Last Year in Viet Nam

00:01:43 This is how it started:

00:02:27 It gets your imagination going.

00:02:35 That's its strength.

00:02:44 It's a novel, nothing but a fictitious story.

00:02:53 You just have to close your eyes.

00:03:13 . . .where one can struggle within the void.

00:03:23 It is exceptional in the course of human time.

00:03:59 In Viet Nam, I had known a rather brutal loneliness. . .

00:04:32 From that time on, we saw. . .

00:04:43 Tropical steam room, out of instinct. . .

00:04:51 . . .in the coolness of Europe, under the discreet dullness of the North.

00:05:18 . . .as they are tantalized by the vile fever of the tropics.

00:05:32 When we are no longer slaves of work and cold. . .

00:05:51 Once the ocean recedes. . .

00:06:02 During youth, for the most arid indifference. . .

00:06:15 And much later. . .

00:06:23 . . .only to be maintained at 37º . . .

00:06:31 . . .from the past.

00:06:50 All the poetry is gone, since we have lived to this day.

00:07:15 . . .and above all, what killed you.

00:07:22 When we'll be over the hole, let's not be smart-asses. . .

00:07:34 . . .then put down one's quid, then climb down.

00:11:02 Her call crosses the bridge. Another arch. . .

00:11:20 . . .everything that took her away, and the river too.