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Clips from Three Thousand Years of Longing

"but the thing is this,"
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"I cannot for the life of me summon up one eligible wish."
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"And you're asking me for three."
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"Is there any life in you? Are you even alive?"
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"You know, in some cultures,"
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"absence of desire means enlightenment."
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"Then you are a pious fool."
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"If I'm content, why tempt fate?"
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"And you're a coward."
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"Don't goad me."
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"There is no human, no angel, nor Djinn"
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"that wouldn't grasp at the chance"
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"to fulfill their deepest longings,"
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"and I am saddled with the one"
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"who claims to want nothing at all."
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"Alithea Binnie, you are a liar!"
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"You know, I am beginning to wish we never met."
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"No! Nyet!"
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"Don't say that!"
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"(heavy static buzzing)"
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"(The Djinn panting)"
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"- (static subsides) - (Alithea breathing heavily)"
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"(sniffling)"
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"(glass shards clattering)"
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"(The Djinn sighs)"
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"So..."
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"that's happened to you before."
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"And it was bad."
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"(clicks tongue) 'Twas bad."
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"'Twas bitter."
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"'Twas the cruelest wish of all."
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"Alithea: You were undone by silliness yet again."
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"(The Djinn sighs)"
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"I'm here because of a genius."
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"Who was it this time?"
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"She was Zefir."
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"Rarely among humankind has there been such a wonder."
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"But you're here because of her folly."
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"(tuts and sighs)"
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"I ended up in this as a consequence of Zefir."
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"And this is the story"
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"you've been avoiding telling me all along."
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"This is the story I've avoided telling even myself."
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"(hooves clopping)"
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"Zefir was a foundling,"
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"married at 12 to a wealthy merchant."
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"He was much older than her, and kind,"
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"if you think keeping someone like a bird in a cage is kind."
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"There were two older wives, who did not like her"
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"and did not talk to her at all."
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"(Zefir panting and crying softly)"
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"Everyone, including the servants,"
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"seemed to be mocking her."
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"(grunts)"
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"She had neither etiquette nor learning."
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"She grew to no great beauty"
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"and was angry without knowing why."
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"(panting)"
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"(clangs)"
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"(high-pitched pinging)"
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"As the fates would have it, my bottle came to her"
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"as a love token from her husband."
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"And when she had finished satisfying him"
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"and was finally alone,"
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"she managed to prise it open."
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"It was as if she was waiting for me."
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"I saw at once that she was sharp,"
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"and she saw that I was desperate"
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"for freedom and conversation."
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"I told her my story, as I have told you,"
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"and she revealed herself to me by the things she had made."
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"Gel. Gel."
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"(speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"(speaks Ottoman Turkish)"
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"(chuckles)"
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"(continues speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"Gel."
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"(whispers indistinctly)"
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"(The Djinn) (in English) She could have been remembered"
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"like the genius da Vinci,"
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"whose theories on flight"
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"were the talk of sultans and kings."
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"She was a skilled artist, but no one saw her art."
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"(Zefir breathing heavily)"
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"(Zefir speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"The Djinn: She told me she was eaten up"
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"with unused power."
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"She thought she might be a witch."
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"Except, she said, if she were a man,"
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"her intellect would have been ordinarily accepted."
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"She was a woman ardent for learning,"
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"and I knew what her first wish would be."
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"(pants)"
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"I want knowledge."
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"I wish to acquire..."
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"all knowledge"
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"that is useful"
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"beautiful and true."
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"(breathing heavily)"
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"(The Djinn) (in English) And it delighted me"
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"to fulfill this wish."
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"(sighs)"
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"(pensive music playing)"
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"So, I taught her histories, philosophies,"
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"languages, poetry."
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"I taught her astronomy, mathematic,"
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"which was bliss to her."
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"I brought her books and writings,"
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"which we hid in her collection of bottles."
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"The Djinn: Sabah..."
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"(whispers) Sabah..."
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"(squelching)"
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"(Zefir gasps)"
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"(speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"She could always call on Aristotle"
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"from a red glass jar,"
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"or Euclid from a green,"
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"Pythagoras, Spinoza,"
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"without needing me to re-embody them."
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"(conversing in Ottoman Turkish)"
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