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Clips from Three Thousand Years of Longing

"(soft eerie music playing)"
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"{\an7}Improved by Sailor420"
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"{\an3}Hope you enjoy the show"
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"My name is Alithea."
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"My story is true."
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"You're more likely to believe me, however,"
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"if I tell it as a fairy tale."
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"So, once upon a time,"
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"when humans hurtled across the sky on metal wings,"
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"when they wore webbed feet"
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"and walked on the bottom of the sea,"
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"when they held in their hands glass tiles"
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"that could coax love songs from the air..."
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"(music playing through headphones)"
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"...there was a woman, adequately happy and alone."
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"Alone by choice."
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"Happy because she was independent,"
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"living off the exercise of her scholarly mind."
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"Her business was story."
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"She was a narratologist"
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"who sought to find the truths"
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"common to all the stories of humankind."
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"To this end, once or twice a year,"
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"she ventured to strange lands."
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"To China, the South Seas,"
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"and the timeless cities of the Levant..."
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"where her kind gathered to tell stories about stories."
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"(man 1) This way."
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"- Alithea: Excuse me. - (man 1) This way, lady."
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"What are you doing? Can you let go, please?"
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"The mysteries of Istanbul."
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"(static buzzing)"
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"- (man 2) Alithea! - (man 1 grunts)"
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"Alithea!"
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"Welcome!"
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"- Welcome at last! Aw. - Gunhan!"
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"- (both laugh) - My dear friend."
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"- Alithea: Oh, how wonderful! - Gunhan: I'm sorry."
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"- This is Amina. - Amina."
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"From the British Council."
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"That fellow at the airport manhandling my luggage,"
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"did you see him?"
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"What fellow?"
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"He scuttled off when you arrived."
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"Small, sheepskin jacket, pink collar."
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"Interesting."
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"He was hot to touch."
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"Musky."
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"Perhaps he was a Djinn."
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"An illegal taxi driver, more likely."
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"Wearing too much cologne."
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"So, Professor,"
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"you saying you believe in Djinn?"
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"I believe there are those who need to believe in them."
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"Including me?"
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"Djinn, ghosts,"
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"aliens, whatever helps."
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"(Gunhan laughs)"
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"The hotel's arranged a lovely surprise for you."
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"It's the Agatha Christie room."
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"In this room,"
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"she wrote Murder on the Orient Express."
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"(sighs)"
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"(audience laughing)"
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"(Gunhan chuckles)"
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"Gunhan: So, how would you explain"
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"the power of a thunderstorm"
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"if you don't have the means"
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"to measure and model meteorological data?"
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"How can you explain the seasons?"
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"Autumn through winter to spring and summer,"
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"if you don't know that the Earth"
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"orbits the Sun while tilted on an axis?"
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"Everything was mystery."
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"The seasons, tsunamis, microbial disease..."
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"What else could we do but resort to stories?"
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"As Dr. Binnie has encouraged us to understand,"
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"stories were once the only way"
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"to make our bewildering existence coherent."
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"That's exactly right."
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"We gave name to the unknown forces"
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"behind all wonder and catastrophe,"
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"by telling each other..."
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"By telling each other stories."
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"- Gunhan: let me show you. - (static buzzes)"
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"We told tales of specific, powerful, relatable gods"
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"ever present in all cultures, in all mythologies,"
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"from the Greeks, to the Romans, to the Norse,"
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"and so on, and so on."
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"The familiar descendant of Zeus, Poseidon, Athena,"
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"Thor, the whole gang,"
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"find expression even today."
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"(low electrical humming)"
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"These are their vestiges."
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"The question remains, what is their purpose?"
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"(electrical humming continues)"
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"What do we require of them now?"
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"There is mythos, and there is science."
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"(electrical humming stops)"
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"Alithea: (softly) Oh. Sorry."
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"Mythology is what we knew back then."
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"Science is what we know so far."
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"(low electrical humming resumes)"
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"Sooner or later,"
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"our creation stories are replaced"
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"by the narratives of science."
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"Painstaking science."
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"And all gods and monsters"
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"outlive their original purpose"
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"and are reduced to metaphor."
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"Rubbish! (roars)"
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"Gunhan: (muffled) Alithea!"
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"(woman speaking indistinctly)"
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"Gunhan: Alithea."
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"(woman) What happened?"
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"Gunhan: I don't know. She just fell."
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"- She just fell. - (Amina grunts)"
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"Amina: Gosh. (exclaiming)"
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"Gunhan: Are you okay?"
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"(audience clapping)"
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