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[[Le Roi des Aulnes]]
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|{{Tab}}Il est bien caractéristique de notre temps que le progrès se fasse désormais à ''rebours''. Il y a seulement quelques années, l'apparition d'automobiles marchant au bois aurait suscité le rire. Bientôt on va nous présenter comme dernier cri de la technologie un moteur consommant exclusivement du ''foin'', et on finira par découvrir avec ravissement la voiture à cheval.
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[Burnstdein] Just old age. It's the only desease, Mr Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.
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[Ted] I can remember absolutely everything, that's my curse.
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That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race : memory.
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[Thompson]Wasn't he ever in love with her?
[Ted]He married for love. Love. That is why he did everything.
That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough.
He wanted all the voters to love him, too.
All he wanted out of life was love.
That's Charlie's story. How he lost it.
You see, he just didn't have any to give.
He loved Charlie Kane, of course. Very dearly.
And his mother, I guess he always loved her.
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[Kane] Want to know what I was going to do before I ruined my best Synday clothes ?
- I bet they're not your best sunday clothees. You probably have more.
- I was jut joking.
I was on my way to the Western Manhattan Warehouse in search of my youth.
You see, my mother died a long time ago,
and her things were put in storage out West.
There wasn't any other place to put them.
I thought I'd send for them now.
Tonigh I was going to take a look at them.
You know, a sort of sentimental journey.
I suppose he had some sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself.
He never gave himself away.
He enver gave anything away.
He just left you a tip.
He had a generous mind.
I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions.
But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane.
He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life.
I suppose he died without one.
- What's Rosebud ?
- That's what he said when he died, did you ever find out what it means ?
- No I didn't.
- What did you find out about him ?
- Not much, really. () We'd better get started.
- What have you been doing all this time ?
- Playing with a jiggsaw puzzle.
- If you'd discovered what Rosebud meant, I bet it would've explained everything.
- No I don't think so. No. Mr Kane was a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it.
Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get or something he lost.
Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything.
I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
No. I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
A missing piece.
[Thompson]
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