Mysterious Extracts from a Film's Subtitle Track

Daniel Kasman

Excerpts from an English translation (unknown author) of Jacques Rivette's 1976 film, Duelle (une quarantaine), screenplay by Eduardo de Gregorio and Marilù Parolini:

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I've lost his trail.

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He would come in and in a blink of an eye everything was different.

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He drank and drank...

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and made a big gesture, like this...

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and the mirror broke.

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Like anyone can sleep with these jungle drums around.

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One might say cursed.

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I don't like organizations.

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But I'm the organization.

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He's dead and I think only of myself.

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He burned, little by little, until he dissappeared.

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Can you come to the Aquarium tonight?

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I'm investigating gaming halls.

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Do you play often? For a lot? Which game?

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two rights turns, two lefts turns...

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I believe you were lured into a trap. The story was only a pretext.

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After a few dozens rounds you start to understand.

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Cold tea, then dancing, then more tea, then more dancing.

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In any case, she's a mythomane.

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I don't understand anything.  Your explanations are confused.

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It was as if she was able to be in two places at the same time.

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Horrible, abominable...

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The dream is the aquarium of the night.

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I see you on the edge of a lake as a knight in the water's reflection.

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You might be waiting pointlessly.

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Too bad. - No funny business between us.

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- Destroyer of cities!

- ... who strikes from afar.

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You are elsewhere.

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All walls can be collapsed.

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Desperate. Forever. Without your flying carpet or hocus-pocus.

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but it's as if I have no memory of anything that happened before.

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I see what I weave only from behind, never from the front.

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With horrible agonies.

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I believed I had your dimensions.

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But I was only an imitation.

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Look! I've almost passed to the other side.

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The three threads lead to one another.

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The third victim is me.

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I was nothing but a soldier in the battle of two queens.

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I transferred the thing from one to the other.

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The Goddess always arrived too late.

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All walls collapse.

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