:31:00
But what do the Vikings talk about
in the evenings...
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when they come home
from war and hunting?
:31:06
Do they know the arts of living?
:31:08
- You find us uncouth?
- Look at these people.
:31:11
This is my lager.
:31:31
I'll say this for them,
they know how to enjoy themselves.
:31:34
At home, our people are less hearty,
but more graceful.
:31:39
It's all a question of climate.
:31:41
You can't serenade a woman
in a snowstorm.
:31:45
All the graces in the arts of love...
:31:48
the elaborate approaches that
would make the game of love amusing...
:31:52
can only be practiced in those countries
that quiver in the heat of the sun...
:31:56
in the still, languorous nights,
where every breeze caresses with amour...
:32:02
Iove, as we understand it, is a technique
that must be developed in hot countries.
:32:08
- Sounds glamorous and yet...
- What?
:32:11
Somewhat mechanical.
:32:13
Evidently you Spaniards make
too much fuss about...
:32:16
a simple, elemental thing like love.
:32:18
We Swedes are more direct.
:32:20
But that's civilization.
:32:22
Disguise the elemental
with the glamorous.
:32:24
A great love has to be nourished,
has to be...
:32:26
Great love?
:32:28
Don't you believe in its possibility?
:32:30
In its possibility, yes,
but not in its existence.
:32:34
A great love, perfect love, is an illusion.
:32:38
It is the golden fable
of which we all dream.
:32:42
But in ordinary life, it does not happen.
:32:44
In ordinary life,
one must be content with less.
:32:50
So young and yet so disillusioned.
:32:53
Young man, you are cynical.
:32:56
Not at all. Merely realistic.
:32:58
Here you are, My Lords.