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He feels these infirmities of time like an injustice,
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and he reacts to that injustice like Ché Guevara,
like the youth of the sixties, with indignation.
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He is a Third Worlder of time.
:22:12
The idea that unhappiness had existed in his planet's past
is as unbearable to him
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as to them the existence of poverty in their present.
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Naturally he'll fail.
:22:25
The unhappiness he discovers is as inaccessible to him
as the poverty of a poor country is unimaginable to the children of a rich one.
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He has chosen to give up his privileges,
but he can do nothing about the privilege that has allowed him to choose.
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His only recourse is precisely that which threw him into this absurd quest:
a song cycle by Mussorgsky.
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They are still sung in the fortieth century.
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Their meaning has been lost,
but it was then that for the first time,
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he perceived the presence of that thing he didn't understand
which had something to do with unhappiness and memory,
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and towards which slowly, heavily,
he began to walk.
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Of course I'll never make that film.
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Nonetheless I'm collecting the sets, inventing the twists,
putting in my favorite creatures.
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I've even given it a title,
indeed the title of those Mussorgsky songs: Sunless.
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On May 15, 1945, at seven o'clock in the morning,
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the three hundred and eighty second US infantry regiment
attacked a hill in Okinawa they had renamed 'Dick Hill.'
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I suppose the Americans themselves believed
that they were conquering Japanese soil,
:23:58
and that they knew nothing about the Ryukyu civilization.