Duncton Quest: Transcript

== Part One: Return to Uffington ==
=== Chapter 1 ===
Boswell: (whisper) Still it blows, still it comes, even here in the very vale of Uffington.
Tryfan: But spring's stirring underground. We've had some good days and weeks, the snow has gone, and so will this wind.
Boswell: It does not matter what you contemplate provided it is something important.
Tryfan: Such as?
Boswell: Well, almost anything is important except yourself, but few moles find time to think of anything else.
Tryfan: Can a mole ever hear the Silence fully? Hear it, and still be alive?
Boswell: Yes, yes a mole can, and perhaps a mole has in the past. It is the greatest thing to which a mole can aspire, to be at one with the Silence. I believe a mole will come who is of it.
Tryfan: The Stonemole you mean?
Boswell: Ah, no, I am not talking of the Stonemole - his task is different. Through Him will all moles learn to have faith that they might hear the Silence, as scribmoles have faith. No, no, after Him one will come who will have found the Silence. Soon after Him... yes, yes, Tryfan, soon then one will come. I know it will be so... one will come then, yes, one must come then.
Tryfan: Can I do anything?
Boswell: No, no, Tryfan, you learn well and you give me love and support. Out of faith one will come, after the Stonemole, after that and then I... then I...
Tryfan: I don't understand - I don't... I can't...
Boswell: I know you can't.
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Mole of Uffington: Aye, and when it does all will be well again, and these Stone-forsaken northern winds quite gone and spring return!
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Boswell: The Word? Yes, it's coming. Not too soon, I hope, for you have much to learn before that.
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Boswell: (to Tryfan) You must tell them... You will show them... Your task may be to make them see...
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