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SAYER His gaze From staring through the bars

His gaze is from the passing of bars so exhausted, that it doesn't hold a thing anymore....

Awakenings • 1990

Dr. Sayer:
His gaze is from the passing of bars so exhausted, that it doesn't hold a thing anymore. For him, it's as if there were thousands of bars and behind the thousands of bars no world. The sure stride of lithe, powerful steps, that around the smallest of circles turns, is like a dance of pure energy about a center, in which a great will stands numbed. Only occasionally, without a sound, do the covers of the eyes slide open-. An image rushes in, goes through the tensed silence of the frame- only to vanish, forever, in the heart

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His gaze From staring through the bars

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Has grown so weary That it can take in nothing more

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For him it is as though There were a thousand bars

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And behind the thousand bars No world

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As he paces in cramped circles Over and over

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His powerful strides Are like a ritual dance

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Around a center Where a great will stands paralyzed

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At times the curtains of the eye Lift without a sound

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And a shape enters

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Slips through the tightened silence Of the shoulders

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Reaches the heart and dies

Duration

47 seconds

Views

302

Timestamp in Movie

00:37:56

Uploaded

Dec 05, 2022

Genres

biography, drama

Production

Parkes/Lasker productions

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Movie Summary

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.