2:55:00
We will be content with that
2:55:03
and cultivate it
and make the best of it.
2:55:11
Suddenly death strikes.
2:55:14
Suddenly the abyss opens.
2:55:20
Suddenly the storm howls,
and disaster is upon us.
2:55:24
All that we know.
2:55:26
But let us not think
of all that unpleasantness.
2:55:30
We Ekdahls love our subterfuges.
2:55:35
Rob a man of his subterfuges
and he goes mad and begins lashing out.
2:55:40
Damn it all,
people must be intelligible!
2:55:46
Otherwise we don't dare to love them
or speak ill of them.
2:55:50
We must be able to grasp
the world and reality
2:55:55
so we can complain of their monotony
with a clear conscience.
2:56:00
Don't be sad, dear splendid artists.
2:56:08
Actors and actresses,
we need you all the same.
2:56:14
It is you who must give us
our supernatural shivers,
2:56:20
or better yet,
our innermost diversions.
2:56:28
The world is a den of thieves
and night is falling.
2:56:34
Evil breaks its chains
and runs through the world like a mad dog.
2:56:38
The poison affects us all,
2:56:43
us Ekdahls and everyone else.
2:56:48
No one escapes, not even
Helena Viktoria or little Aurora.
2:56:57
So it shall be.