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That early autumn,
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from 1957 or 58,
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on a Sunday morning,
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we went to Catskill,
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to the woods.
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PART ONE
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We walk through the leaves,
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hitting the leaves
with a stick.
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We walk up
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and down, and beyond, and beyond.
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It felt good to walk like this
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and not think,
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don't think about anything
of the last ten years.
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And I thought to myself
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who could walk like that
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and not think about the years of war,
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of hunger,
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from Brooklyn.
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And
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it is likely that
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this was the first time,
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as we walked
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through the forest, in that
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early autumn day,
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for the first time I didn't feel
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alone in America.
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As if I felt
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that there was a floor,
there was land,
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and leaves, and trees,
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and people.
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And as if,
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slowly, I became
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part of it.
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It was a moment I forgot
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of mine
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home.
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That was the beginning
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of my new home.
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"Hey, I escaped the ropes
of time, once again,"
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I said.
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OUR STREET IN BROOKLYN
(WILLIAMSBURG)
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HENRY MILLER GREW UP HERE
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I walked the streets of Brooklyn,
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but the memories,
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the smells,
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the sounds I remembered
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they weren't from Brooklyn.
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A MEETING OF REFUGEES
IN STONY BROOK (1951)
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Somewhere at the end
from Atlantic Avenue,
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somewhere where
they used to have picnics.
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I used to watch them,
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the old immigrants,
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and the new ones.
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And they seemed to me
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sad and dying animals
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in a place that doesn't
exactly belonged,
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in a place
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that they didn't recognize.
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They stayed there,
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on Atlantic Avenue,
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but they were in one place
totally different.
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ME, IN 1950, SOON AFTER
TO BUY MY FIRST BOLEX
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Some footage
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what I did with mine
first Bolex.
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I wanted to do
an anti-war film
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I wanted to scream, scream
that there was a war,
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because I walked around the city
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and thought no one knew
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that there was a war,
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I thought no one knew
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that there were homes in the world
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where people
couldn't sleep,
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where your doors were
broken into at night,
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PARENTHESIS
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through soldiers' boots
and the police,
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somewhere
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where I came from.
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NEVER
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But in this city,
nobody knew that.
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CLOSING PARENTHESIS
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I remember you,
my friends,
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from the refugee camp,
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of the miserable post-war years.
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Yes,
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REFUGEE MEETING AT PIER 21,
IN NEW YORK (1950)
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we are still refugees,
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until,
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to this day,
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and the world is full of us,
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all continents
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are full of refugees.
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The minute we left,
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we started to go home,
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and we're still going home.
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I'm still
on my way home.
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We loved you,
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world,
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but you made us
abominable things.
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Have you ever...
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Have you ever stopped in Times Square
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and suddenly felt,
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very close and strongly,
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the smell of fresh bark
from a birch?
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My brother said he was a pacifist
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and that he hated war.
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So they summoned him
for the army,
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and took him back
to Europe,
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back to all the memories.
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So he started
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eating tree leaves
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and thought he
I was crazy,
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so they sent him back
to the United States.
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PART TWO
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100 GLANCES OF LITHUANIA
AUGUST 1971
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MOM (BORN 1861)
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And there was mom,
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and she waited.
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She waited for
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25 years.
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And there was our uncle,
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who told us to go
to the west:
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"Go west, children,
and see the world."
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And we went.
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And we're still going.
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Berries, always berries.
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Uogos, berries.
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Our uncle, the Protestant,
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converted Protestant,
pastor, and a very wise man.
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He was a friend of Spengler,
and had all his books,
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Maybe that was why
he told us to go west.
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The house, the attic in which I lived
during my studies.
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And I had a rope hanging
to go down in case
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of the Germans knocking on the door.
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And as we approached,
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more and more
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of places
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that we knew so well,
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suddenly before us
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we saw
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a forest.
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I didn't recognize the places.
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SEMENISKIAI
(CENTER OF THE WORLD)
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There were no trees
when we left.
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We plant small
seedlings everywhere,
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yes, and now the little ones
seedlings had become
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big, huge trees.
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Our home,
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our house was still there,
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and the cat welcomed us.
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So what to do when it comes back
home after 25 years?
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Of course,
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we went to the well to drink
some water.
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The water
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whose flavor differs
than any other water.
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Oh,
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the fresh water of Semeniskiai!
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I've never tasted a better wine
in any corner.
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THE NEXT MORNING
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OK, very good.
Today is August 7th,
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It's our first morning
in Semeniskiai.
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And we are taking
breakfast.
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Mom complains that her memory
is failing.
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She can't find it
a spoon.
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She's ten and she can't
found none this morning.
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"The only thing to know
about old age," she said,
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"is that you can't find it
your spoons when you get old."
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MOM'S WORK
NEVER CEASES
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Our brother Petras arrives.
We talk about the trees,
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OUR BROTHER PETRAS ARRIVES
(COLLECTIVE FARM ECONOMIST)
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how much they grew.
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OUR OLD BATHROOM
KEEP THERE
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OUR BROTHER KOSTAS ARRIVES
(RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BARN
ON THE COLLECTIVE FARM)
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MOM PREPARES RUE SEEDS
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IN THE COLLECTIVE FARM FIELDS,
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JONAS, MY OLD SCHOOL CLASSmate,
DRIVE THE REAPER
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We decided to go to the fields,
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to see how the work
is currently done.
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So we go,
and Petras guides us,
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and he gets very excited,
he wants to show everything.
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And there on top of the reaper,
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is Jonas Ruplenas,
who I went to school with,
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who used to tend cows
and sheep in the pastures.
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And there he sits.
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And he's so big,
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and the machine is so big,
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and the fields are so wide.
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Kostas sings a song about
collective agricultural work,
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we all came together.
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THE RITUAL OF MEASURES
Oh, these intimate ramblings...
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Of course you would like
to know something
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about social realities.
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How is life there,
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in Soviet Lithuania.
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But what do I know about it?
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I am a refugee
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on the way home.
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Looking for my home,
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replaying pieces of the past,
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looking for some trace
recognizable from my past.
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Semeniskiai weather
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remains suspended for me...
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OUR BROTHER POVILAS ARRIVES
(VETERINARY IN GAIDZIUNAI)
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until my return.
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Now,
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slowly,
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starts moving again.
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OUR SISTER ALZBUNE,
THAT DOESN'T FEEL GOOD
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WHEN THE LITHUANIANS
MEET, THEY DANCE
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Then we all go
to Petras' house
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and so it continues,
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into the night.
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When we get tired,
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when we had enough,
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Brother Petras brought
some straw
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from the stable
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and then we sleep.
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THE NEXT MORNING,
AT PETRAS' HOUSE
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In the morning, Petras took the straw
back to the stable,
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kind of hiding it.
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He said, "Don't tell them
In America we sleep on straw."
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He found this very funny.
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That night, the community farm
Vienybé, which means unity,
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He gave us a reception.
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The community farm
comprises six or seven...
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a dozen old villages.
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COLLECTIVE FARM OFFICE
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IN THE MORNING
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Our mother talks about
the terrible post-war years
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and how the police expected
around me year after year,
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they thought I had
I joined the partisans.
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Every night the police
waited behind the house,
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in the bushes, around me.
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And the dog used to
bark and bark.
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PARENTHESIS
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But I was young, and naive,
and patriot,
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and I edited
a clandestine newspaper,
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directed against the Nazis,
Nazi Germany,
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and I had a typewriter
that I hid
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in a pile of firewood
outside the house.
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And a thief one night,
snooping around for something,
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found it and stole it.
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And it was just a question
of days, or hours,
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for the Germans to catch him.
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I had very little time
to disappear
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and it was at that moment that
our wise uncle told us:
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"Go west, children.
See the world
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and come back."
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Provided false documents
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so that we could go
the University of Vienna
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and we studied there,
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and off we went.
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But we never got there.
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The Germans drove
our train to Hamburg
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and we ended up...
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in forced labor camps
of Nazi Germany.
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CLOSING PARENTHESIS
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KOSTAS' HOUSE
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We were loitering,
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and Kostas came home
earlier from your barn.
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We walked through the houses,
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we played some things
that we used to work with.
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Of course,
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they are no longer used
in the fields,
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but
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they had memories
for us,
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and we mowed the lawn
around the houses.
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It was really enough,
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as memory.
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Beside the fence,
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in the trash,
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we found an old plow.
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It is no longer used.
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00:49:10,713 --> 00:49:13,724
And Kostas told me,
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"Okay, now drag him!"
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And he hit me.
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He said, "Now film this
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and take it to show
to Americans
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our miserable life."
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Of course he thought
very funny.
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We decided to go see the old
school house.
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We all went to the same school.
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Long, cold and intense winters.
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Through the fields,
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through frozen rivers,
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through the forests,
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00:50:08,726 --> 00:50:14,984
we walked to school,
with our frozen noses,
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our faces burning
in the cold wind and snow.
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00:50:27,522 --> 00:50:31,908
But oh, what beautiful days!
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00:50:34,565 --> 00:50:38,240
These are winters I will never forget.
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00:50:40,941 --> 00:50:43,324
Where are you now,
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00:50:43,650 --> 00:50:48,037
my old childhood friends?
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How many of you are alive?
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00:50:52,152 --> 00:50:54,452
Where were you dispersed?
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Through cemeteries,
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through torture rooms,
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00:51:02,279 --> 00:51:03,749
by prisons,
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00:51:04,405 --> 00:51:09,455
by work fields
of Western civilization.
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00:51:10,656 --> 00:51:12,494
But I see your faces,
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00:51:13,323 --> 00:51:16,418
exactly as they were.
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00:51:17,033 --> 00:51:20,079
They never changed
in my memory.
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00:51:21,659 --> 00:51:24,041
They stay young,
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00:51:25,659 --> 00:51:27,745
I'm the one who's getting old.
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00:52:33,091 --> 00:52:34,431
It's a new song,
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It's about someone who is far away
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00:52:43,802 --> 00:52:47,227
and she says, "Oh, mother,
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How I long to see you again.
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I hope the long gray road
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00:52:58,722 --> 00:53:03,025
guide me home,
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00:53:04,140 --> 00:53:08,396
guide me home again."
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WE NOTICED AN ELK
DRINKING FROM THE RIVER
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FOURTH MORNING
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MOM LIGHTS THE FIRE
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00:55:28,963 --> 00:55:32,472
This morning, the fire
It took a while to start.
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00:55:33,214 --> 00:55:37,008
Our mother cooks outside,
She doesn't like cooking at home.
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00:55:37,382 --> 00:55:39,432
It gets very hot and smoky.
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00:55:39,799 --> 00:55:41,351
She likes the outside.
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00:55:43,466 --> 00:55:50,093
And the fire just didn't want
light up this morning.
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00:55:52,927 --> 00:55:56,353
So she joined
some dry branches
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and some leaves
and some newspaper.
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I kept blowing,
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00:56:04,929 --> 00:56:06,601
and blowing,
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and
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00:56:09,597 --> 00:56:14,943
It took a very, very long time.
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00:56:16,015 --> 00:56:21,101
But finally we made it.
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00:58:45,215 --> 00:58:47,681
MOM MAKES PANCAKES
POTATO
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"Yes, they expected
for you every night,
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00:59:35,768 --> 00:59:38,316
for more than a year,
behind the bathroom.
328
00:59:39,143 --> 00:59:41,645
Dogs used to
bark all night,"
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00:59:41,977 --> 00:59:43,020
she said.
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01:01:22,333 --> 01:01:24,965
All the women in my village
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01:01:25,375 --> 01:01:27,592
what I remember
from my childhood,
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01:01:27,709 --> 01:01:30,886
They always reminded me of birds,
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01:01:31,293 --> 01:01:34,637
sad autumn birds,
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01:01:36,044 --> 01:01:42,765
as they fly over the fields,
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01:01:46,213 --> 01:01:48,975
singing sadly.
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01:01:51,131 --> 01:01:57,805
You had lives
hard and sad,
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01:01:58,758 --> 01:02:01,887
women from my childhood.
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01:02:10,177 --> 01:02:11,931
MOM IN KAUNAS
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01:02:56,604 --> 01:02:59,449
OUR COUSIN POVILAS’ FAMILY
(COMPUTER ENGINEER)
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01:04:25,540 --> 01:04:27,259
On the day he left,
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01:04:27,915 --> 01:04:29,207
it was raining.
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01:04:30,166 --> 01:04:32,419
The airport was wet.
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01:04:33,750 --> 01:04:35,137
It was sad.
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01:04:57,922 --> 01:04:59,724
It was funny.
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01:05:00,798 --> 01:05:03,097
I watched legs.
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01:05:03,215 --> 01:05:08,929
I remembered my old one
friend Narbutas who said:
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01:05:09,883 --> 01:05:13,677
"As a man watches
women's legs,
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01:05:14,634 --> 01:05:16,187
He shouldn't get married."
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01:05:16,301 --> 01:05:19,016
So I don't think so
I will get married soon.
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01:05:19,093 --> 01:05:20,931
PART THREE
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01:05:21,886 --> 01:05:23,356
PARENTHESIS
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01:05:23,553 --> 01:05:25,639
At Elmshorm, Adolfas lies down
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01:05:25,762 --> 01:05:27,702
exactly in the same place
where our beds
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01:05:27,762 --> 01:05:30,064
used to stay,
in the field of work.
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01:05:30,929 --> 01:05:32,767
When we asked some
people from the surrounding area,
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01:05:32,888 --> 01:05:35,899
no one remembered that
there was a work camp there.
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01:05:36,222 --> 01:05:37,977
Only the grass remembers.
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01:05:38,848 --> 01:05:40,982
One of the factories,
to Gebrüder Neunert,
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01:05:41,140 --> 01:05:43,558
where they took us
to work together
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01:05:43,682 --> 01:05:47,985
of French prisoners of war,
Russians and Italians, it's still there.
361
01:05:48,808 --> 01:05:51,274
This is the bench where
I used to work,
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01:05:51,392 --> 01:05:56,229
where I was beaten for working
very slowly and be responsive.
363
01:06:02,686 --> 01:06:05,235
The foreman recognized Adolfas.
364
01:06:05,604 --> 01:06:07,488
We talk about this and that.
365
01:06:09,063 --> 01:06:11,362
He was a good young foreman.
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01:06:23,899 --> 01:06:25,571
In March 45,
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01:06:25,691 --> 01:06:28,655
we escape and run away
to Denmark
368
01:06:29,067 --> 01:06:32,446
and we were caught close
from the border of Denmark,
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01:06:33,193 --> 01:06:35,493
and while they
they extradited us back,
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01:06:35,610 --> 01:06:37,448
we escaped once again,
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01:06:37,986 --> 01:06:40,238
and in the last
three months of war,
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01:06:40,611 --> 01:06:44,950
we hide in
Schleswig-Holstein, on a farm.
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Outside,
while my brother watched
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01:06:58,740 --> 01:07:00,993
and remembered and remembered,
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01:07:01,449 --> 01:07:03,204
there were children nearby.
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01:07:04,492 --> 01:07:06,625
They thought it was very funny,
377
01:07:07,534 --> 01:07:11,872
these strange people
coming to see the place,
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01:07:11,993 --> 01:07:13,961
standing, looking.
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01:07:14,411 --> 01:07:16,580
They thought it was really funny.
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01:07:17,078 --> 01:07:18,334
Ausländer.
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01:07:21,787 --> 01:07:24,834
Oh yes, run,
Children, run.
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01:07:26,288 --> 01:07:29,003
I also ran here once,
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01:07:29,539 --> 01:07:31,589
but I ran for my life.
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01:07:33,123 --> 01:07:36,169
I hope they never have
to run for their lives.
385
01:07:37,416 --> 01:07:40,296
Run, children, run.
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01:07:50,335 --> 01:07:52,220
CLOSING PARENTHESIS
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01:07:53,753 --> 01:07:55,258
VIENNA, AUGUST 1971
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01:08:01,754 --> 01:08:03,343
STO. PETER KUBELKA
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01:09:15,521 --> 01:09:17,192
PROF.'S CELLARS MIKUTA
390
01:09:17,438 --> 01:09:22,322
I watched Peter and
I found myself envying him.
391
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,987
Envying your peace,
392
01:09:27,023 --> 01:09:28,233
your serenity.
393
01:09:28,774 --> 01:09:33,160
Your simple existence
with things around you,
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01:09:35,067 --> 01:09:37,864
with things that always
were with him,
395
01:09:38,776 --> 01:09:42,865
at home, in space, in time,
396
01:09:43,193 --> 01:09:45,450
in the mind, in culture.
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01:09:45,652 --> 01:09:47,952
THE WITTGENSTEIN HOUSE
398
01:10:36,955 --> 01:10:40,002
STO. NITSCH ACQUIRES A CASTLE
FOR YOUR THEATER
399
01:11:54,639 --> 01:11:55,730
STA. ANNETTE
400
01:11:56,431 --> 01:11:57,392
Annette.
401
01:11:57,515 --> 01:11:59,684
She walks by
New York and Vienna
402
01:11:59,974 --> 01:12:02,736
with the same optimism and courage.
403
01:12:03,391 --> 01:12:04,517
I admire her,
404
01:12:04,641 --> 01:12:09,229
I admire Annette for doing
of culture its roots,
405
01:12:11,184 --> 01:12:12,227
your life.
406
01:12:24,604 --> 01:12:28,741
And here is Hermann Nitsch,
407
01:12:30,064 --> 01:12:36,322
following your inspiration,
without giving an inch.
408
01:12:38,690 --> 01:12:40,528
And heroically.
409
01:12:42,400 --> 01:12:43,988
And Ken Jacobs,
410
01:12:45,525 --> 01:12:47,161
who has the courage
411
01:12:49,359 --> 01:12:54,196
to remain a child
412
01:12:55,861 --> 01:12:59,785
in the purity of your vision
413
01:13:00,487 --> 01:13:03,284
and its ecstasies.
414
01:13:30,535 --> 01:13:33,831
A VISIT TO THE MONASTERY
FROM KREMSMÜNSTER
415
01:15:05,765 --> 01:15:10,270
No, I never made it to Vienna
that time,
416
01:15:10,849 --> 01:15:13,896
but strange circumstances
417
01:15:14,516 --> 01:15:15,856
brought me back,
418
01:15:16,975 --> 01:15:18,185
much later.
419
01:15:19,226 --> 01:15:20,518
And here I am...
420
01:15:22,477 --> 01:15:23,484
Now.
421
01:15:31,770 --> 01:15:35,777
Slowly while walking
through Vienna with Peter,
422
01:15:36,146 --> 01:15:39,358
as we talked,
as we passed through galleries,
423
01:15:40,022 --> 01:15:45,866
monasteries and Demel,
424
01:15:46,357 --> 01:15:47,862
through the wineries,
425
01:15:49,066 --> 01:15:52,906
and through the vineyards,
426
01:15:54,525 --> 01:15:56,244
I started to believe again
427
01:15:56,359 --> 01:16:01,361
in indestructibility
of the human spirit,
428
01:16:02,402 --> 01:16:06,279
in certain qualities,
in certain patterns.
429
01:16:08,028 --> 01:16:09,913
They were established
430
01:16:11,529 --> 01:16:12,999
by man,
431
01:16:14,196 --> 01:16:16,413
through many
thousands of years,
432
01:16:17,572 --> 01:16:19,990
and they will be here
when we disappear.
433
01:19:15,070 --> 01:19:16,362
We stopped there,
434
01:19:16,987 --> 01:19:21,492
that August afternoon
in Kremsmünster.
435
01:19:21,613 --> 01:19:27,706
Some friends on top of an old one
1,200 year old monastery,
436
01:19:29,364 --> 01:19:32,874
and the night came,
437
01:19:33,490 --> 01:19:35,328
the sun was setting.
438
01:19:36,408 --> 01:19:40,995
A blue light fell
over the landscape.
439
01:19:44,701 --> 01:19:49,040
It was very, very peaceful,
440
01:19:49,661 --> 01:19:53,715
our hearts and minds ecstatic.
441
01:20:21,459 --> 01:20:25,383
LATE AT NIGHT, ON OUR WAY
HOME WE SAW VIENNA BURNING
442
01:20:32,628 --> 01:20:35,723
On the way back
home,
443
01:20:37,838 --> 01:20:38,881
to Vienna,
444
01:20:39,922 --> 01:20:41,427
from far away,
445
01:20:41,797 --> 01:20:43,184
we saw a fire.
446
01:20:44,214 --> 01:20:46,134
Vienna burned.
447
01:20:47,548 --> 01:20:49,682
The fruit market
caught fire.
448
01:20:50,882 --> 01:20:52,803
Peter said it was a shame.
449
01:20:53,133 --> 01:20:55,551
It was his market.
450
01:20:56,800 --> 01:21:01,388
He said it was the market
most beautiful in Vienna.
451
01:21:02,135 --> 01:21:06,059
He said he probably
the city had set it on fire,
452
01:21:06,219 --> 01:21:07,772
just to get rid of it.
453
01:21:08,678 --> 01:21:10,847
They want a market
modern now.
454
01:21:15,480 --> 01:21:16,216
END OF REMINISCENCES