:02:03
More and more I think it will be Alexandria.
:02:08
Well at least it's hot,
:02:12
Thais, she loved it there.
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Women bring men home. I have no such feeling.
:02:22
You have Babylon, Alexander,
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..where your mother awaits your invitation.
:02:28
Yes, I have Babylon,
:02:30
but each land, each boundary I cross,
:02:35
I strip away another illusion.
:02:39
I sense death will be the last,
:02:44
Yet still I push harder,
:02:46
and harder to reach this, home.
:02:56
Where has our eagle gone?
:03:01
We must go on, Ptolemy.
:03:06
Until we find an end.
:03:13
India
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India, the land where the sun was born,
:03:18
Fabled to be even richer than Persia,
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..had never been explored or conquered.
:03:25
From the beginning, Alexander struggled
to unify a land without a center.
:03:30
Kings who conspired against one another,
:03:33
A labrynth of tribes, urged on by zealots and philosophers,
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To die by the thousands for their strange gods.
:03:41
Crateros and the advance party fought
against men with hairy skins,
:03:45
who were tiny, and lived in the tops of trees.
:03:56
Until Hephaistion convinced us these were
animals who immitated men,