WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.570 --> 00:00:01.575 align:middle line:90% And this is the closing. 00:00:01.575 --> 00:00:04.630 align:middle line:90% 00:00:04.630 --> 00:00:05.470 align:middle line:90% "Still Her." 00:00:05.470 --> 00:00:09.200 align:middle line:90% 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:11.960 align:middle line:84% "Elle stood in the square wanting 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:15.260 align:middle line:84% to hear the language she was leaving, 00:00:15.260 --> 00:00:20.330 align:middle line:84% the desire alive even as the moment passed. 00:00:20.330 --> 00:00:25.010 align:middle line:84% What language can one speak to the dead? 00:00:25.010 --> 00:00:28.250 align:middle line:90% Into the cathedral Elle walked. 00:00:28.250 --> 00:00:31.730 align:middle line:84% Onto the labyrinth that she could see among the chairs used 00:00:31.730 --> 00:00:35.270 align:middle line:90% to cover it up she stepped. 00:00:35.270 --> 00:00:39.260 align:middle line:84% She saw before her letters, columnar glyphs-- 00:00:39.260 --> 00:00:41.870 align:middle line:90% words as if in code-- 00:00:41.870 --> 00:00:44.600 align:middle line:90% Corinth, Kore? 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:49.610 align:middle line:90% Said, I know my name and yours. 00:00:49.610 --> 00:00:54.410 align:middle line:90% Yours, she whispered, and mine. 00:00:54.410 --> 00:00:57.110 align:middle line:90% Elle's hand was being held. 00:00:57.110 --> 00:00:59.930 align:middle line:84% She was aware of the touch, that someone 00:00:59.930 --> 00:01:03.140 align:middle line:90% was cupping her hand in theirs. 00:01:03.140 --> 00:01:08.270 align:middle line:84% Mine, she thought, in the real air, the real hand that 00:01:08.270 --> 00:01:12.170 align:middle line:84% was hers, which could be held but would soon 00:01:12.170 --> 00:01:16.670 align:middle line:84% be molecules in the world going on without her. 00:01:16.670 --> 00:01:21.770 align:middle line:90% No, no, no, no! 00:01:21.770 --> 00:01:25.130 align:middle line:84% The world in which you would continue. 00:01:25.130 --> 00:01:29.120 align:middle line:90% She's still her, you wrote. 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:31.730 align:middle line:84% She would set a candle now that she was here 00:01:31.730 --> 00:01:36.650 align:middle line:84% in the nave, the great stone arches, the stained glass 00:01:36.650 --> 00:01:39.680 align:middle line:84% windows spectraling the light, and Phantom 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:42.980 align:middle line:90% playing the spectacular organ." 00:01:42.980 --> 00:01:43.880 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:01:43.880 --> 00:01:47.230 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE]