Paradise (Le Paradis)

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Michel Seydoux

Elena Cavalier

Francoise VIDHOFF

PARADISE

Six hours later

It's still here.

In the fresh blue watercress.

That's all that's left.

Flint.

I'll come back in one year.

Will it still be here?

The place where my little darling

was kidnapped by others.

His tomb is there,

under those graceful trees

in the middle of the frame.

They say Coca-Cola can dissolve rust.

Nothing is dissolved.

That is nonsense!

You did an excellent tombstone.

It's going to last for years.

Water can flow,

trees grow. Anything!

It's fall and I'm coming back

on the grave of the little peacock.

Trees have been cut down!

Where is the little peacock's tomb?

Maybe here?

Here it is!

Saved!

Saved

I cleaned it,

and I'll cover it with snow

so that no one sees it.

Before the first sunny days,

when spring fills your soul with a mad desire.

There! Over there!

Yes, yes.

It's always over there anyway.

At the age of seven, you're sent to a boarding school

to learn Latin, read the Gospels.

Then you have to learn Greek to read Homer's "Odyssey".

Then they let you go,

Your head full of crazy, crazy images.

Written in the sand.

Flesh of my flesh.

Original sin.

Get up and walk.

Thigh of Jupiter.

Guardian angel.

Pandora's Box.

To give birth in pain.

Mid-life crisis

Love at first sight.

The Seventh Seal.

The mote and the beam.

Achilles' heel.

Wonderful catch.

Colossus with feet of clay.

Rosy dawn.

Ivory tower.

Blessed are the poor in spirit.

Proclaim upon the housetops.

The exterminating angel.

A pillar of salt.

The Spirit blows where it wills.

The flesh is weak.

The keys to paradise.

Swansong.

The promised land.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Close the gates.

Merchants in the temple.

Exodus.

To kill the fatted calf.

Ariadne's thread.

Worship the golden calf.

Garden of Eden.

Hungry years.

The foolish virgins.

Wheel of Fortune.

Sodom and Gomorrah.

Turn the other cheek.

Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Faith moves mountains.

Wrestling with the angel.

The Royal Way.

The Tower of Babel.

White Voices

Salt of the earth.

You can not serve God and Mammon.

Dust you are and to dust you shall return.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Tantalus’s punishment.

The Golden Fleece.

Jacob's Ladder.

Cornucopia.

Judas Kiss.

The Tower of Babel.

Last Judgment.

Poor as Job.

The Lost Sheep.

Way to Damascus.

Let him first cast a stone.

Labors of Hercules.

I'm walking

and suddenly I see in front of a house.

A man

He looks at me intently. I walk over to him,

He says: "My child is very sick"

I say, "I'll follow you."

He says, "No, don't enter my house!

I'm not worthy of it. "

"But how can I ...?"

"Tell me that you forgive me my sins."

"Me? To forgive someone's sins? "

In a hurry, I say: "Ok,

I forgive you your sins. Because you're sorry. "

And I enter his house.

I take the child in my arms.

I hold him for a long time.

And then I take him out of there

Just in time,

because around the house

a crowd of people had gathered.

They were pushing.

The walls were ready to fall.

They take my clothes,

tear them into pieces.

Pass them along, sell them.

They believe that they... will heal.

I'm a soldier.

I was cast away on my way back from the war,

Which I won by the way.

I want to go home. I don't know where I am.

Cleanse him thoroughly.

Anoint him with incense.

Give him a beautiful garment.

Make him dinner.

And then I'll come to him.

Maybe I'd rather have perished in a shipwreck,

than meeting her.

The woman who took me,

Who saved my life.

is an immortal goddess.

Her name is Calypso.

And she falls in love.

She even offers to make me immortal,

like her, forever young.

But I hesitate.

Mom, Mom, come to me.

Come out of your kingdom of the Dead.

And help me.

I am a prisoner of love.

I feel good.

But I keep thinking about my beloved wife, my beloved son,

about my little island.

Although I am so happy here.

Every moment is beautiful.

He's here? I hadn't seen him.

You can clear a little bit?

Yes. Here he is.

Here he is!

I'll send you an angel. You'll follow him.

He will take you to where you should be.

I AM WHO I AM.

I am the beginning and the end.

He separated heavens from the earth.

A couple lives naked.

In happiness,

Without ever dying...

On the condition they should not eat the fruits...

of a tree: the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

But one day, she eats the fruit and makes him taste it.

They suddenly look at each other.

And realise that they are naked.

A bit ashamed. They cover their nakedness.

The person who owns a garden, sees them and says:

"Why are you dressing?"

"You have tasted the forbidden fruit, I cast you away from my paradise."

I am furious.

I am mean.

I am cruel.

I am the devil.

God and I were once a single person.

Then we split up.

Sometimes we stick back together.

The other day I said to him:

"Listen, I've found a man

Who is incredibly generous,

Who is wonderful and who adores you,

and I will do everything so that he curses you. "

"Do whatever you want.

Just don't kill him. "

"He is always ready

always ready to give. "

"I burned down his house, his workshop.

His wife died.

I sent his children on a journey,