""Thousands of years ago... the boundaries between man and animal... reality and the supernatural were ill defined." "The mad stories of ancient myths were based on moral codes different from ours."" ""HIS MAJESTY MINOR"" "LONG BEFORE HOMER SOMEWHERE IN THE AEGEAN SEA" "Go on!" "Go on!" "Faster, faster!" "Move!" "Welcome, lmmaculate Goddesses... bearers of lucid omens, messengers of joy... abundant harvests, and fertile love." "Oh, how sweet it is to be loved" "Oh, how deep, the abyss of life" "Every morning, Clytia, your beauty adds to the world's." "My heart soars, Karkos, as every morning... brings us closer to our wedding day." "Yes." "Minor!" "Go away!" "Go on!" "Scram!" "Minor, what did I say?" "Scram!" "More doves have arrived." "The year will be blessed." "You're my dove." "Blessed all over!" "IN WHICH INNOCENT PRANKS CAUSE UNTHINKABLE UPHEAVALS" " Let go!" " Let me go!" "Stop, Minor!" "He bit me!" "Catch him!" " The pig bit her!" " He bitted me." " What happened?" " He tore off a chunk." " The pig bit the butcher's wife!" " The dirty pig bit my Zima!" "Catch him!" "He bitted her!" "You can't climb up the sacred tree!" "Sacrilege!" "Get down!" "You gonna be killed!" "Death to the cannibal!" "Profaner!" "Profaner!" "Silence!" "Who's in the sacred tree?" "The man-pig, venerable Archeo!" "The vile scum!" "Death!" "Death!" "He's rabid!" "We must get rid of him!" "Death to the profaner!" "Death!" "Don't repeat the errors of the past:" "No sacrifice without trial!" "With all due respect, brother... the accused can't speak for himself." " Someone will speak for him." " Me!" " You, Clytia, my daughter?" " Yes, father, me!" "Come on, scram!" "Sit down here!" "Don't move, understand?" "Don't be such an idiot!" "We don't want to hear a thing." "Silence!" "Kinema, you know best." "Remind us of Minor's fabulous origins." "Back then... after a windless night when the owls... screeched like wolves..." "Remember..." "Close your eyes!" "Look inside your heads!" "See the shadows of that cursed day move around inside of your skull!" "The day dawns." "The sea is blood-red, the sky on fire." "See that foreign boat, shattered on the shore." "See the dead girl holding against her a baby... sucking at her lifeless breast." "So, I took in the baby." "I breastfed it... until the evening it bit me so savagely... it tore off my nipple and swallowed it!" "It's him!" "My milk went black and stank!" "We elders know this repugnant story... it'd make a toad vomit!" " He began to live with the pigs." " We already know this." "He was breastfed by a sow." "He learned to grunt." "He never spoke." "This morning, he started biting again." "Zima, show us your offended flesh." " OK, they've seen it before!" " Gotta show 'em!" "We need to sacrifice him!" "Kill the beast!" "Kill!" " That's right!" " Kill!" "Kill!" "Let's make sausage with him!" "He's not from here." "A stranger... who barely speaks our tongue... shouldn't tell us what we must do." "Here's my plea." " The dove tree mustn't be profaned." " Exactly!" "Here's my plea!" " We must listen..." " Minor was trying to save his life." " Oh yeah." "He was." " But still, he found refuge... where his instinct led him." "Can one judge instinct?" "Let's kill him first and discuss it later." "We do not know how much of Minor is human... and how much of him is a pig." "To eat him might be cannibalism." "We don't need to eat him." "We can just... rip his eyes out, extract his teeth cut off his hands..." " Thanks." "I just said that!" " Yes, he did." "In his most intimate acts, he doesn't seem... either good... or bad." "He even seems like all of us." "Stop getting us excited!" " She's giving us the horn!" " I know." "It's just eloquence." "It's no big deal." "I know my daughter." " You call this "Eloquence"!" " Clytia, pray continue." " What did your breasts say?" " Minor shows... human gallantry:" "He's given me truffles." " Corruption of the court!" " Only he can find them..." " Corruption!" "...with his nose." ""His nose"?" "Proof that he's not human!" "Silence!" "Or I'll clear the court!" "The profanation of the dove tree doesn't seem deliberate by the court." " What?" "The accused is to be a scarecrow until olive picking time." " Is that all?" " Oh no." "Meanwhile, if he bites again, to the abattoir!" "Enough!" " That girl's very good." " Stop with that, she'll be my future daughter-in-law!" " Oh, that's true." "The way she writhes is an abuse for everyone." "So much for justice!" "My wisdom... fruit of the years which turned my hair grey... my wisdom was dazzled, my daughter, by your plea." "It was great!" "It was powerful!" "Let me kiss you." "You instinctively combined melodious, bewitching rhetoric... with your physical eloquence." " A sublime idea, right, Karkos?" " Yes, indeed." "Father, may I withdraw to freshen up?" "Of course, my girl." "Marvelous!" "To be frank, I must confess, when Clytia... revealed her breasts, I felt uneasy." "I even blushed." "Blush, but with pleasure!" "All those impure eyes staring at her, those concupiscent faces... those confessed erections, I suffered..." " Jealous?" " To be jealous of Clytia... would be as absurd as being jealous of a lily." "Listen, don't make Clytia a goddess." "She's human, just like you." "She's hot-blooded." "Her flower is ready to be plucked." "It'd be wrong to love her too much." "IN WHICH MINOR DISCOVERS" "A MYTHOLOGICAL FOREST AND PAGAN PRACTICES" "What're you doing here?" "I don't speak your language." "Oh, these nymphs!" "I want them more than all else!" "I'd like to visit their virginal nooks and crannies... give them a taste of my goaty love!" "I am what I am!" "My name's Pan... but I prefer Satyr." "I like it that way!" "Stop staring!" "Make yourself useful." "Scrape the mud off my hooves." "Here!" "Hey!" "Mortals aren't allowed here." "You're an archeologist." "Admit it!" "Come on, now!" "Cataractos, you're picking up goat droppings!" "Nature is perverse!" "How do I tell them apart?" "Bite it." "Olives have stones inside!" " Let's sit here." " Yes." " I've heard it before." " Yes." ""My skin tender as a flower"." "Yes." "Pick me, Karkos!" "Wait till our wedding day." " Will that day ever come?" " Yes." "The Gods will set the date for us." "Wait for the oracles." "Why wait?" "We wait and wait!" " Yes." " Oh, Karkos..." "You saved me the job!" " He looks dead." "Look, Karkos." " Is he bleeding?" "He's not breathing." "The poor creature is free at last." "Go tell the others." "I won't be long." " What happened?" " Minor bumped his head in a rock." "I loved the way you adored me." "The innocent way you showed desire." "I apologize for the times I was mean." "What a harvest!" "Stop in the fertilizer!" "What a day!" "What a harvest!" "I roasted it in honey, the way you like it, patriarch." "Give me an ear." " In darkness, Minor came from the sea." " Oh no..." "In darkness, he must return!" "Or else woe betide us!" " Tomorrow at dawn." " Betide us!" " Stop your shrill tongue!" " Listen..." "Close your eyes." "Look inside your skulls." "We don't want to, we're eating!" " Enough!" " Tomorrow's too late." "That's enough!" "Kn..." "Know..." "Know..." "Know..." "Know yourself." "He was definitely dead." " Where is he?" " Not here." "Maybe his biting spirit's spying on us!" " I warned 'em!" " He was there!" " Where's he gone?" " There!" " Greetings!" " You're not dead?" "Even better:" "I'm alive!" "Have no fear, it's me." "Minor!" " He talks!" " Yes..." " You talk?" " I think, too!" "We're in for trouble..." "So much has changed since yesterday." "Yesterday!" "It feels like 100 years ago!" "I speak like if you could understand me." "True?" "You understand?" "Really?" "My feelings haven't changed." "They're different." "All the men are hot for Clytia." "I'm a man." "A normal man." "That's all." "What did you want?" "You gotta face facts, you big girl!" "No!" "It was affectionate." "Come on..." "Mind you, you do eat too much." "I forgot to tell you the best." "The lately facts made up mi mind." "In the forest, above the swamp I met a creature..." "I met a man-goat." "Pan's his name." "But he prefers to be called Satyr." "As I ran off, I fell ass up." "Well, the guy used his phallus on me... in a strange way that I didn't know existed." "Well, he penetrated me in a way..." "Oh yes. "Sodomy"." "I didn't know." "Well, whatever that means... he has a sizable phallus and substantial balls!" " Who is it?" " Mrs. Zima." " What is it?" " A surprise." " Not now, I'm meditating." " Open up, it's me, Clytia." "Your lawyer." "Come in." "Ma'am..." "Sir..." "Some gifts from my father, our patriarch." "His best mead, honey alcohol." "And I brought a spare toga." "It's very soft, very pleasant." "And some lavender water... to wash with." "Here." "And a nice bundle of fresh straw." "Put that there, you." "And go away." "Go on!" "Say thank you to the patriarch from me... from us." "Do you need anything else?" " Not for now." " Alright." "Well, good night." " So?" " He said: "Not for now"." "IN WHICH AN INTOXICATED MINOR HAS AN EVEN MORE" "INTOXICATING TIME" "It stinks in here." "Spoils the taste of the mead." "I'm going out." "The smell's too much!" "What a fine night." "Greetings, olive tree!" "I recognize you." "This is where I died." "Do my eyes deceive me or do I see what I see?" "What do you see?" "I dunno what to say." "I'd have to be a poet and I'm not." "Who are you?" " I am me." " Take off your mask and let me see." " That is not my intention." " It's my desire." "You're a mere mortal." "Under your mask, is your face ugly?" " How dare you?" "Lmpertinent worm!" " Gold Mask!" "Forgive my tongue." "My tongue got puzzled." "I'm still a novice in its use." "Please turn and look at me." "I submit to the enigma of your beauty." "Is this what humans call love?" "I'm smothered by love!" "Prunios..." "Innocent girl, lmmaculate vestal..." "Fill the cup with your virgin liqueur." " I haven't got any." "Pee in the cup." " Me?" " Yes." "Go on, do it." " I see..." "I see!" "Well, I never!" " See what?" " That Minor's head is full of 'em." " Full of what?" "Of doves!" "Doves in a pig's head!" "It's clear!" "You're half-blind!" " Do you know who I am?" " Yes, I'm talking to... last week, you squashed a chick..." "Stop!" "...thinking it was a lemon!" " Stop!" " Here it is!" " I thought that was an orange." " A lemon." " There's no time for bickering." "The divination confirms our fears." "We must act." "Fast!" "IN WHICH A DISTRACTED DOVE CHANGES THE COURSE OF EVENTS" " I can't get used to it." " You'll have to." "Only an infernal alliance could turn a man-pig into a man." "Or a demon." "They say he fornicates with that sow." "Once a pig, always a pig!" "Talking about me?" "What are you plotting?" "Go on, brother." "You're the chief." "We were discussing how to celebrate your arrival... and our great joy at your metamorphosis." " I'm still the one I was before." " Oh yes..." "But the words were stuck in..." "But the words were stuck in my head." "Entangled under my skull bone." "There, where they're formed." "Come forward, fellow men, come forward." "Look, we're all brothers, from the front and behind!" " What is this?" " A signal!" "Go away!" "No... it wasn't for..." "Hey, you!" "Here for your sodomy?" "No." "For advice." " Why not both?" " I've been made king." " He speaks!" "King of?" " Of the island you and I are on." "Me and my kind aren't on an island... but wherever the myths decide." "Did they decide you should sodomize me?" "No, that was my idea." "Come scratch my shoulders." "I got fleas." "Come on." " Harder, Your Majesty." " You smell good." "Good 'n' goaty!" " Satyr?" " Yes?" "When you're king..." "what do you do?" "Nothing." "Others do it." "Except what they can't do:" "Sleeping... eating and... relieving yourself..." "Stop scratching." "Or fornicating with their wives!" "Make them adore you." "Have your people build follies... roast your rivals, impale 'em!" "Or indulge in legendary debauchery!" " Know what I mean?" " I love Clytia." "She was my lawyer." "I saw her breasts." "But she's betrothed to Karkos, a fine athlete." " Clytia, I love you!" " Show her your partner." " My partner?" " The tool between your legs!" "Tell her it can't live without her." "Women have a heart." "Look!" "See her?" "Well, thanks to the tool, it's in the bag." "So to speak!" " Your hair a new fashion?" " No, it's a sacred dove's nest." "Hi, horsey!" "Time for the bacchanalia." "Got to go at Dionysus's... all-night orgies and depravity!" "Give me a kissy." "My friend, Centaur." "Beware!" "He only likes fresh meat!" " Gee up!" " It's hard." "IN WHICH POWER OFFERS" "SWEET PLEASURES AND A FEW INCONVENIENCES" "Little truffles..." "Last time, my woody companion, before I woke in your arms... a goddess appeared in my dreams." "Did she have a gold mask?" "So, you saw her?" "Is it I you seek?" "If ceaseless hoping, means seeking, then, you are right..." " I do seek you." " You dared... to chop my sacred tree to make your bed base!" "Reverend Rectus told me to... as your sacred doves are in my head." "But the patriarch is angry." " He didn't say so." " His daughter..." " What's her name?" " Clytia." "Her name's Clytia." " They say you're not indifferent to her." " For her, I'd give my life my eyes, my blood." " I am a woman, too." " Do you want to see my face?" " Any man would." "If I'm fairer than Clytia, swear you'll prefer me to her." "I swear without fear." "No-one can be fairer." "Come closer." "Remove it." "Peek-a-boo!" "Am I fairer than Clytia?" "Oh, you, my goddess, my virgin, my madness!" "You, my king, my hero..." "my pig!" "Who spoke?" "Who?" "My conscience!" "Why are you in my latrine?" "I've been constipated for 3 weeks." "You should know that!" "These luminous, laxative insects will do me good." "O, salutary fireflies, kind lanterns... may your light guide toward the exit my fossilized feces... trapped within my entrails!" " Your Majesty..." " Yes?" " Do me a favor." " Granted." "Have your sow killed." "Better than the sow, huh?" "Don't spread that kind of calumny!" "Who's better at it?" "Clytia or the goddess?" "I won't answer such vulgarity." "Even so..." "You're Clytia's lover!" "So?" "So, the sow's gotta be wasted." "It's her fate, right?" "It's what we men do to reared pigs." "Yes sir!" "Why are you in my bed?" "Scram!" "It isn't a pigpen!" "Go on, get lost!" "Get out of here right now!" "You heard me?" "Good!" "You know where you belong." "Don't stick your snout in my private life!" "Ever again!" "Or you'll go straight to the abattoir!" "Never again, you hear?" "Don't stand gaping!" "The work won't get done by itself!" "We won't build it in time!" "Hey!" "That's the second time I've seen you shirking!" "Help put the stones in the net!" "Be more careful." " Nice work!" " Bravo, guys!" " What else can we do?" " Pay more attention!" " Unbelievable!" " Did you see how it's done?" "Why did you predict that fool's accession?" "I see nothing in the present and choose not... what I see in the future." "Kryton, our royal architect, explain the dispute." "We have to take the rock... through Firos's yard." "He's against the idea." "And you, dyer, what do you say?" "If the rock goes that way, it'll destroy my wall and my workshop." " "Your Majesty"." " Yes?" "...Workshop, Your Majesty... will be destroyed." "The patriarch seeks the common good." "In homage to his equity and his wisdom... destroy the wall!" "I know you can hear me." "You're for the chop!" "If you return, there'll be a feast." "You'll be the main course!" " What happened, dad?" " What are you doing here?" "You interested in dyeing now?" "Where were you?" "I spent days looking for you!" "I went into the mountains to compose an ode to Clytia." "Know what she does at night?" "I care not." "She swoons in that man-pig's arms!" " You were dreaming!" " His lips on hers!" "Before my very eyes!" "Let's unite our hatred to kill the traitor!" "Your mind, father, is as sick as your guts!" "You slander the purest, most chaste of creatures." "As chaste as a bitch in heat!" "Her plea corrupted the wisest among us... just as she takes you in, you naive fool!" "That's the truth, poet!" "Shut your hole!" "Never forget I'm your father." "That's why I didn't kill you." "The poet says he's no longer your son." "Did you see a hog go past?" "It's good greet your king." "It is an insult not to greet your king." "I didn't see a hog, but I can see a swine!" " Change your tune." " You left your mire to spread it." "You pulled Clytia down in your dung." "Crazy!" "Absurd!" "I order you to stop such filth." " I'm your king!" " And I... am immanent justice!" "I avenge cuckolds and soiled virgins!" "Let go!" "Is that you, Karkos, holding my ankles?" "Yes, Your Majesty." "Do you realize you have your king's life in your hands?" "I just have to open my fingers..." "Don't!" "Never, you hear?" "I never took the slightest initiative with Clytia." "When the dove crowned you, you revealed your virility to her!" "I was hard for life in general, Karkos, for the future... and the promise of power." "My erection was mere courtesy." ""Oh, how deep, the abyss of life Oh, how sweet it is to be loved"" " What?" " Those lines of yours... have never left my dazzled mind." "Jealousy is a sentiment which ill suits a poet... made to praise the world's splendor." ""Oh, how deep, the abyss of life Oh, how sweet..."" "Karkos?" "Karkos?" "Are you there?" "Yes, Your Majesty." "I'll always be there for you." " Let me kiss your feet." " No." "No." "No." "Grant me this redemptive favor." "Your muscles are..." "like marble." "They will serve you, I swear." "Get up." "Come now." ""Oh, how deep, the abyss of life"" "Play on, my poet." "Sing of your king's grandeur." ""Oh, how sweet it is to be loved!"" "IN WHICH IT IS EASIER TO FOOL ONE'S PEOPLE THAN THE QUEEN OF ONE'S HEART" " Bravo, architect!" " Bravo, Kryton!" "Beautiful!" "I, Minor the First, salute you." "I like this mongrel pig." "Long live the dove king!" "Long live the dove king!" "Clytia, I want you to make me a fine line... of lads as strong as rams, as nimble as fawns, as smart as foxes." "In short, just like him." "Like Minor, father?" "But I love Karkos." "So?" "No problem." "We just prayed together to the sacred doves now in my head." "As for you, my dear subjects..." "I shelter you in my heart." "From now on, our island is a radiant world!" "First measure:" "Happiness is compulsory!" "No complaining allowed." "Suffering is banned." "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "Second measure:" "Due to the vile scraps and crap they are fed... which taints their meat, from now on... it is absolutely forbidden to eat pork." "What did he say?" "Third and final measure:" "2 weeks' holidays for all... including housewives." "Down with work!" "Long live leisure and idleness." "And big coos to Minor the First!" "What's wrong?" "Sorry I'm late." "I had to see your father." "He loved my statue." "And you?" "The speech got to me." " Like it?" " Less than the sow!" "Traitor, liar, coward!" "You promised." " I saw her!" " Pigs all look alike." "She pissed and farted at me!" "She has no manners!" "Your dad mentioned a surprise." "Here!" "Your subjects can't kill pigs... so you do it, Your Majesty!" "You want to become a real man?" "Now's the time to prove it... or there'll be no more Gold Mask or Clytia... ever again!" "Superb view!" "Admire it." "No, I won't go in." "Why are we here?" "I have a surprise." "You have one, too?" "Well, go on." "Show me your secret." "I know mom's boat was here." "Is that your surprise?" "My mother!" "Stop grunting." "Her necklace?" "How do you know it's hers?" "Were you there?" "You were?" "Reincarnation?" "What?" "My mom's soul is in your body?" "Mom..." "Who goes there?" " Wait!" "It's me." " What's that?" " My mother." " She looks like you!" "You're "dead"!" "Sorry." "My mare bolted." "That's Centaur." "The stud!" "Clytia, my secret fiancée, my future queen... told me to kill my ex." "Classic!" "Maybe, but..." "I couldn't do it." "I just cut my thumb, see?" "Poor darling!" "Why is your ex so special?" "She's a sow." " How many heads and tails?" " No, a normal animal... that we make sausage." "You screw a normal sow?" "You're gross!" " Hey, you screw a tree!" " Butt out!" " It was spiritual!" " Same with my tree." " She was my mom, too." " You got me there." "What's your problem?" "Shoot." "My problem is how to tell Clytia I failed." "Lie!" " I already did." "Disastrous." " Lie better." "Look." "Look at the splendor of a myth at work." "Admire the spirit, the absolute, the faith." "Lie with panache." "Get drunk on your lie." "Sweep us up in your swirling deceit!" "Be high and mighty, pal, high and mighty!" "You're right." "You're right, Satyr!" "How can I thank you?" " I know how!" "Come..." " No!" " Yes, come!" " I had a terrible day." " Come..." " I have a migraine." " Just a little!" " No, really, some other time." "Here!" "Your mommy!" "Thanks." "His Majesty sent me to say it's done." "It took courage, because he's not a pro." "Here's the proof:" "A curly tail." "We got... an ear." "It's... the right ear." " See the other?" " No." "Follow me." "He's waiting." "You're right, Satyr!" "That's my mother." "Her soul sheltered in a sow's body." "I rid her of it." "This fine necklace was hers." "Karkos, may your fiancée have it?" "It would be a great honor." "Reverend Rectus..." "Look at yourself." " Your Majesty!" " Are you alright?" "Don't panic." "Only natural." "He finds his mom..." "kills his sow." "It's the emotion." "Come on." "Do you know you sleepwalk?" "You sucked Zima's breast." " I did?" " Yes..." "In your bed put there by my fiancée... who is now your soul mate." "You groaned plaintively like a baby, sucking your thumb." "Like this." "Zima gave you her breast." "And you sucked greedily... without even waking up." "I'm so happy." "I was afraid you preferred the virile company of my fiancée to mine." "What's the meaning..." "What are you doing?" "Stop it!" "What are you doing?" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Let go of me!" "Let go, I said!" "I'm not the sow." "I'm me!" "Clytia!" "Go back to your pigpen!" "That's your real palace." "Crying?" "Why are you crying?" "I hate him." "I hate myself." "Whilst making a man of him..." "I dreamed of making him a great king." "My dream's humiliated." "An unbearable failure." "A pig he was..." "A pig he's becoming again." "You're lucky to be a vestal." "Immaculate." "Protected from men." "You know, Reverend Rectus... doesn't just pray to the doves." "He too makes himself at home with me." " He too plays the beast." " What?" "Naked, on top of me..." "he cries..." "But..." "It's a secret, it's religious." "IN WHICH MINOR'S OPPONENTS GROW IN NUMBER" "Satyr, I need to talk to you." "Satyr!" "Ah, it's you!" "I want a word." "You dreamed of me again!" "How do you know about that?" " You know?" "I was there!" " Let's go." " You were?" " Your beloved sow... sprayed me with her disgusting milk!" "Isn't that her milk?" " It is indeed." " Isn't?" "It's is." "Yes, the milk cudled and poisoned syrinx." "Satyr, let's go!" "Sorry." "I won't dream of you again." "Leave me out of your 'flash-in-the-pan' mortal stories!" "Did you hear?" "You're hard on me." "You might listen..." "Satyr?" "Want some advice?" "Don't set your trotters here again!" "Be gone!" "I see terrible times coming." "Human voices screaming into pigs' faces." "Sharpened pitchforks... keen swords." "Look inside your skulls... at these scenes of bloodshed." "From the earth pestilence will spring, formed in the underworld." "The fateful hour made of fire and vengeful cries is approaching!" "Is approaching!" "Forbid eating pork!" "Replace sausage and bacon with oysters and mussels!" "What a damn fine result!" "It's serious." "Let's pool our grievances." "It serves you all right." "Bunch of fawning ass-lickers!" "Look at you with your trendy accessories!" "Pretentious farts!" "Talk when you're told!" "Aura, my dear wife, speak up." "This winter, there'll be no flour." "Everyone was too busy building that..." "That crap!" "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." "That's it!" " I betrayed my tastes." " Silence!" "I renounced my convictions." "I disfigured our village... by flouting divine laws." "Future generations will hate me." "I'll give my life to have that eyesore destroyed." "I, a pig killer's son, humble myself by fishing." "I used to feed you sausages and tenderloin." "Now it's stinking eels!" "That's not all." "Minor wants to suck my Zima's breasts!" "No-one wants to do that." "We know how you feel." "Be brief." "I want to crush the hybrid." "I want to destroy him... as he did my house and my son." "My son shone with joy." "Now his music is gloomy." "He lost his joy of living." "He's all at sea due to this painted usurper." " Yes, your own daughter, the traitress!" " Leave her alone." "She's as pure as snow." "As honest as her father." "You're blinded by your hatred." " Grandpa, you conclude." " Lf we can't... we can't reach the fruit, let it rot on the branch." "Let's be ready to shake it... the day the gods send an irrefutable sign." "IN WHICH THE PAST REARS ITS HEAD AND REFUSES TO SHUT ITS MOUTH" "Good, your arm raised." "Your foot..." "Like that." " Eyes on the horizon." " Alright." "When you start the movement, the discus goes this way and must be throw." " Yes." "Let go, and it goes this way, not that way." "This way, alright?" "Your turn." "There!" "Bravo, Your Majesty!" "Your Majesty..." "Your Majesty, I have great news." "You talk now?" "What did you say?" " Last time I was pregnant." " I didn't know." "12 piglets!" "Isn't it marvelous?" "Marvelous, marvelous..." "How does this news concern me?" "What am I to do?" " Be responsible." " Responsible..." "How so?" " You're the father." " Says who?" "The little fellas look just like you." " They want to see daddy." " That's only natural!" "Who's that?" "Your Majesty!" " Are you there?" " Are you alright?" "Yes, just hitched up my toga." "I'm coming." "Go back to the kids." "Don't breathe a word to anyone!" "Meet me here in weeks." "Same time." " Nothing to add, hon?" " Kiss the kids for me!" "I just saw her!" "No, keep your eyes down!" "I just saw her." "She can talk!" " With a strange accent!" " Who?" "Her!" "My ex... my mother!" "I mean, my sow!" "The sow!" "I lied, I lied!" " Calm down." " A king doesn't lie... he makes history." "His lies become truth." "You reassure me." "I'll be stabbingly brief." "Out of humanity and wisdom, I didn't kill the foul creature." "Now she says I'm a father." " Father?" " Who's the mother?" "Mine..." "I mean, 12 piglets that look like me." "My reign must continue without turpitude... my succession be without controversy." "Murder... is a state duty!" " Kill everyone?" " Everyone!" "The 12 kids, the sow." " That'd be cruel." " For the rest." "Yes." "Death to the hideous creature." "Long live the King!" "Long live the King!" "Over there!" " It has been done!" " What?" " The 12 heads." " They look like me?" "Just like you, especially the girls." "Burn 'em!" "Bury 'em!" " Make me forget that bag!" " I shall deal with it." "Be gone!" "No, you stay!" "I don't know why..." "I'm unable to cry." "Cry, you are but a child." "A child king whose sorrow is too much for him to bear." "Come here." "Come on my lap." "IN WHICH BITING OFF MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW" "MARKS THE LAST STRAW" "Gently, Your Majesty." "You're hurting me." "Gently!" "Let go!" "Little brat, I'll slap you!" "You killed my sow, my children!" "My family!" " Curse you!" " You'll pay for that!" " Demon!" " Just you wait!" "Vile... repugnant cannibal, you're gonna regret that!" "The beast bit!" "He started biting again!" "I surrender!" "Help me!" "The cannibal bit me!" " The time has come!" " He fled!" " Let's go get him!" " Death to the usurper!" "The gods have sent us the irrefutable sign!" " Death to the freak!" " Down with the pig!" " Long live the patriarch!" " Which way?" "Zima saw the doves leave his head!" "I said!" "I said!" " Which way?" " That way!" " Kill him!" " Follow me!" " Let's go!" " It isn't the first time he bite!" " Skin him alive!" " Come on, he's escaping!" " Clytia!" " See the beast?" " Where are you?" " Clytia!" " Help me." " It's too late." "I can't do anything now." " Clytia!" "Clytia!" "Clytia!" " I'm here!" " He's here with me." " Where?" "Run." "Like the hunted animal you are." "That you always were." "We're coming!" " Did you see it?" " Where's the swine?" "That way." "He went that way." "He's over there!" "To the olive grove!" "Follow me!" "IN WHICH DAWN THROWS LIGHT ON THE LAST REMAINING SECRETS" "It's a dead end." "He can't get away!" "He's trapped." "Just like a mouse!" "Karkos!" "Don't let go!" "Catch your breath." "How can I thank you?" "I'm nothing now." "I don't deserve your gratitude." "I betrayed you." "Before we part, I must show you something." " I couldn't do it to the babies." " They don't look like me!" "Her revenge was to try to drive you insane." "Who's he?" "What?" "My sow lives with that vulgar brute?" "She suffered a lot." "Let her start afresh." "You're right." "Let's leave her to it." "Let's go!" "I betrayed you, too." "Listen, but don't turn around." "Clytia, your beloved, was mine." "This place... so wild and hostile, is ideal for what you just confessed." "I know I've broken the heart of someone I love above all others." "This heart was broken long ago." "But that you thought I knew nothing... that's what makes me cry now." "Clytia always told me." "Right from the first night." "I listened to the tales of your trysts... ravaged by hatred... and jealous admiration." "Why didn't you drop me off the edge?" "Between your carnal happiness with her and my own..." "I chose yours." "Let me drink from your lips... the radiant soul of the poet you are." "This way!" "The marsh!" "Where are you?" "Your Majesty, the branch!" "Come on!" "Climb up!" "Wait for me!" "Hurry!" "Wait..." " I'm sinking!" " Give me your arm!" " I'm being sucked down." " Hold tight!" "Come on!" "I can't move." "Over there!" "I heard a cry!" "Stuck like this, I'm weaker than a lamb." "They'll slay me!" "Tikus!" "Go the other side!" "Let's go, everyone!" "Together!" "If you're a man..." "if you're my brother... if you're my master spare me this end." " No!" " Do it, Minor!" " No!" "Help me do it." "Your only regret would be not to have done it." "Press down." "Let's be brave!" "Now!" "Just in front!" "I see him!" " Where?" " Down there!" "Rectus, did you see him?" "The pig's reign is over!" "The tyrant's dynasty!" "The ungodly king!" "Death!" "I can't see him!" "I can't see a thing!" "We can't go trough there." "YEARS LATER..." "Over to you!" " What now?" "Play on." " I'm exhausted, watching you." " You don't change." " That's how it is." "The myths are eternal, old man!" "Don't call me that, dammit!" " Be polite." " OK." "Hit it, piggy!" "Done by (c) dcd / July 2011"