Episode Thirty-Seven: Pas de Deux
Mabel
Becca De La Rosa & Mabel Martin
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Every king has a coronation. And what kind of coronation would it be if everything went perfectly to plan? Featuring: an old friend, a new realization, an interrupted ritual.
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| 0:00.0 | Mabel Episode 37, Pad de Du, in which the world splits like an atom. |
| 0:13.0 | Why don't you ride when you don't need money? |
| 0:17.0 | Why don't you ride? |
| 0:19.0 | Swi'o, why don't? |
| 0:21.6 | Why don't? |
| 0:46.5 | The hill is not a microcosm. It is not the universe. It is not a gaping mouth or a gaping wound. It is not a void to fill. It is not a never-ending song of roses or a lapse in |
| 0:52.7 | the signature of time. |
| 0:55.3 | It is not sprawling. |
| 0:56.9 | It is not relentless. |
| 0:59.6 | It is only what it is. |
| 1:04.2 | Do you understand that it will rage and gnash its teeth against any limitation? |
| 1:07.8 | That it will cower before them, burn, sing? |
| 1:13.0 | There is no imposition we can inflict upon it. This is important. |
| 1:18.0 | Why does it need a king at all then? Why does it need any external force? |
| 1:25.2 | Why does a body need cells? Why does a heart need blood? There are explanations, but beyond that, no answers. |
| 1:29.3 | It's just the way that... There are physical facts of existence without which we would not be what we are. |
| 1:34.8 | That's all I really know. |
| 1:36.8 | What we did had repercussions unthroning him. |
| 1:41.0 | I felt it even then. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah, there's always consequences. That's just physics. |
| 1:48.8 | I can enforce my will onto things down here, push and pull, cause and effect. That's not the same |
| 1:55.3 | as whatever it was he did. He was necessary, like, like you said, like cells, like blood. Is that what it will be |
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