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<data>
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<story>
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<scene id="0" background="bg.jpg">
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<bgm src="mid-lude.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
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<cg src="newchapter.png" bg="bg.jpg"></cg>
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<goto goto="10" change="#000000"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="10" background="westCliffWindow.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
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<text>A long, long time ago.</text>
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<text remark="next">When “Roswell” was merely a small nameless town next to the Pecos River.</text>
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<remark>
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<p class="article-text-h">Note: </p>
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<p class="article-text">Roswell is a city in New Mexico, USA. On July 4, 1947, it is said that a UFO crash occurred here. </p>
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<p class="article-text">Conspiracy theorists believe that the U.S. government at the time covered up the truth of the incident; they believe that it involved the crash of a flying saucer, not a research balloon as officially reported. </p>
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</remark>
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<text remark="next">When “Bikini” was merely the name of an atoll.</text>
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<remark>
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<p class="article-text-h">Note: </p>
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<p class="article-text">Bikini Atoll is a group of coral reef islands in the Marshall Islands. Since 1946, more than 20 nuclear weapon tests have been conducted there. </p>
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<p class="article-text">“Bikini” has connotations of nuclear explosive power — When a particular, epoch-defining swimsuit design was launched by the fashion industry, it was only natural that they would borrow this toponym. </p>
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</remark>
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<text>When I was merely half my current age.</text>
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<goto goto="20" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="20" background="einHomeSw.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<text>1946. Zürich, Switzerland.</text>
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<show chara="fatherEmbarraClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="motherSeriousClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="motherNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="motherNormalClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="motherNoFace">Lieserl, a nice Uncle is coming to have a chat with you today.</speak>
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<speak chara="motherNoFace">He's nothing like those ignorant, incompetent psychiatrists from before, ― please try to get along with him.</speak>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="motherNormalClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="fatherSmileClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="fatherNoFace">Don't worry, he said he won't urge you to go back to school and take those boring classes.</speak>
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<speak chara="fatherNoFace">He's a very famous expert, different from the others.</speak>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<goto goto="25" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="25" background="westCliffWindow.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<text>Hmm … let me clarify with a quick supplement.</text>
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<show chara="motherSeriousClose-up" position="center"/>
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<text>This person is my mother. She's an auditor. She's usually very busy at work, and could only be at home on Sundays or Christmas.</text>
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<text>A very boring job, don't you think?</text>
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<show chara="fatherEmbarraClose-up" position="center"/>
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<text>This person is my father. He's a designer. To be precise, he designs hands for clocks and watches.</text>
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<text>An even more boring job, am I right?</text>
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<hide position="center"/>
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<text>So, you can imagine: as the only person in this family who is obsessed with musing over metaphysics, how painful it must have been.</text>
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<text>So, you can imagine: after I voluntarily dropped out of school, they found five “psychologists” to see me over the course of three months.</text>
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<text>Ah … yes, metaphysics.</text>
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<text>Since we're talking about a story from back then, I should also describe things from my perspective back then.</text>
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<goto goto="30" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="30" background="einRoomSw.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoNameNoFace">Hi! I'm Carl … Carl Gustav.</speak> <!-- Probably Carl Gustav Jung -->
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">You can call me “Carl” or “Gustav”, I don't mind either.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einBoringLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Both “Carl” and “Gustav” … are you supposed to be a King of Sweden?</speak>
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<show chara="einBoringLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Ahaha … people always tease me about that.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> … By the way, I heard you were doing some interesting private research lately. Do you mind filling me in?</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> … Hm.</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">“How could this shrivelled old fart ever understand anything?” ― </speak>
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> ― Is that what you're thinking?</speak>
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> … I think you can try and test me first.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">One should explore all their options before coming to a conclusion. Don't you agree?</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">I'm not one to brag ― But when I was at university, my grades in science were pretty good.</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einBoringLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einBoringLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">I swear, it's true. I had the highest mark in “Geometry” class, taught by Hilbert himself!</speak> <!-- David Hilbert -->
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">So.</speak>
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … Do you know, what is the maximum number of straight lines that can be orthogonal to each other in space?</speak>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">If your answer is wrong, please leave, okay?</speak>
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<goto goto="40" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="40" background="westCliffWindow.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<text>When I thought about it afterwards … I realised this man wasn't an ordinary person.</text>
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<text>I thought I could use this problem, whose answer I could readily change on the fly, to brush him aside effortlessly — </text>
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<text> ― But I never expected, that by the time I opened my mouth and posed the problem to him, he would have already won.</text>
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<text>At the very least, he was already miles ahead of those four so-called “professionals” from before.</text>
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<goto goto="50" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="50" background="einRoomSw.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Orthogonal straight lines … ?</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Isn't that just: however many lines you want?</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … !</speak>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">The dimensions of space can be considered limitless. Just their coordinate axes alone can already be considered to be two infinite, perpendicular straight lines.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> ― In short: the so-called “space”, these so-called “straight lines”, are all nothing more than man-made, artificial constructs.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einCryLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einCryLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Um … W-What's wrong?</speak>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">D-Don't stare at me with a silly grin like that … a-am I at some verbal exam, flaunting my meagre intellect before some expert?!</speak> <!-- 班门弄斧 = "to fiddle with an axe before Luban Gate", to display one's slight skill before an expert -->
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">No … </speak>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">That's not it … </speak>
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<show chara="einCryLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">I, I, … </speak>
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<goto goto="60" change="0"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="60" background="">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ― </speak>
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<goto goto="65" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="65" background="westCliffWindow.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<text>Yes, at that point, I became a miserable bawling mess.</text>
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<text>A little girl, who felt like she had just “reunited with an old friend in a foreign land”. If my present self were to see me in that state, I wouldn't be able to keep myself from lampooning the whole situation.</text>
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<text>But … everyone goes through such a phase of unrestrained emotion, right?</text>
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<text>It's not an ugly thing … On the contrary, it's very beautiful. It's the kind of beauty that is engraved on the personal clock of your life, one that cannot be actively sought after, but instead comes to you fleetingly and serendipitously.</text> <!-- The original Chinese did not have the last bit "instead comes to you fleetingly and serendipitously". I've added it to clarify the sentiment. -->
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<text>For some, this moment of beauty comes at the age of 18, for others at 80 … In my case, at age 8. That's all.</text>
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<text>From such a perspective: this man, who could keep up with all my craziness … he was a truly exceptional person.</text>
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<goto goto="70" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="70" background="einRoomSw.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">“Given any two polyhedra of equal volume, is it always possible to cut the first into finitely many polyhedral pieces that can be reassembled to yield the second?”.</speak> <!-- Hilbert's third problem -->
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einBoringLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">I feel that, even if we stare at it for another hour, we won't be making any progress.</speak>
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<show chara="einBoringLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Do you have any special ideas?</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … Silence. I'm still thinking.</speak>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Hmm … then that means we both can't figure it out.</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Let's see the answer!</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einSurpriseLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Huh!?</speak>
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<show chara="einSurpriseLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">There's nothing wrong, right? We're here to explore the unknown, not taking part in some quiz show.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">But … </speak>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Don't be so disgruntled. Every person's imagination has its limits.</speak>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Only by learning and borrowing from the imagination of others, will you be able to see more amazing vistas.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="einFretfulLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Let me see … </speak>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">In this case, an invariant can be defined according to the edge length and dihedral angle of the polyhedron … </speak> <!-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_third_problem#Dehn's_answer -->
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einSurpriseLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … What? Let me see it now!</speak>
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<show chara="einSurpriseLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">S-slow down please! D-don't grab it so suddenly! You're going to tear the book!</speak>
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<goto goto="80" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="80" background="westCliffWindow.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<text>To tell you the truth, of all the times I spent solving problems with that man, this is the only one I could remember.</text>
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<text>It wasn't only because the answer was impressive. I'd have you know, not long after, when I raised this question with Planck ― </text>
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<show chara="emmaBlackClose-up" position="center"/>
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<text remark="next">“Wha-?! He used Hilbert's third problem to test you? Is he insane!?”</text>
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<remark>
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<p class="article-text-h">Note: </p>
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<p class="article-text">The German mathematician David Hilbert gave a speech at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, presenting the “23 Most Important Mathematical Problems of Our Time”. </p>
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<p class="article-text">Of the 23 problems, the third one was: “Given any two polyhedra of equal volume, is it always possible to cut the first into finitely many polyhedral pieces that can be reassembled to yield the second?”. </p>
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<br/>
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<p class="article-text">P.S. The more famous of the 23 questions include: </p>
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<p class="article-text">1. The Continuum hypothesis</p>
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<p class="article-text">2. Consistency of arithmetic axioms</p>
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<p class="article-text">8. The Riemann hypothesis, Goldbach's conjecture, and the twin prime conjecture</p>
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<p class="article-text">18. Densest arrangement of spheres</p>
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</remark>
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<hide position="center"/>
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<text> ― Well, such a horrifying event, of course I would remember it for a lifetime.</text>
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<text>Ah. You want to know how I knew Planck back then?</text>
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<text>About that … </text>
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<goto goto="100" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="100" background="einHomeSw.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<show chara="emmaNormalClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Everyone, let me introduce you to someone.</speak>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">This is Miss Emma Planck … the youngest physics professor ever to teach at Princeton University.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Hi! I'm Emma! Carl's cousin!</speak>
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<show chara="emmaSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="emmaNoFace"> ― I don't know whether he does it on purpose or not, but every time he introduces me he always forgets to mention this.</speak>
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<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="emmaNoFace">But, it's not that I really care, right?</speak>
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<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Ahaha … </speak>
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<show chara="fatherEmbarraClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="motherSeriousClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="motherNoFace"> … Ahem.</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="right"/>
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<show chara="emmaNormalClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Err … back to the topic at hand.</speak>
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<show chara="karlNormalClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Previously, we had initially discussed the possibility of allowing your child to advance to university directly.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">As soon as we all agreed, I contacted Emma at the first available opportunity.</speak>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">From the perspective of educating your child, her gender and age should be a strong asset.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="emmaNoFace">And that's not all! I'm also very interested in her too!</speak>
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<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Please, you must let her accompany me in chasing down the mysteries of this universe!</speak>
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<show chara="fatherEmbarraClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="motherNormalClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="motherNoFace"> … </speak>
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<show chara="emmaPromiseSeriousClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Hahaha … Sorry, Emma can get a little overexcited on occasion.</speak>
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<show chara="fatherSmileClose" position="right"/>
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<show chara="motherNormalClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<speak chara="fatherNoFace">No, isn't that a good thing? … I think our daughter will definitely get along with her.</speak>
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<show chara="fatherSmileClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="motherSlyClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="motherNoFace"> … </speak>
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<speak chara="motherNoFace"> … On this point, I also have no objections.</speak>
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<goto goto="110" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="110" background="westCliffWindow.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<text>If Carl was the one who introduced me to a new world, Emma was the ultimate navigator.</text>
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<text> … Although, at some point later in life, I started calling her “Professor Planck” for fun.</text>
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<text>Emma back then … how should I put it, didn't show any signs of the “midlife crisis” she has now.</text>
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<text>A consummate scholar, a consummate beauty. A woman who would always illuminate you with her own sunshine ― </text>
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<text>She'd take you to play the piano, to sing songs, to watch the stars at night together.</text>
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<text>She was more of a mother, than my blood-related one.</text>
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<text> … Of course, I don't mean to imply there was anything wrong with Carl. This was purely a “gender advantage”.</text>
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<goto goto="120" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="120" background="einRoomSw.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Carl, are you going back to Germany tomorrow?</speak>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Yes … </speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">This weekend is the last day of my holiday. I have to report back to Headquarters.</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einSurpriseLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Headquarters?</speak>
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<show chara="einSurpriseLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">The Allied Kommandatura, Berlin City Defence headquarters, Psychological Counselling Office.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Mm … so you really are a genuine “expert”?</speak>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Haha … only now do you believe me, you must've had a really a bad first impression of me.</speak>
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Well, it certainly wasn't as good as you thought it was.</speak>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">But … Working at the headquarters … Are you responsible for treating post-war trauma?</speak>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Pretty close … it's a tough job if you're not a professional.</speak>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">After all, many people are not fond of hearing the grievances of others ― before long they'll start feeling the same pain.</speak>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">How is a professional any different? How are they special?</speak>
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlNormalClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">A professional treats the other person as a subject of analysis.</speak>
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">We analyse their pain, treat their pain, but never let ourselves experience their pain.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">As soon as any personal relationship develops, the patient must be passed on to someone else for therapy.</speak>
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<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … So is Carl handing me over to Emma?</speak>
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> … No no no, that's not the case at all.</speak>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Firstly; you're not a patient; secondly, I'm not treating you. Emma's also not a clinician.</speak>
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einSmileLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Hehe, seeing Carl's flustered face is so funny!</speak>
|
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<show chara="einSmileLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> … Huh? Are you teasing me?</speak>
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">You little brat, I'm gonna mop you up!</speak>
|
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<show chara="karlSlyClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einCryLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Ah! Uncle Carl is gonna hit someone!</speak>
|
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<show chara="einCryLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">D-don't cry wolf on me! </speak>
|
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<hide position="left"/>
|
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<hide position="right"/>
|
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="center"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Stay still!</speak>
|
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<goto goto="130" change="#ffffff"/>
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</scene>
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<scene id="130" background="einHomeSw.jpg">
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<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
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<show chara="karlTiredClose" position="left"/>
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Phew … You've tired me out … </speak>
|
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<show chara="karlTiredClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right"/>
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Carl clearly considers himself a young man, yet I didn't expect him to have the stamina of an old man.</speak>
|
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="karlTiredClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">W-watch your tongue … </speak>
|
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">I blame it on Switzerland, life is too comfortable here … </speak>
|
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Darn it, I really don't want to return to Berlin!</speak>
|
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="einNormalLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … </speak>
|
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace"> … In the future, will we meet again?</speak>
|
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="karlThinkingClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace"> … </speak>
|
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Yeah, if we can get a vacation.</speak>
|
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="einSmileLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">It would be nice if Carl were a few years younger.</speak>
|
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<show chara="einSmileLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Huh?</speak>
|
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<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">If only Carl were … 10 years younger? I could match-make you with Sister Emma!</speak>
|
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">Yeesh!</speak>
|
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<speak chara="karlNoFace">You imp, your evil bag of tricks is growing!</speak>
|
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Hehe … </speak>
|
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<show chara="einSmileLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Indeed, Emma once told me ― </speak>
|
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">“Men often call others evil, but in reality they secretly look forward to being even more diabolical!”.</speak>
|
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<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">Hey! What is she teaching you!?</speak>
|
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<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
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<show chara="einHappyLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">Hehe … you think I would tell you?</speak>
|
|
<show chara="einProvocativeLittleClose" position="right"/>
|
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<speak chara="meEinNoFace">If you can, try and become 20 years younger so we can be Emma's students together!</speak>
|
|
<hide position="left"/>
|
|
<hide position="right"/>
|
|
<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="center"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Oh, that sounds nice! Do your best, Carl!</speak>
|
|
<hide position="center"/>
|
|
<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">E-Emma!? When did you ― </speak>
|
|
<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="emmaSmileClose" position="right"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Hehe, “if only Carl were 10 years younger … ”.</speak>
|
|
<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="right"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Even if you weren't 10 years younger, I wouldn't mind!?</speak>
|
|
<show chara="emmaPromiseSmileClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">Aaaah w-w-where are you going with that!!!!</speak>
|
|
<goto goto="140" change="#ffffff"/>
|
|
</scene>
|
|
<scene id="140" background="westCliffWindow.jpg">
|
|
<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
|
|
<text>At the time, although I was still young, I already had a certain premonition.</text>
|
|
<text>“It would probably be very difficult for us to meet again in the future”.</text>
|
|
<text>It's just that, at the time, nobody could anticipate … </text>
|
|
<text>That the last day of that summer, was also the last day that our life trajectories overlapped.</text>
|
|
<text>Carl was a very busy man, and he never really enjoyed a genuine holiday. As for me, learning and conducting research under Planck, I cannot say that I had much free time either.</text>
|
|
<text>Everyone was probably thinking, “Anyway, there'll always be time in the future”.</text>
|
|
<text>Until 3 years ago.</text>
|
|
<text>That's right, January 1, 1952. The day the Honkai incident levelled an entire city.</text>
|
|
<text>He was in Berlin at the time.</text>
|
|
<text>That's right, Berlin. City centre.</text>
|
|
<goto goto="150" change="#ffffff"/>
|
|
</scene>
|
|
<scene id="150" background="hotelSw.jpg">
|
|
<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
|
|
<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="emmaNormalClose" position="right"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Carl … next holiday, you'll have to go help children in other places, isn't that right?</speak>
|
|
<show chara="emmaNormalClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">Yeah … that's about right.</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">The little brat has already found her own path in life, hasn't she?</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">And in this world, there are even more people who have yet to find their path, and they need me to help them find it.</speak>
|
|
<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="emmaSmileClose" position="right"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Haha … that is so you.</speak>
|
|
<show chara="emmaSmileClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="karlFoolClose" position="left"/>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace"> … </speak>
|
|
<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left"/>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">Well, Emma. I'm leaving now.</speak>
|
|
<show chara="karlSmileClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="emmaNormalClose" position="right"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace"> … </speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">No, please wait a moment for me.</speak>
|
|
<show chara="emmaNormalClose" position="right" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left"/>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">Huh?</speak>
|
|
<show chara="karlShameClose" position="left" opacity="0.7"/>
|
|
<show chara="emmaSmileClose" position="right"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">No, it's no big deal.</speak>
|
|
<show chara="emmaSmileClose" position="right"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">It just that I remember … when you were at school, you used to participate in choir, right?</speak>
|
|
<goto goto="160" change="#ffffff"/>
|
|
</scene>
|
|
<scene id="160" background="hotelSw.jpg">
|
|
<bgm src="12_15_1946.mp3" status="continue"></bgm>
|
|
<show chara="emmaBlackClose-up" position="center"/>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Mmm, I've borrowed our instruments without a hitch.</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">I've decided on the song myself, without your permission ― but I'm sure you know the lyrics anyway.</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">What are you spacing out for? Go hurry up and grab that little brat! That foolish girl even tried to give us some “time alone”!</speak>
|
|
<goto goto="170" change="#ffffff"/>
|
|
</scene>
|
|
<scene id="170" background="CG13-1.jpg">
|
|
<bgm src="10_20_londonderry_p.mp3" status="start"></bgm>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">From glen to glen, and down the mountain side,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="emmaNoFace">Oh, Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy, I love you so!</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">And I am dead, as dead I well may be,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">Ye'll come and find the place where I am lying,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">And kneel and say an "Avé" there for me;</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">For you will bend and tell me that you love me,</speak>
|
|
<speak chara="karlNoFace">and I shall sleep in peace until you come to me … </speak>
|
|
<end post="U2FsdGVkX1+xkpSdMeRC3Mean98cjWF96OT3Viw3ijY="/>
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</scene>
|
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</story>
|
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</data>
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