Eternity and a Day Page #3

Please! it won't take long.

Please...

It won't take me long.

Traitor!

Christos... Vassilis...

Alexandre... Summer '39.

Good evening.

Good evening, doctor...

Sorry, I was distracted.

I was worried for you.

I feared that...

It's spreading faster

than you thought isn't it?

My body doesn't obey anymore...

my body, whose edges vanish

in the mirror

and become a shade.

I'll go to the hospital tomorrow.

You said:
when the pain gets strong.

See...

I didn't know how to tell you,

my position was not easy...

I had such an admiration for you!

Our generation grew up

reading your books and your poems.

I have to go...

Someone's waiting for me.

Why did you disappear?

I looked for you...

What happened?

Slim...

Good evening.

Who let you in?

It's forbidden, don't you know?

A "boy of the red lights"

was brought here this afternoon...

He was run over by a bus

on the boulevard.

It's forbidden, I tell you.

Listen, the coroner knows me.

Does he?

Let me call him.

Hey! Slim.

What a pity you can't be with us tonight.

Hey, Slim!

I'm scared, Slim.

The sea is so big!

What waits for us in the place

where you're going, Slim?

What does the place

where we'll all go look like?

Mountains or ravines,

police or soldiers,

we never look back.

All I can see is the sea, now,

the endless sea.

In the night I saw my mother

in front of her door, in tears.

It was Christmas. The bells rang.

The snow fell on the mountain.

If you only were here

to speak to us again

of all those ports,

Marseille or Naples,

of this vast world.

Hey! Slim, speak, speak to us,

speaks of this vast world.

Hey! Slim, speak, speak to us...

Good evening!

Good evening.

I'll be right back.

I'll leave you alone,

it's better.

Mother...

Forgive me for not coming before.

You know, there's always something...

Mother...

I came to say goodbye.

I'm leaving.

The table is set!

I'm coming!

Maria, take good care

of my big brother!

I'm not worth the effort!

But others are...

Where were you?

Your father-in-law got worried.

No, I didn't! But your mother...

And the left wing, Alexandre,

what do they say?

About what?

Come, call the children!

The table is set.

Alexandre is here!

What does the world look like,

seen from above?

Magical!

- Am I late, mom?

- You'll never grow up.

As a child you always ran away too.

The table is set.

- Where is Anna?

- I've seen her go that way.

Anna! Let's go to take refuge

in the cave up there.

I am going to look for Anna!

Where are you going, Anna?

You lost your head!

Away, away, to the open sea...

"your island travels.

"One of your shirts forgotten

on the balcony trembles in the wind.

"Oh you, protected

by the shadow of a room

"kidnapped by the voices of the night,

"I look at you

with closed eyes,

"I listen to you

with sealed ears.

"With no mouth, I implore you."

The table settings...

the silver plate...

my dowry...

my dowry.

Where did you put them?

They were still there yesterday.

Yesterday...

they were still there.

Why mother...

nothing happens as we wish?

Why?

Why does one have to rot

in silence...

torn between pain and desire?

Why did I live

my life in exile?

Why, when I felt at home...

only when I could

speak my own language?

My language,

when I could find the lost words...

or bring the forgotten words

out of the silence.

Why only at that very moment...

could I hear the echo

of my own footsteps in the house?

Why?

Tell me, mother,

why can't one learn to love?

I wanted to say goodbye.

Are you leaving tonight?

Are you going to leave

in the dead of night?

I thought...

You made me think...

You're leaving as well.

I won't have anybody anymore.

You will.

You will go on a big journey soon,

the ports...

the whole world.

Goodbye.

Stay with me!

You have 2 hours

before the boat leaves.

I only have tonight.

Stay with me.

I'm scared!

I am scared as well.

Stay with me.

Stay with me.

Shall we catch it?

"The bodyless".

50 drachmas more.

Two for students.

Maria, why do you leave

while I'm speaking to you?

You don't have any reason

to get annoyed.

We need new ways, Maria...

new ways of speech.

And if we can't find them, none is better!

I love you, I love you

with all my heart...

but you lead an absurd life.

You show off with that writer...

All the newspapers speak of you,

and I'm tired of it!

And yet I love you! But why

do you leave while I'm speaking?

"Conservatory".

Trembling with dew,

the last star before the dawn

announced a radiant sun.

No trace either of clouds or mist

in the endless sky.

The breath of the breeze

was so soft to the face

that it seemed to whisper

to the petals of my heart,

"Life is sweet".

and...

life is sweet.

Tell me...

tomorrow...

how long will it last?

It's time, isn't it?

"Argadini".

What did you say?

It means:
very late.

Very late.

Very late in the night.

I must leave.

Goodbye!

"I'm writing to you in front of the sea,

"again and again...

"I write to you, I speak to you.

"One day, when you remember this day...

"remember

"that I watched it with full eyes...

"that I caressed it with both hands.

"I am here waiting for you,

trembling.

"Give me this day."

Alexandre!

Anna...

Wanna dance?

You don't like it, I know,

but today is my day.

I won't go to the hospital.

I won't go to the hospital, Anna.

I won't.

I'd like to make projects for tomorrow.

The unknown neighbour will always

answer to me with the same music...

and there will be someone

to sell me words.

Tomorrow...

What is tomorrow, Anna?

I have asked you one day:

"How long will tomorrow last?"

and you answered to me:

Eternity and a day.

I couldn't hear you.

What did you say?

Eternity and a day.

My passage to the other side, tonight,

with words, I brought you back.

You are there.

and all is true, and waiting

for the truth.

For the truth.

My little flower...

Stranger...

Me...

Very late...

My little flower...

Stranger...

Me...

Very late...

My little flower...

My little flower.

# Translation from French: lyliakar

Special thanks to Alessandra for helping me with Greek #

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