Zardoz Page #4

in a wet ditch.

I see now why you are here.

You are the one. The liberator.

Death.

I will help you if, when the time comes,

you will set me free.

You have great strength, but there are times

when that strength will fail you.

Eat this when the need arises.

This place is built on lies,

and suffering.

How could you do what you did to us?

The world was dying.

We took all that was good,

and made an oasis here.

We few... the rich,

the powerful, the clever...

cut ourselves off to guard the knowledge

and treasures of civilisation,

as the world plunged into a dark age.

To do this, we had to harden our hearts

against the suffering outside.

We are custodians of the past

for an unknown future.

You are the price

we now pay for that isolation.

You have brought hate and anger

into the vortex to infect us all.

Kill him! Kill him!

Kill him! Kill him!

- It's indestructible!

- No! No! It can't be done.

No!

Caution. You are approaching

the periphery shield of Vortex 4.

Ride round!

He's somewhere in these buildings.

Smoke him out.

Cover the exits! Over there!

We've got him trapped!

We take life from you.

Life flows out of you and flows into us.

Get him! Get him!

Come on!

Look over here.

He's not here.

It's getting dark.

- It's him!

- They none of 'em could catch him!

But he falls into the hands

of the poor old renegades.

Death.

Bring death to you all.

Find Friend. Take me to Friend.

- What'd he say?

- Shut up!

It's a miracle. We're apathetics.

Tell us how, please!

We want some, too!

We started chasing the brutal.

We got excited.

We saw someone. We thought it was him.

It wasn't, but we killed him anyway.

And then we felt desire.

Look at the excitement you've caused,

you naughty girl.

Secure all arms,

weapons and food supplies.

Work house to house,

east to west down the valley.

If you find the brutal, destroy immediately.

He's trapped. It's only a matter of time.

Friend. Friend.

Kiss the bride, dear Friend.

Kiss the bride.

You did well. I will take the bride.

Death comes closer for us all.

Find May. Tell her

that Friend needs her.

Friend, I cannot sanction

this violence and destruction.

It's too late, May.

There's no going back.

Don't destroy the vortex.

Let us renew it. A better breed

could prosper here, given time.

Time?

Wasn't eternity enough?

This place is against life.

It must die.

I have my followers.

Inseminate us all,

and we'll teach you all we know,

give you all we have.

Perhaps you can break the tabernacle,

or be broken.

An end to eternity.

A higher form.

Revenge.

Charge!

- How much time do we have?

- We will not work in time.

You will take our knowledge

by osmosis, out of time.

We will touch-teach you,

and you will give us your seed.

...where it is assumed that E75

equals R over M74, R being the ratio...

Contradictions differ in accordance with

the different nature of different things.

...physical and geometrical assumptions.

In any given phenomenon or thing,

the unity of opposites is conditional...

"Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:

Fecemi la divina podestate,

la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore."

...in many different ways,

by making compensatory changes...

Jeg ville skape

den eneste kvinne sledes,

s om jeg ser at hun mtte vkne...

"Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit,

Si bleu, si calme!"

"Un arbre, par-dessus le toit..."

"Could twist the sinews of thy heart?"

"And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? And what dread feet?"

The invisible worm

That flies in the night

Has found out thy bed of secret joy

"...you pass into the city of woe."

"Through me you pass

into eternal sorrow."

"Through me you pass

among the forgotten people."

...the law of the unity of opposites

is the fundamental law of the universe.

This law operates universally... in the natural

world, human society or man's thinking.

The central nervous system no longer

appears as a self-contained organ.

Now you know all that we know.

It's a prison. A prison!

No, it's an ark. A ship.

A spaceship.

All this technology was

for travel to the distant stars.

- Did you go?

- Yes.

Another dead end.

How did it come about, the vortex?

How did it start?

They did it. They were the scientists,

the best in the world.

But they were middle-aged,

too conditioned to mortality.

They went renegade. We were their offspring

and we were born into vortex life.

We seal ourselves herewith into this...

We seal ourselves herewith

into this place of learning.

Death is banished for ever.

I direct that the tabernacle erase from us

all memories of its construction,

so we can never destroy it

if we should ever crave for death.

Here, man and the sum

of his knowledge will never die,

but go forward to perfection.

We applied ourselves

to the unsolved mysteries of the universe,

but even with infinite time

and the help of the tabernacle,

our minds were not up to it.

We failed.

And now we're trapped

by our own devices.

There is no exit.

Destroy it! Tabernacle!

Kill the tabernacle!

The tabernacle is indestructible!

This crystal shall join us,

each to each, and all to the tabernacle.

A crystal joins them. A crystal.

Now we have given you all that we are,

one gift remains which contains

everything and nothing.

Look into this.

You will see lines

running into the future.

You will make insight jumps.

When you can see into this crystal,

then you will be ready. Only then.

I see nothing inside

except my own perplexity.

Knowledge is not enough.

I have come for you.

Over here.

- We've met before, I believe.

- Arthur Frayn.

Come, now.

My brutal friends call me Zardoz.

Revenge.

Now we're even.

"Would it have been worthwhile

To have squeezed

the universe into a ball,

To roll it towards

some overwhelming question,

To say:
'I am Lazarus,

come from the dead'?"

Do you know the next line?

It's TS Eliot.

"I am Lazarus, come from the dead."

"Come back to tell you all,

I shall tell you all."

Well done! Well done!

You've learnt your lessons well.

What will you tell me?

What do you see in the ball?

- Nothing.

- Nothing?

Then I have nothing to tell you.

That way! There!

What do you see in the ball?

Consuella.

I've ached for this moment.

You cannot. You will not.

The hunt is always better than the kill.

In hunting you, I have become you.

I have destroyed

what I set out to defend.

"He who fights too long against dragons

becomes a dragon himself." Nietzsche.

I'm not like the others.

I would fill you with life.

And love.

You have given me

what no other gave... love.

If I live, we will live together.

Go now.

The brutal is not here. I was mistaken.

Refraction of light. Infinite.

Break the tabernacle, or be broken.

What do you see in the crystal ball?

When you see into the crystal,

then you will be ready.

Now I see it. I am ready.

Tabernacle, what are you?

Not permitted.

- Where are you?

- Not permitted.

Do you know me?

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