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Apr 07 2009
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Lancelot. All right. Do you know what the Book of Sorrows is?
Elsa. No.
Lancelot. Now you will. Five years' walk from here, in the Black Mountains, there's an enormous cave. There's a book lying in this cave, filled up to half. Nobody touches it, but page after page gets added to the ones written before, added every day. Who writes them, you ask? The world!
The mountains, the grass, the stones, the trees, the rivers -- they all see what people are doing. All the crimes are known to them, all the suffering of innocents. From branch to branch, from drop to drop, from cloud to cloud the human sorrows reach the cave in the Black mountains, and the book grows with them. If there weren't this book in the world, all trees would die from longing, and water would become bitter. Who is this book being written for? For me.
Elsa. For you?
Lancelot. For us. For me and few others. We are light and watchful people. We discovered that there is such a book, and took pains to reach it. And whoever glances into this book once will never have peace again. What a sorrowful book it is! The complaints cannot lay unanswered. And we answer them.
-- Eugeny L. Schwarz. Dragon.
A fairy tale in 3 acts.