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Hiya,

To your knowledge, has a transcript (either official or fan-transcribed) ever been released for the dialogue & spoken-word components of The Odyssey?

If so, do you know where I could obtain a copy?

The film is so affecting and the spoken word has always haunted me (as do F's songs), maybe even more so as it/I age(s).

(cannot understand how HBHBHB is 10 years next June! AAAH).

Thanks very kindly for your time,

/Kit

TRANSCRIPT

Scene 1: What Kind of Man

Man: I heard you talking in your sleep last night.

Florence: What were you doing?

Man: I was just um, I was just watching. You seemed, uh, you seemed sad.

Florence: Why didn’t you wake me up?

Man: Uh, I didn’t, I didn’t want to, uh, I didn’t want to intervene. It just seemed like you were, you were suffering somewhere else. I, I didn’t think that it was my place to, to drag you out of it, so um, I just let you be.

Florence: So you just let me suffer? So you think that people that suffer together would be more connected than people who were content?

Man: Yeah, I do.

Florence: I suppose if you’d been through something. Like if you’d been through something catastrophic. If you’d been through like, like a storm or an earthquake together or something like horrendous, you, it would bring you closer together. But what if they are creating the disaster within themselves? *Laugh*.

Man: It’s not, it’s not…yeah that’s what happens, that…

Cut-scene

Florence: And there’s this big storm that’s all around us and we’re in the middle of it so it’s calm. But I can feel it, like it’s everywhere. And things are OK now but I never know when it’s going to change.

——

Scene 2: St Jude

Stranger: why are you traveling alone, are you lost?

Cut-scene

Florence: We’re not changing, I’m not changing.

——

Scene 4: Queen of Peace

‘Body Of Water’ - part 1:

To give yourself over to another body

That’s all you want really

To be out of your own and consumed by another

To swim inside the skin of your lover

Not have to breathe

Not have to think

But you can’t live on love

And salt water’s no drink

Scene 5: Long and Lost

‘Body of Water’ - part 2:

We're dying of thirst so we feast on each other

The sea is still our violent mother

The blood round here pours down like water

Each wave a lamb lead to the slaughter

And like children that she just can’t teach

We break, and break, and break

And break ourselves upon the beach

——

Scene 6: Mother

Man: When are you leaving here?

Florence: I don’t know, maybe I’ll stay.

Man: This is just a place you know, a visit. Pass through.

Florence: Yeah I don’t know, I thought…I guess I think this is what I wanted um…and sometimes I still think that I should stay.

Man: Nobody stays here. And you can leave. You will leave here.

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Scene 7: Delilah

Man: you think you have lost your faith but you have not. You have only misplaced your faith. And you can find it where it lies now deep in your soul. And the way to do that is through the simple process of love. Love yourself. You can’t love and forgive other people if you don’t first of all love and forgive yourself. You have to realise that people are fallible beings. They make mistakes. They have to be excused from these mistakes, and allowed to continue in their quest for a better life and for goodness. So love yourself and then love other people. Please forgive yourself. Go on a journey of finding love and forgiveness…