:03:01
And its first word was a shout.
:03:03
Was it ""ah"" or ""oh"",
or was it merely a groan?
:03:10
We were at last able to laugh,
for the first time.
:03:15
Through this man"s shout and that
of his followers, we learnt to speak.
:03:21
A long story.
:03:23
Sun, lightning, thunder in the sky...
:03:25
and below on earth,
the firesides, the leaps...
:03:29
the round dances,
the signs, the writing.
:03:34
Then one broke through the cycle
and ran straight ahead.
:03:39
As long as he ran straight ahead,
swerving sometimes perhaps from joy...
:03:46
he seemed free,
and again we could laugh with him.
:03:49
But then, suddenly, he ran zigzag,
and stones flew.
:03:58
With his flight began
the history of wars. lt is still going on.
:04:04
But the story of the grass, the sun,
the leaps and the shouts...
:04:09
is still going on, too.
:04:17
Do you know how one day
the road was built here...
:04:22
which the next day
saw the Napoleon retreat...
:04:26
and was paved later on?
:04:30
Today it is covered with grass
and sunk in like a Roman road...
:04:36
with the tank tracks.
:04:40
But we weren"t even spectators.
We"ve always been too few.
:04:50
You really want...
-To conquer a history for myself.
:04:57
What my timeless downward look
has taught me...