"IN THE NAME OF GOD" "" THE PEAR TREE " a film by DARYOUSH MEHRJOU'l" "Homayoun Ershadi" "Golshifteh Farahani Mohammadreza Shahbani Nouri" "Ne'matullah Gorji Ja'far Bozorgi , Rahman Hosseini" "Maryam Moqbeli , Maryam Majd Abbas Shadravan , Mehrdad Siyah Cheshman" "Editing Mostafa Kherqeh Poush" "Script writers Daryoush Mehr Jou'i , Goli Taraqi" "Director Daryoush Mehrjou'i" "All the trees in Damavand have fructified" "All but the pear tree" "The luscious and flirtatious tree" "And the old and stubborn gardener..." "Brings this to my attention every morning" "I see him waiting behind the window of my room just as I open my eyes" "He doesn't understand that the sad fates of those stupid plants..." "And their well-being or misfortunes of grass and other vegetables..." "Does not concern me at all" "I mean I am an author, a philosopher and a poet" "And he doesn't understand that I'm concerned and focused on other things" "Somewhere beyond earthly little incidents" "Beyond daily and unworthy incidents" "Mister!" "Sir!" "Mister!" "Mister!" "Sir!" "I'd have to finish this damned book this year" "I have no excuses not to do so" "In this in-the-middle-of-nowhere garden..." "There is nobody to waste my time by babbling and discussions..." "And of course by talking as well" "No socializations" "No wife or children" "Nothing but lots of time and sunshine" "And silence and peace of mind" "Basically all the necessary ingredients for inventions and creations" "Everything is well but the MR. Gardener" " Mister!" " What?" "I want to talk to you about that tree" "I'd have to make him realize" "That his master has come to dump place for something important and vital" "And the fact that his master's everlasting writings..." "Are very valuable to himself, his family, his city, his country and perhaps even to the world" "I want to talk to you about that pear tree" "Everything is in order" "Three kinds of eyeglasses" "Each one for a unique type of vision" "Pencils, pens and every type of stationary goods" "I won't get up anymore once I begin to write" "I am going to write fifty pages at once" "What about?" "That's a good question" "And it doesn't have an answer" "Since I don't know it yet" "How should I put it?" "Mister!" "Mister!" "Are you alright?" "I'm very sorry, but can you come and take a look at the pear tree?" "I imagine if I write a page every hour..." "And if I work for ten hours a day that'll be ten pages a day" "And seventy pages a week" "It's easy to calculate it" "And if I work like a normal human-being..." "I will have written close to one thousand pages by the beginning of winter" "I have two gold-plated covers ready" "And If I print it with large fonts..." "It will be four editions" "Mister !" "Hello sir" "Father!" " Hi" " Hi Mr. Mashadi Hassan" "It's Mashadi Hossein sir" "This doesn't concern me Mashadi Hossein" "The hell with all pear trees and every goddamn piece of vegetable" "Leave me alone" "No, I shouldn't lose my temper" "Anger will stall my work" "What work?" "The writing?" "Of course, fast, consistent easy and smooth writing" "Just like breathing" "Or like looking" "Like existing" "Mister!" "Stop saying mister!" "Knock it off Mashadi" "Can't you see I'm working here Leave me alone already" "Work, work" "A work which used to be my love, my career and the reason..." "For being or not being and even the cause of my reputation and the capital of my life..." "Has now turned into a living hell" "I don't want to write" "I can't write" "I don't know what I want to write about" "I've promised eight articles to four newspapers" "I have two scientific-cultural trips and four literature-artistic interviews ahead" "So why aren't I writing then?" "This cherry tree is still standing" "Full of youth, liveliness..." "And specially youth" "It makes me angry" "Am I jealous?" "Perhaps there is some kind of a feminine flirtatious about it which makes me restless" "There they come again" "[ the sound of a door]" "Hello mister" "Mister!" "Hello master" "Where has this laziness..." "And the tendancy to waste time and forgetfulness come from?" "Sweet dreams..." "Great humanitarian dreams..." "Political and social expectations..." "Mesmerizing imaginations about me and others..." "They all have ceased to erupt within me" "And the eternal addiction to philosophy and art..." "Which used to be the food for my thoughts..." "They all have gotten forgotten" "Mister!" "Mister!" "They're still here, why won't they leave?" "What do they want from me?" "He doesn't let me work for even a moment" "The sky..." "The empty part of my brain and my short thoughts..." "They are still vast, wide open and clear" "Mister!" "The old men are waiting" "The pear tree hasn't fructified" "This incident revolves around dirt the Earth and water" "It has nothing to do with poems philosophy and the super natural" "Did you want something?" "Hello sir" "Sorry, I am very sorry" "I just wanted to convey my regards to you" " How are you?" " Fine" "How is your mother?" "Your father?" "The late father" "God bless him sir" "This bastard pear tree is being stubborn" "It hasn't fructified this year at all" "I'm not in the mood to listen to everything he says" "The pear tree has not fructified this year and" "And the gardener thinks of this shameless silence from the tree..." "As an unforgiving impoliteness to himself" "I thought perhaps the tree's gotten spelled or bewitched" "Or perhaps the ten trees in the other garden are spelled too" "There must be some kind of a magic involved" "Why are the other trees healthy then?" "Just this one is damned quiet" "He doesn't know why it's not fuctifying" "And the lack of understanding is bothering him" "He's been dealing with flowers and trees all his life" "He knows the vegetables inside out" "He is quite familiar with their moods" "I swear there's nothing I haven't done for this tree sir" "I've watered it a lot" "I kept watering it every morning bright and early" "I organized its branches myself" "I've fertilized it myself And great human furtilizers for that matter" "I've talked to it a lot" "I've caressed it and expressed love to it" "I've said all the loving words to it" "But it was all useless" "I even pretended as if it was nothing important" "I ingored it, I laughed for no reason" " The chief of the village can testify" " Yes" "But it was all useless" "So I lost my temper and went at it" "You goddamn good-for-nothing timber" "I even kicked it a few times as well" "But it was no use at all" "I'm out of solutions I swear" "I don't know what its problem is" "It might think that I know" "I not only am the owner of the garden but also I'm a scientist and wise man" "I have to know all the why's in the world" " Didn't it blossom?" " Not even a single one" "Perhaps it's ill Or it's some kind of a virus" "No sir, I know all the illnesses of these trees" "There's nothing wrong with him" "It could have gone old and has no energy left" "This tree has a long way to go before it stops giving fruits like all others" "Yes sir, all trees get this way sometimes" "You can't just leave them be like that" "Leave and come back tomorrow father" "I have more important things to do" "The master doesn't get it" "Mister!" "Master!" "You control the fate of this garden" "You have to dictate what to do" " Dictate?" " Yes" "There are ceremonies that you'd have to be present for sir" "Perhaps later, or next week" "Pardon me sir" "But other trees will learn to do the same" "Plants imitate each other and that's not something you'd want" "We think this pear tree must be punished sir" "Remember how much you used to like this pear tree sir?" "You've told me many times" "That the Damavand Garden is nothing without this pear tree" "I don't remember" "Did I say this rubbish?" "You said it And you were a grown man then" "Do you remember the last summer?" "You told me standing under this very pear tree" "You told me not to forget to water and fertilize it" "Remember sir?" "I did?" "Did I really?" "You used to like all the trees here before" "I remember one day you went to the well with Ms. Mimcheh on the donkey" "An unvisible hand is squeezing corners of my heart" "Disorganized memories are turning inside my head" "Where was it?" "Remember how much noise you used to make in the afternoons?" "You used to eat beans and vinegar" "You used to grill corns" "I used to tell you not to climb up the pear tree or you'd fall" "But you never did listen" "I used to bring down a couple for you" "And you'd get mad and wouldn't take the fruit" "I know this man" "I know the chief" "My best memories of my childhood and his memories are combined" "He wasn't the chief of the village back then" "And he didn't look like he does now" "Time has changed his appearance" "And mine too" "You used to go and run around the garden with other kids" "You used to play" "This garden never did look like it does now" "There are no traces of his mighty physique anymore" "I used to be afraid of him when I was a kid" "Even the straw dogs used to get scared of his thick and scary voice" "The gardener of Damavand Garden..." "And he was the sole ruler of all the trees in the village" "This is a familiar look" "These eyes look at me from the very far away past" "From the time of my childhood" "These eyes are full of past memories" "What are you doing?" "Don't, don't touch it" "Can't you see the magnificent web it has woven?" " What?" " In here, look" "I can't see anything" "That's because you're blind deaf and dumb" "You are selfish" "I'm twelve years old and" "I'm in love twelve thousand times more than the capacity of my small heart and soul" "I'm confused and out of it" "I'm dry I'm a mess and mesmerized" "I'm not myself, my usual self" "Even better!" "I laugh for no good reason" "The kind of a stupid and for-no-reason laughter that makes grown-ups sick" "I'm ugly, tall and unproportioned" "Althoug my legs have grown suddenly and frightenedly..." "Although my thoughts and feelings are a mess..." "With unclear anxiety" "I feel very very happy" "I've made a great decision" "I want to become an author" "Or perhaps a poet" "I have also sworn..." "To be faithful to my great and eternal love, "M", forever" "Or at least for as long as I'm alive" "I only wish that time wouldn't go by so slowly and turtle-like" "And that it wasn't stalling so much" "I wish I'd turn twenty, thirty or fourty years old quickly" "I wish I'd be as old as mature, wise and reputable men" "How stupid I was" "And today..." "I wish time wouldn't pass me by so fast" "I wish I had another lifetime" "I wish I were twelve years old again" "And I could rediscover..." "With all the people in it..." "Even the dead ones" "I wish, one of those impossible wishes" "I wish I could sit next to " M " just once more" "And I could smell her tennis shoes again" " Any shorter brother?" " No, that's fine" "I love you uncle" "Why are they cutting his hair uncle?" "Stop being nosy or I'll cut everyone's hair" "Let us watch uncle" "You have to cover up your head carefully from now on" "Cover you neck carefully" "The doctor said you must not drink dirty water, uriped fruit or things like that" " You'd have to be careful" " But you ripped my hair out mother" "Go on boy, don't look" "What?" "Why are you standing here?" "Funny" "Do I look pretty?" "All the kids in the family kept far from me" "And they kept making fun of me behind my back" "Who cares?" "I'm in love with the "M"" "And this " M " which the correct pronounciation of her full name boils my head..." "She is only a few years older than I am" " Do we know him?" " It's Haji Kazem's son" "I guess he wants to propose" " Where are you landlord?" "Hi" " I'm right here, hi" "Welcome" "" M " is a somebody" "She associates with the grown-ups" "And her fat and stupid mother keeps introducing her..." "To educated people for marriage like doctors and engineers" "And I know and I can swear" "That " M " won't marry neither of them" "It's impossible" "No one with the right mind would ever accept her as his wife" "That's because she is selfish and crazy with a horrible attitude" "And she thinks like I do" "She is an imaginary poet and artist just like I am" "And I don't get enough of looking at her" "I only have eyes for her" "She fills up my dreams" "What?" "Get out of here and let us play" "You'll upset your mother Mimcheh!" "Shut up!" "Go fast" "Mimcheh, get up the guests are here" "Get up already" "Ali moaning and groaning..." "Fell on the ground" "Read these books The uncle's brought them from the city" "" Buried Alive " by Sadeq Hedayat" ""M" reads one book a day" "And she writes poems sometimes" "She smokes time to time and lets me smoke too" "I'm glad it fit" "What did he say then?" "He said if one day a rider..." "If a rider came from the valley one day" "Tired and exhausted" "And fearful" "A regretful lover" " And mesmerized" " No" "With tearful eyes, all bewildered" "And was looking at the waves" "Tell him you blondie" "You're late, Mr. Dream1" "Oh, thy black winged- ants" "Oh flowers" "Oh skies" "Oh bees" "Oh butterflies" "Oh galaxies" "Oh lovers" "I hereby present my poems to you all" " Oh stupids" " Where are you taking the book?" "Give it to me" "Poor nightingales, a poem for the "M", and for me" "Don't read it, give it to me" "She's rub her moonlight hands on her sleepy eyes" "Don't read it" "From the tree branches and her cut-off ringlets..." "Her black cut-off ringlets Here take it" "I write "M" 's name on my body and hand" "And when I put it over my heart it starts missing a beat from anxiety" "Is it true you're going to be a theater actress?" "Will you let me read?" " Is it true?" " Yeah" " So you'll go abroad to live with your father?" " Yeah, stop asking so many questions" " I'll come too" " Get out of here" "I'm serious" "I'll write plays and you can act in them" "Everytime I hear a sound..." "I see a light with it as well" "Be afraid of judging me wrongfully" "It's my duty to remind everyone of this" " Mahmoud!" " They were right around here" "Mahmoud!" "Mahmoud!" " We were over there" " Hello auntie" "Where have you been?" "I've been looking for you for two hours" "Why do you look like an idiot?" "Go and wash your face now" "Is that a letter from your father?" "What does it say?" "Shut up!" "What does it say?" "Does he still want you to go to him?" "What if your mother and aunts don't let you go?" "What's it to them?" "Nobody can stop me I'm going" "They were fighting over you leaving just a few days ago" "One of them said that Paris was a busy city" "And that it was dangerous for you" "Someone else said that your father was not a normal person" "And that he was always looking for trouble" "And that he was always looking for wrong and political things to do" "Bullshit" "He is a great person in fact" "He is a nice man and very smart too" "Besides what is it to them anyway?" "2" "Look at them" "My dear uncles..." "Get up it's time for bird kebab" "Come over here fast" "Keep blowing dear it's todays hunt" "I just don't know what does my smart father have to do with this bunch?" "Or how did he go about marrying my mother?" "Is it true that he can't come back ever?" "Yeah, my father stands by what he says" "He is different" "What is he saying?" "The big brother is in a great mood today" "How much longer are you planning to keep this kid tied to the tree auntie?" "But you don't know how he is" "Don't feel sorry for him He's a kid from hell" "Nothing will happen to him" "I want some corn, and beans too" "Why did you tie me?" "I'll kick everyone's ass only if I get myself untied" "Get out of here Stop teasing him" "Come on" "But you don't know how he is uncle" " He'll promise" " Untie him now, and see what he'll do" "Untie the kid uncle" " You promised alright?" " Okay" "Untie him" "Don't run" "You spilled the corns" "Why are you playing here?" "You'll burn yourselves" "You spilled the broad beans" "Tie him back" "" M " despises Uncle Colonel" "All she thinks about is to do something to him" "This is the Opium Addicted uncle" "All he ever does is to attend his fire grill" "His military uniform is hanging from a nail in the terrace" "It's as if this old shadow..." "This forgotten magnificent" "Had to be spread over the family's head" "Lunch guys" "Come to lunch please" "Run guys it's lunch" "The most horrible order " M " has given is to steal uncle's military uniform" "How?" "Midnight when everyone's asleep" "Order is order and has to be carried out" "With my command, to the left" " I don't know my left" " It's this side" " We'll march now" " Is it fine there Colonel?" "Left, two, three, four, it's fine" " Quickly" " Sure" " I'll get tired" " Here you go" "Take my jacket fast" "I'm ready for orders" " I'll watch the march" " Yes sir" "Left, two, three, four" "Attention, line up" " I'll give you a medal" " Thank you Colonel" " Hello Mahmoud, hi Mimcheh" " Hello Shokrollah" " What are you doing there?" " How are you?" " What are these you're wearing?" " Bring me my horse" " What horse?" " Shokrollah's donkey already" "He needs his donkey and won't let me use it" "You stupid" " Sure colonel" " Rn" "Shokrollah!" "Stop, St0P" " Hold on Shokrollah" " What is it?" " Let me have your donkey" " I need it" " I want to go to the field" " No, it's an order" "Careful not to fall Mimcheh" "Run, show me what you can do" "Colonel, you run so fast" "Careful the donkey doesn't drop you" "The donkey has a bad attitute Mimcheh" "" M " knows I want to become a poet or an author" "She also has realized I love her" "When I pay too much attention to her..." "Or when she gives two thousand orders..." "And I carry them out like an obedient slave..." "She kicks or punches me out" " Come on out" " Get out of here, shut up" "It's a hot summer" "The sun cuts through the bone at noons" "Everyone's sleeping" "Even " M "" "A tempting silence's spread over the garden" "The trees are awake" "I can hear them breathe quietly" "If " M " wakes up and finds out that I'm sleeping a few meters from her..." "She'll get angry" "Whenever I stick to her and follow her everywhere..." "She passes me by and yells at me" "I don't like to hear her yell at me" " Bye" " Bye" "It was towards the end of the summer when" "" M " leaves ruthlessly without saying goodbye" "And she steals my poems and my secret diary..." "And takes them with her" "And she won't ever give them back to me" " Where did they go?" " How dare you come at noon and ask me where they've gone?" "Why didn't they say goodbye to me?" "St0P" "St0P" "Don't shut the door Ali Leave the door open" "St0P" "Damavand has suddenly turned into a quiet and cold place" "And me like an ill kid..." "I am not in the mood to play with the boys my own age" "Mahmoud!" "Where are you Mahmoud?" "Mahmoud!" "Where are you Mahmoud?" "You stay here I'm going to walk in the valley" "Mahmoud!" "What are you doing up there?" "We've been looking for you all morning" "Didn't you hear us?" "Mahmoud, it's getting dark come down" "Mahmoud!" "I told you to get down" "Get down Mahmoud" "Your poor mother's going crazy" "You've gotten everyone worried Come down" "Do you know you'll get a nice beating if I tell the grandfather?" "God is the greatest" "If you come down Mahmoud..." "I'll promise to bring you the most stubborn donkey for you to ride" "The one " M " rode as well?" " Will you bring it right now?" " Yeah" "You just come down And I'll bring you the donkey" "Careful not to fall though" "I'll bring it right now" "I found him on that walnut tree" "Where is the donkey then Shokrollah?" ":11 bring it" "I'll realize I was fooled just as soon as I get down" "And just like the fate's heavy shadow" "It keeps following me everywhere from then on" ""M" and her mother come to see us in the city" "She's read my love diary" "I'm sure" "I'm sick" "I'm sleeping and shame, sorrow and fever twist in my thin body" "Hi auntie" "I hate to see you like this my boy" "How are you?" "He doesn't have a fever" "He's better after having taken so much medication" "Thank God, keep on resting" "I have no idea this is the last time I see her" "The palm of my hands are burning" "I feel as if her name's been tatooed all over my body" "How are you?" "Don't you die on me" "By the way, here's your diary" "Are you really going abroad?" "What medications are you taking?" "I know she's on her way" "So there won't be a summer" "I should not cry" "Never" "I'll follow you everywhere you go" "To the end of the world" "You'd have to wait for me" "Only five years" "I'll write you a letter everyday" "Everyday" "Every night" "I promise" "Tears are by my eyelids" "In my nose, and in my mouth" "I have a fever and the Damavand Garden and " M " and everything else seem to be like a dream" "And as usual and as a sign of a friendship and as a symbol of my love..." "I hid my love within me" "She throws a punch to my face" "Don't cry, nothing's happened" "You'll join me later" "Don't cry" "Before leaving, before disappearing forever..." "She whipes off my tears" "And I feel what she did creates distance" "And so I get extremely depressed" "Well, bye my little friend" "I'll be waiting for you" "Be sure to come" "Bye" "A black and frightening sea appears before my eyes" "Maybe I'm dead" "I feel my body's gotten torn to pieces" "And as if my body parts are floating seperated from each other" "Only my eyes still remember "M" 's finger touch" "Where am I?" "Where was I?" "The pear tree1" "Do it if you have to punish it" "But you'd have to talk to the tree for the last time" "Come to the garden please" " Shokrollah!" " Yes sir?" " Mash Hossein!" " Yes sir?" "I escaped the city and its people because of how busy they were..." "I've come here to work Only to work" "And if you don't know what I do I'll tell you, I'm an author" "Look, see" " We're embarrassed sir" " But you can't just leave the tree like it is" "My Dal..." "Have this good-for-nothing tree pulled out from its roots and get it over with" " This tree's frowing sir" " The hell with it" "Let me be" "That's how time goes by" "After five years..." "Actually after six years and two months I haven't even finished a chapter yet" "If I've written fourty pages..." "It was only due to the repeated past words" "Whether I've been stealing from my own past work or others" "Sir!" "Sir!" "Come on out please" "Come to the garden" "There's a ceremony you'd have to participate in for sure" "Where is it?" "I'll watch from here, you go on" "No sir, it's at the end of the garden" "Go on please" "You'd have to go from the other side" " Hello sir" " Hi" "Is this it?" "Yes sir" "Its body is healthy it's alive" "There's nothing wrong with it" "But I don't know why it's not fuctifying" "It's being stubborn sir That's how some trees are" "They get exorcised" "Oh tree, you know I love you more than I love any other tree in this garden" "You know well I love you like I love my very own son" "I've done everything possible for it as God's my witness" "But this tree has made me lose face" "Damn you" "That's right sir, we're all embarrassed by this tree" "A fruitless tree is like a rotten tooth" " You'd have to pull it out with roots" " Yes" "Hold on, don't be hasty" "There might be a reason for it" "How would you know" "What are you talking about?" "This tree must be cut out" "This tree needs to be taught a lesson9" " Go and cut it off then - lit needs to be done once and for all" " Hold on" " What?" "I've paid him to cut it off" "Just wait, I want to talk to the tree shortlhy" " Talk?" "Here you are and the tree" " Yes" " Will you permit me sir?" " Sure" "Let's see what you can do" "Oh tree!" "I don't know why you haven't fructified this year" "Your leaves are all green" "And your body is quite healthy too" "And your soul is in a good shape" "So stop being stubborn" "But if you do so the other trees will learn and that's not good" "I don't know what to do with you" "Whatever the master says" "Whatever the boss says" "Sir, what would you have us do?" "What should you do?" "Cut it off and get it over with" "No sir, trees are like human beings" "They have feelings too" "Listen sir, I'll hold out my neck for this tree" "I promise this tree will have fruits again" "It will give large and juicy pears too" " And I promise it'll pass all other trees" " What do you mean pal?" "Cut it off and get it over with" " Right, cut it off" " Let's do it" " Don't" " Cut it off and get it over with" "Cut it already" "No, this is my state" "If God shuts down a door" "He will definitely make up for it" "Yes the chief is correct" "Will you promise tree?" "Yes, it promises Mashady" "There is a right time for everything" "You fructify some times and you don't other times" "You are sometimes asleep and other times you're awake" "You sometimes are alive and other times are dead" "The nature knows more than we do Mashadi" "Yes the chief is right" "I'll stick my neck out" "Yes, so do we" "Okay then, let's praise the prophet" "Peace be upon the prophet Mohammad and his household" "What do you mean by being quiet and stubborn anyway?" "Are you sick?" "Or are you trying to cause trouble for us?" "You're ruined my day" "I should have written fourty pages by now" "Time is moey and death is hiding in the corner" "What if I don't write anything?" "What if I forget everything and say the hell with life?" "What if I don't move a finger?" "Says who I'm condemned to write?" "What force is it?" "Who is forcing me?" "Me to begin with" "To my very proud and selfish self" "Which needs to show off and exhibit" "And next to these who won't let me go" "They are waiting for my next piece of work" "Sorry professor, but when will your new book be finished?" "Soon enough" "Sorry professor but what's the title?" "I don't know" "Sorry sir, but what is it about?" "Sorry sir, why did it take so many years?" "I really would like to be honest with them" "But I don't dare to" "How can I tell them that after so many years..." "And after so much promises..." "And after so much showing off..." "This is the result of my so much hard work, nothing?" "That I no longer have anything to say nor am I eager to do it anymore?" "I don't feel sorry or regret" "I'm happy if I'm left to be" "But others won't have it" "They expect new and creative things from me" "They keep hitting me with their judgemental rulers" "And sometimes over my head" "Hello sir, pardon me" "Leave me alone" "I'm a small person full of guilt and no matter who I used to be..." "You can call me anything you want to" "A Philosopher, a fighter, or anything else" "But I've said what I had to say" "I've written tens of books and hudreds of articles" "And today that I've become famous..." "I no longer have anything to offer" "And I no longer believe in what I used to" "Due to an unknown reason, good or bad..." "I've lost my addiction to all kinds of beings and will be's anymore" "I could be ill from the inside" "Or perhaps the illness is from the outer me" "I don't know" "How can I make you understand?" "All of you who are after honesty and truthfulness with simple and frank spirits" "I don't know" "Sir, in your opinion which one is worse?" "Westernization or Easternization?" "Intellectualism or stupidity?" "You talked about love in your first book" "About eternal love and originality of feelings and of arts and imagination" "In your next books you talked about economical foundation and justification of the history" "And defended human rights and the rights of the laborers" "But you're saying that you don't believe in them anymore" "And then you got quiet for a while and" "Rumors had it that you had seizure" "The rumors even had it that you were imprisoned by Shah's government for two years" "And then you came out of nowhere..." "And we realized you had turned to religious ideas and spiritual matters" "There is a kind of a confusion in your words now" "Let me go, get out of my way" "I think about "M"" "I had forgotten about her" "She was supposed to come back" "Her letters would come from abroad" "She'd given up on being an actress" "She was studying history and literature" "And waiting for me" "Weren't you supposed to come you liar?" "Weren't you supposed to write plays for me MR. Poet?" "Have you forgotten it?" "What would I write about?" "About an ended love?" "About public fooling political ideas?" "About friends?" "About a destroyed and fake party?" "And about how I had been had?" "In a society with a no-class future..." "And after the aim of the historical labor-level having come true..." "You reach your dream and..." "You are rid of making a living" "You no longer have to work eight hours a day" "One or two hours are enogh" "And you can spend the rest of your time doing what you please" "Do arts or write poems" "You can play a musical instrument" "There's not much left till we reach this ideal society" "The first book I wrote is a series of love poems" "Presented to " M "" "Hi" "I wanted the series of your love poems" "Reading my name makes my heart beat fast" "I'm still in love" "And this love and heart throb has gone in a new way" "This is a new and truthful love which is more worldly" "The eternal " M "" "The lost " M " in a larger scale" "" M " 's love in my body" "Has turned into hatred and despise towards the British and the dictating class" "" M " 's letters haven't been answered" "It's not important" "This has become a part of the political ideals of the party" "I carry out any orders they issue" "Take this to Abadan, to Haqayeq Bookstore" "Mr. Arash" "I believe anything I hear" "I'm not in a good shape" "I'm out of money and hungry" "I'm sick" "I know they're after me but I don't care" "I'm in love" "I'm bewildered and mesmerized" "These are the best years of my life" "I'm laughing at my own stupidity today" "But back then my heart and soul were in the hands of my political believes" "Life used to run in my veins with excitement" "Had I answered "M" 's letters..." "Everything would have changed" "I wanted to do everything else and then attend to her letters" "I wanted to change the world first" "To write my books first" "And to become popular and famous" "And to be a winner" "Dear sir, your life is full of mistakes imagination and let-downs" "When are you supposed to wake up?" "We no longer believe in your writings and your words anymore" "How many pages is your last book anyway?" "How many editions are there to it?" "Your last book could be full of unclear ideas as well" "The last book?" "Since it's empty with nothing written in it..." "It's my best and most complete book" "I'll go back tomorrow morning" "How is it dear colonel?" "No the one up there, look" "Sure colonel" "Oh my eyes, my foot" "How is that colonel?" "No further up" "The one way up there" "Sure colonel" "The branches are thin here I might fall down" "Shut up, the highest pear" " You good-for-nothing idiot" " I'm falling down" "" M " has written me that she's waiting for me" "It's a love letter" "She hates politics" "The historical events don't concern her" "My dreams are full of sour cherry, cherry apple and pear blossoms with canaries singing" "And sometimes there are golden wheats which I don't know how they fly up" "And pass over the river" "And they come into my dreams" "And then I see a house full of the forgotten warmth" "And full of the reality of you forgetting me" "Full of so many colorful moments" "Full of sweet and moonlight whispers" "But where do I fit?" "When will I be in your life?" "I put my hand over my feverish forehead when the summer arrives" "And I whisper it like a prayer" "I don't like the fall" "Why does everybody believes this is the season for poetry?" "I won't change the warmth of the walnut tree with the yellow and fallen leaves" "I belong to the grape season and I'm startng to burn slowly" "But my flames are all getting cold" "There is a long smile on each end" "Old friends have become strangers to me" "They shut their doors in my face" "Stop!" "I had build a world of bubbles" "Which got popped with a snap of fingers" "So many sweet yet false dreams" "There was four of us in a small cell" "Two years before the revolution" "They were supposed to execute all of us" "One of my cell mates knew " M "" "They were relatives" "I heard about the accident and "M" 's death 4in France from him" "She was a goner herself" "I couldn't believe it" ""M" is gone" "I'm ready too, let's go occifer" "Not occifer, it's officer" "Everytime I hear a sound..." "I also see a light with it too" "Come and tell me..." "Did a light come to our attention that time when you heard a sound from the castle as well?" " Or that time when..." " Not like this" " That time when..." " Okay" "Did a light come to our attention that time when you heard a sound from the castle as well?" "I heard the sound that time" "But I don't remember whether a light was with it or not" "Now it's your turn..." "Had you told us that judging you would be something dangerous to us?" " Had you told us..." " Not like that" "Had you told us..." "Say it nice" "Had you told us that judging you would be something dangerous to us?" "Don't laugh, we're serious" "Be scared of doing me wrong" "It's my duty to remind you of this issue" "Now tell me, which one is danger for us?" "But which is danger for us?" "Which one is it?" "Don't laugh, this is serious" "Come here and watch me" "Come here, take this" "The sound told me that I'd be the winner of this trial" "The voice told me to give in to everything they do" "Don't pull it so hard" "Don't be scared of martyrdom" "Martyrdom is the torture we go through in the prison" "Could there be a worse pain that this?" "I'm looking forward to the pleasure of my own God" " Go on already" " What?" "Fire it up" " Fire it?" " Go on" "Even if you take my soul from my body" "You won't hear anything out of me" "What's that fire Mimcheh?" "You stupid boy" "Don't you dare play with fire again" "Did you really have feelings for " M "?" "Yes" "Were you serious when you told " M " that you'd go the next year?" "But you never did?" "Yes" "What is your last book about?" "I see a colorful tree everywhere I turn to" "Which is mesmerized by her own beauty like a princess" "And is repeating that eternal question" "Mirror mirror on the wall Who is the prettiest of all?" "The best...1" "The greatest..." "The most artistic" "The garden is full of whispers and heart beats" "Full of proud vital chaos" "All but the pear tree" "With a dead body and empty hands..." "Is standing in the middle of all that commotion" "And doesn't care about all that complaint" "Like an old sheik sitting in the quiet" "Down to the earth..." "Patient..." "And thankful" "This is a wise tree" "And responds to the touch of my fingers" "This tree has secret words to say" "And is whispering to me" "Grandmother used to tie her sleeping net to the branches of this very tree" "And father used to stand to pray next to this very tree" "May God keep it standing" "It's been very fruitful this year" "Have some" "Go on, eat up" "How juicy!" " Shokrollah!" " Yes dear?" "Drop me one of those large and juicy ones" " Here it comes" " Throw it" "Here you go" "The chief once said that this tree was going to give fruits again" "In the right time" "Now it's quiet and it's as if it is monitoring the world around itself" "It smells just as it should" "Full of rich experiences" "And moments full of aroma" "And love and torture" "And another smell" "The smell of " M " 's tennis shoes" "My sight goes to the furthest shiny moon" "My limited brain tries to understand the meaning of eternity" "Unlimited galaxy" "Unlimited space" "Unlimited being" "And time which has no beginning and no end" "And me..." "Congratulations professor..." "Your last book published last year is magnificent" "Is it true you're nominated for this years award?" "Your photos were printed in foreign magazines" "Our nation is proud of you" "What is your message in your last book?" "Do you still believe in the enonomical foundation and the world labor unio" "Do you still believe in the spiritual matters and the presence science?" "Do you still believe in anything or anyone?" "Where are you?" "Where do you stand?" "Is it true you're only thinking about the end and death nowadays?" "Ancient tiredness..." "Inherited tiredness..." "It's leaving my body gradually" "The calmness of this fruitful tree has gotten into me as well" "I'm fine" "I'm h3PPY" "Where am I?" "Nowhere" "Is it midnight or almost dawn?" "I don't know" "It's as if I'm sitting in an empty pause between two chaotic minutes" "Between the eternity of the past" "And the eternity of tomorrow" "I'm staring at a spider that" "It is knitting a thin web quietly and patiently" "" THE END ""