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[first lines]
[voice over narration]
Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.
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Casares: Stay by my side as my light grows dim /as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain / as my heart grows weak / and the wheels of my being turn slowly / Stay by my side /as my fragile body is racked by pain /which verges on truth / and manic time continues scattering dust / and furious life bursts out in flames. Stay by my side / as I fade / so you can point to the end of my struggle /and the twilight of eternal days / at the low, dark edge of life.
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Casares: [to Carlos] The devil's backbone. Children who should never have been born.
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[repeated line]
Santi: Many of you will die.
Santi: [to Carlos touching his face] Bring Jacinto To Me
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[last lines]
Casares: [Carlos weeping over Casares returns his rifle to his side or lap as Jamie forces Carlos to get going]
[voice over narration]
Casares: What is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber. A ghost is me.
[last lines]
Casares: [Owl is carried out by Jamie followed by Galvez using his spear as a crutch to join those others left]
[narrating from beyond the grave]
Casares: A Ghost
[last to leave is Carlos looking back]
Casares: That Is What I Am
[Casarers now a ghost is at the doorway observing them heading out to the horizon]
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Carlos: [stirring the water] Are you the one who sighs?
[last lines]
Carlos: [sneering at a scowling Jacinto] Santi
[shoves him back into the pool, where the gold bars weight him down, struggling to discard them Santi suddenly drags him to the bottom]
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[last lines]
Jacinto: [cornered by said now spear wielding surviving orphans] What A Joke
The Devil's Backbone Quotes
Extended Reading
