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 --> 00:00:12.111 align:middle line:84% published by a little press in Berkeley, California. 00:00:12.111 --> 00:00:14.310 align:middle line:84% Well, 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 --> 00:00:23.580 align:middle line:84% but it wasn't completed at that time, 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 --> 00:00:36.450 align:middle line:84% It's called "Baltics," and that's the plural-- 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:37.480 align:middle line:90% doesn't exist. 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:44.940 align:middle line:84% The name is "Baltic," 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 countries east. 00:00:52.650 --> 00:00:57.870 align:middle line:84% At the same time, it's a border, and now, sometimes, 00:00:57.870 --> 00:00:58.485 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:01:14.970 align:middle line:84% at the Swedish east coast, and I have still a house there, 00:01:14.970 --> 00:01:18.705 align:middle line:84% which was built by my grandfather who was 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 --> 00:01:27.480 align:middle line:84% and the whole poem is partly about this and about 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:31.530 align:middle line:84% my ancestors, 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 --> 00:01:36.960 align:middle line:84% It's also about political things. 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:39.630 align:middle line:84% About strategic things in the air. 00:01:39.630 --> 00:01:50.580 align:middle line:84% It's about zoology, flowers, nature, many other things. 00:01:50.580 --> 00:01:54.090 align:middle line:84% The whole poem is a bag where I put everything 00:01:54.090 --> 00:02:03.660 align:middle line:84% that I am committed to and which has to do with the Baltic. 00:02:03.660 --> 00:02:06.930 align:middle line:90% 00:02:06.930 --> 00:02:09.030 align:middle line:84% It's difficult to break out parts of it, 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:14.860 align:middle line:84% but I must do that, 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 --> 00:02:35.620 align:middle line:84% the Latvian town which used to be 00:02:35.620 --> 00:02:39.930 align:middle line:84% a commercial harbor before World War II, 00:02:39.930 --> 00:02:43.170 align:middle line:84% but now entirely a military place-- 00:02:43.170 --> 00:02:44.810 align:middle line:90% belong to the Soviet Union. 00:02:44.810 --> 00:02:50.810 align:middle line:90% 00:02:50.810 --> 00:02:57.440 align:middle line:84% Yeah, that's part 4, 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 --> 00:03:07.050 align:middle line:84% From the lee side, close ups. Bladderwrack. 00:03:07.050 --> 00:03:09.990 align:middle line:84% The forest of Bladderwrack's fine and clear water-- 00:03:09.990 --> 00:03:10.890 align:middle line:90% they are young. 00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:13.080 align:middle line:84% You want to emigrate there, stretch out 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:17.340 align:middle line:84% on your own reflection, and sink down to such and such a depth. 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:19.830 align:middle line:84% The seaweed holding itself up with air 00:03:19.830 --> 00:03:23.385 align:middle line:84% bladders as we hold ourselves up with ideas. 00:03:23.385 --> 00:03:25.890 align:middle line:90% 00:03:25.890 --> 00:03:29.850 align:middle line:84% Bullhead, the fish that's a toad that wanted to be a butterfly 00:03:29.850 --> 00:03:33.720 align:middle line:84% and made it a third of the way, hiding himself in the seaweed, 00:03:33.720 --> 00:03:37.860 align:middle line:84% but pulled up in the net, hooked fast by his pathetic spikes 00:03:37.860 --> 00:03:39.600 align:middle line:90% and warts. 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:42.600 align:middle line:84% When you untangle him from the mesh of the net, 00:03:42.600 --> 00:03:44.460 align:middle line:90% your hands shine with slime. 00:03:44.460 --> 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 --> 00:03:53.640 align:middle line:84% The small creatures hurry over the sum-warmed lichens, 00:03:53.640 --> 00:03:56.010 align:middle line:90% rushing like second-hands. 00:03:56.010 --> 00:03:57.690 align:middle line:90% The pine casts a shadow. 00:03:57.690 --> 00:04:00.780 align:middle line:84% It wanders slowly like an hour hand. 00:04:00.780 --> 00:04:03.270 align:middle line:90% Inside me, time stands still. 00:04:03.270 --> 00:04:04.530 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:04:16.029 align:middle line:84% On the lee side you can hear the grass growing-- 00:04:16.029 --> 00:04:18.370 align:middle line:84% a faint drumming 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% without doors, 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 --> 00:04:52.200 align:middle line:84% Then dream innocently of someone crawling out on the roof to try 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:58.896 align:middle line:84% to put their halyards in order, trying to hoist the rag, 00:04:58.896 --> 00:05:01.740 align:middle line:84% the flag that's been frayed by the wind and smoked 00:05:01.740 --> 00:05:06.420 align:middle line:84% by the funnels and bleached by the sun that it could be 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:07.260 align:middle line:90% 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 Liepaja. 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 --> 00:05:28.640 align:middle line:90% 00:05:28.640 --> 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 --> 00:05:42.590 align:middle line:84% is a documentary like the whole poem. 00:05:42.590 --> 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 --> 00:05:55.160 align:middle line:84% from the Swedish 14th-century chronicle, which 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.080 align:middle line:84% 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 --> 00:06:07.820 align:middle line:84% I don't know if you understand it when I read it. 00:06:07.820 --> 00:06:08.360 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:06:19.370 align:middle line:84% July 30, 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 --> 00:06:29.810 align:middle line:84% They belong to the same shipping company-- 00:06:29.810 --> 00:06:31.910 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:07:10.450 align:middle line:84% Something that can't be said, 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 --> 00:07:22.300 align:middle line:90% down on the nearest paper-- 00:07:22.300 --> 00:07:25.390 align:middle line:90% on the margin of newspaper-- 00:07:25.390 --> 00:07:28.510 align:middle line:84% the words glowing with meaning, but in the morning, 00:07:28.510 --> 00:07:30.670 align:middle line:84% the same words don't say anything anymore. 00:07:30.670 --> 00:07:35.620 align:middle line:84% Scrawls, misspeakings, or fragments 00:07:35.620 --> 00:07:38.875 align:middle line:84% of great nightly style that dragged past. 00:07:38.875 --> 00:07:43.530 align:middle line:90% 00:07:43.530 --> 00:07:44.670 align:middle line:90% Music comes to a person. 00:07:44.670 --> 00:07:45.570 align:middle line:90% He's a composer. 00:07:45.570 --> 00:07:46.230 align:middle line:90% He's played. 00:07:46.230 --> 00:07:47.040 align:middle line:90% Has a career. 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:51.000 align:middle line:84% Becomes director of the conservatory. 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:52.780 align:middle line:90% The trend turns downward. 00:07:52.780 --> 00:07:55.680 align:middle line:90% He's blamed by the authorities. 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:00.180 align:middle line:84% They put up his pupil, K, as chief prosecutor. 00:08:00.180 --> 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 --> 00:08:14.940 align:middle line:90% Then comes the stroke-- 00:08:14.940 --> 00:08:18.300 align:middle line:84% right-side paralysis and aphasia. 00:08:18.300 --> 00:08:20.370 align:middle line:90% Can only grasp short phrases. 00:08:20.370 --> 00:08:22.380 align:middle line:90% 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 a medical 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 --> 00:08:53.305 align:middle line:84% in that humming chorus of misspeech. 00:08:53.305 --> 00:08:57.440 align:middle line:90% 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.170 align:middle line:84% The death lectures 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 --> 00:09:14.850 align:middle line:84% Afterwards, everyone went off on his own, 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 --> 00:09:32.190 align:middle line:84% a horizon line, 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 --> 00:10:01.510 align:middle line:90% August 3rd. 00:10:01.510 --> 00:10:04.640 align:middle line:84% Out there in the damp grass slides 00:10:04.640 --> 00:10:08.170 align:middle line:84% there is a greeting from the Middle Ages-- 00:10:08.170 --> 00:10:14.590 align:middle line:84% Helix pomatia, the subtly 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 --> 00:10:24.640 align:middle line:90% Yes, the Franciscans were here-- 00:10:24.640 --> 00:10:26.620 align:middle line:90% broke stone and burned lime. 00:10:26.620 --> 00:10:32.237 align:middle line:84% The island was theirs in 1288, a donation from King Magnus. 00:10:32.237 --> 00:10:34.320 align:middle line:84% "Thes almes and othres he hath yeven / Thei meteth 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:35.403 align:middle line:90% hym nu he entreth hevene." 00:10:35.403 --> 00:10:39.700 align:middle line:90% 00:10:39.700 --> 00:10:42.010 align:middle line:90% The forest fell. 00:10:42.010 --> 00:10:45.220 align:middle line:84% The ovens burned, the lime taken by sail 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:48.970 align:middle line:84% to the building of the monastery. 00:10:48.970 --> 00:10:52.990 align:middle line:84% Sister snail stands almost still 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 --> 00:11:05.170 align:middle line:84% disturbances and hesitation, alike myself in my searching. 00:11:05.170 --> 00:11:09.100 align:middle line:84% The wind that blew so carefully all day, all the blades 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:12.670 align:middle line:84% 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 matchstick's flame stands straight up. 00:11:21.090 --> 00:11:26.370 align:middle line:84% The sea painting and the forest painting darken together. 00:11:26.370 --> 00:11:29.370 align:middle line:84% Also, the foliage of the five-story trees 00:11:29.370 --> 00:11:30.675 align:middle line:90% is turning black. 00:11:30.675 --> 00:11:33.480 align:middle line:90% 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.670 align:middle line:90% "Every summer is the last." 00:11:35.670 --> 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 --> 00:11:45.630 align:middle line:84% as if possessed, and the Baltic's 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 --> 00:11:54.210 align:middle line:90% The water tastes of iron. 00:11:54.210 --> 00:11:59.980 align:middle line:90% 00:11:59.980 --> 00:12:02.380 align:middle line:84% And the last part, 6, doesn't need much commentary. 00:12:02.380 --> 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 --> 00:12:12.910 align:middle line:84% My grandmother's story before it's 00:12:12.910 --> 00:12:18.430 align:middle line:84% forgotten-- her parents dying young, the father first. 00:12:18.430 --> 00:12:22.060 align:middle line:84% When the widow realizes the disease will take her too, 00:12:22.060 --> 00:12:25.630 align:middle line:84% she walks 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 --> 00:12:31.075 align:middle line:90% Who can take care of Maria? 00:12:31.075 --> 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 --> 00:12:46.160 align:middle line:84% But the ones that could afford it weren't the good ones. 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:48.880 align:middle line:90% Piety's 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 --> 00:13:02.560 align:middle line:84% Year after year, perpetually seasick behind the long oars. 00:13:02.560 --> 00:13:04.540 align:middle line:90% The solemn terror at the table. 00:13:04.540 --> 00:13:05.530 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:13:09.620 align:middle line:90% Be grateful. 00:13:09.620 --> 00:13:10.210 align:middle line:90% Be grateful. 00:13:10.210 --> 00:13:13.800 align:middle line:90% 00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:17.340 align:middle line:84% She never looked back, but because of this 00:13:17.340 --> 00:13:22.500 align:middle line:84% 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 --> 00:13:32.770 align:middle line:84% I used to snuggle against her, and at the moment she died-- 00:13:32.770 --> 00:13:35.380 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:13:50.880 align:middle line:84% I remember her, but in the next brown photo someone 00:13:50.880 --> 00:13:53.082 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:13:53.082 --> 00:13:56.430 align:middle line:84% By the clothes, from the middle of the last century. 00:13:56.430 --> 00:13:58.200 align:middle line:90% A man about 30. 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:02.520 align:middle line:84% The powerful eyebrows, the face that looks me right in the eye, 00:14:02.520 --> 00:14:06.450 align:middle line:90% 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 --> 00:14:11.100 align:middle line:90% No one. 00:14:11.100 --> 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-streaming slope 00:14:24.010 --> 00:14:28.840 align:middle line:84% coming up from the sea and felt a black blindfold 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:30.130 align:middle line:90% in front of his eyes. 00:14:30.130 --> 00:14:33.290 align:middle line:90% 00:14:33.290 --> 00:14:35.600 align:middle line:90% Here behind the thick brush-- 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:38.360 align:middle line:84% is the island's the oldest house? 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:41.420 align:middle line:84% The low, not-trimmed 200-year-old fisherman's 00:14:41.420 --> 00:14:48.170 align:middle line:84% hut with coarse, gray, heavy beams. 00:14:48.170 --> 00:14:51.830 align:middle line:84% And the modern brass padlock has clicked together on all of it, 00:14:51.830 --> 00:14:55.520 align:middle line:84% shining like a ring in the nose of an old bull that 00:14:55.520 --> 00:14:58.970 align:middle line:90% refuses to get up. 00:14:58.970 --> 00:15:01.910 align:middle line:84% So much crouching wood, and on the roof 00:15:01.910 --> 00:15:05.780 align:middle line:84% the ancient tiles that collapsed across and on top 00:15:05.780 --> 00:15:07.920 align:middle line:90% of each other. 00:15:07.920 --> 00:15:11.360 align:middle line:84% The original pattern is raised by the Earth's rotation 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:12.650 align:middle line:90% through the years. 00:15:12.650 --> 00:15:15.710 align:middle line:90% It reminds me of something. 00:15:15.710 --> 00:15:16.910 align:middle line:90% I was there. 00:15:16.910 --> 00:15:21.770 align:middle line:84% Wait, it's the old Jewish cemetery in Prague 00:15:21.770 --> 00:15:26.180 align:middle line:84% where the dead live closer together than they did in life. 00:15:26.180 --> 00:15:29.300 align:middle line:90% The stones jammed in, jammed in. 00:15:29.300 --> 00:15:31.250 align:middle line:90% So much encircled love. 00:15:31.250 --> 00:15:33.950 align:middle line:84% The ties with the lichens letters 00:15:33.950 --> 00:15:38.540 align:middle line:84% in an unknown language of the stones 00:15:38.540 --> 00:15:42.920 align:middle line:84% in the archipelago people's ghetto cemetery. 00:15:42.920 --> 00:15:45.530 align:middle line:84% The stones erected and fallen down. 00:15:45.530 --> 00:15:49.100 align:middle line:90% 00:15:49.100 --> 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 --> 00:16:07.000 align:middle line:90%