The Seventh Seal - A Reflection on Existence and Despair
Block:
Out of the darkness we call to thee, O Lord! Oh, God, have mercy on us! For we are small and afraid and without knowledge!
Jöns:
In the darkness where you claim to be, where we all probably are, in that darkness you shall find no one to listen to your laments or to be moved by your suffering. Wipe your tears and regard yourself reflected in your own insignificance.
Block:
God, you who are somewhere, who must be somewhere, have mercy on us!
Jöns:
I could have given you a herb to purge your worries about eternity, but it seems to be too late. But in any case, feel, to the last instant, the immense triumph in rolling your eyes and wriggling your toes!
Karin:
Quiet! Quiet!
Jöns:
I will be quiet, but under protest.
Girl:
It is finished.
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The Seventh Seal - Confronting the Reality of Emptiness
Jöns:
Who will look after that child? The angels? God? Satan? Emptiness? No, emptiness, milord!
Block:
It cannot be!
Jöns:
Look at her eyes. Her poor mind is making a discovery. Emptiness!
Block:
No!
Jöns:
We are helpless. We see what she sees, and her terror is ours.
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The Seventh Seal - The Paradox of Love and Belief
Jöns:
Love is the blackest of all plagues, but you don't even die of it, and usually it passes.
Jöns:
If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection.
Plog:
You're lucky. You believe in your own twaddle.
Jöns:
Who says I believe it? But I like giving advice.
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The Seventh Seal - A Discussion About Songs and Spring
Jof:
I've written a song about the spring! Would you like to hear it?
Mia:
Our guest may not care for your songs.
Jöns:
Oh, yes. I write songs myself.
Jof:
You see!
Jöns:
There's one about an enormous fish which you haven't heard.
Jöns:
And you're not going to hear it, either.
Block:
We worry about so much.
Mia:
It's better to be two.
Block:
To believe is to suffer. It is like loving someone in the dark who never answers.
Block:
I shall remember this hour of peace: the strawberries, the bowl of milk, your faces in the dusk. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lute. I shall remember our words, and shall bear this memory between my hands as carefully as a bowl of fresh milk.
Block:
And this will be a sign, and a great content.
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The Seventh Seal - Critique of Crusades and Idealism
Jöns:
For ten years we sat in the Holy Land, bitten by snakes, mosquitoes, and wild beasts, slaughtered by the heathens, poisoned by the wine, given crabs by the women, bled by the crabs, rotted by fevers, all for the glory of God!
Jöns and the Painter:
For the glory of God!
Jöns:
I tell you, our crusade was so stupid that only a true idealist could have thought it up.
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The Seventh Seal - Art as a Reminder of Mortality
Jöns:
Why all this daubing?
Painter:
To remind people of death.
Jöns:
That won't make them any happier.
Painter:
Why make them happy? Why not scare them?
Jöns:
Then they won't look at your picture.
Painter:
Yes, they will. A skull is more interesting than a naked woman.
Jöns:
If you scare them—
Painter:
They think—
Jöns:
Then they think.
Painter:
And are still more scared.
Jöns:
And fall into the arms of the priests.
Jöns:
What's that rubbish there?
Painter:
People think the plague is a punishment from God. Crowds wander the land lashing each other to please the Lord.
Jöns:
Lashing each other?
Painter:
Yes, it's a horrible sight. You feel like hiding when they pass.
Jöns:
Give me a gin. I've had nothing but water. I feel as thirsty as a desert camel.
Painter:
Scared after all?
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The Seventh Seal - A Search for Guidance in Silence
Block:
Did he show you the way?
Jöns:
Not exactly.
Block:
What did he say?
Jöns:
Nothing really.
Block:
Was he mute?
Jöns:
No, milord. He was most eloquent.
Block:
Indeed.
Jöns:
Yes, eloquent. But the speech he held was gloomy. One has to say that.
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