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Then one could hear weapons clank and people knew foray was taking place.

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There was war and ruin would befall them all.

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The women were dragged away and the men killed.

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Children perished somehow too.

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Then wolves and vultures came for the bodies.

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Nature would endure great battles of yore.

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It was full of life thus, full of hope.

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The survivors could run to the forests.

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In thick forests they could take shelter and they knew how to start anew.

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That’s not how it is today.
Where would people run?

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There’s nothing today.

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No forests, no castles.

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Everything is full of poison
and despair reigns.

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No place to hide.

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Only doom and gloom remains.

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MADAM LE MURIE

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That grave’s not forlorn, forsaken, neglected.

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There’s a flower and such...

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but there’ll be no tombstone.

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When I’m dead, if I die here

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- but that doesn’t matter anyway
because I’m last in the line -

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the tomb will be cleared off and sold.

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Nothing, nothing, nothing…

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No name, no marker.

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There’ll be nothing.

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I grew up here the way all the village
children I was friends with did.

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I’d visit their cottages, run barefoot,
everything just like them.

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Of course, that changed with time...

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my great grief.

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I started to be alone more and more.

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That’s how it’s been my whole life, basically.

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Every drop of water must be dragged
here from the village.

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We used to have a nice water main,
but it was destroyed.

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I guess it’s better this way.

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All this clutter, the wood, we
brought it in during the war.

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When the Germans came, Father
created this "artistic mess"...

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so that it looked less posh.

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And it stayed this way…

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I can’t fathom why they didn’t
throw us out from here.

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Must have been providence.

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Our heads are very, very small.

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With our two hands we can enclasp it.

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Thus, our intellect cannot fathom
why we were allowed to stay.

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I believe there was a higher
purpose in that.

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All that’s hard to explain.

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It’s incommunicable.

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I’ve always loved nature very much.

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I like fish, water. There are
plenty of ponds here.

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Every toad, every little fish,
that was my thing.

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A strong bond with flora.

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And it was bursting with animals here.

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There were those - something
like crakes.

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They were around in June when
it was hot, on the meadows.

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You could hear them here and there.

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A symbiosis with nature.

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And with people.

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A complete symbiosis.

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We have storks on the roof.

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Their nest dates to last century.

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When it was hot, you could hear
all the croaking in the evening.

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Or even during the day.

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The stork would come and
all you could hear was

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plonk, plonk, plonk...

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And the toads would rush to
water to save their lives.

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But it's quiet now.

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That’s terrible for me.

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It was like a part of me.

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This used to be Father’s salon.

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His escritoire.

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My Father was from the old school.

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And when I was a little older he would
find time to teach me Latin.

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I’m very grateful for that.

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After every lesson I’d thank him.

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The roof leaks a lot.

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You must save whatever you can.

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Must ventilate the closets too.

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But it’s so damp it’s hard to open.

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Mama was bound to this
bed for almost 8 years.

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She was ill, suffering from
deformative rheumatism.

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She was immobile.

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I was married off to Switzerland...

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but in 1948 I heard about what
was happening here.

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I burst into tears so hard.

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Some time later

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I went back here and stayed with Mama.

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Father was old

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and the communists needed someone

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to accuse of being a kulak

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so they jailed him.

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But he was so old

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they knew he’d die soon,

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so they let him go home.

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He loved to walk to his former fields...

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where one day he died.

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This was my brother’s bedroom.

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He was very ascetic.

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We all were brought up tough...

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and we were all frugal.

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My brother loved South Bohemia.

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Nothing could beat the Bohemian
Forest for him.

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And its people.

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He never left.

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When the army came

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and made most of it off-limits

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it was a real blow for him.

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Kristián also spent time in jail,

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but the village helped him out.

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Also the damage to the countryside,

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the meadows were ploughed under,

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wildlife annihilated,

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and birds gone…

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He loved birds dearly,

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especially the small ones.

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And they were less and less populous.

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Well, it’s good he died first...

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because I don’t know how well
could he have handled it...

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had he stayed on his own.

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I served Mama till the end...

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and Papa, and my brother too.

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We’d often remark, Kristián and I,

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how beautiful it was around here

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and how it was mistreated.

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Butterflies aplenty,

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their number getting thinner
year after year…

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They’re gone. Gone.

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And there’s more,

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but people don’t notice.

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They don’t observe nature at all.

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Just to get their livelihood from it,

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to gain more and more,

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but to really contemplate,

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understand and ask questions...

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People don’t care.
That’s something awful.

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Especially the country folk.

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They have no taste for all this at all.

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They just go for the immediate gain.

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Just to stuff their faces, pardon my French.

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I had a schoolmate,

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she was a gravedigger‘s daughter.

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She took the job after his death

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and I told her I’d help.

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And so we’d bury the dead,
dig graves and such.

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No problem for me.

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We’d have difficulties with every grave.

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Very rarely would it go easy.

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Never less than 3 hours. Never.

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I’d often stumble upon these
white stiff pieces digging.

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I thought it was cast.

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But it seemed curious...

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to have so many people buried with cast.

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But this one time I was
burying this neighbour

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and the broad was very fat.

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Then it occurred to me...

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it was lard,

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non-decomposed,

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and that it looked just like cast.

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The fatness,

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the fat,

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the lard,

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it transforms into this…

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I just had to show it to this guy from
the village who was passing by,

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I told him to come and have a look,

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this is the fat that remained…

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Why, the swallows left early this year.

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Why?

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There’s a reason!

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Something‘s telling them.

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And all the storks are gone too.

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Usually by the end of August.

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But what drives them?

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This is no laughing matter.

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It isn’t accidental.

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We should also speak of an
incommunicable secret.

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It could be light for those born blind.

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And all the sensations
that come with sight.

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Yet they live.

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Or the deaf.

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Never getting to know what
tone or sound means.

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We discern three dimensions.

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This great human being, Einstein,
added a fourth one

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– time.

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But for us common folk

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only the first three apply.

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I like to watch the celestial sphere.

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I see the Milky Way...

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made of innumerable ardent stars.

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When I think about

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how each of the stars

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is millions of light years away

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and this ray travels

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and touches my eye where it expires

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in a fraction of second.

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It‘s awe-inspiring.

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I shiver inside

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and can’t but feel humble.

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Disturbing feelings.

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Deeply.

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One fears death.

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Of course. And for good reason.

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Because we don’t know what’s there.

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And we must leave here.

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You could say I get a headache from this.

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It makes me dizzy.

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To know all of it is true.

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Your brain can’t analyse it.

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00:22:05,298 --> 00:22:08,290
But it’s no nonsense,

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no dream,

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it’s reality.

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00:22:24,164 --> 00:22:27,233
The grave doesn’t horrify
me, the universe does.

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Our age is drawing to an end.

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00:22:48,984 --> 00:22:51,117
The Quaternary Period is done for.

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00:22:53,005 --> 00:22:56,205
The omens are numerous.

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Ozone depletion.

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Rain forests destruction.

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00:23:03,921 --> 00:23:07,796
All of this accelerates

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00:23:08,601 --> 00:23:10,843
the demise of the Quaternary.

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00:23:11,235 --> 00:23:13,912
Conifers are dying,

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00:23:15,082 --> 00:23:17,172
broad-leaved trees are starting too,

219
00:23:17,292 --> 00:23:18,586
oaks are dying,

220
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beech is next and so on,

221
00:23:23,339 --> 00:23:25,922
everything is dying.

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Stone crumbles.

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With human help.

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When oak is in danger,

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now that’s something,

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00:23:41,001 --> 00:23:44,993
Now that’s something, 
people always said strong as oak,

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it was always used as a parable for something strong.

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and all others will follow.

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We will perish.

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When I was at a very tender age,

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15 or so,

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I met a young gentleman

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who impressed me a lot.

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I felt a growing fierce affection for him

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00:25:37,741 --> 00:25:43,764
and it developed into a deep love.

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00:25:44,683 --> 00:25:49,941
When I realised his feelings were not as strong,

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just a passing fancy,

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00:25:54,047 --> 00:25:59,097
definitely not what I’d dreamt for...

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00:26:02,888 --> 00:26:05,918
it shattered my life.

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00:26:06,798 --> 00:26:08,295
I glimpsed at my watch

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00:26:08,415 --> 00:26:09,845
and it was stuck.

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00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:18,037
To overcome this shock 
I said my watch was stuck.

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00:26:20,859 --> 00:26:25,387
That moment
my whole world came to a halt.

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00:26:25,818 --> 00:26:29,840
My life was over in an instant.

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00:26:31,786 --> 00:26:34,868
I stayed away from great feeling
for the rest of my life.

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00:26:34,988 --> 00:26:38,839
No one knew anything.

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00:26:39,217 --> 00:26:43,205
I fought it out, but the price was terrible.

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00:26:44,999 --> 00:26:47,367
It cost me my life.

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I turned into a vegetable.

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Off with you, cat.

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00:31:43,865 --> 00:31:45,625
The longcase clock was stolen,

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00:31:45,745 --> 00:31:47,469
as were many other things.

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00:31:48,629 --> 00:31:53,561
The other clock I stopped

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00:31:53,850 --> 00:32:00,412
when I was told of my brother’s death.

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00:32:03,807 --> 00:32:05,730
After all, what’s this “time”?

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00:32:07,081 --> 00:32:08,976
I gave it a lot of thought.

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00:32:09,404 --> 00:32:10,644
We know the past,

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00:32:10,764 --> 00:32:12,260
don’t know the future.

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00:32:12,380 --> 00:32:13,806
And presence?

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00:32:14,248 --> 00:32:15,558
When I say “now”,

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00:32:16,017 --> 00:32:17,605
it’s already in the past.

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00:32:18,726 --> 00:32:22,892
Time is a human construct

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00:32:26,621 --> 00:32:28,126
that can be of help

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00:32:29,031 --> 00:32:32,598
and is necessary,

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00:32:33,928 --> 00:32:36,909
but I must say I can’t figure it out.