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At dawn we'll be in Tokyo.
:02:31
He used to write me from Africa.
:02:33
He contrasted African time to European time,
and also to Asian time.
:02:36
He said that in the 19th century mankind
had come to terms with space,
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and that the great question of the 20th was
the coexistence of different concepts of time.
:02:43
By the way, did you know that there are emus
in the Île de France?
:02:58
He wrote me that in the Bijagós Islands
it's the young girls who choose their fiancées.
:03:03
He wrote me that in the suburbs of Tokyo
there is a temple consecrated to cats.
:03:27
I wish I could convey to you the simplicity
the lack of affectation
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of this couple who had come to place
an inscribed wooden slat in the cat cemetery
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so their cat Tora would be protected.
:03:39
No she wasn't dead, only run away.
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But on the day of her death no one
would know how to pray for her,
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how to intercede with death so that
he would call her by her right name.
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So they had to come there,
both of them, under the rain,
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to perform the rite that would repair
the web of time where it had been broken.