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And the last of these three.

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This is a poem about a
mad scientist called,

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"The Confessions of Dr. X."

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It's not from any particular
movie, but, again, I think,

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you know the story.

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The doctor is looking for the
secret, immortality inevitably.

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How to bring the
dead back to life.

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Inevitably, he is told at
the beginning of the movie,

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and this is an actual
quote, "The line

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between scientific genius
and obsessive fanaticism

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is a thin one.

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Don't go too far."

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Inevitably, he goes too far.

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He comes to a bad end.

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The laboratory
goes up in flames.

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And someone always
says at the end,

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"There are some things
man is not meant to know."

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More particularly, the
pattern in the poem

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is, in short, the doctor is
obsessed by his research.

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Therefore, he neglects
his wife or his lover.

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Because of his obsession,
there is some accident in which

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the wife or lover is killed.

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And the doctor then
devotes all his time

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to trying to bring
her back to life.

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He succeeds, but the
dead do not always

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want to return to the living.

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The laboratory
goes up in flames.

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The poem is spoken
by the doctor.

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"The Confessions of Dr. X."

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"The flames will never reach
us here, that's what I said.

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I knew the laws were wrong,
but I couldn't prove it.

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I couldn't stop.

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And I couldn't go back,
for the dead travel fast.

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And you were so beautiful
when you were alive.

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I'd wasted years of explanation.

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Fine operation or not,
the professors told me,

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"Some things are
better left alone."

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And when complaints came
in about the digging up

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of graves or the occasional
unfortunate death,

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"Something," I said.

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Something must have come down
out of the hills, wolves maybe.

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I discarded a little
more each day,

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everything I could
manage to forget,

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while the stillness
of a single room

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became the equation
that would not balance.

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Like the threats of glass, like
the wires piercing everything

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I had assembled,
or the little fires

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that moved from room to
room when I wasn't watching.

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Like the only dream you told me.

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None of this has to be true.

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The piano, the green
velvet couch, your coat

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tossed over the arm of
a chair as you left it

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that last afternoon
before the accident.

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Paintings darkening on the
walls, white sheets of music,

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light like sunlight.

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Mademoiselle, the fire of
the sun set in your eyes

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consumed my heart.

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My solutions left
nothing to chance

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I said the flames would
never reach us here.

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I said we could start over.

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Until the generator choked and
froze and the walls gave in.

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I was certain you
would understand.

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But only the body
lives after death.

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And the heart is lost in
the blind calculations

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of the blood."

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