11 - Anamuneshisu

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    I give up.
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    Pino!
[00:23] ---
    Pino?
[00:54] ---
    What's a bookstore doing here?
[01:07] ---
    I'm lost.
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    Excuse me...
[01:21] ---
    Anybody?
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    Welcome to the City Lights Bookstore.
[03:35] ---
    Are you a traveler?
[03:36] ---
    Please... this way.
[03:44] ---
    In the White Darkness
[04:01] ---
    Let's wait for a bit until
    the tea is steeped and ready.
[04:08] ---
    So then, traveler.
[04:12] ---
    I'm lost.
[04:15] ---
    That's what everyone says who comes here.
[04:18] ---
    There's a thick fog.
[04:20] ---
    The future is a closed book.
    People used to say that all the time.
[04:26] ---
    And closed books can't be read.
[04:31] ---
    Somewhere around here our ship was...
[04:34] ---
    What you're looking for
    is always inside you.
[04:40] ---
    That's the way it is.
[04:42] ---
    You haven't seen a
    little girl AutoReiv, have you?
[04:47] ---
    Her name's Pino. She's about this tall...
[04:49] ---
    You mustn't be in such a hurry.
[04:51] ---
    It's the same with the tea,
    brewing it enhances the flavor.
[04:56] ---
    You can't seek everything at once.
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    Besides, this is a bookstore, isn't it?
[05:04] ---
    I don't mean to be rude,
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    but I just wanted to ask
    you for directions.
[05:12] ---
    Well, since you have so many...
[05:16] ---
    there must be at least one book
    I'd like to read, I guess, maybe...
[05:20] ---
    Go on. Pick one out and take a look.
[05:45] ---
    It looks like he still
    hasn't figured it out.
[05:50] ---
    This is a special setting here.
[05:53] ---
    We are, so to speak, inside his head.
[06:01] ---
    In order for there to be all these books...
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    people who read must
    first create society.
[06:12] ---
    But in order for people
    to create society...
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    they need to converse using language.
[06:20] ---
    It's like the question of
    the chicken or the egg.
[06:25] ---
    Each one requires the other.
[06:30] ---
    Which means it's impossible to say for sure
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    that books came to exist
    purely through human means.
[06:39] ---
    That leads me to think that perhaps
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    they've been given to
    us by a god-like being.
[06:45] ---
    But that can't be.
[06:48] ---
    I believe that was Rousseau's
    argument in "On the Origin of Language."
[06:53] ---
    That's enough philosophy for now.
[06:56] ---
    Let's continue by looking
    at this man's past and future...
[07:00] ---
    two playthings in the
    hands of fickle fate.
[07:08] ---
    Why is my name...
[07:13] ---
    Where'd he go?
[07:25] ---
    What the heck?
[07:30] ---
    Don't tell me...
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    It must be a dream.
[07:45] ---
    This is no dream, Vincent Law.
[07:51] ---
    I'm over here.
[07:52] ---
    Who is it?
[07:56] ---
    Dorothy?
[07:58] ---
    I am nobody.
[08:00] ---
    Even if I was someone,
    people couldn't comprehend me.
[08:05] ---
    And even if they could,
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    they wouldn't be able to
    communicate it to those around them.
[08:09] ---
    Chief...
[08:10] ---
    That's pretty much the way it is.
[08:12] ---
    As I'm sure you know.
[08:21] ---
    It must be a dream.
[08:22] ---
    This is no dream, Vincent Law.
[08:26] ---
    In others' eyes, I am part of the world.
[08:30] ---
    But when I look out at the
    world from my own vantage point,
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    I am not in it.
[08:34] ---
    What I see is the world.
[08:37] ---
    As an observer, I am the
    point of view that creates the world.
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    I can't belong to the world.
[08:43] ---
    In principle, we can say that is the truth.
[08:52] ---
    Even if I was someone,
    people couldn't comprehend me.
[08:59] ---
    And even if they could,
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    they wouldn't be able to
    communicate it to those around them.
[09:05] ---
    I do not belong to the world.
[09:08] ---
    That is the world's limit...
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    the boundary between
    the world and the self.
[09:13] ---
    Well...
[09:15] ---
    I was there because someone
    reported seeing an infected AutoReiv.
[09:19] ---
    No, it's not "I think therefore I am."
[09:25] ---
    But it's true.
[09:27] ---
    If you take a look at the
    facility's records...
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    That's right, it's "I
    think therefore you are."
[09:34] ---
    Although you don't remember.
[09:37] ---
    Wait. In that case...
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    tell me what the monster is.
[09:42] ---
    What is a Proxy?
[09:45] ---
    You think Proxies are monsters?
[09:48] ---
    You've got a lot to learn, young lady.
[09:51] ---
    They're said to be beasts and demons...
[09:53] ---
    Re-l!
[09:53] ---
    But that's all nonsense.
[09:55] ---
    Proxy is...
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    You.
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    They can change themselves into any form.
[10:02] ---
    They can disappear at will with ease.
[10:05] ---
    That's you.
[10:07] ---
    They can also enter human
    beings and control their spirits.
[10:11] ---
    That's what you are.
[10:13] ---
    They can shoot lightning bolts,
    scorching the earth in an instant.
[10:17] ---
    Remember!
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    And they've even been known to
    conjure up flame-spewing planets.
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    Ergo Proxy!
[10:22] ---
    No!
[10:23] ---
    I'm... I'm Vincent Law!
[10:41] ---
    Registration number 0724FGARK.
[10:46] ---
    My name is Vincent Law.
[10:57] ---
    You really are a fool.
[10:59] ---
    Have you lost your eye for
    the truth as well as your memory?
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    My memory?
[11:04] ---
    I remember things just fine.
[11:07] ---
    Then who are you?
[11:09] ---
    See if you can tell me who you are.
[11:13] ---
    I'm...
[11:21] ---
    I'm...
[11:22] ---
    After I immigrated to Romdo...
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    I worked on the staff of
    the AutoReiv Disposal Facilities.
[11:27] ---
    Before that?
[11:31] ---
    I looked for a job in the FG
    Temporary Immigrant District.
[11:34] ---
    That's where I first ran into Re-l.
[11:40] ---
    Before that?
[11:43] ---
    Before I immigrated to Romdo,
    I was in the Mosk Dome.
[11:48] ---
    The city was destroyed in
    a mysterious accident.
[11:52] ---
    It was a dreadful sight.
[11:54] ---
    Before that?
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    I was in Mosk.
[12:01] ---
    What did you do there?
[12:04] ---
    I'm thinking...
[12:06] ---
    What?
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    I can't remember.
[12:13] ---
    That's because you don't want to remember.
[12:17] ---
    Come on, see if you can answer my question.
[12:24] ---
    As long as you can't find the answer...
[12:27] ---
    even if I told you,
    you wouldn't be able to understand.
[12:31] ---
    Why?
[12:32] ---
    I told you. Because I am you.
[12:36] ---
    Look.
[12:39] ---
    No... I'm...
[12:44] ---
    It must be a dream.
[12:46] ---
    This is no dream, Vincent Law.
[12:59] ---
    Nothing is more important to
    a bookstore than books.
[13:02] ---
    The magic of words written in a book...
[13:06] ---
    This world is ruled by logos.
[13:09] ---
    That is to say,
[13:10] ---
    it is through words
    which have opposite meanings,
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    that the world's secrets
    are frequently revealed.
[13:18] ---
    It's always been that way.
[13:22] ---
    The word "bios" means "bow"
    and "life" at the same time.
[13:29] ---
    While a bow and life seem
    completely unrelated,
[13:34] ---
    they both lead to the same thing, "death."
[13:37] ---
    Those people long ago
    said pretty remarkable things.
[13:41] ---
    Yeah.
[13:45] ---
    Anamnesis.
[13:48] ---
    It means "memory," while at the same time,
[13:51] ---
    it also means "recollection."
[13:54] ---
    Remembrance.
[13:56] ---
    Who was Vincent Law? What was he afraid of?
[14:00] ---
    What did he erase here?
[14:10] ---
    At times there is destruction.
[14:12] ---
    There is misfortune in the stars.
[14:14] ---
    The sky was lost and the seas froze over.
[14:18] ---
    It brought to a halt the life circle
[14:20] ---
    which is necessary for the
    perception of people and all nature.
[14:27] ---
    The ones who'd kept the story
    alive had already left the scene.
[14:32] ---
    It acted as curtains for the system.
[14:36] ---
    And yet there was no escaping the fact,
[14:39] ---
    that this world, which had
    rotted away, was yet another circle.
[14:46] ---
    Because you still exist.
[14:53] ---
    Which means that if those
    born of this world continue to exist,
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    there will be no one to perceive the world
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    as such, and it can no longer exist.
[15:06] ---
    For example...
[15:08] ---
    it's like an enormous stack of
    books that rot away
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    without anyone ever having read them.
[15:13] ---
    No, I'm...
[15:16] ---
    In order to survive, the world
    plunged once again into a new phase.
[15:22] ---
    Listen.
[15:24] ---
    You can hear the pulse of the awakening.
[15:28] ---
    The pulse of the awakening...
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    Don't interfere with him anymore.
    His nerves can't take it.
[15:42] ---
    It looks like I made it just in time.
[15:46] ---
    A pulse...
[15:47] ---
    That's what our lifespan is.
[15:50] ---
    Each living organism has a heart
    size corresponding to their body type.
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    It's the pulse rate based
    on that heart size,
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    which determines how long we live.
[16:04] ---
    That is the divine law.
[16:06] ---
    A struggle by those whose lives
    are not determined as such is meaningless.
[16:12] ---
    Shut up, old man.
[16:14] ---
    What are you doing interfering
    with his core self?
[16:18] ---
    And that's no way to
    treat the memory keeper.
[16:21] ---
    A memory keeper who
    rejects everything is worthless.
[16:26] ---
    Come on now, remember!
[16:27] ---
    Stop it!
[16:29] ---
    Do you get it?
[16:30] ---
    My own pulse was altered by us.
[16:34] ---
    Remember.
[16:35] ---
    You can feel it if you hold
    your hand against your chest.
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    It belongs to no one.
[16:40] ---
    It's our pulse, yours and mine.
[16:43] ---
    This is what brings us to the truth.
[16:46] ---
    It's what proves that we
    are the very world itself.
[16:52] ---
    Follow your instincts.
[16:57] ---
    The answer is already there.
[17:07] ---
    The white noise echoing
    in the white darkness
[17:11] ---
    is the rhythm which proves we are alive.
[17:15] ---
    It is the pulse which
    never leaves the stage.
[17:19] ---
    I have constantly suppressed
    and distorted myself
[17:25] ---
    in my frantic efforts to
    become a fellow citizen.
[17:29] ---
    Constantly... everywhere...
[17:33] ---
    Even if we're interrupted,
[17:35] ---
    at some point the words
    we're supposed to speak
[17:37] ---
    become the necessary bonding
    agent connecting us to someone else.
[17:41] ---
    And look what's happened to me.
[17:44] ---
    I'm a failure.
[17:47] ---
    In order to secure this world,
    known as a system called "life,"
[17:53] ---
    someone other than ourselves dreamed us up.
[17:58] ---
    Don't question the system. Always obey.
[18:03] ---
    That's what it takes to
    be a fellow citizen.
[18:06] ---
    And that's why you can
    hear it just as I can.
[18:11] ---
    The pulse of the awakening,
    beating in your chest.
[18:15] ---
    Can't you hear that?
[18:20] ---
    But I'll never become a fellow citizen.
[18:28] ---
    Vincent!
[18:32] ---
    It's over.
[18:34] ---
    It's all over.
[18:44] ---
    I am you.
[18:49] ---
    You are me.
[18:51] ---
    No! I'm...
[18:54] ---
    I'm Vincent Law!
[18:56] ---
    Then look.
[18:58] ---
    I am you!
[19:01] ---
    I'll ask one more time.
[19:05] ---
    You are the agent of what?
[19:15] ---
    I'm...
[19:31] ---
    I'm...
[19:35] ---
    Re-l...?
[19:40] ---
    Even though I don't remember anything...
[19:46] ---
    I know now.
[19:50] ---
    I'm Ergo Proxy.
[20:01] ---
    Remember...
[20:04] ---
    you are still merely standing at
    the entrance of truth
[20:08] ---
    you must lose in order to know.
[20:23] ---
    Well, it's been just about three minutes.
[20:26] ---
    The tea is steeped and ready.
[20:30] ---
    Drink up.
[20:36] ---
    What's the matter?
[20:39] ---
    Well, I'm lost.
[20:41] ---
    Yes, that's what
    everyone says who comes here.
[20:46] ---
    There's a thick fog.
[20:49] ---
    The future is a closed book.
    They used to say that all the time.
[20:53] ---
    And closed books can't be read.
[20:58] ---
    We docked our ship somewhere around here.
[21:02] ---
    It seems what you're
    looking for is always inside you.
[21:10] ---
    You haven't seen a
    little girl AutoReiv, have you?
[21:13] ---
    Her name's Pino.
[21:15] ---
    I can't answer everything at once.
[21:19] ---
    The ship... No, I mean Pino...
[21:22] ---
    Have you seen her?
[21:24] ---
    No.
[21:25] ---
    What's necessary is for you to accept.
[21:29] ---
    Otherwise you'll wander off in the darkness
[21:32] ---
    and lose sight of what's truly important.
[21:35] ---
    I've accepted it for a long time.
[21:37] ---
    That's quite admirable.
[21:39] ---
    Then, what is it you've accepted?
[21:42] ---
    What?
[21:43] ---
    Please, answer.
[21:45] ---
    I'm lost. That's all.
[21:49] ---
    Very good.
[21:52] ---
    Well then, I'll point you
    in the right direction...
[21:56] ---
    Vincent Law...
[21:58] ---
    No, I mean Ergo Proxy.
[22:02] ---
    Wait!
[22:39] ---
    Vince?
[22:43] ---
    Vince?!
[23:14] ---
    I know now.
[23:18] ---
    I'm a Proxy.
[23:34] ---
    I finally found you.
[23:40] ---
    It must be a dream.
[23:43] ---
    This is no dream, Vincent Law.
[25:31] ---
    He knows the truth I've been seeking...
[25:35] ---
    as well as all my doubts.
[25:38] ---
    Tell me, Vincent Law...
[25:40] ---
    everything you know.
[25:41] ---
    When You're Smiling