00:00Friday the 15th, we made sail with the morning tide.
00:09I had been quarantined to a storeroom away from the other passengers and crew.
00:14All I want to do now is return home.
00:18My dear Sixsmith, I am in desperate need of your help.
00:21I got hooked on a journal written in 1849 by a dying lawyer during a voyage from a Pacific
00:26Isle to San Francisco.
00:29Half the book is missing.
00:30It's completely killing me.
00:32A half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair.
00:37What are you reading?
00:40Old letters.
00:42Why do you keep reading them?
00:43I don't know.
00:44I'm just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes over and over.
00:53Our lives, and our choices, each encounter...
00:57Louisa Ray, Spyglass Magazine.
00:59Right.
01:00Suggests a new potential direction.
01:02That's it.
01:03The music from my dream.
01:04I call it the Cloud Atlas Sextet, a whole movement I wrote imagining us meeting again
01:13and again in different lives, different ages.
01:17What are you doing in here?
01:19We cross and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
01:23The love of my life, and what had happened to her.
01:28I can't explain it, but I knew when I opened that door...
01:33I heard it in a dream.
01:34I was in a nightmarish cafe, blaring bright lights, underground and no way out, and the
01:44waitresses, they all had the same face.
01:47Welcome to Palisades.
01:53No reason to hide.
01:55I know you are.
01:57Sonmi451.
02:10Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction.
02:14Today, it is headed in another.
02:18You ever think the universe was against you?
02:23Where's our money?
02:25The law says...
02:26Law!
02:28Fear.
02:29Belief.
02:30Love.
02:31Phenomena that determine the course of our lives.
02:35These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish.
02:46Our lives are not our own.
02:50We are bound to others.
02:53Past and present.
02:57And by each crime...
03:02And every kindness...
03:05We birth our future.
03:07I have begun to fear I may never hold my beloved Teldra in my arms again.
03:25The problem you create is a political one.
03:32Yesterday, I believed I would never have done what I did today.
03:39I feel like something important has happened to me.
03:46Is this part of me?
03:48I feel like something important has happened to me.
03:53Is this possible?
03:56I just met her and yet I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey.
04:13You're saving me twice, baby.
04:15You fall, I'll catch you.
04:18There is a natural order to this world and those who try to upend it do not fare well.
04:48The End
05:11I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith.
05:14A better world.
05:16And I'll be waiting for you there.
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