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inspired by a tale by Isak Dinesen, in her Winter's Tales. a story of love and loss, of a life devoted to an endless search for the colour of happiness.
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there was once an immensely rich old English lord...
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it happened as they sailed the Chinese Sea, that the ship caught fire...
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in the last moment she was carried down in a lifeboat by a young English sailor...
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and the old lord made him promise to go shipping in the other hemisphere and never come back
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the WATER, that is the noblest of the elements...
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and there, on the other hemisphere, a ship sails with which I have to keep pace...
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the young sailor
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Alas, alas, it is not the right blue...
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all shall be blue and in the midst of the blue world, my heart will be innocent and free...
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Lady Helena
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and there, in the midst of the world, we two shall meet...
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una storia, disse
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And when I am dead, you will cut my heart and lay it in the blue jar...
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...innocent and free, like a wake that sings, like the drops that fall from an oar blade
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