1. “ON THE SILVER GLOBE”Copy !req
2. This film is based on
“THE LUNAR TRILOGY” by JERZY ZULAWSKI.Copy !req
3. You are about to see a
film made ten years ago,Copy !req
4. a shred of a film;Copy !req
5. a two-and-a-half-hour story,
one-fifth of which is missing.Copy !req
6. That one-fifth, which dates back to
1977, when the film was murdered,Copy !req
7. will never be recreated.Copy !req
8. In place of missing scenes,
a voice will explainCopy !req
9. what was meant to be.Copy !req
10. We completed “ON THE SILVER GLOBE”
in the year 1987.Copy !req
11. It fell from the clouds...
At night...Copy !req
12. From up high...Copy !req
13. They were close...Copy !req
14. hunting.Copy !req
15. They found it in the morning,Copy !req
16. in the branches.Copy !req
17. It fluttered... beautiful...Copy !req
18. He travelled for two days...
across the snow... tired...Copy !req
19. He thought: it must be for them...
for sure.Copy !req
20. What is it?Copy !req
21. He says they saw it fall.
They could not have seen...Copy !req
22. Maybe they saw a star.Copy !req
23. It is an ancient relic.
It could not have fallen just now.Copy !req
24. It could be from the past...Copy !req
25. Everybody saw it...
Two days ago... at night...Copy !req
26. They found it in the morning...
It can only be for us...Copy !req
27. It is fifty, sixty years old.Copy !req
28. It is a Small Transmission Module STM.Copy !req
29. The way that it is burnt indicates
Titanium Beta or the like.Copy !req
30. It used to take off from a pad
on six propulsion nozzles.Copy !req
31. I guess they did not
teach you about that.Copy !req
32. Why did it fall?Copy !req
33. It could have honed in on
a target station fifty years ago.Copy !req
34. Unless...Copy !req
35. If what they are saying is true...Copy !req
36. They usually do not lie.Copy !req
37. One of the older rigs should crack it.Copy !req
38. If the chip is not fried, it should tell us
where it came from and why.Copy !req
39. Tell her again that I demand
she not intrude.Copy !req
40. This place is packed with delicate gear.
It will all go haywire.Copy !req
41. Unless she would come to see you.Copy !req
42. She is not coming to see you.
She is coming to take you.Copy !req
43. You do not understand. She is mine.Copy !req
44. No, you belong to them.Copy !req
45. Put your mask on.
It is freezing outside.Copy !req
46. Later...Copy !req
47. What happens if you run out
of those chemicals?Copy !req
48. Freedom, maybe?Copy !req
49. They can kill us at any time and
take the chemicals,Copy !req
50. or steal them while we sleep.Copy !req
51. But they will not.Copy !req
52. We are the givers,Copy !req
53. not the takers.Copy !req
54. Aliens like trees.Copy !req
55. They want to tame us.
To poison, to engulf...Copy !req
56. Are we the last of those
who have the power,Copy !req
57. or the first of those
to be defenceless?Copy !req
58. Under the hatchway into which
two astronauts enter, there is a lab.Copy !req
59. A huge room filled with machines that
listened to sounds from outer space.Copy !req
60. Only one of the oldest machines,
which has remained idle for decades,Copy !req
61. can read out what is inside
the container,Copy !req
62. which the astronauts received
from the rider.Copy !req
63. It is a diary, or rather,
a series of semi-transparent platesCopy !req
64. featuring scenes as if shot
with a camera.Copy !req
65. The first shows the journey
of a spacecraft,Copy !req
66. the pilots losing control,
it crashing into the mountains.Copy !req
67. Only a fragment of this
recording survives.Copy !req
68. I can see!Copy !req
69. DEATH...Copy !req
70. The astronauts struggle
out of the battered cockpit.Copy !req
71. Around them are mountains.
The air is unbreathable.Copy !req
72. They leave behind the dead body
of their commander.Copy !req
73. They wheel out buggies from
their rocket and ride downhill.Copy !req
74. One of the astronauts,
Tomasz, is injured.Copy !req
75. Another rocket crashes
into the mountains and explodes.Copy !req
76. Were those who died in it,
with them or after them?Copy !req
77. This planet resembles Earth
perfectly.Copy !req
78. This is why it was chosen
to start a new life.Copy !req
79. Heading to the sea, the buggies come
across a large mound of stones,Copy !req
80. piled together like
an architectural form,Copy !req
81. as if a civilisation once
existed here in the past.Copy !req
82. While near the ruins,
Tomasz's fever turns to delirium.Copy !req
83. He sees ghosts: the dead astronauts
are coming to capture him.Copy !req
84. One tries to defend him.Copy !req
85. The others want to chain him up.Copy !req
86. See.Copy !req
87. The commander was right.
They allow us to breathe.Copy !req
88. We shall live...Copy !req
89. Wait...Copy !req
90. Do you remember when
a man is to be born,Copy !req
91. the father endows him with
the seeds of every possibility?Copy !req
92. What every man nurtures in himCopy !req
93. will witness it grow inside
and bring fruits.Copy !req
94. If it is vegetal,
he will be a plant;Copy !req
95. if it is sensual,
he will be an animal;Copy !req
96. if it is rational...Copy !req
97. his being will become... divine!Copy !req
98. Finally if it is intellectual,Copy !req
99. he will be an angel,
or the son of Man!Copy !req
100. Maybe it's time to say that
the Republic is in real danger,Copy !req
101. that we are cowards who
have to defend courage,Copy !req
102. sex, consciousness, carnal beauty,
the quest of love,Copy !req
103. the conquest of which may become
a heroic destiny after all.Copy !req
104. But to utter these words
is to demonstrate how sad we are,Copy !req
105. because the strongest
believers among usCopy !req
106. have spent their years
talking about fear,Copy !req
107. impotence, stupidity, ugliness,
self-love and apathy...Copy !req
108. although we have thus attemptedCopy !req
109. to take a severe view of this realityCopy !req
110. which may depend on our decent life,Copy !req
111. our work,Copy !req
112. our own honourCopy !req
113. which permits us to say no moreCopy !req
114. than what we ourselves have seen.Copy !req
115. It is over.Copy !req
116. I did not hear your answers.Copy !req
117. I believe no signal can pierce
this world's radiation belt.Copy !req
118. While falling, they were
above this plain.Copy !req
119. - Stop pulling!
- The wave bounced, so we got it.Copy !req
120. It was them standing over me...Copy !req
121. The commander was walking dead...
To take me away...Copy !req
122. Maybe what bounced backCopy !req
123. was not just an electromagnetic wave,Copy !req
124. but bions making up
the image of the dead...Copy !req
125. - Stop pulling!
- You're delirious!Copy !req
126. Surely you know that whatever you sayCopy !req
127. must carry at least a grain of truthCopy !req
128. just because you are
capable of saying it.Copy !req
129. Put him down!Copy !req
130. Do not forget what we escaped from,Copy !req
131. Just to repeat with impunity
what we believe in.Copy !req
132. Do not forget!Copy !req
133. Whatever you say is the truth,Copy !req
134. unless you say it...Copy !req
135. to impose your will upon us.Copy !req
136. Me, I do not believe in anything.Copy !req
137. If you say it, you look
into yourself.Copy !req
138. You are not blind.Copy !req
139. That is why you are
a fugitive like us.Copy !req
140. Yes, you are dying, brother.Copy !req
141. After all, there is truth
in everything I sayCopy !req
142. if I am able to say it.Copy !req
143. Freedom exists and is
lying in darkness...Copy !req
144. It turns away from
the lust of darknessCopy !req
145. to lean towards
the lust of light.Copy !req
146. It embraces light with
its everlasting will.Copy !req
147. And darkness strives to capture
the light of freedomCopy !req
148. but it cannot do that,Copy !req
149. because it wraps itself
around its own lust...Copy !req
150. and turns to darkness again.Copy !req
151. The wind rises.
The night is falling.Copy !req
152. The drizzle turns into a downpour,
and the downpour into a hurricane.Copy !req
153. Tomasz dies.Copy !req
154. Before he dies, Marta begs
to be left alone with him.Copy !req
155. She loves him. She clings to him.
She protects him with her body.Copy !req
156. The river rumbles,
swells and overflows. It is a deluge.Copy !req
157. Marta!Copy !req
158. We have to get moving.
We will not survive here.Copy !req
159. No chance, until we reach the seashore
where we were supposed to land.Copy !req
160. Come on.Copy !req
161. No! No!Copy !req
162. You are sick.
You will have to be carried.Copy !req
163. Turn it off, I am telling you,
turn it off, you fool.Copy !req
164. The sea!Copy !req
165. I see the sea!Copy !req
166. Jerzy.Copy !req
167. Tomasz is growing faster
than he would on Earth.Copy !req
168. At the age of six months,
he is as tall as a one-year-old.Copy !req
169. Jerzy, could it be that we will
all die and he will be left alone?Copy !req
170. Marta. It is the rainy season.
It will keep raining.Copy !req
171. Six months of waiting is a long time.Copy !req
172. You may perish, we may perish,
and then...Copy !req
173. and then...Copy !req
174. Marta, am I right?Copy !req
175. Yes.Copy !req
176. I took cameras of Marta and Piotr.
They no longer bother to record.Copy !req
177. I have transferred their memories
onto mine.Copy !req
178. I have erased the irrelevant passages.
I have kept the gist.Copy !req
179. Only by recording do I
make sense out of myself.Copy !req
180. I must be careful.Copy !req
181. It costs them so much.Copy !req
182. It costs me so little. Why?Copy !req
183. Almost nothing.Copy !req
184. I do not demand anything.
I do not believe in anything.Copy !req
185. I believe only in perfect freedom,
ours, mine.Copy !req
186. Piotr says that long, long ago,Copy !req
187. I could have become a monk,Copy !req
188. because I am not yet a man,
but I am already old.Copy !req
189. For if one is to forget why
we came here,Copy !req
190. I did.Copy !req
191. It is not us that are lost
in contemplation of the world.Copy !req
192. It is the world that is lost
in contemplation of us.Copy !req
193. Oh, Earth!Copy !req
194. You do not wish to learn from me,
Tomasz?Copy !req
195. I can breathe without this.Copy !req
196. What is Earth really like?Copy !req
197. What is it, Old Man?Copy !req
198. Earth is what I feel for you.Copy !req
199. You are alive. My father died.Copy !req
200. Marta, talk to me.Copy !req
201. Marta, say something!Copy !req
202. Yes.Copy !req
203. Marta, keep silent.Copy !req
204. Marta, laugh.Copy !req
205. Marta, cry.Copy !req
206. Marta, dance!Copy !req
207. Dance!Copy !req
208. One can think only if one believes.Copy !req
209. There is no thought without faith.Copy !req
210. Only one who has faith
has thoughts.Copy !req
211. This... one must want to know faith.Copy !req
212. One can only believe if one
has grown roots.Copy !req
213. Only one that believes that
they have grown roots.Copy !req
214. Thus one must want to know
one's rootedness.Copy !req
215. One can have roots
only if one acts.Copy !req
216. One who acts has roots.Copy !req
217. Thus one must want to know action.Copy !req
218. Here, everything is as on Earth.Copy !req
219. The same chaos,
the same absence of truth.Copy !req
220. - The same lie.
- You love her.Copy !req
221. To love is to want to be absorbed
entirely by somebody.Copy !req
222. To love is to feel entirely
responsible for somebody.Copy !req
223. You can also take without love.
In that case, this word is meaningless.Copy !req
224. It turns into evil and hate.Copy !req
225. But the only reason we came here
was not to hate anybody.Copy !req
226. How can you be so happy here...Copy !req
227. - you who have nothing here.
- I have you.Copy !req
228. Yes?Copy !req
229. If you have us, you have what we have!Copy !req
230. That is, nothing.
Nothing! Nothing!Copy !req
231. Jerzy,Copy !req
232. you don't even fight me.Copy !req
233. Oh, Earth!Copy !req
234. Piotr!Copy !req
235. I found him here.Copy !req
236. One day, when the Angel of Death
entered King Solomon's presenceCopy !req
237. he looked at one of his courtiers
in a fierce way...Copy !req
238. “Who is that?” he said.Copy !req
239. He said: “That was
the Angel of Death.”Copy !req
240. “I saw him looking at me
as if he wanted my soul!”Copy !req
241. “I want you to order the winds
to take me to India.”Copy !req
242. And Solomon did.Copy !req
243. Then the Angel of Death said:Copy !req
244. “I was surprised to see him
here with you,Copy !req
245. because I was ordered to take his
soul from a place in India.Copy !req
246. But he is here at your side,
in your court!”Copy !req
247. Can it be true?Copy !req
248. I will have a baby. Yours.Copy !req
249. It will be my last baby.Copy !req
250. Say nothing for a while.Copy !req
251. For once I want to be
at peace with myself.Copy !req
252. Help me.Copy !req
253. You have not yet let me paint you.
Can I do that now?Copy !req
254. You could have killed him, Piotr.Copy !req
255. When he wanted to be alone with me
for the first time.Copy !req
256. A girl...Copy !req
257. I see them...Copy !req
258. All...Copy !req
259. Yes, like everything...Copy !req
260. Darkly...Copy !req
261. Me too, I never understood.Copy !req
262. Because here it is total darkness.Copy !req
263. You are back.Copy !req
264. And Mother?Copy !req
265. Mother is dead. Will you die too?Copy !req
266. Yes.Copy !req
267. - Like Mother?
- Yes.Copy !req
268. Yes...Copy !req
269. Still, I will say it.
Perhaps disjointedly.Copy !req
270. I, a free man,
an unimpassioned man,Copy !req
271. I am wounded, wounded like an animal.Copy !req
272. I suffer like an animal, like Piotr.Copy !req
273. What I brought along with me
was chaos.Copy !req
274. Any order, any serenity, clarity,
tranquillity has gone.Copy !req
275. As if her death awoke a night terror,
without dreams,Copy !req
276. A dream without waking,
awake without sense.Copy !req
277. I was taught that
the eye of the worldCopy !req
278. which is looking at meCopy !req
279. is the same eye with which
I see the world.Copy !req
280. This eye is neither serene nor evil...Copy !req
281. neither feeling nor expectant.Copy !req
282. It is indifferent like water.Copy !req
283. I will stay under it
for as long as I can.Copy !req
284. I will go to the mountains,Copy !req
285. Searching for metals
which they can use.Copy !req
286. I will be thinking.Copy !req
287. Yes...Copy !req
288. I will be thinking.Copy !req
289. I will feel dissolved in you,Copy !req
290. rock,Copy !req
291. grass.Copy !req
292. I will feel.Copy !req
293. I will feel in me your
inhuman translucence.Copy !req
294. I will feel your incomprehensible breath,
your absolute coldness.Copy !req
295. I am nobody.Copy !req
296. I hated, I despised the warriors.Copy !req
297. Now I, I myself deserve contempt,Copy !req
298. for I am at war with myself.Copy !req
299. Mere suffering exists,
no sufferer is found.Copy !req
300. The deeds are, but no
doer of the deeds is there.Copy !req
301. Nirvana is,
but not the man that enters it.Copy !req
302. The path is,
but no traveller on it is seen.Copy !req
303. You are back again, Old Man.Copy !req
304. Please,Copy !req
305. - Go on dancing.
- You are back again!Copy !req
306. I am Ada, Marta's last daughter.Copy !req
307. Why do you never die?Copy !req
308. Why do you not die?Copy !req
309. Why do not you not understand
what you have given us?Copy !req
310. Why are you not in what exists?Copy !req
311. Why are you elsewhere,
where nothing exists?Copy !req
312. Nothing!Copy !req
313. And then Fertile Mother Marta,Copy !req
314. begot thunder with the Moon in heaven.Copy !req
315. And she indulged in pleasure to have
him stronger than Tomasz.Copy !req
316. And so she returned swept by the flood
and begot fishes,Copy !req
317. and animals in forests...Copy !req
318. And Piotr gave us settlements
and wisdom and the bow...Copy !req
319. By always being here
you make us remember.Copy !req
320. But why do you never say anything?Copy !req
321. Oh Earth!Copy !req
322. Earth!Copy !req
323. The Old Man said:Copy !req
324. Oh! Earth!Copy !req
325. More and more I want to record myself.Copy !req
326. No, no!Copy !req
327. Come, you, who is so still,Copy !req
328. yet draws closer to me by the hour.Copy !req
329. She feels the fire.Copy !req
330. She serves the fire.Copy !req
331. She gives herself to me,Copy !req
332. because I am
the Master of the Fire.Copy !req
333. I have devoted myself to you;
you who have arrived.Copy !req
334. I could marry him.
They are afraid of me and him,Copy !req
335. because I interpret Marta,
and you and the rain.Copy !req
336. Love me.Copy !req
337. I love everything.Copy !req
338. Well? Say something!Copy !req
339. Say something!Copy !req
340. I curse you...Copy !req
341. in the name of the Old Man.Copy !req
342. Say something!Copy !req
343. - Say something!
- Kill. Kill him.Copy !req
344. The Old Man is praying for you.Copy !req
345. Something he wanted to draw,
for he has forgotten how to write.Copy !req
346. Maybe evil? evil.Copy !req
347. Forgive me.Copy !req
348. Do not look at me, in this face paint,Copy !req
349. in this garb, in this degradation.Copy !req
350. You would not search for me,Copy !req
351. if you had not found me!Copy !req
352. Record it carefully,Copy !req
353. for you are documenting
half a God and an animal.Copy !req
354. Did you feel the same fear on Earth?Copy !req
355. - Yes.
- And the Coming was from over there?Copy !req
356. Yes.Copy !req
357. You will return...Copy !req
358. Nobody returns anywhere,
I told you many times.Copy !req
359. You do not have to tell
the truth to the end,Copy !req
360. you are the Old Man.
How do you come know everything?Copy !req
361. Eternity is the state of simultaneously
possessing everything, Ada.Copy !req
362. I am Tomasz the Second,
son of Old Tomasz.Copy !req
363. The Third Tomasz.Copy !req
364. When you talk like this I do not
understand. Nobody does, not even Ada.Copy !req
365. Looking at your face for too long
frightens us.Copy !req
366. I cannot oppose any of you,
Tomasz the Third.Copy !req
367. It is becoming too difficult to breathe.
Too much anxiety.Copy !req
368. Too much longing.Copy !req
369. Because you are the Old Man,Copy !req
370. bless me, Old Man.Copy !req
371. How?Copy !req
372. Old Tomasz was lazy.Copy !req
373. He did not try to extend the lands
where we live.Copy !req
374. He did not wish to know what lies
beyond and beyond,Copy !req
375. as if he were afraid...Copy !req
376. Tomorrow the sea will be quiet,
and we will cross to the other side.Copy !req
377. There, on the other side,
something is looming, on bright days.Copy !req
378. What if there is no other side?Copy !req
379. There has to be.Copy !req
380. You are right.Copy !req
381. It is I who keeps forgetting
that I know everything,Copy !req
382. but I understand nothing.Copy !req
383. - Do you want to see Marta?
- I do not need to.Copy !req
384. I believe...Copy !req
385. that Mother Marta had
created all parts of the world,Copy !req
386. and we must explore them,
because they are for us.Copy !req
387. What are you doing here, Ada?Copy !req
388. Be angry with me, Old Man.Copy !req
389. Child, child, you are
not listening to me.Copy !req
390. I know, I know,
you cannot say everything.Copy !req
391. You will go back there.Copy !req
392. Stop raving. Stop raving.
You of all people should not rave.Copy !req
393. You are my daughter.Copy !req
394. We are all your children,Copy !req
395. and you showed us
what is good and what is bad.Copy !req
396. Tell me why we were
expelled from Earth?Copy !req
397. I,Copy !req
398. I am beautiful.Copy !req
399. I... I am young.Copy !req
400. I can do things nobody else can.Copy !req
401. May the blessing of
the Humans be with you.Copy !req
402. Give it.Copy !req
403. Enough.Copy !req
404. There is only so much memory left.Copy !req
405. On the other side,Copy !req
406. we have found...Copy !req
407. There are huge settlements,Copy !req
408. a city like a beehive...Copy !req
409. Everybody perished.
There... there...Copy !req
410. Monsters! They have wings... black...Copy !req
411. One eye in the middle of
their foreheads...Copy !req
412. They are flying, flying after me...Copy !req
413. To destroy...Copy !req
414. destroy the Humans.Copy !req
415. They are carrying death.Copy !req
416. Lord, Lord!Copy !req
417. It is the wind?Copy !req
418. Lord, Lord. Do not leave...Copy !req
419. I am better than youCopy !req
420. and that is why I will
be able to play you.Copy !req
421. Earth...Copy !req
422. Earth...Copy !req
423. Earth, Earth, oh Earth!Copy !req
424. People, rejoice!Copy !req
425. The Old Man is leaving. People!Copy !req
426. Is it right to sleep with
one's own daughter?Copy !req
427. Or brother?Copy !req
428. If a brother steals his brother's
property should his hand be cut off?Copy !req
429. Should the dead be given food
every day, or only on holidays?Copy !req
430. Is the birth of a baby a Holy Day?
Even if the baby is blind?Copy !req
431. I do not know,Copy !req
432. I do not know.Copy !req
433. I know nothing, nothing.
Do I not know anything?Copy !req
434. No, she is not sick.Copy !req
435. She is the victory of
yearning over truth.Copy !req
436. And the sick one... the sick one
is the one who is playing.Copy !req
437. The actor is sick, because he is
looking for you in himself.Copy !req
438. And he is ugly,
although he can see and feel.Copy !req
439. So he will not be loved.
So he pulls his faceCopy !req
440. and he is like a bad mirror
for beauty.Copy !req
441. The actor is the victory of uglinessCopy !req
442. over the beauty of the world.Copy !req
443. Do you hear?Copy !req
444. Do you hear, do you hear?Copy !req
445. They are flying! Flying, flying!Copy !req
446. Coming!Copy !req
447. Come.Copy !req
448. You bloodthirsty God.Copy !req
449. Alone, in his odd attire
of half-astronaut, half-deity,Copy !req
450. Jerzy has reached the rocket that
crashed in the mountains years ago.Copy !req
451. The commander's body is still there,
as if nothing has happened since his death.Copy !req
452. With his last breath, Jerzy retrieves
the container, into which he putsCopy !req
453. the record of what happened to him,
to them, to the Humans.Copy !req
454. He aims the module into space.Copy !req
455. Before he launches it,
he takes one final shot of his face.Copy !req
456. And his tears.Copy !req
457. In the tunnel where the two astronauts
have watched Jerzy's diary,Copy !req
458. the screen goes blank,
and silence sets in.Copy !req
459. “It must be sent to the Old Earth”,
the senior astronaut says.Copy !req
460. He glances at the junior one,
who is sitting tense, self-absorbed.Copy !req
461. “Let's go back to them, home”,
says the junior one,Copy !req
462. “let us rejoice with them, dance,
celebrate that we are alive.”Copy !req
463. “Why are you crying?” asks the senior.Copy !req
464. “Because I do not know who I am.”Copy !req
465. The hatchway opens above their heads.
Wind creeps into the tunnel passage,Copy !req
466. and a girl sneaks in with the wind.
The same girl who died with Tomasz.Copy !req
467. A second on the seashore.Copy !req
468. So she is not the same, but an
eternal recurrence of herself.Copy !req
469. Warriors follow her into the tunnel,
stringing their bows.Copy !req
470. Years later, another spacecraft lands
on the spot where Jerzy crashed.Copy !req
471. It is of a more modern design
and lands gently.Copy !req
472. One man, Marek, climbs out of
the spacecraft.Copy !req
473. He addresses a camera
mounted on the rocket shield:Copy !req
474. “It fits with Jerzy's diary.”
He glances at Jerzy's petrified face.Copy !req
475. “They are beautiful”, he says,
“a bit absurd, old-fashioned.”Copy !req
476. “Now I shall look for the Humans.”Copy !req
477. There is a chattering noise
in his headphones.Copy !req
478. “How am I doing?”, Marek asks.
“Fine.”Copy !req
479. “Not staying, believing that you
no longer existed, was a good idea.”Copy !req
480. “So it no longer hurts.
Embrace Aza for me.” He switches off.Copy !req
481. Marek comes down from the mountains.Copy !req
482. On the plain, where one can breathe,
a cluster of people expect him.Copy !req
483. They are monks, the Brothers of Waiting,
for generations facing the Holy Mountains,Copy !req
484. where Jerzy ascended and
from where Marek is descending.Copy !req
485. It is Him they have been waiting for,
as it is written in their holy scriptures,Copy !req
486. a young God will come, the Conqueror,
one who will liberate the Humans,Copy !req
487. from the hideous, bird-like creatures
called Sherns.Copy !req
488. Unbelievably cruel monsters,Copy !req
489. which flew from across the sea
and enslaved the Humans.Copy !req
490. “You got the wrong Saviour!”
“I'm a man, just like you.”Copy !req
491. The Abbot smiles slyly:
“Whatever you say.”Copy !req
492. It is not the faith of these
poor people that carries Marek away,Copy !req
493. but the fervent uprising that
breaks out upon his Coming.Copy !req
494. The Shern army consists of creatures
born of women impregnated by Sherns.Copy !req
495. They are called Mortes.
They are beastly, strong, and dumb.Copy !req
496. They put up dogged resistance.
Battles multiply.Copy !req
497. The last occurs on the seashore where
humans have been driven underground,Copy !req
498. and where hides the High Priest, Malahuda.Copy !req
499. Where is the High Priest?
Where is Malahuda?Copy !req
500. We come to pay homage.
We are leading the uprising...Copy !req
501. And be sure that this Conqueror
is The Conqueror...Copy !req
502. If, if, if!Copy !req
503. Seize him, chain him, punish him!Copy !req
504. I should kill you.Copy !req
505. They cannot see you wounded, Lord!Copy !req
506. Stop clowning!Copy !req
507. We shall get the High Traitor who
has not come to bow before The Saviour.Copy !req
508. The father of your fiancée, Lord,Copy !req
509. one with whom you will fall in love,
as it is written.Copy !req
510. Away with you!Copy !req
511. We will see who is in the right,
the one who waited for centuries,Copy !req
512. or the one who humbled himself
and served!Copy !req
513. Get back to the beach!Copy !req
514. I never knew who I was. Nor did I know
what I could do with such ease.Copy !req
515. What I had was the ease
of being intelligent,Copy !req
516. looking for an adult aim,
while I was just a youngster.Copy !req
517. The stupidest thing is not to
understand one's own charm.Copy !req
518. - Who are you?
- We are actors, Lord, saints.Copy !req
519. We are forbidden from fighting
and dying with Humans...Copy !req
520. nor can we cross the threshold.
We serve, Lord.Copy !req
521. You are human.Copy !req
522. It is good. I'll know how to play you.Copy !req
523. Why are you crying, child?Copy !req
524. Our underground state, Lord.Copy !req
525. Where we have gathered for centuries
to worship the promise of your Coming.Copy !req
526. Here sects appeared of suicides and
flagellants, poets and iconoclasts.Copy !req
527. Here the monks wrote prophecies.Copy !req
528. The abyss was above, a darkness
as dark as the soul of man...Copy !req
529. For the soul of man accepts the Sherns,
justifies their actions...Copy !req
530. converses with them as if sleepwalking.Copy !req
531. This is Your church, Lord.Copy !req
532. Lord, they are coming out!Copy !req
533. But they are grotesque. Defenceless!Copy !req
534. What is defenceless is strong,
good is bad, beauty is in worms.Copy !req
535. Is that all? The end?Copy !req
536. Shern Aviy has escaped. Reinforcements
will now fly in from across the sea!Copy !req
537. Marek seeks the council of the
High Priest, who hands over his powersCopy !req
538. and confirms that his daughter, Ihezal,
loved by Yeret, the young warrior,Copy !req
539. is consecrated to the Conqueror
and the worship of the Old Man.Copy !req
540. “It was me who negotiated with
the Sherns, to lower the tributes,Copy !req
541. “like a beggar bargaining
for human lives,Copy !req
542. “it was me who tried to understand
the sense of lawlessness,Copy !req
543. “the absurdity of their way of life”,
says Malahuda.Copy !req
544. He is tired. “The faith is
coming to an end”, he says,Copy !req
545. “since you have come.
Now reality is beginning.”Copy !req
546. I am alone.Copy !req
547. A prince in the middle of an
icy room hollowed out of an icy space.Copy !req
548. I carry my own space in me.Copy !req
549. I am carrying it in an absurd
land in an absurd time.Copy !req
550. As if the entire world,
the big one and the one inside meCopy !req
551. merged into a hateful vision of their
bodies, looking for meaning in the other,Copy !req
552. a meaning which the bodies
cannot accommodate.Copy !req
553. Do not look there, Lord. The Sherns
captured the children. They...Copy !req
554. Their mothers said the Sherns wanted
to see the demon inside human beings,Copy !req
555. - to see how the soul leaves the body.
- And you tolerated that?Copy !req
556. There is no way to
understand them, Lord!Copy !req
557. The Mortes describe their
closeness as poetic.Copy !req
558. But it stinks here!Copy !req
559. Do not laugh at them, Lord.Copy !req
560. Sherns have a third eye in the middle
of their heads, they speak through it.Copy !req
561. While silent, they speak, and you
understand their slightest nuance.Copy !req
562. The Mortes say that this is beautiful:Copy !req
563. It is like shapes, they say.
The Sherns say that we are defective.Copy !req
564. We do not know how to direct
the evil in ourselves,Copy !req
565. nor the force.Copy !req
566. They are killing you.Copy !req
567. Perfunctorily.Copy !req
568. You will not understand why they let
some live, and exterminate others.Copy !req
569. Did you not negotiate with them?Copy !req
570. They do not negotiate, Lord!Copy !req
571. Until they took women,Copy !req
572. they swarmed in this place.
At that time, they could still fly.Copy !req
573. Now they are lying around, watchingCopy !req
574. with that eye of theirs. We feel it.
Through the walls we feel anxiety.Copy !req
575. - Then we see everything.
- Everything!Copy !req
576. Nothing! Nothing!Copy !req
577. Nothing, Lord. There is a sect
of scientists who claim they are not there,Copy !req
578. that they are only a reflection
of ourselves called out from the dark.Copy !req
579. They are what?Copy !req
580. I do not know.Copy !req
581. - Do you believe in that?
- No, Lord.Copy !req
582. And do you believe in me?Copy !req
583. Who are you?Copy !req
584. A man.Copy !req
585. Hours of lead. Nights of lead.Copy !req
586. Lead in the heart.
The heartache turned into lead.Copy !req
587. Thoughts of lead, of nothing, of lead.Copy !req
588. The lead cancer consuming my body,
fluid as an amoeba.Copy !req
589. An amoeba in my selfishness,Copy !req
590. in its right to search out the
places of greater delight.Copy !req
591. Lord, she is playing the woman
you came here to get away from.Copy !req
592. What?Copy !req
593. You did leave one, Lord?
One you left to escape...Copy !req
594. How did you know?Copy !req
595. It is in the scriptures.Copy !req
596. Do you not remember?Copy !req
597. What?Copy !req
598. The High Priest's daughter, Lord.
She is asking you not to return.Copy !req
599. - Where?
- To Earth, Lord.Copy !req
600. Fear the signs of fornication,
the signs of decay,Copy !req
601. the rotten signs of blindness
on the body of a fallen woman.Copy !req
602. Do not fear what is, because there
is only what you do not feel.Copy !req
603. It is terrible to be caught in the
hands of a living God!Copy !req
604. Aza!Copy !req
605. - And thus I shall be called, Lord.
- Ihezal!Copy !req
606. Aza!Copy !req
607. I want to get out of here
and be left alone, without you!Copy !req
608. I knew you would come.Copy !req
609. If you are an intelligent being,
you must be curious.Copy !req
610. You think: who is he? Where is he from?
I saved your life. I did not denounce you.Copy !req
611. They would have beaten you to death
and I would have learned nothing.Copy !req
612. Maybe you will talk to me instead.
Maybe I will comprehend who you are.Copy !req
613. I hear.Copy !req
614. I am trying to understand.Copy !req
615. You are me. I am you.Copy !req
616. Everything has one identity.Copy !req
617. Even when I think I am talking to
myself, I am talking to you.Copy !req
618. Even when I think I am talking to God,
I am talking to you.Copy !req
619. You are the gateway, the tunnel,
the light of the ultimate threshold.Copy !req
620. This is rubbish.Copy !req
621. How? How?Copy !req
622. What with?Copy !req
623. What is this? I do not know
this notion. I do not understand.Copy !req
624. That we are brothers...
That we together...Copy !req
625. You have changed the line
of thought.Copy !req
626. You have been only a step away.
I have been...Copy !req
627. Now I see only flashes...Copy !req
628. You say... no... light...Copy !req
629. Why do you repeat... God?
Why death?Copy !req
630. Why resurrection?Copy !req
631. Come back!Copy !req
632. You are survival,
because you are not closed,Copy !req
633. because you resolve
in your power the time,Copy !req
634. the air and the contradiction
that we are, the animals.Copy !req
635. I am an animal among
the animals. A wolf in the forest.Copy !req
636. The one who has devoured all
is the only one.Copy !req
637. Only he endures.
Those he has devoured are meagre.Copy !req
638. One must bleed them, to relieve
them from the nightmare,Copy !req
639. and to have a cold return to
the realm of cold. Perfectly!Copy !req
640. How do you know?
Why do you repeat her name? Aza!Copy !req
641. What does she hold against me?
That she had succumbed to me,Copy !req
642. while I have never entirely
succumbed to her?Copy !req
643. When am I entirely?Copy !req
644. I, in whom an eternal battle
of darkness fights.Copy !req
645. You, come back!Copy !req
646. Aviy!Copy !req
647. Oh Marta!Copy !req
648. People!Copy !req
649. The Conqueror!Copy !req
650. Keep talking to me...Copy !req
651. monster!Copy !req
652. - You beast!
- Don't touch!Copy !req
653. Chain him.
I'll keep talking to him!Copy !req
654. She was alone with a Shern...Copy !req
655. She caught him.Copy !req
656. Maybe the lesions have
already appeared on her!Copy !req
657. Enough! I give the orders here!Copy !req
658. Lord, the law says that such women...Copy !req
659. I am the law here.Copy !req
660. I will take her into my care.
She is mine.Copy !req
661. I did not know what bliss was.Copy !req
662. I do not know how it is to be
irresponsible to oneself.Copy !req
663. Everything here is yours, Lord.
You liberate.Copy !req
664. How do you feel facing the Conqueror,
vermin?Copy !req
665. I shall serve him with all I have
right up until the bitter end!Copy !req
666. The Conqueror is unjust...Copy !req
667. You are facing the captive fiend.
Allow goodness to stay good,Copy !req
668. even if you suffer.Copy !req
669. Yes, yes, yes.Copy !req
670. I am tired,Copy !req
671. - Hush!
- Tired...Copy !req
672. Listen...Copy !req
673. You have taken me. I am yours.Copy !req
674. Had you not Arrived, I would remain
consecrated to you, regardless.Copy !req
675. Then everybody would take me.Copy !req
676. I would be a woman of the temple and
my children would be killed.Copy !req
677. I accept everything you do.
I am you.Copy !req
678. I am what you are.Copy !req
679. - Do you love Yeret?
- I love you. Nobody.Copy !req
680. I came here out of weakness.
I was betrayed by the woman I love.Copy !req
681. The only one for whom nothing
seemed to matter any more.Copy !req
682. Such is the power others have over us.Copy !req
683. Aviy... What have I... Who, what am I?Copy !req
684. One knife-blow cut loose this
dark vessel which now drifts awayCopy !req
685. and the traveller who has built
a cocoon out of clear air,Copy !req
686. saw the dark of the night
and began to scream:Copy !req
687. I am in the prison of my own freedom,Copy !req
688. in the hell of those who
can only look.Copy !req
689. I can bear loving you,
and that woman.Copy !req
690. Be.Copy !req
691. Do not think.Copy !req
692. It will not hurt me.Copy !req
693. And yet I am alive! Alive!Copy !req
694. I forbid you to tell anyone
what happened here.Copy !req
695. Yes.Copy !req
696. - I was mindless.
- As you wish, Lord.Copy !req
697. - I am weak.
- Yes.Copy !req
698. I am a man...Copy !req
699. from Earth.Copy !req
700. I am the one who has taken you
inside me. You are of two minds, Lord.Copy !req
701. You have not finished yet you think of
backtracking. You want to talk to...Copy !req
702. my father, because he stepped aside,
and to Shern Aviy, who defies you.Copy !req
703. Do you feel shamed? Cast aside?Copy !req
704. I love you, Lord, as no one ever will.Copy !req
705. One who has arrived from Over There,
from the depth of faith.Copy !req
706. From beyond life, from beyond
death and resurrection: The Old Man.Copy !req
707. From today the absence of this faith
will be punished with all severity...Copy !req
708. Worthless are those who do not believe...
Hear, you faithful!Copy !req
709. Now either a retaliation by the Sherns,
or our fire across the sea...Copy !req
710. For the white Shern hands are never
to take our women away.Copy !req
711. To arms, you faithful!
Join the ranks of Yeret's army!Copy !req
712. I am certain that you understand me...Copy !req
713. Yesterday was night, the heat of battle.
Today is different. I have to come to ask.Copy !req
714. They are about to cross the sea.Copy !req
715. However cruel and inhuman you are,Copy !req
716. There must be truth in you,
your truth...Copy !req
717. I'd like to come to terms with you...
They keep recounting your crimes.Copy !req
718. I do not know...Copy !req
719. Well, tell me...Copy !req
720. So we incarnate the transformation
of the invisible into the visible?Copy !req
721. I thought that any extremes of faith
and illusion were unjustified,Copy !req
722. and that at the core of
everybody, there is goodness.Copy !req
723. Everything is truth. There is a shred
of truth in every Being...Copy !req
724. I am allowed to act how I please,
as is anyone. You say it with scorn.Copy !req
725. I feel such hatred in you,
such indifference, why?Copy !req
726. Across the sea, there is a city
so beautiful, full of riches...Copy !req
727. This is not what I ask you about!
I am asking...Copy !req
728. You were talking about the hidden
Name of everything... What is it?Copy !req
729. Where is the space where
everything merges and becomes one?Copy !req
730. Does it exist?Copy !req
731. I am lost, keep on talking.
This is beautiful!Copy !req
732. I understand nothing.
I feel fear. Chaos. Darkness.Copy !req
733. I hear. It is the flow of water.Copy !req
734. No, of night, no, it is the motion of
the motion, the motion of the will.Copy !req
735. Me! What do you want to say?Copy !req
736. Irrationalism. Slavery.Copy !req
737. Certain types of ritual human
sacrifices, power as a goal?Copy !req
738. Cruelty as a virtue?
Inertia of the whole totality.Copy !req
739. Then why do you spit on me?Copy !req
740. You give me nothing but contemptCopy !req
741. and contempt can lead you nowhere!Copy !req
742. I can hear...
her power over me is infinite.Copy !req
743. Whose power?
Whose?Copy !req
744. You are an animal!Copy !req
745. You are both an animal and yourself.Copy !req
746. So you can talk?Copy !req
747. No, it is you who is hearing.Copy !req
748. - So why are you talking?
- Because you are feeding.Copy !req
749. Then you want to live?Copy !req
750. Do not know. Do you think I am alive?Copy !req
751. You are an animal, so you are alive!Copy !req
752. Is it only the animal
in you that is alive?Copy !req
753. What about that being which
lives through the animal?Copy !req
754. I... I do not understand.Copy !req
755. You are an animal and so am I.Copy !req
756. I am at one with myself. You are not.Copy !req
757. I am a reflection of what is in you.Copy !req
758. You are not a reflection
of what is in me.Copy !req
759. There is only one thing
that makes me curious...Copy !req
760. Earth, the planet from
whence you came.Copy !req
761. What is it?Copy !req
762. A star, do you see? A star.Copy !req
763. I forgot.Copy !req
764. Their vanity, rush to death,
my death, for I see myself in them.Copy !req
765. The image of her in the ecstasy
of love... impaled on him,Copy !req
766. screaming. You say... within.
To get inside.Copy !req
767. To excrete. The same.
Infinity is within.Copy !req
768. I do not love. Loving is inward.Copy !req
769. Not a person, not things,
not myself.Copy !req
770. By loving everything, you are
everything and you indifferent.Copy !req
771. You touch the name of the truth,Copy !req
772. with the name of animality
without which you would not be...Copy !req
773. Oh, I see. Beyond words.
Truth... evil...Copy !req
774. they signify nothing.Copy !req
775. I yearn for this pain... this flow.
Now I feel melted. Rock.Copy !req
776. Water! I feel your inhuman
transparency. Total cool...Copy !req
777. I am a nobody.Copy !req
778. I have always been a nobody.
I hated and despised the reconciled ones.Copy !req
779. Now I, I am the most despicable,
for I have come to terms with myself.Copy !req
780. This illusion will not change
anything in this world.Copy !req
781. My illusion is not even a ripple
on the world's cool, metallic surface.Copy !req
782. I can see... it is an ocean.Copy !req
783. You are showing me its splendour.Copy !req
784. Speak... slower! Speak slower!Copy !req
785. It is opening.Copy !req
786. Slower. I am in the doorway.Copy !req
787. Slower, it hurts.
So much beauty, it hurts.Copy !req
788. I was taught to be intelligent,
efficient, cool...Copy !req
789. to conquer... I have no feelings!Copy !req
790. Who? How?
What am I to do?Copy !req
791. Unchain you.
These irons break your wings...Copy !req
792. Worms burrow into your skin...
You are beautiful... You are divine...Copy !req
793. I love you. Master...
I want to vanish in your wisdom.Copy !req
794. He wants to kill you!Copy !req
795. It is God!Copy !req
796. You are hearing
something not there!Copy !req
797. He says nothing you
do not know already.Copy !req
798. I can hear him!Copy !req
799. God is in you, you God!Copy !req
800. How? How do you know this, woman?Copy !req
801. I am acting it out. I know it.Copy !req
802. I can portray birth and death,
the truth and untruth of everything.Copy !req
803. She lied to me and was
unfaithful for months.Copy !req
804. You are only beginning to learn
about others.Copy !req
805. You are only beginning to perceive...
to foresee.Copy !req
806. The only important things are what
you demand from yourself.Copy !req
807. You are too wise for me.Copy !req
808. He is speaking to you...
singing to you.Copy !req
809. I feel the anxiety inside me.Copy !req
810. He is mocking you... saying that you
have had me and you never willCopy !req
811. because you are dry and dead...
and you are not alive at all,Copy !req
812. because you are just a thing
created by things,Copy !req
813. and you do not know the
name or the meaning...Copy !req
814. Neither do you know anything
about yourself...Copy !req
815. A blind man, a weakling!Copy !req
816. No, no!Copy !req
817. Take him away!Copy !req
818. I am learning.Copy !req
819. For many years, Conqueror,Copy !req
820. I was constrained by my duties,Copy !req
821. on sleepless and doubt-ridden nights.Copy !req
822. But I thought that...
when I will fade away...Copy !req
823. I would learn from it,Copy !req
824. turning my whole life inside out
like a glove.Copy !req
825. Look!Copy !req
826. I always thought that there were
two ways.Copy !req
827. But acting is the one
that is real life.Copy !req
828. It never brought satisfaction.
Now I have it.Copy !req
829. Tell me how? What am I to do?Copy !req
830. You know what to do.
You know for sure,Copy !req
831. as you took my daughter,
and made a woman of her.Copy !req
832. The Sherns, what do you
know about them?Copy !req
833. You cannot beat the Shern
in you, Conqueror.Copy !req
834. Surely you have experienced this
inside your own flesh?Copy !req
835. If you could not beat one of them,Copy !req
836. how will you beat thousands?Copy !req
837. Can you not see I am performing...Copy !req
838. and making room for you.Copy !req
839. Because you must act.Copy !req
840. Hope will return only
when you are Gone.Copy !req
841. What is hope?Copy !req
842. Hope lies...Copy !req
843. In our belief that we ourselves
can fill the Forms.Copy !req
844. Groping in the dark.Copy !req
845. I am yearning.Copy !req
846. Everything persists. I persist.Copy !req
847. I think about shutting my eyes and
taking no part in anything.Copy !req
848. I, a eunuch in a landscape
of despair.Copy !req
849. Lord, we will cross the sea.Copy !req
850. I gave you firepower, ammunition.
You can go by yourselves.Copy !req
851. But Lord, it is you whom they worship,
believe, for whom they are waiting.Copy !req
852. I will give her back to you.Copy !req
853. You need a woman, Lord.Copy !req
854. Why does the Shern possess
the enigma of chaotic behaviour?Copy !req
855. Why does evil act selectively and
why are its methods absurd?Copy !req
856. Is the truth in only the most absurd,Copy !req
857. the most cruel things
I am able to think,Copy !req
858. understand, and utter?Copy !req
859. What about courage?Copy !req
860. We come to inquire about
your plans, Lord.Copy !req
861. The plans are laid down
in the scriptures.Copy !req
862. It is ancient wisdom.
Why do you ask?Copy !req
863. Lord, you must appear before
the people in all Your Majesty.Copy !req
864. Stories are spreading that when you
Appeared, the sea did not part...Copy !req
865. It is necessary to levy taxes.Copy !req
866. We need metal,Copy !req
867. saltpetre,Copy !req
868. manpower.Copy !req
869. You have decided, Lord.Copy !req
870. People of low faith.
Can it be otherwise?Copy !req
871. Am I not right, heretic?Copy !req
872. You have all knowledge, Lord.Copy !req
873. World.Copy !req
874. What have I done
to not understand you?Copy !req
875. - Are you satisfied?
- Lord, we are assimilating you.Copy !req
876. You are now in us like bone marrow...Copy !req
877. - What did you say?
- Like the cause in existence.Copy !req
878. Nothing, nothing, Lord.
Let us rejoice.Copy !req
879. They are performing...Copy !req
880. That in the beginning,
the Shern, out of vanity,Copy !req
881. created a world that seemed
ideal to him.Copy !req
882. But when he looked up, he saw the
light which he did not create.Copy !req
883. Then he returned to his homeland,
and his masculine creative powerCopy !req
884. turned into feminine willingness.Copy !req
885. Oh, Lord, how hard I am trying!Copy !req
886. Malahuda the Heretic, her father,Copy !req
887. is seen loitering about at night.
He derides you, undermining the faith.Copy !req
888. What does he say?Copy !req
889. Peace will return only
when you are gone.Copy !req
890. I did not arrive to bring peace,
only war.Copy !req
891. - The Heretic Rhoda...
- Who?Copy !req
892. A scholar, Lord. He improved
the loom,Copy !req
893. invented fuel for flame, measured
the width of the sea...Copy !req
894. What about him?Copy !req
895. He claims there is no Earth,
there has never been an Old Man,Copy !req
896. that everything is empty and still.Copy !req
897. And that only we exist, and it is
the Sherns who are like animals.Copy !req
898. So where do I come from,
according to him?Copy !req
899. He says you are like a worm, that you
emerged from under the surface...Copy !req
900. - So why did I come?
- You did not come.Copy !req
901. You were expelled.Copy !req
902. - Where is Yeret?
- Yeret is leading the parade.Copy !req
903. The captured Mortes will be
killed in your honour, Lord.Copy !req
904. You did not tell me that
you took prisoners.Copy !req
905. - Not prisoners, Lord, things.
- Do not lecture me, fool.Copy !req
906. - Nobody will be killed without my orders.
- Right, yours is all knowledge, Lord.Copy !req
907. Indeed you are a man.
I recognise your anger.Copy !req
908. I am being carried by
the river of love.Copy !req
909. It may be disgrace,
betrayal and pain,Copy !req
910. but it encompasses good and evil.Copy !req
911. It is good, if it is love.Copy !req
912. But... after all, the only thought
which sets the thoughts in motion,Copy !req
913. the only fidelity which gives form to
the chaos of churning biology,Copy !req
914. is fidelity to the chosen goal.Copy !req
915. Only then you feel that this
meaningless void can be shaped.Copy !req
916. Of course, but is not everything
of my own making,Copy !req
917. even the knowledge that
this everythingCopy !req
918. is a bottomless well
without an echo?Copy !req
919. Do you like my acting?Copy !req
920. Lord, tread on her,
give back her dignity.Copy !req
921. Oh, they will kill me!Copy !req
922. I want to be alone!Copy !req
923. What?Copy !req
924. Mortes,Copy !req
925. I do not trust that you
only take after your fathers.Copy !req
926. Something human must remain in you
from your mothers.Copy !req
927. Me, I am appealing to
your humanity.Copy !req
928. Mortes, your lives will be
spared if you join us,Copy !req
929. if you go with us!Copy !req
930. Mortes!Copy !req
931. Mother... mother...Copy !req
932. chains...Copy !req
933. child... mother.Copy !req
934. Kill nothing...
you - nothing.Copy !req
935. Oh Shern. Everything - pain.
Sleep - pain.Copy !req
936. Day - pain.
Fear.Copy !req
937. Quiet, Shern.
I - Shern.Copy !req
938. When Shern sings.
I - animal.Copy !req
939. You - less. You - death.
I - the bow. Trees. Grass.Copy !req
940. I - see - Mortes. You - fear.
I - the run. Alone. I go.Copy !req
941. I far. You near.
You fear - pain.Copy !req
942. Weight.
You - voice. I - silence.Copy !req
943. We - go away, perish, drift.Copy !req
944. You - Shern. Let him sing.Copy !req
945. I see the earth, grass, forest.Copy !req
946. I feel warm air over the path...Copy !req
947. The flight of two grey birdsCopy !req
948. which I associate with death...
It means... I feel fear?Copy !req
949. Unchain Aviya!Copy !req
950. Ihezal has just ordered that
he be brought here.Copy !req
951. What?Copy !req
952. He who has known the world
has found a corpse.Copy !req
953. And he who has found a corpse,
the world is not worthy of him.Copy !req
954. The priests want these women
to be burned on pyres.Copy !req
955. They are right, Lord.Copy !req
956. These women are already nothing.
Sherns burn holes through their sex.Copy !req
957. If they can still speak, it is of an
ecstasy so supreme that it is hideous.Copy !req
958. The Sherns drill into their core,Copy !req
959. crack open the darkness,Copy !req
960. rendering it full of light.Copy !req
961. You sound as if you yourself...Copy !req
962. I know nothing, nothing.Copy !req
963. What do you want?Copy !req
964. What am I to do?
How am I to protect myself?Copy !req
965. I did not know that there could
be a love so great.Copy !req
966. On Earth things are different.Copy !req
967. - Is there day and night?
- Yes.Copy !req
968. - White and black?
- Yes.Copy !req
969. Love and hate?Copy !req
970. There is no killing on Earth.Copy !req
971. There is killing where
there is living.Copy !req
972. No.Copy !req
973. What do you feel?Copy !req
974. Joy and power from fulfilment.Copy !req
975. You teach me something
which I did not know.Copy !req
976. I feel love.Copy !req
977. But now only my body is suffering.Copy !req
978. The pain that I feel is only physical.Copy !req
979. I can touch it. I can also...Copy !req
980. Oh, new art, I tell myself;
turn my thoughts away from her.Copy !req
981. May she not be present so that
I do not suffer.Copy !req
982. Thus, through my pain-swollen body,Copy !req
983. the soul is shaping up smoothly,
soothingly, and non-materially.Copy !req
984. The soul does not suffer.Copy !req
985. I recognise the indifference,
like a gentle river.Copy !req
986. My soul and I become one.Copy !req
987. Was she beautiful and famous?Copy !req
988. Yes.Copy !req
989. You never loved her.Copy !req
990. What is this for?Copy !req
991. For your Going tomorrow.Copy !req
992. To pay homage to what is and
to reject anything that is not.Copy !req
993. The presence of evil around us.Copy !req
994. The submission to the narrow labyrinth
of one's own lust.Copy !req
995. Faith in the significance of those
who rule over us,Copy !req
996. those who implement evil,
calling it out of the dark...Copy !req
997. becoming a killing gland that
makes us take everything for granted.Copy !req
998. Why are you bothering
with a woman, Lord?Copy !req
999. Because holiness enters
the heart of a manCopy !req
1000. along with the hysteric purity
of God's Visitation.Copy !req
1001. - Visitation of what?
- Lord...Copy !req
1002. The Shern.Copy !req
1003. What if the Shern is evil,
while I am God to you.Copy !req
1004. What is greater and
more serene than God?Copy !req
1005. It is time to go.Copy !req
1006. There will be great
heat, Conqueror,Copy !req
1007. after this long night.Copy !req
1008. Guard her, remember, preserve.Copy !req
1009. You feel it?Copy !req
1010. Feel it?Copy !req
1011. Those who have not
proved their faith...Copy !req
1012. treacherous women...Copy !req
1013. Those who have hidden their
sons from the expeditionCopy !req
1014. and those who have not paid taxes.
I remember you.Copy !req
1015. - What is your name?
- Sevim, Lord.Copy !req
1016. - What were you?
- A priest.Copy !req
1017. Will you serve?Copy !req
1018. Against whom... my Lord?Copy !req
1019. The sea is calm and a gentle
breeze is propelling the ships.Copy !req
1020. Before they reach the shore,
they pass a floating tree trunk,Copy !req
1021. on which are drifting, expelled for
their lack of faith,Copy !req
1022. The actor and the scholar Rhoda.Copy !req
1023. The scholar looks at Marek
with disdain.Copy !req
1024. “You do not exist
at all!”, he yells.Copy !req
1025. “You have not come at all.”Copy !req
1026. Marek replies:Copy !req
1027. “If I die, go to the mountains
and find my rocket.Copy !req
1028. Climb inside, seal the hatch,
and press one button: the red one.”Copy !req
1029. Then the actor exclaims:
“Count on me, Lord. I will play you.”Copy !req
1030. “My oxygen helmet is in the
monastery of the Brothers of WaitingCopy !req
1031. at the foot of the mountains”,
Marek says.Copy !req
1032. “You are cunning”, Rhoda replies.Copy !req
1033. “You are leaving me in the middle
of the sea, while you talk of mountains.”Copy !req
1034. “Yes”, Marek answers.
“Our odds are the same.”Copy !req
1035. Marek!Copy !req
1036. Marek, do you hear me? Marek!Copy !req
1037. Nothing.Copy !req
1038. Aza!Copy !req
1039. Is the next step, the next threshold
that I will have to cross,Copy !req
1040. death?Copy !req
1041. Speak.Copy !req
1042. Still nothing.Copy !req
1043. What if that is not what I wanted
to ask you about?Copy !req
1044. When she speaks the truth,
her darkness speaks.Copy !req
1045. But only what you articulate
against yourself is clear.Copy !req
1046. - Speak.
- Still nothing.Copy !req
1047. What if that is not what I wanted
to ask you about?Copy !req
1048. There.Copy !req
1049. I must know.Copy !req
1050. There, there...Copy !req
1051. Here,Copy !req
1052. not there. Here.Copy !req
1053. There. I must see.Copy !req
1054. In the end, every reduction to
physiology is a fascism of the soul.Copy !req
1055. She is shrinking instead
of growing,Copy !req
1056. just as if everything came down
to the judgement...Copy !req
1057. that while living, one makes nothing,Copy !req
1058. and only as a cripple or a dead man...Copy !req
1059. he creates.Copy !req
1060. “Master Jacek”, the porter says,
standing to attention.Copy !req
1061. In a huge dilapidated concert hall,Copy !req
1062. the audience members are dressed
in space suits like him.Copy !req
1063. They are listening, their
eyes riveted upon Aza.Copy !req
1064. The acoustics are perfect.Copy !req
1065. At the far end of the hall
Aza is singing.Copy !req
1066. She is singing of the way
the actors are performing:Copy !req
1067. about themselves,
about their divine self-love...Copy !req
1068. I, I, I.Copy !req
1069. Jacek shuts his eyes in a spasm,
turns back, stumbles and runs out.Copy !req
1070. What is it with you?Copy !req
1071. I was duped. That charlatan
gave me something nasty.Copy !req
1072. No news from Marek?Copy !req
1073. We got rid of him so we
could screw more easily.Copy !req
1074. - Yes, yes.
- Now.Copy !req
1075. - Now is ever. Now. Here. Ever!
- Love, love, we screw love!Copy !req
1076. In a few months, your girlishness,
beauty and youth have all disappeared.Copy !req
1077. You have grown old and
your face scares me.Copy !req
1078. Reaching rock bottom
drives reality to self-destruction,Copy !req
1079. as if beyond the last dam there
is only deathly slime.Copy !req
1080. Now you are just anyone.Copy !req
1081. You are back on the market-stalls.Copy !req
1082. You exist through your love affairs.Copy !req
1083. But it is not you who sets the prices
for what is on offer.Copy !req
1084. The hand that turns you inside out...
so cruelly...Copy !req
1085. is the hand that dictates
the law of the meat market.Copy !req
1086. The murderous paw of a creature
that finds pleasure in watching,Copy !req
1087. lustful like dogs, tails wagging,
actors being wasted.Copy !req
1088. In the aisle of the church,Copy !req
1089. Marek sees rows of
ceiling-high cabinets.Copy !req
1090. In their drawers, there are hundreds
of identical electronic lampsCopy !req
1091. like old radio-set valves.Copy !req
1092. They are the Sherns' third eyes.
Amazed, Marek examines them.Copy !req
1093. The Sherns pounce on him.
Marek fires his weapon.Copy !req
1094. Out of the brow of a dead Shern slips
a still-flickering eye onto the floor.Copy !req
1095. Its final flashes make Marek
unconsciously repeat:Copy !req
1096. “That is all.”Copy !req
1097. Thousands of Shern eyes, Shern brains,
are lying in the drawers, waiting.Copy !req
1098. On the temple walls
Marek sees frescoes.Copy !req
1099. They are faded and crumbling,
but still readable.Copy !req
1100. They depict Sherns on thrones,
posing, pompous,Copy !req
1101. holy Sherns, conquering Sherns,
staring in rapture at the Highest,Copy !req
1102. the Supreme Shern,
who is staring higher still,Copy !req
1103. up into the clouds, adoringly.Copy !req
1104. Marek's lips silently mouth:Copy !req
1105. “To home. Home.”Copy !req
1106. Aza,Copy !req
1107. are you mad?Copy !req
1108. I am mad! I am mad!Copy !req
1109. See,Copy !req
1110. one can arrive at a state of
admission, submission,Copy !req
1111. of spilling one's guts,Copy !req
1112. as if in recognition that you
never had anything else inside,Copy !req
1113. that the sheer sight of your entrails
exposes the secret,Copy !req
1114. by dispensing with your ego...Copy !req
1115. without remains.Copy !req
1116. You,Copy !req
1117. and if not you, then who?Copy !req
1118. I?Copy !req
1119. We are overjoyed with your
Return, Lord,Copy !req
1120. but you left with so many
and Returned with so few!Copy !req
1121. War, disease.Copy !req
1122. Yeret, whom you sent in advance,Copy !req
1123. told us that you have done all
that is humanly possible...Copy !req
1124. humanly, but nothing beyond it.Copy !req
1125. - Where is Yeret?
- But he is at your side.Copy !req
1126. We sent him back with reinforcements,
as you demanded.Copy !req
1127. Do you not remember?Copy !req
1128. - I was sick.
- So we heard.Copy !req
1129. What is this for?Copy !req
1130. For lacking faith, of course.Copy !req
1131. Faith does not ask for
the gift of grace,Copy !req
1132. - but life does.
- Why did we pull back, Lord?Copy !req
1133. We should have held out to
the end, for the Humans!Copy !req
1134. It is said:Copy !req
1135. He who grows to know himself,
grows to know God.Copy !req
1136. I learned who I am.Copy !req
1137. And you, brother?Copy !req
1138. Since you left, Lord,
mysterious killings have been rife.Copy !req
1139. People are in panic.
You have retreated.Copy !req
1140. Their anger will be terrible.Copy !req
1141. Where is Ihezal?Copy !req
1142. Get up!Copy !req
1143. You are the only human I know
who has no mystery.Copy !req
1144. You talk about it, but you do not
believe in what you are saying.Copy !req
1145. You are like an animal,
following a scent.Copy !req
1146. Always the same.Copy !req
1147. You are an actress
playing the cost of feelings,Copy !req
1148. their fleetingness.Copy !req
1149. You are biology,Copy !req
1150. speculating about mysteries
with your innards,Copy !req
1151. which you stuff with your heatCopy !req
1152. as you take them for the
mystery of yourself.Copy !req
1153. Because we are sinful and dead.
We call from the abyss.Copy !req
1154. Let us crawl up to the grace
of your resurrection,Copy !req
1155. melt in your goodness,Copy !req
1156. and attain our resurrection,Copy !req
1157. together with you.Copy !req
1158. A mystery, because we are
small and lifeless.Copy !req
1159. Ihezal!Copy !req
1160. Ihezal,Copy !req
1161. why are you hiding?Copy !req
1162. I missed you so much!Copy !req
1163. Me without you...
- I waited.Copy !req
1164. I knew that nothing counts apart
from me being faithful, chaste,Copy !req
1165. and us surrendering to each other.Copy !req
1166. Why do you not let me touch you?
Your words are so unclear.Copy !req
1167. Maybe we are ill, Lord.
I'll from evil and from lack of will.Copy !req
1168. Our lives are like those of sores.
And you want to give us destiny.Copy !req
1169. I was turning to what is healthy and
fresh like any disease would do,Copy !req
1170. - unfamiliar freshness.
- I do not understand you!Copy !req
1171. Sweet are my embraces, remember, Lord?Copy !req
1172. They are nothing compared with the
delights the whole body can feel.Copy !req
1173. If only it wants it, if only it
accepts itself as being a mere body.Copy !req
1174. I am a body, Lord!Copy !req
1175. Dividing...Copy !req
1176. The concept of division.
Self-consciousness in the divided.Copy !req
1177. This adventure of mine
was about my division,Copy !req
1178. and this division was
to live as a God.Copy !req
1179. This being divided merged with
my nature.Copy !req
1180. It is the opposition of form and
desire...Copy !req
1181. Between the answer and
the voice of darkness.Copy !req
1182. Hence I am God!Copy !req
1183. I am God!Copy !req
1184. Come, Lord.Copy !req
1185. Lord!Copy !req
1186. Lord,Copy !req
1187. your spacecraft, Lord!Copy !req
1188. The Brothers of Waiting
saw it rise on a column of fire...Copy !req
1189. I do not want to see any more.
I want to know.Copy !req
1190. I want to be there.Copy !req
1191. You - here.
There - nothing.Copy !req
1192. Nothing is there.Copy !req
1193. Everything is here.Copy !req
1194. You may die.Copy !req
1195. I beg you.Copy !req
1196. I am not afraid of dying.Copy !req
1197. The sea...Copy !req
1198. We must repeal their cruel laws,
cast out the priests,Copy !req
1199. distribute the wealth amongst
the people, destroy this false hope.Copy !req
1200. They will not agree.Copy !req
1201. Then we will do it alone.Copy !req
1202. The guns.Copy !req
1203. Against whom?Copy !req
1204. The city.Copy !req
1205. The city.Copy !req
1206. Oh, they are right, Lord.Copy !req
1207. Blessed be Him who was before
He became.Copy !req
1208. And you must become those
who are passing by.Copy !req
1209. Above Marek's head, the Shern Aviy
swoops down to perch.Copy !req
1210. Watchful, curious, ironic:
“Hail, brother.”Copy !req
1211. “Without that eye which somebody
had programmed for you,Copy !req
1212. which perhaps you
yourselves programmed,Copy !req
1213. when you could still think”,
says Marek.Copy !req
1214. The Shern answers:
“And who programmed you?”Copy !req
1215. “Who am I?” asks Marek.Copy !req
1216. The Shern smears some dirt in his claws
onto the wooden cross...Copy !req
1217. and replies: “You are this.”Copy !req
1218. “Will I ever escape from darkness?”
asks Marek.Copy !req
1219. “It does hurt, brother, does it not?”
answers Aviy.Copy !req
1220. Jacek fires at him. The Shern drops
falls down to on the sand,Copy !req
1221. spinning progressively slower,
like a dying toy,Copy !req
1222. He keeps repeating:Copy !req
1223. “Love, love, love... ”Copy !req
1224. Force, my force,
you have left me!Copy !req
1225. Who?Copy !req
1226. What?Copy !req
1227. Why?Copy !req
1228. Hail...Copy !req
1229. Grace.Copy !req
1230. Oh yes...Copy !req
1231. How much does one permit
oneself to accept?Copy !req
1232. How much mercy does one
have to feel?Copy !req
1233. In order not to turn into a Shern?Copy !req
1234. In the casino, astronauts are playing
roulette and baccarat.Copy !req
1235. Jacek is passing through, listening
to snatches of conversations:Copy !req
1236. “He was not to blame. He was an animal
among animals, a wolf in the forest.”Copy !req
1237. Somebody else reacts: “Soul has its
abode not in the brain, but in the Form.”Copy !req
1238. A third voice: “The Angel symbolises
the transfiguration from the visibleCopy !req
1239. into the invisible which
we are accomplishing.”Copy !req
1240. Television screens along one side
of the hall flicker to life,Copy !req
1241. revealing pictures from
the shield of Marek's rocket.Copy !req
1242. The camera is activated by
action or human body heat;Copy !req
1243. the scholar Rhoda and the actor
are crawling towards the rocketCopy !req
1244. passing the oxygen helmet
between them.Copy !req
1245. Jacek shouts at the screens,
but they cannot hear.Copy !req
1246. Scurrying past Jerzy's dead body,
the actor and Rhoda enter the rocket.Copy !req
1247. The casino manager grabs Jacek
by the arm, whispering:Copy !req
1248. “Master, they are looking for you.
Strikes, demonstrations.Copy !req
1249. “The conspiracy of Gnostics...
Those, who know... should... ”Copy !req
1250. At one end of the baccarat table,
Ihezal is seated, wearing Aza's dress.Copy !req
1251. She is laughing provocatively,
staring at Jacek.Copy !req
1252. She is surrounded by admirers.Copy !req
1253. The face of Jacek's assistant
appears on the screens.Copy !req
1254. Master, we have a signal.Copy !req
1255. Talk to us.Copy !req
1256. Where is Marek?Copy !req
1257. Who sent you?Copy !req
1258. We can see you.Copy !req
1259. There is a round white lamp above you.Copy !req
1260. Underneath is the eye
that can see you.Copy !req
1261. Speak into it!Copy !req
1262. We are going to the Earth's coreCopy !req
1263. where the truth and happiness
of man resideCopy !req
1264. and the explanation of all mysteries.Copy !req
1265. Because we have had the Right
ever since... ever since...Copy !req
1266. Right. Right. Right...Copy !req
1267. - He has gone mad.
- No, he is acting.Copy !req
1268. Master, we can bring them over.Copy !req
1269. They are close enough,Copy !req
1270. Master.Copy !req
1271. Let them go.Copy !req
1272. Where to, master?Copy !req
1273. To Old Earth.Copy !req
1274. Jacek turns his back to the screen.Copy !req
1275. Very slowly he sinks to his knees
and bends down to the ground.Copy !req
1276. A heart attack.
Jacek is dying.Copy !req
1277. The astronauts rush to help.Copy !req
1278. They are pounding on his chest.
Nothing helps.Copy !req
1279. From a corner of the casino,
Jacek is watching his own death.Copy !req
1280. The astronauts flounder
about his bodyCopy !req
1281. and nobody is paying attention
when he walks out of the casino.Copy !req
1282. It is dark outside.Copy !req
1283. There are bonfires out
in the steppe.Copy !req
1284. By the bonfires, the tribe is sitting.
The same tribe.Copy !req
1285. The Rider is among themCopy !req
1286. and a girl with eyes painted
on her palms, like Ihezal's.Copy !req
1287. Jacek walks towards her.
She rises and opens her arms.Copy !req
1288. The camera closes on the
shadows of her body.Copy !req
1289. We can hear the steady
beating of her heart.Copy !req
1290. A moment later, the hoof-beats
of a horse riding away.Copy !req
1291. The final shot of this film as written
in the screenplay is as follows:Copy !req
1292. “428. Long shot. 3 metres.Copy !req
1293. In dawning light, a riderless horse
gallops across the steppe.”Copy !req
1294. By order of the Deputy Minister of
Culture and Arts.Copy !req
1295. Undersecretary of State for
Polish Cinema,Copy !req
1296. the shooting of “ON THE SILVER GLOBE”
was halted in the spring of 1977.Copy !req
1297. The film crew was on the Baltic Coast.Copy !req
1298. All the sets and costumes
needed to complete the production,Copy !req
1299. which began two years previously,
were ready and waiting in Wroclaw,Copy !req
1300. Lower Silesia, the Masurian Lakes,
and the Caucasus Mountains.Copy !req
1301. All of these sets,
costumes and props were destroyed.Copy !req
1302. For many years, the film technicians,
wardrobe-dressers and set-builders,Copy !req
1303. stashed whatever they could,Copy !req
1304. in studio recesses and
their own homes.Copy !req
1305. I am thinking about them
as I finish this film,Copy !req
1306. believing that
the small drama of this filmCopy !req
1307. and the larger and
more noble drama of our livesCopy !req
1308. will continue to interweaveCopy !req
1309. into a web of triumphs and failures.Copy !req
1310. My name is Andrzej Zulawski,
I directed “ON THE SILVER GLOBE.”Copy !req