mortal can understand
that he is dying

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and look at death. He needs
to run, to think, to speak,

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to talk to those who remain.

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But this time

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no one will remain.
What will they do then?

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I expect them here: when they know

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that they are all condemned,
all of them,

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they will begin
to celebrate, you'll see.

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Perhaps they will come
looking for us others.

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Oh us,

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what has that to do with us?

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It has to do with us, yes.
We are the celebration,

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we are life for them.
They will seek life from us

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to the very end.

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I don't understand what life
we can give them. We don't even know

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how to die. All we know is

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how to look. To look and to know.
But you say that they

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don't look
and don't know how to resign themselves.

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What else can they ask of us?

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So many things, little goat.

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For them we are
like the beasts of the forest. Beasts

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are born and die like leaves.

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They catch sight of us disappearing
among the branches and then

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they believe us
to be somehow divine ,

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so that when we flee to hide ourselves

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we are the life
that endures in the woods - a life

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like theirs
but everlasting, richer.

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They will seek us, I tell you. It will be
the last hope they have.

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With this water?

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And what will they do?

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Do you not know what hope is?

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They will believe that a wood
where we are too

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cannot come to be flooded.
They will tell themselves

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that all, absolutely all men
cannot disappear,

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otherwise what meaning is there

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in having been born
and having known us?

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They will know
that the great ones, the Olympians,

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want them dead, but that we,

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like them, like the small beasts,

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are in the end life,
the earth, the true thing that matters.

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Their seasons
are reduced to celebrations,

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and we are the celebrations.

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That's convenient.
For them hope, for us destiny.

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But it's foolish.

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Not that much.

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They'll save something.

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Yes, but who provoked the great gods?
Who caused all this disorder

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so that even the sun veiled its face?
They did, it seems to me.

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It serves them right.

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Come, little goat, do you really believe
these things? Don't you think that

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if they had truly violated life,

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life would have sufficed
to punish them

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without the need
for Olympus to bother with a deluge?

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00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,840
If someone has violated
something, believe me,

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it's not them.

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Meanwhile it befalls them to die.
How will they feel tomorrow

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when they know what is happening?

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Listen to the torrent, little one.
Tomorrow we too will be under water.

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You will see some ugly things,

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you who like to look. Luckily
we cannot die.

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Sometimes I don't know.
I wonder what it would be like

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to die.
That's the only thing

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that we really miss.
We know everything

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00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:57,560
and we don't know
this simple thing. I should like to try

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00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:03,200
and then wake up, of course.

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Listen to her!

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00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,720
But to die is precisely this -
no longer to know that you are dead.

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And this is what the deluge is:

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to die in such numbers that no one
remains any longer to know about it.

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So they will come looking for
us others and will tell us to save them,

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and they will want to be
like us, like the trees, like the stones,

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like insensible things
that are mere fate. In them

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they'll be saved. When the water recedes
stones and tree-trunks will emerge,

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as before. And the mortals
only ask for that "as before".

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Strange people.
They treat fate and the future

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as though it were a past.

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That is the meaning of

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hope.
To give fate the name of a memory.

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And do you believe they'll truly turn
themselves into tree-trunks and stones?

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They know how to recount fables,

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00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,400
these mortals.

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They'll live in the future according to
what the terror of tonight and tomorrow

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will have made them fantasise. They will
be wild beasts and rocks and trees.

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00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,160
They will be gods.

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00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,920
They will dare to kill the gods,

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to see them reborn. They will give
themselves a past to escape from death.

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00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,080
There are only these two things:

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hope or fate.

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00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,960
If that is so, I can't
pity them. It must be beautiful

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00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,920
to be self-made

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00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,880
in that way

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00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:07,840
according to your whim.

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00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,520
It's beautiful, yes. But don't think

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00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,520
that they know
they are acting according to their whim.

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00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,120
The most extraordinary rescues

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00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,520
they find blindly,

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00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,160
when they're already caught and crushed
by fate. They don't have time

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00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,520
to enjoy their whims.
They know only

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00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,720
that they pay in person. That, yes.

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00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:45,040
At least
let this deluge serve to teach them

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00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,280
what games and celebrations are.

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00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,480
Whim

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00:38:54,520 --> 00:39:00,160
is imposed on us immortals
by fate and we know it:

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00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,960
why don't they learn to live it

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00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,640
like an eternal moment
in their wretchedness?

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00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,960
Why don't they understand

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00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,160
that it's their very frailty
that makes them precious?

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00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,200
One can't have everything, little one.
We who know,

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00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:31,600
don't have preferences. And they
who live unexpected, unique instants

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00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,320
don't know their value.
They would like to have our eternity.

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00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,600
Such is the world.

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00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,320
Tomorrow they too will know something.

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00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:57,840
And the rocks and the lands
which will one day return to the light

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00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,800
will not live
by hope alone or by anguish.

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00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,520
You will see that the new world

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00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:14,480
will have something divine
in its most frail mortals.

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00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,120
God willing, little goat.
It would please me too.

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00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,480
In conclusion, you're not content.

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00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:15,680
I tell you

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00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,920
that if I think about a thing in the past,
about seasons already concluded,

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00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,680
it seems to me that I have been.
But during the days

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00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,320
it's different.
I feel weary of things

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00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,840
and of work
as a drunkard does.

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00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:33,680
Then I stop

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00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,560
and climb up here on the mountain.
But now in thinking back

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00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,920
it seems to me again
that I have been content.

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00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,480
That's how it will always be.

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00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,040
You who know all names, what is

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00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:54,480
the name for this state of mine?

431
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,520
You can call it
by my name or yours.

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00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,920
My name as a man,

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00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,800
Melete, is nothing. But you,

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00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,320
what do you want to be called?

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00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,520
Each time the word
that invokes you is different.

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00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,280
You are like a mother whose name

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00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,440
is lost in the years.

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00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:23,440
In the houses and on the paths from
which you can glimpse the mountain

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00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,320
there is much talk of you.
They say there was a time when

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00:42:27,720 --> 00:42:29,760
you were on more inaccessible mounts,

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00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,280
where there are snow, black trees
and monsters,

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00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,760
in Thrace or in Thessally,
and they called you

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00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,880
the Muse. Another says Calliope or Clio.

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00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,960
Which is the true name?

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00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,520
In fact I come from there.
And I have many names.

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00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:54,760
Others

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00:42:54,920 --> 00:43:00,680
I will have when I descend further.
Aglaia, Hegemony, Phaenna,

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00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,600
according to the whim of places.

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00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:10,720
Does weariness drive you
through the world, too? Are you then not

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00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,240
a goddess?

451
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,720
Neither weariness nor goddess, my dear.

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00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,760
Today I like

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00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,560
this Mount Helicon,

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00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:27,520
perhaps because you frequent it.
I love being where men are,

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00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,840
but a little apart.
I don't seek anyone,

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00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,080
and I converse with those
who know how to talk.

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00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:42,320
O Melete,

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00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,400
I don't know how to talk. And
it seems to me that I know something

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00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,840
only with you.
In your voice and in your names

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00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,600
there is the past,
every season that I remember.

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00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:03,120
In Thessaly my name was Mneme.

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00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,280
Some who talk about you

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00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,480
say you are as old as the tortoise,

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00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,480
decrepit and hard.
Others make you a sour nymph

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00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,120
like a bud or a cloud.

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00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,200
What do you say?

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00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:24,760
I don't know.

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00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,920
You are Calliope and you are Mneme.
Your voice and your look are immortal.

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00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:38,560
You are like a hill or
a watercourse whom one doesn't ask

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00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,840
if they are young or old
because for them there is no time.

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00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,920
They exist. Nothing else is known.

472
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:59,240
But you too, dear,
exist, and for you existence

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00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,240
means weariness and discontent.

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00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:12,080
How do you imagine
the life of us others, the immortals?

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00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:17,920
I don't imagine it, Melete,
I venerate it, as I can,

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00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,600
with a pure heart.

477
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,400
Go on, I like you.

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00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,040
I have said everything.

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00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,080
I know you men,

480
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,720
you talk through your teeth.

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00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,040
In front of the gods
we can do nothing

482
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:44,800
but bow down.

483
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,920
Leave the gods be.
I existed when there were no gods.

484
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:55,240
You can talk to me.
Men tell me everything.

485
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,280
Adore us if you want to,
but tell me

486
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,680
how you imagine I live.

487
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,760
How can I know?
No goddess

488
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,000
has deemed me worthy of her bed.

489
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:14,920
Fool, the world has seasons,
and that time

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00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:17,960
is finished.

491
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:24,600
I know only
the land that I have worked.

492
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,760
You are proud,

493
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:34,080
shepherd. You have the pride of a mortal.
But it will be your destiny

494
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,600
to know other things. Tell me

495
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,880
why when you talk to me
you believe yourself contented?

496
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,840
I can answer that.
The things you say

497
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,880
don't have that weariness
of what happens every day.

498
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,560
You give names to things

499
00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:01,800
which make them different, unheard of,
and yet dear and familiar

500
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,360
like a voice that has been
silent for a long time. Or like

501
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:11,600
seeing yourself unexpectedly
in a mirror of water,

502
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,880
which makes you say
"Who is this man?"

503
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,240
My dear, has it never

504
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:28,240
happened that you saw a tree, a rock,
a gesture, and felt the same passion?

505
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,600
It has happened to me.

506
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,720
And did you find out why?

507
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,440
It is only an instant, Melete.
How can I grasp it?

508
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,600
Have you not asked yourself
why an instant,

509
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,960
similar to so many from the past

510
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,960
should at a stroke make you happy,
happy as a god?

511
00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:01,200
You looked at the olive-tree,
the olive-tree on the path

512
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:06,920
you followed every day
for years, and comes the day

513
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,280
when weariness leaves you,

514
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,920
you caress the old trunk with a look,

515
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:23,200
as though it were a friend found again
and it were to tell you the one word

516
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,680
your heart was waiting for.

517
00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:29,960
At other times

518
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,520
it is the glance of some passer-by.

519
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,280
At other times the rain

520
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,960
that has insisted for days.

521
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:46,000
Or the piercing cry of a bird.
Or a cloud

522
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,440
which you would say you had seen before.

523
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,880
For an instant
time stops, and the banal thing

524
00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:00,680
you feel it in your heart
as if the before and the after

525
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,920
did not exist any more.

526
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,920
Have you not asked yourself why?

527
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,240
You yourself are saying it. That instant

528
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,240
has made the thing a memory, a model.

529
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,120
Can you not think

530
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,640
of an existence entirely
made up of these instants?

531
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,040
I can think of it,
yes.

532
00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:33,680
Then you know how I live.

533
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,720
I believe you, Melete, because

534
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:43,080
you carry everything in your eyes. And
the name of Euterpe, that many give you,

535
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,280
can no longer surprise me.
But mortal moments

536
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,080
are not a life.
If I wanted to repeat them

537
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:59,800
they would lose their bloom.
Weariness always returns.

538
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,240
And yet you said that that instant

539
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:09,280
is a memory. And what is memory

540
00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:14,760
if not passion repeated?
Understand me well.

541
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:16,480
What do you mean?

542
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,000
I mean

543
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,920
that you know
what immortal life is.

544
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:29,200
When I talk with you it is
difficult for me to resist you. You saw

545
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:34,480
things at the beginning. You are
the olive-tree, the glance and the cloud.

546
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,040
You say a name,

547
00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:40,440
and the thing is forever.

548
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:47,560
Hesiod, every day I find you up here.
Others before you

549
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,080
have I found on these mounts,

550
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:55,800
on the barren rivers of Thrace
and Pieria. I like you

551
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,360
more than them. You know

552
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,920
you have immortal things
close at hand.

553
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,720
It isn't difficult
to know that. To touch them

554
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:10,040
is difficult.

555
00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:13,520
You have to live for them, Hesiod. That is

556
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,920
what a pure heart means.

557
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,200
Listening to you, certainly.
But man's life

558
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,120
goes on down there,

559
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,040
among the houses, in the fields.

560
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:30,800
In front of the fire and in a bed.
Every day that dawns

561
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:38,120
confronts you with the same labour
and the same failures.

562
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,040
In the end, it is wearying, Melete.

563
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,240
There is a storm
that renews the countryside.

564
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,560
Neither death
nor great pains discourage.

565
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:53,320
But the interminable labour,

566
00:51:55,720 --> 00:52:01,320
the effort to stay alive from hour to
hour, the news of the illness of others,

567
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:09,520
of shabby illness, as wearying as
summer flies - that is a life

568
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,080
that cripples you, Melete.

569
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,800
I come from more barren places,

570
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:24,880
from misty and inhuman ravines,
where life has nevertheless opened up.

571
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,640
Among these olive-trees
and beneath the sky

572
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:35,680
you don't know that fate.
Ever heard

573
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,400
of the swamp of Boibeis?

574
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,960
A foggy moor
of mud and reeds,

575
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,840
as it was
at the beginning of time,

576
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,840
in a gurgling silence.

577
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,120
It begot monsters and gods

578
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,760
of excrement and blood.
Still today,

579
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:02,960
the Thessalians hardly speak of it.

580
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:11,240
Neither time nor seasons change it.
No voice reaches there.

581
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:17,240
But meanwhile you speak of it, Melete,
and have made it a divine fate.

582
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,560
Your voice has reached it. Now

583
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,600
it is a terrible and sacred place.

584
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:35,520
The olive-trees and the sky of Helicon
are not the whole of life.

585
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:39,800
But nor are weariness,
or the return to the houses.

586
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,120
You don't understand
that man, every man,

587
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:50,120
is born in that swamp of blood,
and that the sacred and the divine

588
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:55,320
accompany you, too,
in bed, in the fields,

589
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,400
in front of the fire.
Every gesture you make

590
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,840
repeats a divine model. Day and night,

591
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:11,040
you don't have an instant,
not even the most futile,

592
00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:15,200
that does not spring
from the silence of the origins.

593
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:21,200
You talk, Melete, and I cannot
resist you. Were it enough

594
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,720
at least to venerate you.

595
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,440
There is another way, my dear.

596
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,120
And which?

597
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,440
Try to tell the mortals
these things you know.

598
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:07,000
The Mount is uncultivated, friend.
On last winter's red grass

599
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:11,320
there are patches of snow.
It looks like the centaur's coat.

600
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:20,640
These heights are all like this. A mere
nothing is enough for the countryside

601
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:25,640
to return to the same
as when these things happened.

602
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,320
I wonder

603
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:33,440
if it's true that they saw them.

604
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,720
Who can say? But yes,

605
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:40,440
they saw them. They told
their names and nothing more -

606
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:42,120
in this lies

607
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:47,960
the whole difference between fables and
the truth. "It was this one or that one."

608
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,760
"He did this, he said that."
Whoever is truthful

609
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:58,760
is content with that. He doesn't even
suspect that they might not believe him.

610
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,080
The liars are us,

611
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:08,760
who have never seen these things, and
yet know in complete detail

612
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:11,880
what the centaur's coat was like

613
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:16,080
or the colour of the bunches of grapes
on Icarius's threshing-floor.

614
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:22,040
All it needs is a hill, a peak, a slope.

615
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:26,440
For it to be a lonely place

616
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:31,680
and for your eyes lifting up from it
to stop in the sky.

617
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,760
The incredible prominence
of things in the air

618
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,000
touches the heart still today.
I for my part believe

619
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:49,280
that a tree,
a rock outlined against the sky

620
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:53,280
were gods right from the beginning.

621
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,000
It is not always

622
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,120
that things have been thus
on the mounts.

623
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:02,600
Of course.
First there were the voices of the earth -

624
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:10,680
the springs the roots the snakes.
If the daemon conjoins the earth

625
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,320
with the sky,

626
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:17,480
he has to come out into the light
from the darkness of the soil.

627
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:19,840
I don't know.

628
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:28,160
Those people knew too many things.
With a simple name they recounted

629
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:33,320
the cloud, the wood, the fates.
Certainly, they saw

630
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,280
what we hardly know.

631
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,160
They had neither the time nor the liking
for losing themselves in dreams.

632
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,440
They saw
terrible, unbelievable things,

633
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,800
and they weren't even surprised.
One knew what it was.

634
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,480
If they were lying,
then you, too,

635
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:58,080
when you say
"it's morning" or "it's going to rain"

636
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:01,760
have lost your head.

637
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,720
They spoke names, yes.
So much that at times I wonder

638
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,000
whether it was the things
or those names that came first.

639
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:15,560
They came together,
believe me. And it was here,

640
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,640
in these uncultivated and solitary lands.

641
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:25,320
Is it surprising

642
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:30,480
that they came up here? What else
could those people have sought

643
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,120
if not an encounter with the gods?

644
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,560
Who can say why

645
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:43,040
they stopped here?
But in every abandoned place

646
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,800
there remains an emptiness,
an expectation.

647
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:48,040
Nothing else

648
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,080
can be thought of up here.
These places

649
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:57,680
have names forever. There remains
only the grass beneath the sky,

650
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:04,480
and yet in the memory
the breath of the wind

651
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,480
makes more of a roar
than a storm in the woods.

652
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:12,120
There is neither emptiness
nor expectation. What has been

653
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:14,600
is forever.

654
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:18,400
But they are dead and buried.

655
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,680
Now the places are
as they were before them.

656
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,040
I'm willing to concede

657
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:33,840
that what they said was true.
What else remains? You will admit

658
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:39,160
that on the path
one no longer encounters gods.

659
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:43,120
When I say
"it's morning" or "it's going to rain"

660
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,760
I am not talking about them.

661
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:53,520
Tonight we have talked about them.
Yesterday you talked about the summer,

662
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:59,760
and the desire you feel
to breathe the warm air in the evening.

663
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:07,520
At other times you converse about man,
about people who have been with you,

664
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:13,960
about your past likes, about unexpected
encounters. All things

665
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,120
that once were.

666
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,880
For me, I assure you,
I have listened to you

667
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:28,320
like I listen within myself again
to those ancient names.

668
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:30,880
When you recount what you know,

669
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:34,040
I don't ask "what else remains?"

670
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,560
or whether words or things came first.

671
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,800
I live with you and I feel alive.

672
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,880
It's not easy to live
as though what happened

673
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:53,960
in other times were true. Yesterday when

674
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,880
we were overtaken
by fog on the uncultivated lands

675
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:06,760
and some rock rolled down the hill
to our feet, we didn't think

676
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:15,840
about divine things or
some unbelievable encounter but only

677
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,880
about the night
and the hares running away.

678
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,880
Who we are and what we believe in

679
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:38,840
comes into the open when faced with
hardship in the hour of risk.

680
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,000
About last night and the hares

681
01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:46,440
it will be nice to talk again with friends
when we are in our houses.

682
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:49,600
And yet this fear

683
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:52,120
should make us smile

684
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:56,280
if we think of the anguish
of the people from times past

685
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:02,880
for whom everything that befell them
was mortal. People for whom

686
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,440
the air was full
of nocturnal terrors,

687
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:09,840
of mysterious threats,
of frightening memories.

688
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,440
Just think of the bad weather
or of the earthquakes.

689
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:21,920
And if this hardship was true,
as is indisputable,

690
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:26,440
then also true were courage and hope,

691
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:33,160
the happy discovery
of powers of promises of encounters.

692
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:37,640
For myself, I never tire

693
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,840
of hearing them talk
about their nocturnal terrors

694
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,800
and about the things
in which they hope.

695
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,280
And you believe in monsters,

696
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:53,680
you believe in bestialised bodies,
in living rocks,

697
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:59,400
in divine smiles,
in words that annihilated?

698
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:01,880
I believe

699
01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:06,080
in what every man
has hoped and suffered.

700
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:13,360
If they once climbed up
onto these rocky heights

701
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:17,320
or looked for
mortal swamps beneath the sky,

702
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,960
it was because they found there

703
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:24,560
something
which we don't know. It was neither

704
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:29,680
bread nor pleasure nor precious health.
One knows where those things

705
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,640
are. Not here.

706
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:40,400
And we who live far away along the sea
or in the fields, the other thing,

707
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,480
we have lost it.

708
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:47,760
Say it then,

709
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:49,840
the thing.

710
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:53,080
You know it already.

711
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:58,600
Those encounters of theirs.

712
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:12,680
Translation: Misha Donat/Danièle Huillet