LA BRLURE DE MILLE SOLEILS / THE FIRE OF 1000 SUNS

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This is mission control,
Titan Space Station. Saturn 6.
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Vessel in orbit, identify yourself.
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This is Spaceship Berenice,
requesting permission to land on Saturn 7.
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Affirmed. Commence descent immediately.
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Roger that. Descending.
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It all started 20 years ago.
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That is, two hours ago for me.
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I was in an undefinable state.
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Alone in the poets age-old commitment
to savour the taste, the melancholy.
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My predecessors knew how to break
sonic and heat barriers.
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Centuries after the first astronauts
jumped from planet to planet,
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we now found ourselves within the walls
of the largest cage in human history.
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Beyond the light speed barrier, millions upon
millions of unknown worlds palpitated feebly.
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Inaccessible.
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I was prisoner to a feeling as extinct as
the lesser species,
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melancholy.
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I had seen everything.
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Known everything.
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I lived in a private ship,
sumptuous like a museum.
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Glory and fortune had smiled upon me,
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seemingly by the extreme benevolence
and prestige of the poet,
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but the last writer.
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I was the last globetrotter,
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at a time when the world
looked like anything but a globe.
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The last explorer, at a time when
there was nothing left to be explored.
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I could have done it all.
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I had the best robo-astrogator to drive my ship,
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and to reinforce my knowledge, the most
beautiful supplementary brain hardware.
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Robo-sociologist.
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Robo-linguist.
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Robo-physicist.
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Not to mention, Robo-semanticist,
coordinator of meaning and syntax.
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I d even invented a machine to combat
the oldest curse of the human species,
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the misery of not being loved.
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I d even given it a name, Leporela.
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A simple principle.
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One provides the maximum amount of
information on the object of love.
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Indefatigable, infallible.

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In response, Leporela gave indefatigable and
infallible advice to seduce, conquer and possess.
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This happiness had a bitter taste.
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I was in my sullen reflection when, like a
robotic postman coming home with the paper
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I set my robo-reader to high speed.
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I allowed myself to relax, like my cat,
Marseille the First
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when something strange happened.
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I slowed the robo-reader down.
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A little inventor from a species
I had thought was extinct
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had reconfigured Einstein s formula.
Tidied it up.
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They d developed an engine capable of speeds a
thousand times faster than the speed of light.
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And yet, without breaking the bounds of time
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my possibilities through space were
still limited.
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The verdict of the robo-astrogators
and robo-geographer
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was that even at this inhuman speed
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half of the journey into unknown territory
would take me 20 years.
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No question at my age.
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Defeated, I fell back on my couch
with my dreams in shreds
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and set my robo-reader back to high speed.
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But the tangents of fate are unpredictable,
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chance had put forward a medical review
on my robo-reader.
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I looked closer.
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Before me was a device that could hold
any living organism
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for any duration of time in suspended life.
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20 years could now pass as if it were
only 20 minutes.
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Unforeseeable coincidence had juxtaposed
two completely foreign phenomena.
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The superluminal engine combined with
suspended life
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was once and for all my gateway to the stars.
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Only one reaction was possible, buying it.
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Thus, I bought it.
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It would be delivered to my home.
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My heart was singing.
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I installed the engine that would
propel me towards the most distant shores
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of which no man had ever dreamed.
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In the engine room I installed a
hull made of crystal,
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the likes of which brought Osiris to new worlds,
in the most mysterious of journeys.
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There is no map of the unknown.
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I didn t know where I was going,
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and I would never know where I had been.
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The motors could return me here provided
I only stayed in the unknown for a few hours,
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maybe a few days.
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I chose, for no particular reason,
a small point on the tail of Berenice s comet.
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A miniscule light, which was a universe in itself
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with its billions of galaxies
between its billions of suns.
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I sat on the crystal hull and my
dear Marseille fell asleep against me,
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in what would be the longest sleep
in the history of cats.
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The journey was, for me, a dreamless sleep.
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Only the soulless eyes of my faithful robots
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would witness what
human eyes could never see.
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Beyond the threshold of the speed of light,
appearances change.
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This world has its own units of measurement,
which remain unknown to me.
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Ten years passed as if it were 10 minutes.
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Stable movement resumed.
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The journey into the unknown was complete.
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According to my astrogator
I was approaching the sun of a new galaxy
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in this new universe which was
not dissimilar to my own.
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Planets sailed around the sun,
one of which resembled our earth.
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Fascinating. I had entered the void
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only to be confronted with the
paradoxical image of ourselves.
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The planet was inhabited.
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My robots indicated signs of civilisation,
and the presence of a human species.
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Before me were cities,
houses and a space station.
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I decided to descend and land my ship.
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I was at some sort of terminal.
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I d transcended the bounds of space and time.
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Fragile, ephemeral,
this could only be done once.
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My heart pounded.
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I was in a labyrinth,
whose logic and geometry escaped me.
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I thought I would never get out,
until I understood that
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the very desire to leave was
precisely the means by which to do it.
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One must understand, then everything
will work out.
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Having understood this door,
I continued through long corridors
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passing men and women who were polite,
calm and serine.
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They pretended not to see me,
to dissuade me of their curiosity.
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Lead by the desire to succeed,
I finally arrived in a vast room
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where under the coat of arms of this planet,
a giant wind rose, a man awaited me.
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I could not tell if he were a prince,
a wise man or a tyrant.
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I understood that I needed to take a seat.
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And thus, a chair rose from the floor.
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I began to relay the purpose of my visit
and my origin,
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but I began to feel uneasy,
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as if I were deviating from a social
ritual as rigid as the wind rose.
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I began to second-guess each of my gestures,
every word that left my mouth.
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The prince did not reply in words,
only gestures.
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I was gripped by anxiety, until I understood
the exquisite courtesy of his attitude.
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These marvellous flowers were here to guide me.
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If I erred, they contracted, blushed,
their colours became aggressive.
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When I was back on track, they flowered again.
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With this discrete guide,
I could speak to him without breaking
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social conventions unknown to me.
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The meeting ended.
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The prince invited me to a reception of sorts
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where I was to meet the principal scholars,
artists and administrators of the planet.
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I saw nothing but calm and sweetness around me.
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Dignity, kindness, balance and understanding
were the keys to this world without violence,
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where understanding
was of the upmost importance.
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They liked me.
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I admired them, when
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I thought, naively, that I was past
the age of love at first sight.
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I was paralysed.
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Incapable of initiative.
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Barbara threw me deep
into an abyss of admiration.
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I didn t know what to do,
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I barely heard her when she asked,
curious about my planet,
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to visit my ship.
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Shy, for once, I meticulously went
through every detail.
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I expected everything from this visit.
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Leporela obviously did as well.
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On a whim, I unplugged her.
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I wanted my eventual success to
be credited to me alone.
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So she came.
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I hurried around her, in vain.
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It was planet earth
that interested her, not me.
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Everything excited her.
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She wanted to know everything
a priori and a posteriori.
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Death, geology, fauna, flora, literature, music.
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My robots were mad with joy. They chattered
like magpies eager to stand out. Idiots.
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It was an excruciatingly cultural visit.
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I didn t know what to do.
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Disheartened, I watched her leave
with Berenice, Henri Brulard and
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the Brandenburg concertos under her arm.
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Could she sense my disappointment?
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I still don t know,
but from the door she suggested I visit her.
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I only vaguely understood
that she wanted me to visit,
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but my heart began beating
like never before in my life.
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At the front of her house I saw no door.
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A moment was suffice to understand that
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the visitor must simply formulate
their desire to have the door open.
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A corridor opened to five naked and empty rooms.
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I was confused.
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It occurred to me that the visitor,
in good faith, must abandon their inhibitions.
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The first room was undoubtedly the antechamber.
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I made the appropriate gesture, and she appeared.
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Armchairs rose from the ground.
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We spoke.
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The second room must have been
the dining area.
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From the ground came chairs and a splendid table.
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The third was a music room,
and no longer with any difficulty,
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I understood the conventional behaviour.
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Fourth was the boudoir, and it was exquisite,
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with exquisite steps that
lead to the fifth room.
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Undoubtedly, the bedroom.
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My guess was correct.
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The bed emerged.
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This shrewd progression seemed,
at least to me, an indication
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or the proof of charming courtship.
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A delicate and civilised ceremony.
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We exchanged our first kiss.
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Now I was sure of it.
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She loved me, as I loved her.
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The zeal, the moment,
everything was decided, when...
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Six shadows appeared.
Three men and three women had joined us.
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Six smiling faces, likable,
kind and in some way pure.
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I initially thought this must be her family,
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I feigned politeness, masking my fury
at their interruption as much as I could.
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I feared I d broken some taboo.
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I felt that they were expecting
something from me,
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but I didn t know what.
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The remainder of our evening passed
in mundane conversation.
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Dawn came, illuminating
a landscape of scattered calm.
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The honourable host must have
understood that it was time to retire.
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As she left Barbara assured me
she would come and see me,
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she was aware of the anguish that
had gripped my heart.
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She knew that I could only
stay two more days, at the most.
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She took me to some majestic
and romantic ruins,
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as if she wanted to show me
the missing piece of a complex puzzle.
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The ruins spoke to my soul.
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I understood that she loved me.
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We returned to her house.
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Knowing the ritual this time,
I followed her more closely
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in the steps that would lead to the sanctuary.
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I was kissing her madly, when
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Again these six shadows,
the same as the day before.
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This disturbed me profoundly.
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They seemed less amicable, a certain
coldness purveyed their polite mannerisms.
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Barbara rejected my discrete attempts
to isolate ourselves.
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I understood less and less.
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The day dawned, inviting the honourable
guests to depart.
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Barbara: Our worlds are so different.
Don t be sad, I ll come back.
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She came back, and my heart soared.
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I followed her, and I initially thought
there was some sort of theatre before me.
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I was nearly right.
It was a, private, concert hall.
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A sort of church or, I don t know,
with an organ type thing.
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Her music looked for the key to my
heart without knowing
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that she had already found it, long ago.
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I had thought I understood.
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Barbara: Well, you know everything now.
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The hours were counting down.
Stay here forever or leave the following day.
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These were my only two options.
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We jeered at ritual and threw ourselves
directly into the fifth room.
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Once again, I kissed her like a madman, when
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The six shadows re-appeared, sombre and sad.
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Their distress seemed as alive as mine.
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They expected something from me
but I didn t know what to give.
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I couldn t do anything, neither could Barbara.
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I understood that it was irrevocably over.
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If I wanted to return to earth I had to go.
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I could never come back,
I didn t even know where I was.
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Barbara: On the first day you told me
the story of Titus
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and the Queen Berenice.
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They loved each other.
They left each other.
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Our worlds are too different.
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I love you, you love me and you re leaving me.
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Never forget me, as I will never forget you.
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Go now, and don t turn back.
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Thus, I left.
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It is not in my nature to be tragic,
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but an undignified despair tore at my heart.
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I slide into my crystal hull
as if it were a tomb.
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I left.
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Naturally, I didn t see anything of the voyage.
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10 years passed as if it were 10 minutes.
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We arrived in our familiar universe,
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but I didn t want to return to earth just yet.
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I was approaching Hyperion,
a small Saturn satellite.
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And thus, 20 years ago.
For me it was but a weekend,
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the longest in world history.
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I returned to work, my sad and mourning
robots classified their countless documents.
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What happened?
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Who could tell me?
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Leporela maybe?
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I neither accepted
nor understood her initial response.
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I asked again.
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I pressed her with more questions;
I couldn t resolve what was obvious.
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Grief-striken, I measured
the extent of my faults.
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The vanity of man and his presumed
intelligence, who always and everywhere
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believing themselves to be
the centre of the world.
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Nothing compels other creatures to live
in our likeness.
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I was like an old cartoonist
from centuries past
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bringing bears and cats and dinosaurs
to life like men.
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Nothing compelled this planet, the men and
the women of this planet to live in our image.
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Everything on that planet was modelled
after the eight points of the windrose
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Eight ways to greet.
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Eight ways to answer.
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Eight ways to live.
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And also, eight sexes.
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In this way, when Barbara summoned her
six shadows that intrigued me
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who bothered me so
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it was to tell me that she agreed.
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Not to distance herself from me.
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To perfect our union, not to make it impossible.
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I had stupidly thought of life forms
in binary terms,
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whereas this is uncertain and
indeterminate for all of us.
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Other natures, other morals, other moralities,
each with their own respective ways of being.
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My obstinacy in not understanding
carried as much dismay
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as my inability to see her again.
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She was right, Berenice, our worlds
pulled us too far apart.
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I had taken them for six judges,
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it was just six accomplices.
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The necessary group of catalysts
had a harmony of which I was ignorant.
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For this, I had been well and truly punished.
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By blindness, by vanity, I had lost Barbara.
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Her image stays with me.
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Bitter and sterile regret seizes my soul.
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And if I am to live, if I am to survive,
I need to leave.
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Even after the death of Hamlet, life continues
and Fortinbras sounds the trumpets.
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Every day, every minute, a thousand
sublime creatures travel the world.
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I will be sad, they will be touched.
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I changed and I loved them for themselves,
as they were,
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gracious and compassionate.
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I can still win some battles,
I have an unstoppable weapon:
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at the heart of the fire of 1000 suns.