
The Immortal Story
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- 1968
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THE IMMORTAL STORY
In China...
in the Portuguese island of Macao...
there lived, toward
the end of the last century,
an immensely rich merchant...
...whose name was Mister Clay.
He had a magnificent house
and a splendid equippage.
And he sat in the midst of both,
erect, silent...
...and alone.
Among the other Europeans he had the
name of an iron hard man,
who had broken with his partner,
and then bankrupted him, and thrown him
and his family into the street.
It would be a little manner of 300 Guineas.
But Louis Ducrot couldn't pay...
- And that was the end of it.
- It was the end of Louis.
- He committed suicide.
- And his family?
Well, there was a daughter some place
but she ran away with a sea captain.
And, of course, old Clay had taken
over the house. Poor Louis!
- He'd been proud of that house.
- Proud? The objects of art in it.
every one of them before he left.
He said that nothing meant
for the embellishment of life
would ever consent to live with
the new master of that house.
Except the looking glasses...
the ones he brought from France.
Those mirrors had reflected only
happy and affectionate scenes
It would be his murderer's
punishment, he said,
to meet, wherever he went,
the portrait of a hangman.
Mr. Clay sat down to dine in solitude.
Face to face with his portrait.
He was not aware of any lack
of friendliness in his surroundings.
The idea of friendliness
had never entered his scheme of life.
It was only natural that things
should be as they were
because he had willed them to be so...
When he was seventy,
he had fallen ill with the gout.
He couldn't sleep at night. His head
clerk would sit up with him and read aloud
the bills, estimates and
contracts of his business.
I have read to you all of the old
Shall I start again?
There are other kinds of books.
- Haven't you heard of them?
Besides account books there are other
things which people sometimes read.
What's that?
In the party of Jews who took me
with them fleeing from Poland
there was a very old man.
Before he died, he gave me this.
Here, Mr. Clay, is something
that I shall read to you.
"The wilderness and the solitary
places shall be glad,
"and the desert shall
rejoice and blossom
- "In synch even with joy ..."
- That's not a book.
- "Strengthen ye the weak hand ..."
- That's not a book at all.
It's what you have asked for.
Something beside the account books.
"Strengthen ye their weak hands
and confirm their feeble knees"
- Where'd you get it?
- "say to them that are fearful hearted:
"'Behold your God will come
with a recompense.'
"and in the wilderness
What was all that?
Has it happened?
No.
Is it happening now?
No.
- Who put that thing together?
- The prophet Isaiah.
The prophet!
I don't like prophecies.
People should only record things
when they've already happened.
This prophet of yours,
when did he live?
Oh, about a thousand years ago,
Mr. Clay.
People can record things,
which have already happened.
Do you know what such a
record is called?
- A story.
- Yes, Mr. Clay.
I heard a story once when I first
came out here to China.
One of the sailors told the others
about a thing which had happened to him.
He told them a story.
himself near a harbor
a rich old gentleman said to him.
"You are a fine looking sailor.
Would you like to earn 5 Guineas?"
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