
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- PG
- Year:
- 2004
- 120 min
- 44 Views
If there were any plan in the universe...
...any pattern to human life...
...surely it could be discovered
mysteriously latent...
...in those lives so suddenly cut off.
Either we live by accident...
...and die by accident...
...or we live by plan...
...and die by plan.
The day of the funeral,
all Lima was in a state of a trance.
The bodies of the victims
had been approximately collected, but...
...only approximately separated.
It was a great service...
...and a resolute rendering of hearts
among soul-searchers.
There but for the grace of God.
Why did this happen to those five?
Why not me?
On Friday at noon,
the finest bridge in all Peru broke...
...and precipitated five travelers...
...into the gulf below.
We have all of us,
since we have heard of the accident...
...made the...
the sign of the cross...
...and a mental calculation...
...as to how recently
we had crossed by it...
...and how soon we had intended
crossing by it again.
We live in a country, in a place...
...where catastrophes,
which are shockingly called acts of God...
...are more than usually frequent.
Tidal waves
have washed away entire cities.
in some parts...
...and diseases are forever flitting
in and out of the provinces.
Old age carries away
some of our most admirable citizens...
...and towers fall
on good men and women all the time.
But we have all of us been
deeply impressed...
...and especially touched...
...by the rent
in the bridge of San Luis Rey.
among the things that would last forever.
It was unthinkable
that it should just... break.
We've all had hallucinations
of ourselves...
...falling into that gulf.
Within ten minutes... myself.
It would have been me.
So I resolved to inquire into the
secret lives of those five persons...
...falling through the air at that moment...
...and to surprise the reasons
of theirtaking off.
For six years,
I knocked on all the doors in Lima...
...asked hundreds of questions...
...cataloging thousands of little facts
and anecdotes and testimonies...
...as accurately as I could.
The result, as we know,
was this torrid testament...
...as heretical in title as in content.
Sheer treachery.
It's but a book of findings.
Nothing more sinister.
The mere facts of these five lonely lives
so tragically cut off.
So, we may never know
their central passions...
...and you, who claim to have inquired
after every detail of their existences...
...isn't it possible that even you have
missed the very spring within the well?
If you'll permit, what I wrote down were
the particulars of these precious portraits.
I began in the Franciscan reading room
at San Martin...
...with a book that is bound
between two great wooden covers.
It was there that I came upon
the only copy of the volumes of letters...
...from the Marquesa de Montemayor...
...to her daughter, Doa Clara.
I will write often.
I will write every day, my love.
And when my little daughter
has a little...
It must take
six months at least, Marquesa...
...to receive an answer
to one's letter from Spain.
Left alone in Lima...
...the Marquesa's life grew
more and more inward.
So necessary was it for her love...
...that she attract the admiration
of herdistant child...
...she existed entirely
in the endless dialogues...
...that evidence hereccentricities
in her many letters to Spain.
"Rest easy, my love.
I am sending His Most Catholic Majesty
the perfect gold chain.
He need never know
...I had to walk into a picture.
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