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[from The Fall, directed by Tarsem]

"Mr. Hao, is my English too fast? Am I getting across?"

Hao made out the colonel's intent, and Yes, he wanted to agree, it's all simply water coursing into larger and then still larger seas, and only what we do in this moment can save us . . . His vocabulary allowed him to say, "It's true. I think so. Yes."

-Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke