. . . ° . . . . ° . . . ° . . . ° . ° ° . ° ___/|____ . ° . . ° ___/|____ . _) (____/|____ . ___/|____ . ---_) ____ (_ ___/|____\ ----- /) | (____/|_____) | (_--- \ _______/_) ` ______ __ ! /) ____(_ / --/___ ______ ! /.....\/ /_______ __ --\ /____! ___\-- ......\/...../_____| ___\. ...·........\//___ /_____\....\/...... ... .........\/...... . ..... \/......... ... !ne7 . ... . ... . . . enrmp109 - _Algol_ - Deep Thoughts About Universe http://algol-spaceambient.atspace.com/ Russian monologues had been taken from A. Tarkovsky movies (Solaris, Stalker) Snout Words: To science? It's a fraud! No one will ever resolve this problem, neither genius, nor idiot! We have no ambition|to conquer any cosmos. We just want to extend Earth up to the Cosmos's borders. We don't want any more worlds. Only a mirror to see our own in. We try so hard to make contact,|but we're doomed to failure. We look ridiculous pursuing a goal we fear and that we really don't need. Man needs man! Stalker Words: And the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon became like blood... And the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. And the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich and the chiliarchs and the strong and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" And that very day two... two of them... were going to a village which was about 60 stadia from... named... and they were conversing with each other about all these things. And while they were conversing and discussing... He Himself approached, and began travelling with them. But their eyes were prevented from recognizing Him. And He said to them: "What are these words... you are exchanging with one another, and why are you sad?" And one of them, named... Are you awake? You were speaking of the meaning... of our... Life... of the unselfishness of art... Take music, for instance. Less than anything else, it is connected to reality, or if connected at all, it's done mechanically, not by way of ideas, just by a sheer sound, devoid of... any associations. And yet, music, as if by some miracle, gets through to our heart. What is it that resonates in us in response to noise brought to harmony, making it the source of the greatest delight which stuns us and brings us together? What's all this needed for? And most important, who needs it? You would say, "No one. And for no reason." Unselfishly. No. I don't think so. After all, everything has some sense. Sense and reason.