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So this could be a group of
saints returning from the past
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to mourn the present fate of Flanders.
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Yes.
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And when the painting is done,
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you may have it if you wish.
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Why did you do that?
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Don't speak...
- No.
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Line up!
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I can't abide by these high-handed methods.
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At times I can barely contain myself.
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These foreign mercenaries in their red tunics
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are here to do the bidding of their
Spanish masters who lorded over us.
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Every day, their manners remain
a stench in the nostrils.
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And an offence to pride, to Christian humility
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and common sense itself.
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I'm a citizen of Antwerp. A banker of repute.
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Collector of paintings.
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I'm also a member of the 'Schola Caritatis'.
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A brotherhood men of all confessions
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without requiring them to abjure.
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I believe, and many others in this
magnificent city also believe
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that good men of all confessions can come together
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in peace and good understanding.
And that is not the opinion of the king of Spain,
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who is also our king, alas.
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It is now his pleasure that all
heritage should be put to death.
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The men by decapitation, and the women
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women...
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I have seen it all.
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My painting will have to tell many stories.
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It should be large enough to hold everything.
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Everything, all the people.
There must be a hundred of them.
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I will work like the spider I saw
this morning building its web.
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First it finds an anchoring point.
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Here, the heart of my web.
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Below the grindstone of events
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our Saviour is being ground
like grain, mercilessly.
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I was shown our Saviour being led to Golgotha
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by the red tunics of the Spanish militia.
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Although he has fallen at
the center of my painting,
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I must hide him from the eye.
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Why would you want to hide him?
- Because he is the most important.
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But you might have missed it.
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Now if you look here,
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Simon is taken away from Esther
to help carry the cross.
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And they all look at Simon, not at the Saviour.
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Then there is a mill, based on a rock.
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It is the axis around which all the
people circle between Life and Death.
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The miller just stands there,
looking down on everything.
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Why have you put him so high up?
- In most paintings,
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God is shown parting the clouds,
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looking down on the world in
displeasure. In my painting,
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the miller will take his place.
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He is the great miller of the Heaven
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grinding the bread of Life and Destiny.
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The bread is then carried around by the pedlar
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sitting here.
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Hoorah!
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Here is the city.
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It forms a circle within its
walls. The circle of Life.
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And next to it is the tree of Life
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with fresh leaves.
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On the other side is a black circle.
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The circle of Death.
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It's formed by the crowd gathering
around the execution like flies.
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And here below is the tree of Death.
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A horse's skull next to it.
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And the two men: you and I.
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Nothing is going to happen.
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When I think about yesterday,
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when he walked into town,
strolled out onto the Cathedral square
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and spoke his mind.
How they listened.
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How they cheered.
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How enthralled they all were. Even the soldiers.
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And now that we're walking
through the streets in a trance,
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the same soldiers who cheered him yesterday
came out to arrest him last night.
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The same crowd that listened enthralled
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has been screaming for his head all morning.
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Nothing was going to happen.
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Look at the mother of the
condamned man and his friends.
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Do you remember the 'Adoration of the Magi'?
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I did it earlier this year.
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My wife served as the model for the Mother of God.
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I'm sure you recognized her.
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It was just after she gave birth to little Peter.
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She was such a lusty girl,
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womanly, and motherly. Here she is again,
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thirty years later. Same attitude and same face.
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But now the child that gave her fulness and joy
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is taken away.
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She's utterly destroyed.
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I don't understand.
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When he grew up, neighbours used to tell me
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that the decisions of Fate were spelled
out in the fiery letters in the sky.
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They alone commanded the seasons.
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As of course they would say.
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I suppose they really do.
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And they also decree who
is to live and who to die.
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But he. My child.
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My boy.
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Oh, when he was grown he amazed us all.
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It was though he walked unhindered,
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straight up to the stony gates of Heaven.
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Plucked all the torches
that light the way up there
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night and day, the fires of Fate,
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and swung them laughingly to the earth.
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"I have come to cast fire on you",
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he would tell those who came to hear.
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"It's in our power to grasp the fire of Fate
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"in our own hands."
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That's what he said.
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And then his laughter. It was so...
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He was so...
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Agua.
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I knew the man.
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I myself was there when he said some of the
things that are now being held against him.
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That he'd tear down the cathedral
and build it anew in three days.
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None of us had any problems with that.
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We understood that he was speaking about reform.
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Just look at that.
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They're violating and humiliating
our bodies and souls.
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Violating and humiliating Charity and Virtue.
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Our land will be reduced to beggary.
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If only time could be stayed.
If it were only brought to a stop.
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Then we could wrestle the
senseless moment to the ground,
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clearly speak its name to its
face and break its power.
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You think you can express this?
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Yes.
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How?
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Now if you look here,
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Simon is taken away from Esther
to help carry the cross.
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And they all look at Simon. Not at the Saviour.
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Be it the birth of Jesus,
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the fall of Icarus
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or the death of Saul casting himself on his sword.
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All these world-changing events
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went unnoticed by the crowd.
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So just like this spider, I built my web,
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hoping to catch the viewer's eye.
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Now the stage is set.
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How can I just stand here?
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What can I do? I can't think clearly.
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No, I don't understand.
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He was born for a reason.
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I knew that from the day he stirred in me.
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And when he grew up
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he brought a light into the world.
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And this light threatened
the sly and dark convenience
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of our rotten usage and custom.
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He was a threat to every dangerous fool
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whose concern is with neither God nor Man
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but with his own miserable certainties and power.
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And now it's dark.
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Custom and usage have won the night.
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And I no longer understand.12080
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