:03:00
Bigger fish want to eat them.
:03:02
That luminous water...
:03:04
it takes its gleam
from millions of tiny dead bodies.
:03:08
The glitter of putrescence.
:03:12
There's no beauty here,
only death and decay.
:03:16
You can't really believe that.
:03:20
Everything good dies here, even the stars.
:03:31
It was strange to have him break in
on my thoughts that way.
:03:34
There was cruelty and hardness
in his voice.
:03:37
And yet something about him I liked.
:03:40
Something clean and honest...
:03:42
but hurt, badly hurt.
:04:10
Times gone, Fort Holland was a fort.
And now, no longer.
:04:15
The Hollands
was the most old family, miss.
:04:18
They brought the colored folks
to the island...
:04:20
the colored folks and Ti-Misery.
:04:22
Ti-Misery? What's that?
:04:24
A man, miss. An old man who lives
in the garden at Fort Holland.
:04:28
With arrows stuck in him and a sorrowful,
weeping look on his black face.
:04:32
Alive?
:04:34
No, miss, he's just the same as he was
in the beginning...
:04:37
on the front side of an enormous boat.
:04:39
- You mean a figurehead.
- If you say, miss.
:04:42
And the enormous boat
brought the long-ago fathers...
:04:45
and the long-ago mothers of us all,
chained to the bottom of the boat.
:04:51
They brought you to a beautiful place,
didn't they?
:04:53
If you say, miss. If you say.