WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.950 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.950 --> 00:00:06.090 align:middle line:84% I have a long poem here, which is just 00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:12.021 align:middle line:84% published by a little press in Berkeley, California. 00:00:12.021 --> 00:00:14.310 align:middle line:84% Why I am not going to read the whole thing, 00:00:14.310 --> 00:00:18.430 align:middle line:84% I read a great part of it in 1974. 00:00:18.430 --> 00:00:20.550 align:middle line:84% But it was not completed at that time. 00:00:20.550 --> 00:00:23.580 align:middle line:90% 00:00:23.580 --> 00:00:27.165 align:middle line:84% And this is the only long poem I have written. 00:00:27.165 --> 00:00:29.670 align:middle line:90% 00:00:29.670 --> 00:00:31.080 align:middle line:90% It's called "Baltics." 00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:34.530 align:middle line:90% 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:37.560 align:middle line:84% And that's the plural, doesn't exist. 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:39.360 align:middle line:90% The name is Baltic. 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:44.940 align:middle line:84% And that's the sea we have East of Sweden. 00:00:44.940 --> 00:00:48.660 align:middle line:84% At the same time it's the communication 00:00:48.660 --> 00:00:52.650 align:middle line:84% between Scandinavia and the country's East. 00:00:52.650 --> 00:00:58.485 align:middle line:84% At the same time it's a border, and now sometimes very closed. 00:00:58.485 --> 00:01:04.890 align:middle line:90% 00:01:04.890 --> 00:01:09.510 align:middle line:84% My ancestors lived in the archipelago 00:01:09.510 --> 00:01:11.700 align:middle line:90% at the Swedish East Coast. 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:15.330 align:middle line:84% And I have still a house there which 00:01:15.330 --> 00:01:18.705 align:middle line:84% was built by my grandfather who's a pilot. 00:01:18.705 --> 00:01:21.300 align:middle line:90% 00:01:21.300 --> 00:01:22.950 align:middle line:84% So, I have very strong roots there. 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:28.510 align:middle line:84% And the whole poem is partly about this and my ancestors, 00:01:28.510 --> 00:01:31.530 align:middle line:84% about the life in the archipelago 100 years ago, 00:01:31.530 --> 00:01:33.190 align:middle line:90% 70 years ago. 00:01:33.190 --> 00:01:34.470 align:middle line:90% It's also about myself. 00:01:34.470 --> 00:01:37.950 align:middle line:84% It's also about political things about, 00:01:37.950 --> 00:01:39.630 align:middle line:90% strategic things in the air. 00:01:39.630 --> 00:01:49.350 align:middle line:84% It's about zoology, flowers, nature. 00:01:49.350 --> 00:01:50.220 align:middle line:90% Many other things. 00:01:50.220 --> 00:01:59.550 align:middle line:84% It's the whole problem is a bag where I put everything 00:01:59.550 --> 00:02:03.660 align:middle line:84% I am committed to, and which has to do with the Baltic. 00:02:03.660 --> 00:02:06.300 align:middle line:90% 00:02:06.300 --> 00:02:09.030 align:middle line:84% Although it's difficult to break out parts of it, 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:10.570 align:middle line:90% but I must do that. 00:02:10.570 --> 00:02:14.860 align:middle line:84% And I read the three last parts of it. 00:02:14.860 --> 00:02:19.440 align:middle line:84% The first one is a rather calm interlude 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:22.290 align:middle line:84% with a series of small prose poems 00:02:22.290 --> 00:02:29.310 align:middle line:84% starting the whole thing about things I love there. 00:02:29.310 --> 00:02:31.530 align:middle line:84% The last word is Liepaja, and that's 00:02:31.530 --> 00:02:38.610 align:middle line:84% the Latvian town which used to be commercial harbor 00:02:38.610 --> 00:02:43.170 align:middle line:84% before World War II but now entirely a military place 00:02:43.170 --> 00:02:44.580 align:middle line:90% belonging to the Soviet Union. 00:02:44.580 --> 00:02:50.810 align:middle line:90% 00:02:50.810 --> 00:02:51.560 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.390 align:middle line:90% That's part 4. 00:02:53.390 --> 00:02:57.440 align:middle line:84% And I will comment further, part 5. 00:02:57.440 --> 00:03:00.260 align:middle line:90% "Baltics 4." 00:03:00.260 --> 00:03:07.030 align:middle line:84% From the lee side, close ups. Bladderwrack. 00:03:07.030 --> 00:03:10.000 align:middle line:84% The forest of bladderwrack shine in the clearwater. 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.060 align:middle line:84% They are young, you want to emigrate there, stretch out 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:17.350 align:middle line:84% on your own reflection and sink down to such and such a depth. 00:03:17.350 --> 00:03:19.810 align:middle line:84% The seaweed holding itself up with air 00:03:19.810 --> 00:03:23.395 align:middle line:84% bladders as we hold ourselves up with ideas. 00:03:23.395 --> 00:03:25.900 align:middle line:90% 00:03:25.900 --> 00:03:27.070 align:middle line:90% Bullhead. 00:03:27.070 --> 00:03:29.860 align:middle line:84% The fish that's a toad that wanted to be a butterfly 00:03:29.860 --> 00:03:33.730 align:middle line:84% and made it a third of the way, hiding himself in the seaweed 00:03:33.730 --> 00:03:37.870 align:middle line:84% but pulled up in the net, hooked fast by his pathetic spikes 00:03:37.870 --> 00:03:39.610 align:middle line:90% and warts. 00:03:39.610 --> 00:03:42.610 align:middle line:84% When you untangle him from the mess of the net, 00:03:42.610 --> 00:03:44.455 align:middle line:90% your hands shine with slime. 00:03:44.455 --> 00:03:48.420 align:middle line:90% 00:03:48.420 --> 00:03:49.800 align:middle line:90% The rocks. 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.020 align:middle line:84% The small creatures hurry over the sun 00:03:52.020 --> 00:03:56.010 align:middle line:84% warmed lichens rushing like second hands. 00:03:56.010 --> 00:03:59.040 align:middle line:84% The pine cast the shadow, it wanders slowly 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:00.780 align:middle line:90% like an hour hand. 00:04:00.780 --> 00:04:04.530 align:middle line:84% Inside me, time stands still, endless time. 00:04:04.530 --> 00:04:07.050 align:middle line:84% The time it takes to forget all languages 00:04:07.050 --> 00:04:08.745 align:middle line:90% and invent perpetual motion. 00:04:08.745 --> 00:04:13.150 align:middle line:90% 00:04:13.150 --> 00:04:17.079 align:middle line:84% On lee side, you can hear the grass growing, a faint drumming 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:18.370 align:middle line:90% coming from underneath. 00:04:18.370 --> 00:04:22.660 align:middle line:84% A faint roar of millions of small gas flames. 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:24.415 align:middle line:90% So it is to hear the grass grow. 00:04:24.415 --> 00:04:27.520 align:middle line:90% 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:31.570 align:middle line:84% And now, the stretch of open water 00:04:31.570 --> 00:04:35.650 align:middle line:84% with outdoors, the open boundaries that 00:04:35.650 --> 00:04:41.590 align:middle line:84% grow broader and broader the further you stretch out. 00:04:41.590 --> 00:04:45.085 align:middle line:84% There are days when the Baltic is a calm limitless roof. 00:04:45.085 --> 00:04:48.180 align:middle line:90% 00:04:48.180 --> 00:04:50.100 align:middle line:84% Then dreaming innocently of someone 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:55.230 align:middle line:84% crawling out on the roof to try to put the hell yards in order. 00:04:55.230 --> 00:05:01.170 align:middle line:84% Trying to hoist the rag, flag that's frayed by the wind 00:05:01.170 --> 00:05:06.030 align:middle line:84% and smoked by the farmers and bleached by the sun that it 00:05:06.030 --> 00:05:07.260 align:middle line:90% could be anybody's. 00:05:07.260 --> 00:05:10.300 align:middle line:90% 00:05:10.300 --> 00:05:12.180 align:middle line:90% But it's a long way to reappear. 00:05:12.180 --> 00:05:16.910 align:middle line:90% 00:05:16.910 --> 00:05:22.110 align:middle line:84% "5" is the most complicated part of the poem. 00:05:22.110 --> 00:05:24.845 align:middle line:90% It's a diary from my island. 00:05:24.845 --> 00:05:28.670 align:middle line:90% 00:05:28.670 --> 00:05:32.430 align:middle line:84% I am talking about the composer among other things here. 00:05:32.430 --> 00:05:37.340 align:middle line:84% His name was Vissarion Shebalin and he died in 1963. 00:05:37.340 --> 00:05:38.840 align:middle line:84% And all the things I tell you here 00:05:38.840 --> 00:05:42.620 align:middle line:84% is documentary like the whole poem. 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:45.740 align:middle line:90% 00:05:45.740 --> 00:05:49.880 align:middle line:84% And there are quotations here two lines 00:05:49.880 --> 00:05:54.950 align:middle line:84% from the Swedish 14th century Chronicle, 00:05:54.950 --> 00:05:57.080 align:middle line:84% which were written in the middle-aged Swedish 00:05:57.080 --> 00:06:00.710 align:middle line:84% and were translated to middle-aged English 00:06:00.710 --> 00:06:04.950 align:middle line:90% by a professor in that language. 00:06:04.950 --> 00:06:08.360 align:middle line:84% I don't know if you understand it when I read it, I'll see. 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:12.680 align:middle line:90% 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:14.900 align:middle line:90% "5." 00:06:14.900 --> 00:06:17.000 align:middle line:90% July 31. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.370 align:middle line:84% The channel has become eccentric. 00:06:19.370 --> 00:06:21.260 align:middle line:84% Today, it's teeming with jellyfish 00:06:21.260 --> 00:06:23.270 align:middle line:90% for the first time in years. 00:06:23.270 --> 00:06:27.470 align:middle line:84% They pump themselves along with calm consideration. 00:06:27.470 --> 00:06:31.910 align:middle line:84% They belong to the same shipping company, Aurelia. 00:06:31.910 --> 00:06:35.780 align:middle line:84% They drift like flowers after a burial at sea. 00:06:35.780 --> 00:06:38.990 align:middle line:84% If you take them out of the water, all of their shape 00:06:38.990 --> 00:06:42.830 align:middle line:84% disappears as when an indescribable truth 00:06:42.830 --> 00:06:45.740 align:middle line:84% is lifted up out of the silence and formulated 00:06:45.740 --> 00:06:47.600 align:middle line:90% into a lifeless mass. 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.750 align:middle line:90% Yes, they are untranslatable. 00:06:50.750 --> 00:06:52.325 align:middle line:84% They have to stay in their element. 00:06:52.325 --> 00:06:56.110 align:middle line:90% 00:06:56.110 --> 00:06:56.815 align:middle line:90% August 2nd. 00:06:56.815 --> 00:06:59.530 align:middle line:90% 00:06:59.530 --> 00:07:05.200 align:middle line:84% Something wants to be said, but the words don't agree. 00:07:05.200 --> 00:07:08.050 align:middle line:90% Something that can't be said. 00:07:08.050 --> 00:07:10.450 align:middle line:90% Aphasia. 00:07:10.450 --> 00:07:13.975 align:middle line:84% There aren't any words that may be a style. 00:07:13.975 --> 00:07:16.810 align:middle line:90% 00:07:16.810 --> 00:07:20.290 align:middle line:84% Sometimes you wake up at night and quickly throw some words 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:25.360 align:middle line:84% down on the nearest paper, on the margin of newspaper. 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:27.550 align:middle line:90% The words glowing with meaning. 00:07:27.550 --> 00:07:29.260 align:middle line:84% But in the morning, the same words 00:07:29.260 --> 00:07:34.450 align:middle line:84% don't say anything anymore-- scrawls, misspeaking, 00:07:34.450 --> 00:07:38.875 align:middle line:84% or fragments of a great nightly style that dragged past. 00:07:38.875 --> 00:07:42.660 align:middle line:90% 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:45.570 align:middle line:84% You see councilperson, he's a composer, 00:07:45.570 --> 00:07:47.460 align:middle line:84% he's played, has a career, becomes 00:07:47.460 --> 00:07:51.000 align:middle line:90% director of the conservatory. 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:55.680 align:middle line:84% The trend turns downward, he's blamed by the authorities. 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:00.150 align:middle line:84% They put up his pupil, K, as chief prosecutor. 00:08:00.150 --> 00:08:02.520 align:middle line:84% He's threatened, demoted, sent away. 00:08:02.520 --> 00:08:05.490 align:middle line:90% 00:08:05.490 --> 00:08:09.570 align:middle line:84% After some years, the disgrace diminishes. 00:08:09.570 --> 00:08:13.320 align:middle line:90% He's rehabilitated. 00:08:13.320 --> 00:08:18.300 align:middle line:84% Then comes the stroke, right side paralysis and aphasia. 00:08:18.300 --> 00:08:22.380 align:middle line:84% Can only grasp short phrases, says wrong words. 00:08:22.380 --> 00:08:24.930 align:middle line:84% Can as a result of this not be touched 00:08:24.930 --> 00:08:30.450 align:middle line:84% by advancement or blame, but the music is still there. 00:08:30.450 --> 00:08:33.780 align:middle line:84% He still composes in his own style. 00:08:33.780 --> 00:08:36.480 align:middle line:84% He becomes the magical sensation for the time 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:37.470 align:middle line:90% he has left to live. 00:08:37.470 --> 00:08:41.130 align:middle line:90% 00:08:41.130 --> 00:08:44.760 align:middle line:84% He wrote music to text he no longer understood. 00:08:44.760 --> 00:08:50.910 align:middle line:84% In the same way, we express something with our lives. 00:08:50.910 --> 00:08:53.640 align:middle line:84% In that humming course of misspeech. 00:08:53.640 --> 00:08:57.410 align:middle line:90% 00:08:57.410 --> 00:09:00.170 align:middle line:84% The death lecturers went on for several terms. 00:09:00.170 --> 00:09:05.000 align:middle line:84% I was present together with classmates I didn't know. 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.190 align:middle line:90% Who are you? 00:09:08.190 --> 00:09:12.150 align:middle line:84% Afterwards, everyone went off on his own. 00:09:12.150 --> 00:09:14.850 align:middle line:90% Profiles. 00:09:14.850 --> 00:09:20.130 align:middle line:84% I looked at the sky and the Earth and straight ahead. 00:09:20.130 --> 00:09:22.710 align:middle line:84% And since then I have been writing a long letter 00:09:22.710 --> 00:09:27.450 align:middle line:84% to the dead on a typewriter that doesn't have a ribbon, only 00:09:27.450 --> 00:09:29.530 align:middle line:90% a horizon line. 00:09:29.530 --> 00:09:32.190 align:middle line:84% So the words beat in vain and nothing stays. 00:09:32.190 --> 00:09:36.400 align:middle line:90% 00:09:36.400 --> 00:09:40.000 align:middle line:84% I stand with my hand on the door handle, take 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.360 align:middle line:90% the pulse of the house. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.870 align:middle line:90% The walls are so full of life. 00:09:46.870 --> 00:09:51.520 align:middle line:84% The children won't dare sleep alone up in the attic. 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:54.100 align:middle line:84% What makes me feel safe makes them uneasy. 00:09:54.100 --> 00:09:59.470 align:middle line:90% 00:09:59.470 --> 00:10:01.540 align:middle line:90% August 3. 00:10:01.540 --> 00:10:05.680 align:middle line:84% Out there in the damp grass slides in a greeting 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:08.170 align:middle line:90% from the Middle Ages. 00:10:08.170 --> 00:10:14.590 align:middle line:84% Helix pomatia, the sadly gray gold shining snail 00:10:14.590 --> 00:10:19.330 align:middle line:84% with its jaunty house introduced by some monks 00:10:19.330 --> 00:10:21.550 align:middle line:90% who liked escargot. 00:10:21.550 --> 00:10:24.610 align:middle line:90% Yes, the Franciscans were here. 00:10:24.610 --> 00:10:30.220 align:middle line:84% Broke stone and burnt lime, the island was theirs in 1288. 00:10:30.220 --> 00:10:33.430 align:middle line:90% A donation from King Magnus. 00:10:33.430 --> 00:10:36.730 align:middle line:84% "Thes almes and othres he hath yeven / Thei meteth 00:10:36.730 --> 00:10:39.700 align:middle line:90% hym nu he entreth hevene." 00:10:39.700 --> 00:10:42.010 align:middle line:90% The forest fell. 00:10:42.010 --> 00:10:43.420 align:middle line:90% The ovens burned. 00:10:43.420 --> 00:10:48.970 align:middle line:84% The lime taken by sail to the building of the monastery. 00:10:48.970 --> 00:10:52.990 align:middle line:84% Sister snail stands almost steel in the grass, 00:10:52.990 --> 00:10:56.920 align:middle line:84% feelers sucked in and rolled out. 00:10:56.920 --> 00:11:00.970 align:middle line:90% Disturbances and hesitation. 00:11:00.970 --> 00:11:05.140 align:middle line:90% I like myself in my searching. 00:11:05.140 --> 00:11:08.260 align:middle line:84% The wind that blew through carefully all day, 00:11:08.260 --> 00:11:12.670 align:middle line:84% all the blades of grass are counted on the furthest islets 00:11:12.670 --> 00:11:16.030 align:middle line:84% has laid down in the middle of the island. 00:11:16.030 --> 00:11:21.090 align:middle line:84% The matchsticks flame stand straight up. 00:11:21.090 --> 00:11:26.370 align:middle line:84% The sea painting and the forest painting darkened together. 00:11:26.370 --> 00:11:30.675 align:middle line:84% Also, the foliage of the five story trees is turning black. 00:11:30.675 --> 00:11:33.480 align:middle line:90% 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.700 align:middle line:90% Every summer is the last. 00:11:35.700 --> 00:11:39.510 align:middle line:84% These are empty words for the creatures at late summer 00:11:39.510 --> 00:11:42.840 align:middle line:84% midnight where the crickets sew on their machines 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:44.220 align:middle line:90% as if possessed. 00:11:44.220 --> 00:11:45.630 align:middle line:90% And the Baltics near. 00:11:45.630 --> 00:11:49.650 align:middle line:84% And the lonely water tap stands among the wild rose bushes 00:11:49.650 --> 00:11:52.470 align:middle line:90% like an equestrian statue. 00:11:52.470 --> 00:11:54.180 align:middle line:90% The water tastes of iron. 00:11:54.180 --> 00:11:59.980 align:middle line:90% 00:11:59.980 --> 00:12:02.390 align:middle line:84% And the last part doesn't need much commentary. 00:12:02.390 --> 00:12:06.430 align:middle line:84% It's quite simple and documentary. 00:12:06.430 --> 00:12:11.200 align:middle line:90% 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.780 align:middle line:84% My grandmother's story, before it's forgotten, 00:12:13.780 --> 00:12:16.000 align:middle line:90% her parents dying young. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.430 align:middle line:90% The father first. 00:12:18.430 --> 00:12:22.090 align:middle line:84% When the widow realizes the disease will take her too, 00:12:22.090 --> 00:12:25.630 align:middle line:84% she watched from house to house, sails from island 00:12:25.630 --> 00:12:27.025 align:middle line:90% to island with her daughter. 00:12:27.025 --> 00:12:29.770 align:middle line:90% 00:12:29.770 --> 00:12:31.060 align:middle line:90% Who can take care of Maria? 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:33.880 align:middle line:90% 00:12:33.880 --> 00:12:38.860 align:middle line:84% A strange house on the other side of the bay takes her in. 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:40.820 align:middle line:90% They could afford to do it. 00:12:40.820 --> 00:12:46.130 align:middle line:84% But the ones that could afford it weren't the good ones. 00:12:46.130 --> 00:12:48.880 align:middle line:90% Pieties mask cracks. 00:12:48.880 --> 00:12:51.160 align:middle line:90% Maria's childhood ends too soon. 00:12:51.160 --> 00:12:54.190 align:middle line:84% She's an unpaid servant in perpetual coldness. 00:12:54.190 --> 00:12:56.860 align:middle line:90% 00:12:56.860 --> 00:13:02.860 align:middle line:84% Year after year, perpetually seasick behind the long hours. 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:05.530 align:middle line:84% A sullen terror at the table, the expressions. 00:13:05.530 --> 00:13:08.350 align:middle line:84% The pike skin crunching in her mouth. 00:13:08.350 --> 00:13:10.210 align:middle line:90% Be grateful, be grateful. 00:13:10.210 --> 00:13:13.800 align:middle line:90% 00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:16.230 align:middle line:90% She never looked back. 00:13:16.230 --> 00:13:22.500 align:middle line:84% But because of this, she could see the new and seize it. 00:13:22.500 --> 00:13:23.550 align:middle line:90% Break out of the bonds. 00:13:23.550 --> 00:13:26.560 align:middle line:90% 00:13:26.560 --> 00:13:28.150 align:middle line:90% I remember her. 00:13:28.150 --> 00:13:30.940 align:middle line:90% I used to snuggle against her. 00:13:30.940 --> 00:13:35.380 align:middle line:84% And at the moment she died, the moment she passed over, 00:13:35.380 --> 00:13:39.910 align:middle line:84% she sent out a thought so that I, a five-year-old, 00:13:39.910 --> 00:13:42.973 align:middle line:84% understood what had happened half an hour 00:13:42.973 --> 00:13:43.765 align:middle line:90% before they called. 00:13:43.765 --> 00:13:47.220 align:middle line:90% 00:13:47.220 --> 00:13:48.510 align:middle line:90% I remember her. 00:13:48.510 --> 00:13:53.520 align:middle line:84% But in the next brown photo, someone I don't know. 00:13:53.520 --> 00:13:56.430 align:middle line:84% By clothes from the middle of the last century, 00:13:56.430 --> 00:13:59.730 align:middle line:84% a man about 30, the powerful eyebrows, 00:13:59.730 --> 00:14:06.450 align:middle line:84% the face that looks me right in the eye whispering, here I am. 00:14:06.450 --> 00:14:10.530 align:middle line:84% But who I am is something no one remembers anymore. 00:14:10.530 --> 00:14:11.090 align:middle line:90% No one. 00:14:11.090 --> 00:14:14.590 align:middle line:90% 00:14:14.590 --> 00:14:16.930 align:middle line:90% TB. 00:14:16.930 --> 00:14:17.710 align:middle line:90% Isolation. 00:14:17.710 --> 00:14:20.350 align:middle line:90% 00:14:20.350 --> 00:14:24.010 align:middle line:84% Once he stopped on the stony grass dreaming slope 00:14:24.010 --> 00:14:26.470 align:middle line:90% coming up from the sea. 00:14:26.470 --> 00:14:30.130 align:middle line:84% And felt a black blindfold in front of his eyes. 00:14:30.130 --> 00:14:33.310 align:middle line:90% 00:14:33.310 --> 00:14:38.380 align:middle line:84% Here, behind the thick brush, is the island's the oldest house. 00:14:38.380 --> 00:14:41.410 align:middle line:84% The low not trim 200-year-old fisherman's 00:14:41.410 --> 00:14:48.160 align:middle line:84% hut with coarse, gray, heavy beams. 00:14:48.160 --> 00:14:51.820 align:middle line:84% And the modern brass padlock has clicked together on all of it, 00:14:51.820 --> 00:14:55.300 align:middle line:84% shining light, a ring in the nose of an old bull 00:14:55.300 --> 00:14:58.960 align:middle line:90% that refuses to get up. 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:00.940 align:middle line:90% So much crouching wood. 00:15:00.940 --> 00:15:03.190 align:middle line:84% And other roof, the ancient tiles 00:15:03.190 --> 00:15:07.910 align:middle line:84% that collapsed across them and on top of each other. 00:15:07.910 --> 00:15:11.350 align:middle line:84% The original pattern is raised by the Earth's rotation 00:15:11.350 --> 00:15:12.640 align:middle line:90% through the years. 00:15:12.640 --> 00:15:15.700 align:middle line:90% It reminds me of something. 00:15:15.700 --> 00:15:16.930 align:middle line:90% I was there. 00:15:16.930 --> 00:15:18.130 align:middle line:90% Wait. 00:15:18.130 --> 00:15:21.760 align:middle line:84% It's the old Jewish cemetery in Prague 00:15:21.760 --> 00:15:26.170 align:middle line:84% where the dead live closer together than they did in life. 00:15:26.170 --> 00:15:29.290 align:middle line:90% The stones jammed in, jammed in. 00:15:29.290 --> 00:15:31.240 align:middle line:90% So much encircled love. 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.940 align:middle line:84% The tiles with the lichens letters 00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:38.530 align:middle line:84% in an unknown language of the stones 00:15:38.530 --> 00:15:42.940 align:middle line:84% in the archipelago people's ghetto cemetery. 00:15:42.940 --> 00:15:45.520 align:middle line:84% The stones erected and fallen down. 00:15:45.520 --> 00:15:48.910 align:middle line:90% 00:15:48.910 --> 00:15:54.920 align:middle line:84% The ramshackle hut shines with a light of all the people 00:15:54.920 --> 00:15:59.300 align:middle line:84% carried by a certain wave, a certain wind, 00:15:59.300 --> 00:16:02.110 align:middle line:90% out here to their fate. 00:16:02.110 --> 00:16:07.158 align:middle line:90%