Three soldiers and a lieutenant. Grabbing a girl and tying her up, a soldier couldn't stand the temptation to kill her. One soldier lured the enemy, another soldier and the lieutenant killed a general and flew away

Zack 2022-06-28 16:32:47

We spend our lives looking for real names and permanent addresses on lists or address books. Nobody is an island? Maybe this sentence was true a long time ago, before the Ice Age, when the glaciers melted, and now we are all islands, and the world is made up of these islands. Even if we are in the forest, we still have to talk about civilization. Half of the misfortunes in this world are caused by some people doing this, but I also think that half of the good things come from that. Besides being cute, what else can you tell us? Three soldiers and a lieutenant. Grabbing a girl and tying her up, a soldier couldn't stand the temptation to kill her. One soldier lured the enemy, the other soldier and the lieutenant killed a general and flew away. I don't even feel like we're back, I feel like we've all been out of ourselves for too long, out of our certainty about the world, or forgetting that we should come back, there's a certain joy in me. Yes, I am happy too, and I feel free all at once. But somehow I don't like what I used to want at all, I know it's fine now, but I'm not after anything else there, I'm a total mess.

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  • Lieutenant Corby: We spend our lives running our fingers down the lists in directories, looking for our real names, our permanent addresses. No man is an island?

    [chuckles softly]

    Lieutenant Corby: Perhaps that was true a long time ago, before the Ice Age. The glaciers have melted away, and now we're all islands - parts of a world made of islands only...

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: There is war in this forest. Not a war that has been fought, or one that will be, but any war. And the enemies who struggle here do not exist, unless we call them into being. This forest, then, and all that happens now is outside history. Only the unchanging shapes of fear, and doubt, and death are from our world. These soldiers that you see keep our language and our time, but have no other country but the mind.