1:26:06
Something else occurs to me.
I see it again.
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A coachman stops
and gets down from his coach...
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...he knocks down
on the ground with his whip and says:
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"There was once the
big town of Atraubing."
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Now I see the rocky island again.
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I see it quite clearly.
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A rocky island far out in the sea,
and a second, smaller island.
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They lie on the far edge
of the inhabited world.
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On one island, for centuries,
some forgotten men have lived.
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And because they live
on the far edge of the inhabited world...
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...word has not reached them
that the earth is round.
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They have retained
the belief that the earth is flat...
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...and that the ocean
far beyond ends in a yawning abyss.
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I see a man on top of the rock.
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For years he stood alone,
looking out over the sea...
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...day after day,
always in the same place.
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He is the first one to doubt.