Quartz 4

Eyes that Watch the World

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https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1W541127zq

“I think love is a touch and yet not a touch.”

  • 00:30 Doing a portrait for someone means very much to myself. When I was at very young age, I noticed whenever I painted someone, I could visualize their memories.

  • 00:50 When I realized I seemed to be the only person who possessed such ability. I decided to keep it to myself. keep something to yourself

  • 00:59 It was not long before1 another unusual trait about me was discovered. I seemed to stop aging… or perhaps it did at a very slow rate.

  • 01:08 This has not been so easy as the first secret to hide2. I obviously appeared “abnormal”.

  • 01:15 After leaving the orphanage, I managed to paint for a living. What I didn’t expect was how my appearance did not match my actual age had made me a folk legend. People were amazed by such a mature kid, and regarded me as a “prodigy”.

  • 01:43 Stun us with your talent. I identified myself as “time observer”. Over centuries, I have been experiencing and witnessing, not only through contacts with people, but also through the stories that are silently told. I have known by heart that I had guarded my secrets out of luck. It is just that… I don’t know how long all of this is going to last.

  • 02:24 Florence, stop messing with the dress.

  • 02:35 Rest assured, madame.

  • 02:59 I don’t fancy… the way I’m looking right now. Why is that? Because… This whole look3 is so NOT “me”. They say if I didn’t dress up like a normal girl, I wouldn’t be adored. I couldn’t help but pondered…

  • 03:23 Do I really long for4 a affection caused by appearance? So.. what are you longing for?

  • 05:31 What does this “insight to people’s past” even do? And so what if I knew everything? But you can live long. Might be some strange type of “deal with the devil”. He is likely to be an offspring of the witches. Execute him.

  • 06:19 I finally seemed to living a normal life, only ended up realizing… as time passes by, I would constantly lose people I was close to. The longer I had lived, the more I felt like there’s no one to talk to… I therefore decided to live without any… emotion.

  • 06:54 I’ve doubted if all this was just an illusion, for I could not seem to find a reason for why I remained “unusual”.

  • 07:14 It’s not your choice to learn about your client’s past… but with this ability, you’ve made people feel “seen”.

  • 07:33 I’ve never heard of this kind of interpretation. You truly offered me a great source of inspiration.

  • 08:24 Our life experiences were overly unequal…

Footnotes

  1. = until, It may be many years before the situation improves. 这种状况或许要过很多年才能得到改善。 It was some time before I realized the truth. 过了很长一段时间我才悟出真相。 ↩

  2. used to show the purpose ↩

  3. the way sb/sth looks; the appearance of sb/sth 样子；外观；相貌；外表 ↩

  4. to want sth very much especially if it does not seem likely to happen soon ↩

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