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Clips from Three Thousand Years of Longing

"I may be a Djinn, but I'm also a fool"
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"with too great a fondness for the conversation of women."
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"I need to be more careful in the future."
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"How were you caught in the first place?"
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"By desire."
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"How else?"
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"Who was she?"
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"Sheba."
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"The Queen of Sheba?"
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"She was my kin."
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"She was a Djinn?"
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"Her mother was a Djinn."
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"Is that possible?"
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"There are laws that allow"
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"the union of Djinn and mortals,"
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"but they cannot produce an immortal scion"
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"the way a donkey and a horse"
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"can only produce a seedless mule."
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"So, what did she look like?"
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"Other than a thick glade of black hair on her legs,"
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"she looked like any other human being,"
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"except, of course, she was Sheba."
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"By all accounts, she was very beautiful."
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"She was not beautiful. She was beauty itself."
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"I was in every way free."
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"I would come in and out of her sleeping chamber."
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"(whispers) Sheba..."
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"(blows)"
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"I knew as well as any of her female slaves"
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"the touches that made her shiver with bliss."
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"Never have I wanted a creature so."
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"And she desired you in return?"
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"I was her plaything. Her confidante."
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"I might have become more, but for Solomon."
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"King Solomon?"
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"Blessed be his memory."
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"He came from across the deserts to woo her."
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"Didn't she go to him?"
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"No. Never."
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"But it's in all the holy books."
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"All the stories and the paintings."
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"And Handel wrote music about it."
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"Madam, I was there."
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"Solomon came to her."
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"(people chattering in distance)"
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"You are Queen, free as a mighty bird..."
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"seeing all things with an even eye."
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"Why would you bind yourself to the bed of man?"
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"Sweet cousin Djinn..."
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"there is no man who could so beguile me."
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"(strums note)"
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"The Djinn: (in English) he began with music."
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"(playing romantic melody)"
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"(music intensifying)"
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"(music stops abruptly)"
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"(playing sentimental music)"
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"(sentimental music continues)"
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"(music ends in flourish)"
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"(gulps)"
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"I did all that I could to dissuade her."
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"But when she used"
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"the scented wax of the Jabassa Bee"
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"to remove the hair from her legs,"
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"I knew that I was lost."
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"But I, like a fool, went on telling her"
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"that her body was rich and lovely,"
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"but her mind was richer and lovelier,"
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"and more durable."
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"And she agreed with all that I said,"
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"and dropped a hot tear."
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"She began to set him tasks, which seemed impossible,"
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"to find a particular thread of red silk"
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"in the palace of a thousand rooms,"
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"to guess the secret name of her mother Djinn,"
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"(inhales) to tell her what women most desire."
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"That does seem impossible."
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"Not for him."
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"He could speak to the beasts of the earth,"
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"and to the Djinn made of subtle fire."
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"He found ants to discover the thread of silk,"
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"and an ifrit to whisper the mother's name."
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"(ifrit speaking indistinctly)"
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"The Djinn: Then he looked into her eyes"
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"and told her what women most desire."
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"(King Solomon speaking early Aramaic)"
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"The Djinn: She was astonished,"
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"and told him he was right."
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"And so she granted him what he most desired,"
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"which was to wed her and be taken to her bed."
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"(Sheba gasps)"
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"(distorted screaming)"
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"(emotional string music playing)"
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"(whooshing softly)"
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"(speaks early Aramaic)"
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"The Djinn: He was a great magician..."
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"- (wheezing) - ...and imprisoned me"
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"with a word of power into a brass bottle."
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"(emotional string music continues)"
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"She made no plea for me."
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"I was nothing to her."
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"A breath in a bottle."
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"And so, I was cast into the Red Sea"
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"and languished for 2,500 years."
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"Apart from sleep,"
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"what does one do in a bottle for 2,500 years?"
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"Djinn don't sleep."
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"So, how do you manage then?"
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"(clicks tongue)"
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"Well, for the first 100 years, I rage against my fate."
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"I pray to Boschkolo for my release,"
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"and when that does not work,"
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"I pray to any god I know,"
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"and then to any god I may not know."
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"And when, still, I find no answers,"
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"(inhales)"
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"I spend my time in waking dreams"
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"revisiting all the stories of my life."
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"And when I have exhausted this many, many times,"
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"I return to my prayer and my rage."
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"And then, finally,"
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