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Clips from Three Thousand Years of Longing

"We had the whole world in her room,"
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"and I lost my heart to her."
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"(gulps)"
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"'Twas my bliss to make her happy."
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"To see her flourish."
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"And she flourished in every way."
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"Totalmente."
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"(soft traditional music playing)"
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"She began to rebel"
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"even against the gestures of submission"
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"that her husband required,"
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"for she had acquired a mastery of love-craft,"
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"out of reach of any human"
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"that had not made love to a Djinn."
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"(surreal choral music playing)"
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"(music distorts and fades)"
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"(distorted screaming)"
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"(Zefir grunting)"
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"(Zefir's husband speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"The Djinn: His cravings for her became an obsession."
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"Are you happy?"
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"(lock clicks)"
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"(sighs)"
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"(The Djinn) (in English) And when he would come to her,"
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"I would leave her room and journey the skies."
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"I saw the mountains, the oceans..."
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"I saw the beasts of the forest,"
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"where no man treads."
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"And when I would return, she would be waiting for me."
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"I would tell her of my day, and she would faint with joy"
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"and disappointment."
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"Alithea: Why did she not make a wish to be free?"
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"The Djinn: There was something more important to her."
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"She had devised a "mathematica,""
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"a language to explain the forces"
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"which bring space, and time, and matter into being."
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"She was Promethean, brave."
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"But she could not solve this puzzle."
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"She needed a key,"
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"a key to open the doors of her perception."
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"(sobs)"
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"So, she used her second wish."
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"I taught her to dream as Djinn do, awake."
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"(sentimental string music playing)"
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"(writing on paper)"
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"And this way, the solutions came to her."
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"She was able to explain powers invisible,"
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"electromagnetic fields and forces..."
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"The very stuff of which Djinn are made."
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"You're electromagnetic?"
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"As you are dust, I am made of subtle fire."
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"And when she was to bear a child,"
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"I was plagued with happiness,"
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"for I knew it would strengthen us."
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"She was carrying your child?"
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"A child, of fire and dust."
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"So, where did it go wrong?"
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"Alithea, I loved her."
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"I loved the fervor of her mind."
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"I loved her anger."
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"I loved my power"
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"to turn her frowns into smiles."
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"I loved her more than Sheba."
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"More than your own freedom?"
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"Yes."
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"It became my greatest desire to... to keep her,"
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"to remain her prisoner."
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"The thought of being set free sickened my heart."
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"(speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"I caught myself stopping her lest she make her third wish."
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"Oh, gosh."
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"I made a mess of it."
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"She began to accuse me of trapping her,"
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"- like her husband. - (Zefir sobbing)"
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"(speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"The Djinn: I tried to make amends."
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"To atone, I would put myself in the bottle."
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"To be sealed."
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"That way, she could have more power over me."
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"(The Djinn speaks indistinctly)"
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"(Zefir continues sobbing)"
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"(The Djinn whispers indistinctly)"
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"(Zefir speaking Ottoman Turkish)"
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"To be nothing in a bottle."
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"I could do that for her."
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"And every time, it would appease."
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"Every time, except for the last."
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"When, like a sudden squall, all thunder and lightning,"
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"she began to weep and wail, and said,"
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""I wish I could forget I ever met you.""
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"(screams in Ottoman Turkish)"
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"(gasping)"
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"And she did, on the instant."
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"She was out. I was in."
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"She'd forgotten me."
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"Alithea, how can it be..."
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"a mistake to love someone entirely?"
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"I have a wish."
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"However, I'm afraid it may be too much to ask."
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"Is it within my power?"
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"I hope so. I do hope so."
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"Is it your heart's desire?"
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"Yeah, I'm certain of it."
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"See, erm,"
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"I'm here to love you."
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"And, uh,"
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"I wish for you to love me in return."
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"You want us to make love-craft?"
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"Yeah, that too."
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"All of it."
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"And you would abandon yourself to this?"
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"(low electrical humming)"
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"Yes."
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"Yes."
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"I want our solitudes to be together."
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"I want that love professed in ageless tales."
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"I want that longing you felt for the Queen of Sheba,"
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"and that love you gave to your genius, Zefir."
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"I want it."
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"(speaking Djinnbish)"
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