Dragon Seed Page #4
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1944
- 148 min
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You look so pale and so thin.
You are so to be pitied, you big turnip.
I wish I were a man of learning.
I wish I knew the words to ease myself
so I could tell you what I feel.
What do you feel?
I know, but...
I do not have the words.
I too am not very learned.
Is that why
Two must speak for understanding.
If I tell you everything that is in me,
will you tell me all that is in you?
- Yes.
- Then tonight we will speak together?
Yes.
Fetch me my food.
I will eat here in the courtyard.
- Yes, my husband.
- And since you did not cook the meal...
- Yes, my husband.
He must have beaten her.
I do not take too much credit to myself...
...that I'm the only man in these parts
who can read and write.
But how would I find time for my books
if you did not send me rice...
...and a new coat now and then,
and sometimes even meat?
You are a scholar and my honored cousin.
It is only proper
that your needs and comforts be supplied.
My land yields enough for all.
Orchid, it is time my grandson
was in his bed.
- Yes, my mother.
- But, cousin, have you ever thought of this:
When your time comes
to go into the earth yourself...
...shall you divide your land
between your sons?
Yes, I have thought of that.
You have made a good beginning.
Do not spoil it.
Will there still be enough for all?
Or will they quarrel
because their bellies are not full?
As my eldest son,
you must answer our cousin.
Can this land feed three men and
their wives and children after I am gone?
It can. For I will eat less meat, if my
brothers will, and leave in peace with them.
If I have taught my sons
that peace is good, I am content.
If you had been with me today, you would
not speak so easily of peace, my father.
If it were proper for a man
to speak to his daughter-in-law...
...l'd ask her why should not
peaceful men speak of peace.
Forgive my wife, Father, for speaking
so boldly, but today at the teahouse...
...students came and showed
the magic pictures and talked.
They told of the war in the North
and how the dwarfs...
...from the East Ocean islands
burn cities and kill our people.
I wonder if my daughter remembers...
...when other students
brought the pictures of flies.
I remember.
Flies as large as water buffalo.
Yes, and they told us
they were more dangerous than tigers.
And everyone knows that our flies...
...are as small as a grain of rice
and as harmless.
And so does it not follow
that today also perhaps...
...both words and pictures were made
too large to be either truth or life?
Does that not quiet
the woman's fear of my daughter?
Of course it does.
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