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The American Civil War.
North against South.
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It was a peasant girl
during the Second Empire...
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who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary.
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They asked what she looked like.
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Bernadette said.: "I can't describe her. "
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So the mother superior
and the bishop showed her...
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plates of great religious paintings.
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Raphael's Virgin, Murillo's.
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Each time, Bernadette said.: "That's not her. "
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And suddenly,
the Virgin of Cambrai came up.
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An icon.
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Bernadette fell to her knees.:
"It's her, Your Grace. "
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No movement.
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No depth, no artifice.
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The sacred.
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Yes, the image is joy.
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But beside it, lies the void.
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All the power of an image
can only be expressed through it.
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They say our language...
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arbitrarily divides up things in reality.
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And they say this as if it were our fault.
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You may have studied
Racine's Phaedra in French.
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"When you have learnt my crime,
my fate, my shame...
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"I'll die no less but with a guiltier name."
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Try to see.