WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.890 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.890 --> 00:00:05.070 align:middle line:84% "The shell has opened into an esplanade. 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:08.790 align:middle line:84% People pour out, half-formed and opinionated. 00:00:08.790 --> 00:00:11.520 align:middle line:84% The pouring is part of a plot that 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:14.880 align:middle line:90% is only readable in reverse. 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.870 align:middle line:84% For hundreds of days, women and kids defended their city 00:00:18.870 --> 00:00:20.790 align:middle line:90% with curses. 00:00:20.790 --> 00:00:24.060 align:middle line:84% Men carried onions to them across a lake 00:00:24.060 --> 00:00:29.220 align:middle line:84% half a foot thick to put vitamins in their blood. 00:00:29.220 --> 00:00:31.920 align:middle line:84% Praying in blinding, you feel what's 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.230 align:middle line:90% happening at these times. 00:00:34.230 --> 00:00:37.770 align:middle line:84% A girl turns again and again to make sure she 00:00:37.770 --> 00:00:40.410 align:middle line:90% can believe what she's seen. 00:00:40.410 --> 00:00:45.590 align:middle line:84% Then for the others, and the mice, she digs for bread." 00:00:45.590 --> 00:00:46.166 align:middle line:90%