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Paul Brooke in The Storyteller (1987)

Robert Eddison: Ferryman

The Luck Child

The Storyteller

Robert Eddison credited as playing...

Ferryman

Quotes3

  • Lucky: What are those lights on the shore?
  • Ferryman: Jewels, riches. No one brings them back...
  • Lucky: I shall, I shall come back.
  • Ferryman: If you do, perhaps you may discover why I must continue this weary way back and forth? Without ending... I am weary and sick to the soul.
  • Lucky: I'll remember.
  • Ferryman: I dare not think it possible you found the answer, but then you did come back... No one has ever come back.
  • Lucky: I have come back and I have the answer: the next passenger you have, give him your oar. Then your lot will be his, his freedom yours.
  • Ferryman: So simple...
  • [fights back tears]
  • Ferryman: so simple.
  • The Storyteller: And for the first time in years, centuries, hope fires the ferryman. A smile is forming in his mind, a tiny smile growing, getting ready to be born...
  • King: Come on, come on, come on, can't we go any faster?
  • Ferryman: Oh, yes, sir, there is a way...
  • [gestures for the king to take over the ore]
  • The Storyteller: Take it, he says, take it, take it... So if you come one day to a lake and there's an island and a ferry goes back and forth rowed by an old sad man, turn around. Griffins live there, you may never get off the boat. For the ferryman was once a wicked king who ignored a prophesy, whose heart was cruel. And nature, my dears, is a wize woman who pays us back, tit for tat.

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