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the patient will always be limited.
Relieved of acute anxiety,
yes, but limited.
But what a blessing to them, doctor,
to be just peaceful.
To be just suddenly peaceful.
After all that horror...
...after those nightmares...
...just to be able to lift up
their eyes to a sky...
...not black with savage,
devouring birds.
You said a sky filled with savage,
devouring birds?
Did I?
How odd. I hadn't thought
about all that in years.
Now, why should I suddenly...?
Yes, we saw those birds
one summer in the Pacific.
You see, my son,
Sebastian, was looking for...
Looking for what?
Rare, hungry birds.
That isn't what you started to say.
You're too quick for me.
No. I was going to say my son,
Sebastian, was looking for God.
But I stopped myself
because I thought you'd think:
"What a pretentious young crackpot."
Which Sebastian was not.
This is something
I've never told anyone before.
Something so strange, so terrible.
Forgive me if I sound quite mad,
but it's true all the same.
Sebastian saw the face of God.
I'd like to hear about that.
Yes, yes.
One long ago summer,
sitting right here in this garden...
...Sebastian said to me,
"Mother, listen to this."
And he read me
Herman Melville's description...
...of the Encantadas,
the Galpagos Islands.
He read me that description
and said we had to go there.
And so we did go there that summer...
...on a chartered boat,
a four-masted schooner...
...the sort of boat that
Melville would have sailed on.
We saw the Encantadas.
But on the Encantadas
we saw something...
...that Melville hadn't written about.
We saw the great sea turtles
crawl up out of the sea...
...for their annual egg-laying.
Once a year, the female
of the sea turtles...
...crawls up out of the equatorial sea
onto the blazing sand beach...
...of a volcanic island
to dig a pit in the sand...
...and deposit her eggs there.
It's a long and dreadful thing,
the depositing of the eggs in the pits.
And when it's finished...
...the exhausted
female turtle crawls...
...back to the sea half-dead.
She never sees her offspring.
But we did.
Sebastian knew exactly when
the sea turtle eggs would be hatched...
...and we returned in time for it.
You went back?
In time to witness
the hatching of the sea turtles...
to the sea.
The narrow beach, the color
of caviar, was all in motion...
...but the sky was in motion too,
full of flesh-eating birds.
And the noise of the birds...
...their horrible savage cries
as they circled...
...over the narrow black beach
of the Encantadas...
...while the new-hatched sea turtles
scrambled out of their sandpits...
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