{"id":773,"date":"2008-02-10T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-12-30T01:10:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:10:59","slug":"v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alforria.pt\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">&#8211;<\/span>Set me free?Don&#8217;t you realize what you did to me? You nearly drove me mad! I hate you. I hate you! Set me free? You put me in a prison to set me free?!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-You were already in a prison. You&#8217;ve been in a prison all your life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-Shut up! I don&#8217;t want to hear it. I wasn&#8217;t in a prison. I was happy! I was happy here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-Happiness is the most insidious prison of all, Evey.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-That&#8217;s warped! That&#8217;s evil and it&#8217;s wrong! What gives you the right to judge? Who are you to say what&#8217;s not good enough?!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-You were born in a prison, Evey. I didn&#8217;t put you there. I just showed you the bars. You&#8217;ve been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there&#8217;s an outside world.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-Shut up! You&#8217;re mad! I don&#8217;t want to hear it!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-That&#8217;s because you&#8217;re afraid, Evey. You&#8217;re afraid because you can feel freedom closing in on you. You&#8217;re afraid because freedom is terrifying.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-I can&#8217;t feel anything! There&#8217;s nothing left to feel! Don&#8217;t you understand?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-Don&#8217;t back away from it, Evey. Part of you understands the truth even as part pretends not to.Woman, this is the most important moment in your life. Don&#8217;t run from it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-I don&#8217;t know what &#8212; Oh god &#8212; I can&#8217;t breathe<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-Good. You&#8217;re almost there. Go closer. Feel the shape of it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-What are you doing to me? I can&#8217;t breathe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8211; You were in a cell. They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-I feel &#8212; I feel like I&#8217;m going to burst.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-You said you&#8217;d rather die. You faced the fear of your own death and you were calm. Try to feel now what you felt then. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-Oh god &#8212; I felt &#8212; Like an angel &#8211;Oh god, V, I&#8217;m so scared. What&#8217;s happening to me?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-The door of the cage is open, Evey. All that you feel is the wind from outside. Don&#8217;t be afraid.Try to walk. The lift will take us to the roof.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8211; The roof? Outside? I &#8212; I don&#8217;t want to be blindfolded.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-No, Evey. No more blindfolds.. Do you feel it?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-Everything&#8217;s so &#8212; different.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">-I know. Five years ago, I too stared beneath a night like this. Naked under a roaring sky. The night is yours, Evey. Seize it. Encircle it within your arms. Bury it in your heart up to the hilt. Become transfixed and <span style=\"font-family:arial;\">transfigured &#8212; <\/span>Forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;Set me free?Don&#8217;t you realize what you did to me? You nearly drove me mad! I hate you. I hate you! Set me free? You put me in a prison to set me free?! -You were already in a prison. You&#8217;ve been in a prison all your life. -Shut up! I don&#8217;t want to hear it. I wasn&#8217;t in a prison. I was happy! I was happy here. -Happiness is the most insidious prison of all, Evey. -That&#8217;s warped! That&#8217;s evil and it&#8217;s wrong! What gives you the right to judge? Who are you to say what&#8217;s not good enough?! -You were born in a prison, Evey. I didn&#8217;t put you there. I just showed you the bars. You&#8217;ve been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there&#8217;s an outside world. -Shut up! 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