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The Inhuman Woman
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A fantasia by Marcel L'Herbier
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Here, overlooking the city,
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is the mansion of Claire Lescot,
famous singer, and unique woman
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Her riches release her from banality.
Claire Lescot
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She holds an "international" salon, where she meets
with notable personalities of the world.
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In her fancy she invites a famous clown,
academic, a former minister
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a boxer, an industrialist, as well as
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Frank Mahler, a powerful businessman
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Kranine, "the Apostle",
with his theory of the "humanitarian"
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...a practitioner of despotism,
the maharajah Djorah of Nopur...
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Among all those admirers,
there is a hidden rivalry...
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Each dreams of possessing this famous woman
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whose triumphs have not reduced their loneliness.
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Concert... the protests
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Claire Lescots comeback threatens
to cause an uproar.
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The singers upcoming marriage
to Frank M.lh.r has just been announced.
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He "only" has twelve important venues
in the United States.
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This announcement, and the strange maneuvers
behind it, have upset certain artists.
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Her upcoming recital will have
an unexpected chorus of protests.
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At last! Claire...
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Even her closest friends call her
"The Inhuman Woman"
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In this privileged court the most secret things
can be overheard...
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...the servants wear a mask to make them deaf
...and grinning.
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A final guest is late... Claire decides not to wait.
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The late guest...
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...a young engineer,
with a passion of mechanical sports
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and the magic of modern science...
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Claire, with her glory, power, mystery,
deeply impresses the young admirer...
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does he dare enter so late?
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"Yes, after my two concerts,
I have decided to leave.
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I will take a trip around the world alone...
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...unless something detains me here..."
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SOMETHING
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Something
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SOMETHING
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SOMETHING?
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WHAT?
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SUCCESS?
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LOVE?
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The unexpected?
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She is leaving! He must speak to her now.
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What would keep her there?
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"Why this trip? Why not go to America?
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There you may do as you please.
I offer you all my theaters."
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"NO... thank you...
I am only interested in what I can conquer!"
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Worried about Claire's departure,
"The Apostle" also makes a proposal.
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"The wheel of society is always turning.
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For a woman of action such as you,
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what could be better than
the PROGRESS OF HUMANITY!
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...our movement advances in Mongolia.
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Imagine the role you can play... there."
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"Your humanity leaves me cold;
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only superior beings interest me."
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While Claire had provided for entertainments...
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Djorah...
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"... A "wreath"?
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...I'm not dead yet!
...Kill me first!"
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Claire's indifference exasperates the impatient Einar...
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"I do not want you to leave"
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"... because I..."
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And Soon...
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they are playing with fire...
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"I am tired of quarelling...
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I need your strength
...for me alone"
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"... if you refuse..."
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"... I will kill myself!"
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"If you can destroy your life so easily,
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it wasn't worth much to begin with."
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Claire's irony sharpens Einar's desperation.
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It has been reported...
that our great singer Claire Lescot
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has finally accepted the crown that
a charming maharajah has offered her.
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Without you this world is odious to me...
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one turn of the wheel will cast me
into the other world.
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Ignoring all
Claire agreed to sing
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Without you this world is odious to me...
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one turn of the wheel will cast me
into the other world.
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A little farm girl, an "innocent"...
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It is - already - the morning...
Claire has just learned...
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...The search was in vain.
The body has been lost in the water...
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Tonight
- Claire Lescot -
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Vocal Recital
Modern Music
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"... She will not sing, I think, after that!"
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He loved the Beauty too much...
...and that is what has killed him.
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Einar Norsen, a young engineer who,
yesterday afternoon,
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left Claire's house, was found dead
(voluntarily, they say),
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after crashing his car down a fatal slope.
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..."the Apostle" prepares his part in the downfall
of someone who frustrated his personal ambition.
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"Lets punish this creature
who has insulted humanity...
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We meet tonight, at her show."
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Tauberger Theater Manager
Champs Elysees
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Unable to sing tonight reimburse box office
from personal income
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This renunciation, dictated by social conventions
creates a moment of poise.
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But her reason rebels against her sadness...
Was it a betrayal of her duty to serve her art?
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Must she disappoint her audience?
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Out of fear of the murmurings...
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Out of cowardice of the sentimental hypocrisy
of humanity?
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"Rumor has it that you will not sing this evening...
Is this true?..."
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"... it is wrong... I will sing this evening..."
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Everywhere, little by little,
the calumny slowly spreads.
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He loved the Beauty too much
...and that is what has killed him
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Einar Norsen, a young engineer who,
yesterday evening,
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left Claire's house, was found dead
(voluntarily, they say),
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thanks to a fall down a fatal slope.
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"This Lescot, what an outrageous life!
She should be locked up!"
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A young engineer commits suicide for an artist.
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"She shouldn't be forgiven...
a woman without guts!"
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In the evening
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...The audience swells,
shaken by the tragedy and the scandal
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Already the show began
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among the last to arrive
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The ballet is ending. The theater is packed.
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After a brief intermission, Claire appears
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Now a curious murmurs greets Claire's entrance
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Suddenly Kranine attacks
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The entire theater rises up for
or against this "inhuman" woman...
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...Who boldly holds her head up to them...
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...Her triumph is complete.
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And while the theater empties?
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"No... For no one!"
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"I would like to speak to you...
somewhere else - about Einar Norsen..."
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"They just found his horribly mutilated body..."
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"To legally identify the body,
two witnesses are required
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Please be the second witness..."
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"In your home... tomorrow... at seven..."
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At the appointed time
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Towards the strange laboratory
where Einar Norsen's body lies...
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Claire... weak from shock...
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...unexpected music... hateful...
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in this tortured atmosphere,
Claire is increasingly... haunted...
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suddenly the wind...
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when she finally gives vent to
the Secret of her suffering...
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suddenly
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"please forgive this... mystification..."
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"I intended to die when I left your home,
but I remembered your saying"
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If you can destroy your life so easily,
it wasn't worth much to begin.
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"And then I wanted them to think me dead
in order to discover what you kept hidden..."
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"You don't know anything more than that!"
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"I know you're here!
Otherwise, you would never have come!"
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"Yes! I know something more...
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"Something here will make you cancel your trip."
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While, disarmed, Claire smiles at this mystery,
outside Djorah...
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DANGER OF DEATH
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"Beware!
This device is dangerous..."
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"Until tomorrow... here..."
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The prince's jealousy increases...
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Claire wants to be alone,
her spirit surprisingly obsessed
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My patience will last no longer than this rose!
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All this magical science
at Einar's home haunts Claire,
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like something as strong as love.
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At the scheduled time at the home
of the scientist, modern "enchanter"
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THE WORLD IS HERE
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MOVE AROUND BY WIRELESS
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"See... Why leave?
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It is enough for you to just sing here
in front of the microphone.
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And while the radio broadcasts your voice everywhere,
on the same wavelengths,
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by a new process,
the image of your listeners will return."
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"On this television screen you will be able to see,
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while you sing, the people listening to you
all over the world."
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She travels without moving through space
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...across the joy and pain of people...
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She forgets time...
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...And my concert! it is appalling..."
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"There are already people lining outside of the theaters
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"Yes... it is a new device attached to the one
where you almost burnt to death yesterday,
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It produces a force of unexpected effects."
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"... perhaps it is possible to revive
the movements of a heart,
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heal humanity from death,
but I have not dared to experiment on anyone."
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Careful... The machine...
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"Will you come this evening...
after the theater?"
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"But... yes."
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The concert is over
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"I forbid you to go there."
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"Watch out... you will not arrive there alive"
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From Einar.
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A deadly reptile from Asia
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"To Mr. Norsen's house"
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Then Einar, stupefied, discovers...
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And now the great laboratory throbs with activity...
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He attempts an experiment to save Claire
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Einar decides to try again,
and under his command everything comes to life...
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...as in a symphony of labor
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"I wanted to come for the dangerous experience..."
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"... it was for love of...
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...humanity..."
