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This is how it started.

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During one of my most tranquil summers.

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Tonight, I feel

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half asleep in some sort of sweet reverie,

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still very uncommon though,
because my brain seems to be

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completely submerged in a kind of
half-sickening melancholy.

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I can't tell if it's the moonlight
or the dawn,

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but in my mind everything is blurred

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and an irresistible laziness
pushes me up slowly towards my studio.

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I think I'll be going to sleep very early.

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Then suddenly at the door's entrance,

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I see my everyday objects.

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And all of a sudden I see a little postcard,

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one of my adolescent obesessions.

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Why not find in there something demonic;

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if I could manage to tranform it,

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so that this dying moonlight

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could become one of the most violent images

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my paranoid brain could
ever possibly provoke.

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The bells are always a bad omen
where I live.

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I decide to set

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the postcard, enlarged,
at the far end of a chapel,

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it will be some sort of unusual exorcism.

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In summary: the moon,
the tip of the nose,

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to the left the shaggy moustache,

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constant tragedy of the human face

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and the boat, the little boat

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but of course

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it could only be the contour of the nose.

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Yes, yes and yes, fix your eyes,

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spread your eyes wide
before this limpid water

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and suddenly from this tranquility,

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arises the fierce face,

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nietzschean,

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catastrophic,

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which always preceeds

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the most calm idyllic moments...

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One, two, three, four, five!

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Hitler will arise...

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See the cruel mouth of Hitler!

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See the eyes,

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especially his right eye,

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this kind of abominable tear,

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personified by the ridiculous
petit pierrot

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who strolls along the quays

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imbued with the grievous ideologies

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of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,

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who has caused the misfortunes
of all revolutions

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Teatro Museo Dalí
presents

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Impressions of Upper Mongolia

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Hommage to Raymond Roussel

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A film by Salvador Dalí

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Directed by José Montes Baquer

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And now

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we turn to the tranquility,
this time it is classic

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rather than romantic;

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the classic tranquility of the studio

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where I am painting, patiently

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and stereoscopically

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the portrait of Gala and myself.

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It is precisely in this supreme and immutable
tranquility of the Port Lligat

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that as a way to reward

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- REWARD, REWARD! -

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Gala for her love and patience,

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I decided to send

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a team of explorers,

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to illustrate, to rightfully
recompense her,

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so she could see the land

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we had so greatly desired,
of Upper Mongolia,

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where my explorers will go
to seek out the pure white mushroom,

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the hallucinogenic mushroom

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which posseses all the geological virtues,

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for geology is in itself
a total LSD trip.

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Enter the museum,
enter the Dali theater-museum,

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this consists of entering
through the printed circuit boards,

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that is to say, the circuits
printed in gold

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of the most intimate interior

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of the brain of Salvador Dalí.

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In Vermeer, the backgrounds
are always

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mysterious maps

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and it turns out to be
a Dalinian Paradox

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to see in these Vermeers,

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the two essential elements:

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the letter, set against itself
from very far

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explaining some sort of
unbelievable fairytale

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and behind it,
the geographical possibility,

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the fetishistic verification
of the possibilty to go there.

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It is more precisely,
through a letter

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that I learned about the existence
of a hallucinogenic civilisation

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in Occidental Upper Mongolia

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and it is exactly in this map,

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mysterious, surely,

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that we discovered the existence
of this strange geographical sector

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where the famous white mushrooms exist,

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soft,

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hallucinogenic:

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champlinclis histratatus
domus biancus.

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Behold the great soft mushroom;

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now it is moving

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because we have filmed
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I think we will soon see the island

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which is the protagonist of the birth
of this strange mushroom

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which has given birth
to a whole oneiric civilisation.

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There we are.

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Now we see the tip of the island,

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a piece of the island,

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and then, another which is
much more limpid and blue

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and the island itself
is already disquieting.

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Now I see some sort of vegetation

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which seem like warriors
busy devouring one another

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and which ressemble very much
prehistoric sketches

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describing battles.

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The "morros de cony",

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this mimetic insect

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which grows, precisely in this mushroom,

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which could have very well been ripe,
but is all moldy.

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These insects carry on their backs

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the eggs which contain all the
hallucinogenic products

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which are themselves
pentagonal or hexagonal.

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It is LSD without the LSD

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and instead of producing
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celestial images;

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as the angels of Elche descended
from his famous aracoelli,

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I conceived the celestial cupola
of Emille Piñeiro.

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Once again

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the obsession over these eggs

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found by my explorers in Mongolia,

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which crystallize, by way of a
paranoiac-critical prophecy,

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crystallize in the cupola,

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that will for the same price immortalize

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our great architect Emilio Piñeiro

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and it is nothing other
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terrifying with its beauty,

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apotheosic,

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once again,

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we can say, in an absolutely
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folklore cuckolded by the universality

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of the expedition to Upper Mongolia.

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Just as I was saying,
hypocritcally and precisely,

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this oriental screen,
which is very beautiful but banal,

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so there is no contrast with the other,

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dates from the dynasty
of the hallucinogenic princess.

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If the first document would arrive,

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a wonderful portrait,
a precious box.

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They seem to be true printed circuits
containing the egg

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which grows within the great soft mushroom.

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The great Mongol

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is holding the flower
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and in his hand

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is the precious box,
which we can barely see,

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but which we have just appraised
for all its worth.

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An instant...

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one of the chairs - which is not a chair,
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the throne of the princess,

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who is responsible for this
hallucinatory dynasty.

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Warriors,

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which seem to be warriors
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The famous mummy of the princess.

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She is covered in six million
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each of these plates contain
miniature letters

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which reveal the secret of this dynasty,

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the most mysterious of all;

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each of these plates have been analyzed

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and we discovered that

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many of these plates contain the screen

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which we will see integrated
in the film of our expedition.

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As a result, during my visit to Cadaques

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and in the intimacy of my work,

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typical, archetypical
of Vermeer of Delft,

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the explorers were searching

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for the fabulous hallucinogenic
white mushroom

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which they brought to me
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this mushroom, did nothing other than

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truly, inescapably determine

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all the styles of the Dalí Museum
in Figueres

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and the proof is that this ceiling,

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which was intended to be
the Palais del'Empordà

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that is to say, an almost
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becomes universal

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because it will be,
ultimately,

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a premonition

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of the hyperesthetic,
hallucinogenic images

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of my illustrious, minimal,
little ballpoint pen.

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Open up your eyes,

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because all that you are about to see

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is the work the of paranoiac-
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of the brain of your modest
and proud servant.

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Immediately after

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the appearance of these strange capsules

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which contain so many mysterious things;

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we can see the lift-off,
the shadow of lift-off

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of the planes; one of them transports
the photographic material,

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the other, all the gathered information

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this other carries scientists
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The aurora.

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We are surprised by the beauty of colors

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which seem like a multitude
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Below is a city with electric lights

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for this place has already been modernized.

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On the horizon, radars,

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an unknown city,

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we have passed it quickly

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because this flight is almost clandestine

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and everyone is asking themselves

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when we will see the first
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Here now is the island.

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It is on this island that the
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the mushrooms which are the
object of our expedition.

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Here now is the sea,

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or rather a lake...

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one of the most important lakes.

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It is full of vegetation;

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our contraption is approaching

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and we see one of these strange lands,
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which are like fleas;

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you can see what seems to be
little grains of penicillin,

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of white mold,

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those are gigantic mushrooms

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and these mushrooms need six years to form.

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The largest one found was eighteen meters,

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this one,

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eighteen meters high

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and with the sole subtance of this mushroom,
reduced to powder

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a whole civilisation of Upper Mongolia
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For these people could no longer distinguish

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reality from their visions.

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From time to time we have
this extraordinary thing

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between the rocks,
ultramarine water,

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pure with profundity,

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where

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the fish has just been brought to us.

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The other island, the second island

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much smaller,

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but it seems that this island
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there are no more mushrooms.

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Nevertheless, in the background,

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white spots persist

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because it is as if this landscape
were granulated,

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garnished with possibilities
of pagodas.

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And here they are.

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This is the land

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where we discovered
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the reddish thing is a temple,

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above, it is all red

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because the mountains are full of shrubs

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which at sunset truly seem to be fire.

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The cliffs,

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these cliffs are sandy

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and it is possible that
the sand of these cliffs

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is nothing but the finest powder

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from thousands of gigantic mushrooms.

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We live in a place

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which is pulverised with substances,

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a thousand times more powerful
than LSD and which

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the caravans of the desert come to find

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with the most painful and rudimentary
means, on the back of camels

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and here I requested that the
photograph be amplified

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because I would like to see the type of
people who are mounted on the camels.

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Now we can see the caravan,

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moving towards the place
where the grand princess can be found

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and who is now reduced to the most luxurious
and refined mummy that exists in this world.

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We now see a kind of landscape which
we could almost say is from Cadaqués,

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little rustic houses,

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I see cypress, in the center
the Great Mongol

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who holds in one hand
the precious chest,

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a very pointed hat,

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and in the other hand
a flower that blossoms

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every six years at the top of the
hallucinogenic mushroom.

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Here now, one of the protagonists
of the film,

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now we see the Great Mongol.

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He is even carrying, I can see,
a lace frill,

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we see the box,
we see his gesture,

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he is the criminal responsible
for this civilization

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for these people burst with the satisfaction

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of the excess of images,

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for their brains weren't able to endure it

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and produced this extraordinary shock,

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this catastrophy which we will soon see,

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a kind of apocalypse of rocks

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and stones to be analysed.

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Here begins a screen,

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produced by the brains of people
who were completely drugged

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by the soft, white mushroom
from before.

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You can see that the sky
is covered by kinds of objects,

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pieces, fragments of falling geology,

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but what is truly important here
is the center.

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The great tamer who carries
a horizontal bar

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and who is, like Orpheus, directing
the chaos we are seeing:

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beings made of stones, animals

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with several scattered limbs,
shredded by the preciosity of their matter.

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At the very center is the mummy.

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The head of the mummy,
when she was alive.

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There is a kind of mad warrior

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who is in the middle of battling another
who is falling with a decapitated head

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while before the horizon,
at every corner,

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floats this kind of cataclysm we are seeing.

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Look, as always, at the serenity
of this face

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in combination with the total indifference
of the Great Mongol.

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Now this is simply

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the most interesting part of the film,

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they are pieces of maps.

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The same thing Vermeer
did in his paintings,

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of which never before had we seen
an explosion of bizarre objects,

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each consisting of ultra concrete images.

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You can see here people who are giving
each other gifts, who are on their knees,

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to the right now will appear a big spider,

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mutilated, without legs,

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like a kind of Bourgogne snail,

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with a long aggressive antenna.

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But it is simply because someone
has just mutilated this spider,

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and cut off all her legs.

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And that is why there are people floating,
and fighting and walking,

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half in sky, half underground,

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half in the heights
which are still very hard,

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and in the milieu amédiste

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once again this spider will disappear,

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because all that we are seeing
is from Upper Mongolia,

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but at the same time high cruelty.

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The deep sea

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which emerges, finally, into
quotidian reality

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of fishermen of pearls
and unknown shells.

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In the background, there is the port,
all the sails and all the boats

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and in the foreground of this pile,

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worthy of Leonardo da Vinci,

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and the skies of an iridescent beauty
which remind us of the dreams of Bizet

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who would have been enchanted
to put here

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the famous pearl fishers of his prelude.

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We see suddenly from this image

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so much dawn in this land

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before the hallucinogenic invasion
of the princess,

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it seems impossible that the battle
would arise again.

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Another grand mural,
dating almost from

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we could say, the prehistoric era,

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in which we see beings that are running,

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beings that are crying

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beings that are fighting

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and which are a truly visceral dawning

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because all great paradise or all
great apocalypse, all great nirvana

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is always commanded by a war.

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Here is the horse,

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which seems to be from the battle of Tétuan,

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thanks to our specialists

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we are able to spring
from this last battle,

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which diminishes in intensity,

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until the apparition

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of the most tranquil lakes,

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the mauve lake,
surrounded by green.

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And suddenly...

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Coup de théatre!

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No, not coup de theatre:
Coup de cinéma!

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For this little subliminal object,

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this ballpoint pen from the Hotel
Saint Regis, which I kiss,

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contains in its little, minute,
metallic section

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all the film, all the hallucinogenic images

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which Dalí has just imposed
on your brain.

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Which... if we were not in this
dreadful time of pornography

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I would slowly lower the ballpoint

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down to the level of my little sex

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and I would pour a few minute drops
of uric acid,

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which, having eaten away the small,
divine and glowing part,

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provoked the structures that your
humble and proud servant

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has provoked, for you must know
that Dali is an agent provocateur,

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and I repeat: has provoked this

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during this whole time which your brain

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has been shook by this marvelous
hommage to Upper Mongolia.

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Long live this rare ballpoint!

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War, war!

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And triumph to the power of imagination!

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This ballpoint

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contains the whole hommage
to Raymond Roussel,

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the whole voyage, the whole expedition
to Upper Mongolia,

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and the microstructures

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which my team filmed
in a castle in Germany,

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a castle worthy of the alchemists
of the middle ages,

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this is what you have just seen.

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Translation: Colombina Zamponi (2008)