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I mean the link between those
3 and the next one is exactly

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the subject of that last one.

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But the next one is a poem,
which is-- in which the--

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where the mythology
if you want--

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for want of a better word I
keep going back to that one

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comes from is less important
than how it happens

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in the history of our time.

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And it's a poem about a kind
of exile, a moral exile which

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is something--

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which is another development
of what I was talking about.

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Feeling of being a
part of the place where

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the most appalling things and
the most crucial sacrifices

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are going on together.

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And the one is connected
with both of them

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but is helpless to prevent
the one or to help the other.

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The poem is called
"Banishment in Winter."

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And I think I should
say a few things

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about some of the images.

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I don't think they're
hard but they're

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the kind that might make you
stop them and go fooling around

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so that you get lost
and pick yourself

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up three or four lines later
on wondering where you were.

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The image at the beginning is
one of the northern lights.

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And it's that scene as
something which is already

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becoming part of
human manipulation

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that is the image that moves
into the poem that way.

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Yes.

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And also I should say
that it is a winter thing

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and it's looking into
the North, which is not

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only the idea of being able
to see things over some pole

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as you sometimes
would have in this--

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if you're very far
away from the place

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you come from, a place where
polar flights would come from.

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But also North in the
biblical sense one

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is in the fallen world.

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And the world is
ruled by Lucifer.

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And Lucifer in the
Bible as you remember,

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comes down from the
sides of the North.

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And one can go into
that little why

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Lucifer comes from the North
and go into that until midnight.

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He does anyway.

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So the cold in the poem
is all part of the dread

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and the connection with that.

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But one as I said it's called
"Banishment in Winter."

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From the North the ones
the long questions of light

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descend among us from
my country even by day.

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And their discoveries are
recorded beyond the silence.

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Blue eyes watch needles.

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Oh little by little
it will be seen

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who remembers the cold
dusk crossing the pastures.

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The black hay ridged along the
darkness, the color of snow

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at night.

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So even by day, the ones
reach toward the outer river,

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toward the deep
shadows inquiring.

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And above us like stars
and a slow negative

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the migrants, the true
migrants, the true migrants

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will be immeasurably far.

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The dark migrants, the souls
move out toward into the cold.

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But will it ever be
dark again in my country

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where hanging from
lampposts the good fill

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the streets with
their steady light.

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