The Prophet Page #4

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Go with God. We will miss you.

- Goodbye!

- Come back to us.

Goodbye! Take care of yourself.

Stay here in the cafe, okay?

You'll be safe until

I can find your mother.

- Safe travels!

- Thank you, everybody! Thank you!

Goodbye!

Goodbye!

There you are! I have

looked all over for you!

Huh? Kamila.

Oh, no, just tell me what I owe you,

and let's be done with it.

My dear lady, no, no. Everything is fine.

You owe me nothing.

Okay.

Thank you.

I have been out of my mind with worry.

Mmm!

Oh, no, you don't. Not this time.

I've lost Mustafa today.

I am not losing you to a police cell!

What, what? What do you want?

So help me, Almitra, don't test...

Mmm.

What is it?

Do you know what's going on?

Because I sure don't.

Goodbye, Mustafa!

Look, it's him.

- There he is!

- Yay!

Mustafa!

One minute, Mustafa.

There are some details

to be attended to at headquarters.

Please. Come with me.

I had no idea.

Of course not, Halim.

Very well, Sergeant.

- Hey, where are you taking him?

- Please step away.

What are you doing? The ship is this way.

Nothing to see here!

Where is he going?

Let him go!

What's going on?

Ludicrous!

I can't believe this!

I thought he was free!

No, he was free!

Almitra, you knew?

- Let him go!

- He's done nothing wrong!

This is an outrage!

Out of our way.

No! Bring him back!

- Please step away!

- Return to your homes!

- Make way.

- He is an innocent man!

Almitra, no!

Ahh!

Almitra!

More men over here!

Move these people!

Watch it! Careful!

There! The girl! Get her!

Leave her alone!

You swine!

Almitra.

- No!

- Wait!

Clear the square!

- Return to your homes!

- Ahh!

Clear the area! This is your last warning!

Let me help you disappear into the crowd.

The people won't give you away. Quickly!

Thank you, Halim. But I won't put you...

Ahhh!

No, Sergeant. Let me help.

People of Orphalese!

My friends, I beg you!

Please! Be calm!

But they're taking you!

They're liars!

They're evil!

Let us not be too quick

to call others evil.

"For what is evil but good tortured

By its own hunger and thirst?

"Truly when good is hungry

It seeks food even in dark caves

"And when it thirsts

It drinks even of dead waters

"You are good

When you strive to give of yourself

"Yet you are not evil

When you seek gain for yourself

"For when you strive for gain

"You are but a root that clings to the earth

And sucks at her breast

"Surely the fruit cannot say to the root

"'Be like me, ripe and full

And ever giving of your abundance'

"For the fruit giving is a need

"As receiving is a need for the root

"You are good

When you are one with yourself

"Yet when you are not one with yourself

You are not evil

"A ship without a rudder may wander

aimlessly among perilous isles

"Yet not sink to the bottom

"You are good when you walk

to your goal with bold steps

"Yet you are not evil when you go limping

"Even those who limp do not go backward

"Pity that the stags

Cannot teach swiftness to the turtles

"But you who are strong and swift

"See that you do not limp before the lame

Deeming it kindness

"In your longing for your greater self

Lies your goodness

"But in some of you, that longing

is a torrent rushing with might to the sea

"Carrying the secrets of the hillsides

And the songs of the forest

"While in others, it is a flat stream

"That loses itself in angles and bends

"And lingers before it reaches the shore

"In our longing for our greater selves

Lies our goodness

"And that longing is in all of us"

So, Mustafa.

Your first day of freedom,

and you bring a riot to our doorstep.

It was your men and their billy clubs

that brought on the riot.

Order in the streets must be maintained.

Otherwise, anarchy.

I'm disappointed to see your presence

is just as incendiary

as it was seven years ago.

Did your stay on the mountain

give you no time for reflection?

Quite a bit, thanks.

Then why do you persist with these

treasonous acts and rebellious speeches?

Treasonous? I have only spoken with love.

Oh. Only love and flowers, was it?

I believe this is yours.

"Pity the nation that raises not its voice

"Save when it walks in a funeral

"Boasts not except among its ruins

"And will not rebel until its neck

"Is laid between the sword and the block"

"Love and flowers."

Nothing less than a call to rebellion!

I don't see it that way.

Apparently, we disagree.

It would, indeed, be tragic

if rash words from the past

prevented you from returning

to your beloved homeland.

You mean, there's still a chance

I may go home?

A chance? A certainty.

We are not vindictive.

We are not barbarians.

Simply do this.

Sign this statement

that your writings, your teachings,

were the product of a misguided

youth and are seditious.

That you reject them now, they are false,

and you hold the State blameless

in its duty to preserve

the peace, etc., etc.

I can't do that.

Of course you can.

Here is your opportunity to be repentant

and for us to be magnanimous.

What would I have left

if I disavowed all that I believe?

Your life, for one.

I remind you, Mustafa,

the penalty for treason is death.

Fine, have it your way.

I'll give you the night in prison

to think it over.

Guard!

Now!

Mmm. Mmm!

How in the world do we get up there?

Almitra?

What are you doing up there?

You should go.

There's only trouble here.

Only trouble.

You... You can fly.

What?

What did you say?

You can fly away.

Like you did before.

If only I could.

But you said!

Not houses, not bodies.

Spirit.

Yes.

Spirit.

Okay. Come on.

Come out. Fly away.

Almitra, I'm afraid

I'm going to have to stay here

and face what comes.

But they might do bad things to you.

No! You might die!

Dear Almitra, we don't need

to be afraid of death.

"For life and death are one

"Even as the river and the sea are one

"How would we know the secret of death

"Unless we look for it

in the heart of life?

"The owl whose night-bound eyes

Are blind in the day

"Cannot unveil the mystery of light

"In the depth of your hopes and desires

"Lies your silent knowledge of the beyond

"And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow

Your heart dreams of spring

"Trust the dreams for in them

is hidden the gate to eternity

"For what is it to die but to stand naked

"In the wind and to melt into the sun?

"And what is it to cease breathing

"But to free the breath

from its restless tides

"That it may rise and expand

And seek God unencumbered?

"Only when you drink from

The river of silence shall you indeed sing

"And when you have reached The mountaintop

"Then you shall begin to climb

"And when the earth shall claim your limbs

Then shall you truly dance"

Almitra?

Yes.

I'd like you to do something for me.

Sure.

Remember all those paintings in my house?

And all those papers I had written on?

You know, the ones the Sergeant

wouldn't let me take?

I want you to have them.

- Me?

- Yes.

I want you to go gather them

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