The Field of Enchantment

00:02:19 I was a taciturn, dreamy child

00:03:19 Snails traced their shimmering way through the grass.

00:04:18 It united us in a sort of secret alliance.

00:05:48 One day, one of these "space ships" led me out to a pond outside the village.

00:07:23 an island lost in an ocean of dry land.

00:12:07 my fabric merchant uncle had given me for my birthday

00:13:29 all the minuscule signs hidden within things.

00:14:26 the Sargasso Sea with its tangled gulfweed

00:15:18 One stifling hot day

00:16:31 I was witness to a ceremonial that seemed to obey an eternal protocol.

00:17:31 simply going with the flow of life.

00:20:09 Here everything remains possible.

00:27:04 Someone walked on the bank, trampled the mint

00:33:27 Now I know who stole my irises.

00:34:08 With one stroke of his sword the damsel he did slay

00:35:35 I wonder if deep down I'm not looking for signs of Iris.

00:40:11 I like them.

00:50:54 studying every detail of the pond

00:52:53 people don't like others roaming around the fields.

01:02:33 I so hoped to see Iris again by the water.

01:09:18 I must give her something.

01:12:44 I seemed to be coming to life after a long slumber.

01:14:44 All I knew of her was the name I'd invented.

01:15:26 and that other self I recognized in the girl in the poppy-red dress.