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Clips from Three Thousand Years of Longing

"I play a trick on myself."
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"I pray to remain in the bottle."
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"I beseech Boschkolo to keep me always in the bottle."
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"And does that work?"
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"To yearn for nothing?"
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"To pretend to want nothing more"
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"than to be contained in a bottle?"
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"No."
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"For a Djinn, it is the closest we ever come to death."
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"(sighs)"
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"Do you know the answer to her question?"
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"What women most desire?"
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"Yeah."
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"Do you not know?"
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"If you do not know, I cannot tell you."
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"Well, surely, we don't all want the same thing."
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"Madam, your yearnings are not at all clear to me."
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"I... I'm at a point in my life where I have all I need."
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"I daresay I'm content, and gratefully so."
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"Tell me."
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"Are you a wife? A widow?"
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"- Um... - A mother, perhaps?"
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"I have no children, no siblings, no parents."
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"I did once have a husband."
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"The Djinn: Ah."
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"And what was the complexion of this husband?"
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"His complexion?"
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"In the beginning, it was glowing."
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"And in the ending?"
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"It's not much of a story."
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"But it is a story. It is your story,"
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"and it is always wise"
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"to understand those who have a hold on you."
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"Please."
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"(inhales deeply)"
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"(grunts) Well, okay, um..."
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"(smacks lips)"
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"We'd known each other since our youth."
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"We, uh, married early."
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"In the beginning, we took pleasure"
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"in each other's minds and bodies."
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"Um..."
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"We passed the years comfortably,"
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"and then as it happens,"
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"it all evaporated,"
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"and, uh... and we became"
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"less."
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"And where is he?"
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"He's in Hackney, with Emmeline Porter."
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"The Djinn: Mmm."
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"(Alithea sighs)"
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"Alithea: He told me I..."
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"I was incapable of reading feelings."
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"(car brakes)"
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"(car horn beeps)"
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"I was incapable of reading his feelings."
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"Emmeline: ...gonna have a resolution."
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"Jack: This is exciting!"
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"- It is exciting! - Emmeline: No, it's not."
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"Let me guess. No one dies in it."
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"(Emmeline) (laughing) No!"
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"Alithea: The way my brain is wired is... is the..."
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"the source both of my power"
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"and, uh, and my solitude."
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"I suspect that's why I like stories."
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"I find feelings through stories."
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"(The Djinn sighs)"
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"Perhaps you could wish for him back."
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"Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no."
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"No."
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"I... I thought, um,"
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"I might grieve a loss and betrayal, but, uh,"
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"no, in fact, I was free."
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"I was like a prisoner"
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"emerging from a dungeon into the sunlight."
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"I expanded into the space of my own life."
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"No, I could not wish for more."
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"You are a wise and cautious woman, Alithea."
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"But we all have desires,"
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"even if they remain hidden from us."
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"(inhales sharply)"
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"That's as maybe."
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"But I am also a narratologist,"
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"and that is going to be a problem."
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"It's going to be a very big problem."
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"See, I know all the stories there are"
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"about trickster Djinn,"
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"and the ways in which they manipulate wishing"
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"to their own ends."
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"I am not one of them."
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"I am god-fearing and honorable,"
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"and only here to grant your heart's desire."
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"Well, even if that's true,"
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"how can you rely on those called upon to wish?"
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"(speaks ancient Greek)"
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"How do you know you can rely on me?"
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"Well, I hope so."
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"With you, I certainly hope so."
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"There's a..."
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"funny little story. I mean, you probably know it."
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"Three friends lost at sea in a tiny boat."
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"They pull up a magic fish,"
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"who grants each of them one wish."
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"The first one,"
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""I wish I were at home with my wife.""
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"He vanishes."
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"The second one, "I wish I were playing"
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""in the fields with my children.""
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"Off he goes."
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"And the third one, "I miss my friends...""
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""I wish they were here.""
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"You've got it."
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"There's no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale."
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"None end happily."
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"Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes."
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"But you and I are the authors of this story,"
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"and we can avoid all traps."
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"Well, what if I made no wish at all?"
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"Pardon?"
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"What if I made no wish?"
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