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Chapter 13, Number 26: Listening and understanding

Speaker: But you are over the most important, a life full of work.
The Old: Nothing but work.
Speaker: You should rest now.
The Old: One really should not live anymore.
Speaker: Your family shouldn't hear that.
The Old: They all live without me.
The Old: Nobody asks me. Nobody talks... what we will do tomorrow, how is it outside.
The Old: They go out... and in. Running away.
The Old: I don't know whereto. I never know, what they are doing, what's happening.
Speaker: Of course. You just sit there all day long and don't see so well, what's going on around you.
The Old: I see nothing.
Speaker: So you get the feeling that life's passing by... out there on the streets.
The Old: Here, too... here in the house, too.
The Old: Everybody comes and goes. Nobody says wherefrom, whereto.

The Old: Nobody asks the old. It's a useless life... you know?
The Old: The young farmer doesn't need me anymore. The whole house doesn't need me anymore.
Speaker: But the children do visit you often, wanting this and that.
Speaker: Sometimes you fix a broken toy. I've seen that myself.
The Old: Oh yeah. The childen...
Speaker: That's a lot. What do you think, how much the childen will miss you, once you aren't there anymore.
Speaker: And then - ha - then... all the others, too. They are used to you being around.
Speaker: But you feel the loss just when you have something no longer.
The Old: Those are nice words. It is hard to be old.
The Old: I thank you.
The Old: Come back... if your work allows time, for a little conversation.
The Old: And if it's not too boring for you, with the old.


Band: Ulver
Album: 1993-2003: 1st Decade in the Machines
Genre: Experimental, Electronic, Avant-Garde music
Country: Norway
Year: 2003