:54:02
You can't change a person.
:54:05
Not even one.
:54:07
That goes for me too,
because l'II never change.
:54:11
You're out of step with history,
:54:13
because history is going
in that direction.
:54:17
History is time, isn't it?
:54:21
Nun, bride, widow, old maid...
:54:25
...nun!
:54:26
' I know time doesn't exist.
' That's beautiful.
:54:30
But it's nothing new.
You've read Proust and...
:54:33
I know a story older than Proust.
:54:39
Once upon a time there was
an old wiseman...
:54:42
...like you...
:54:43
...who had a young disciple...
like him.
:54:47
They wandered
through the countryside.
:54:50
One day the old wiseman said
to the young man:
:54:54
''I am very thirsty, would you
fetch me a glass of water?''
:54:58
The young man said: ''Yes, I will. ''
:55:00
He went down the road
and came to a fountain.
:55:04
Beyond the fountain
he saw a town...
:55:08
...a wonderful town...
:55:10
...which fascinated him.
:55:12
In this town he met a girl,
:55:15
mysterious, extraordinary like you!
:55:18
He married her, had many children
and lived with her for 20 years.
:55:21
Cheat, you already knew it!
:55:23
After 20 years a terrible
plague broke out,
:55:26
everyone died and only he survived.
:55:29
By that time he had grown old.
:55:31
Desperate, he began wandering
through the country,
:55:33
he walked a lot
:55:35
and arrived where
he had left the old wiseman.
:55:38
And who did he see?
:55:41
The old wiseman
who was still sitting there
:55:44
and he said to him:
:55:46
''It really took you long
:55:49
to fetch a glass of water!
:55:51
L've been waiting all afternoon! ''
:55:56
Time does not exist.
:55:58
'Understand?