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Go retrieve the rifle! Run! Run!
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As a boy involved
in the heroic defence of van,
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Gorky was witness to one
of the most courageous moments
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in Armenian history.
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But the years
which were to follow
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would see him lose a home,
his people,
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and most dramatically,
his beloved mother.
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In his most famous painting,
Gorky leaves
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his mother's hand unfinished.
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As if the history
of its composition,
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like that of his people,
had been violently interrupted.
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The earthly sensuality of
the mother's touch is no more.
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Only pure, burning
spiritual light remains.
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- Excuse me.
1:11:08
You said before that Gorky
worked on that painting
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10 years.
1:11:12
- That's right.
- Is it possible
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to work on something that long
and leave it unfinished?
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- The painting is finished.
1:11:21
The unfinished hands
of his mother
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were left purposely that way.
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- Yeah, but...
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don't you think he finished
his mother's hands
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and after,
decided to erase them?
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That he needed to destroy
what he made?
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Can we talk about his suicide?
1:11:44
- No.
1:11:45
- Why not?
- Because it was not
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what I had intended
to read today.
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- L'm just curious about the way
you described the suicide
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in your book. You... you make it
sound as if Gorky was obsessed
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with memories of the genocide,
but you don't talk about...
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...coming to this event.
- Okay, okay. Ljust want