An Atheist Goes To Heaven… in ANGLESE

Parallel translation of my most read dialogue

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— Hello.

— Halo.

— Hello. Where am I?

— Halo. Onde son?

— Nowhere and everywhere, I’d say.

— Noloque ed ovunque, direr.

— Interesting dichotomy.

— Interessante dichotomie.

— You’ve been a witness of that for all your life, right?

— Tu fue une testimone de queste per tote tue vite, juste?

— I guess. Am I still alive?

— Pense. Son encor vive?

— It depends on what you mean for alive.

— Depende de cose tu intende per vive.

— I suppose you know that better than me.

— Suppone tu sape queste melie de me.

— Yes and no.

— Si ed no.

— More yes, probably.

— Plu si, probabilmente.

— Probability is something I like.

— Probabilitie es qualcose me place.

— And who are you?

— Ed qui es tu?

— Me? I have many names and no one. Maybe what are you is better.

— Me? Eo habe mul nomes ed nonune. Forse cos’es tu es melie.

— So, what are you?

— Quinde, cos’es tu?

— Everything and nothing.

— Tote e nulle.

— Sounds like a cosmic form of bipolarism.

— Sone com’une cosmique forme de bipolarisme.

— You could put it in these terms, but it’s a bit more complicated.

— Tu pote mitter in queste termines, m’es un po’ plu complicate.

— We don’t want to make things too easy, do we?

— Non volem render le coses troppe facile, vere?

— I’m the complex and easiest of things.

— Son le complexe e le plu simplice de coses.

— And I thought to be the problematic one…

— Ed eo pensed d’esser l’une problematique…

— Problems arise for the ones who don’t want to see the essence.

— Ploblemes sorge per l’unes que non vol vider l’essence.

— And what’s the best way to see it?

— E qual’es le melior vie de vider’le

— Being it.

— Esser’le.

— Essence?

— Essence?

— Yes.

— Si.

— I would like to learn that.

— Eo vol’imparar quelle.

— You have tried, in your journey.

— Tu habe proved, in tue viage.

— And now, it’s all over.

— Ed hore, es tote finited.

— Nothing really ends, because nothing really begins.

— Nulle finice devere, perque nulle inice devere.

— Are you talking about eternity?

— Tu ste parlend de l’eternitie?

— Yes.

— Si.

— I’ve always wondered what it’s like to be eternal.

— Eo sempre quested com’es l’esser eterne.

— I know.

— Le sape.

— You refer to my lifetime question or you mean you are eternal?

— Tu refer a mie vitempe demande o tu entende tu es eterne?

— Both.

— Entrambe.

— I should have imagined it.

— Doved imaginare.

— You already know that, within you.

— Tu le sape jame, intre te.

— How?

— Come?

— Because there’s my essence in all of you.

— Perque m’essence es in tote vos.

— All of us?

— Tote nos?

— Humans.

— Humanes.

— And in any other sentient being?

— Ed in tot’altre esser sentiente?

— Yes.

— Si.

— And in any other entity?

— Ed in tot’altre entitie?

— Yes.

— Si.

— So, I was a human. Now I remember.

— Quinde, fue un humane. Hore recorde.

— This little amnesia is due to the transition.

— Queste petitte amnesia es dovue a le transitione.

— Clear. A human.

— Clare. Un humane.

— That’s only how you call this precise segment of your evolution.

— Es sole come tu clame queste precise segmente de tue evolutione.

— We were something else.

— Nos fuem qualcos’altre.

— You have always been something that had no real label.

— Tu habe sted sempre qualcose que non habed reale etiquette.

— Because labels are human inventions.

— Perque etiquettes son inventiones humane.

— Precisely.

— Precisemente.

— And that’s why you have no labels.

— Ed es perque tu habe no etiquettes.

— I don’t need them. My language is made of events.

— Non bisogn’isses. Mie lingue es facte d’eventes.

— And why are you talking to me?

— E perque tu ste parlande con me?

— Actually, we are not talking.

— Veramente, non stem parlend.

— But I see my body. I feel my mouth moving, my voice.

— Mae vide mie corpe. Eo sente mie boque movend, mie voce.

— That’s because your essence is still linked with your human form.

— Quest’es perque t’essence es encore ligated con tue forme humane.

— So, I’m adapting it to this place?

— Quinde, ste adaptend’isse a queste loque?

— Sort of. Here, you feel in the same way you felt in the previous condition.

— Sorta. Aqui, tu sent’in le stesse mode tu sented in le previe conditione.

— And that’s also why I’m on the top of a mountain?

— E quest’es perque m’es su le cime de le montagne?

— Yes. This is one of your favorite places.

— Si. Quest’es une de tue favorite postes.

— I don’t recognize it, by the way.

— Non le recognosce, comunque.

— It’s a construction of yours.

— Es une tue constructione.

— Mental?

— Mentale?

— Energetical.

— Energetique.

— Oh, cool. And will I be like that forever?

— Oh, bene. E remanerer asi persempre?

— No, if you want.

— No, se tu vole.

— Can I decide what to be? Where to go?

— Posse decider cos’esser? Ond’andar?

— Yes.

— Si.

— How?

— Come?

— If you want it, you can do it.

— Se tu vol’isse, tu pot’isse.

— Why I have this freedom?

— Perque Y habe queste libertie?

— Freedom is the ultimate power. Freedom is what composes me.

— Libertie es l’ultime potere. Libertie es cose compone me.

— Which kind of freedom are you referring to?

— Quale type de libertie te ste referend?

— Not the one you may refer to, humanly intended.

— Non l’une a tu posse refer, humanemente intese.

— A universal form?

— Un’universale forme?

— The definitive one. Being everything, everywhere, timelessly.

— Le definitive une. Esser tote, ovunque, sentempe.

— How do you feel about that condition?

— Come te sente in quelle conditione?

— My feelings are a bit different.

— Mie sentimentes son une po’ differente.

— Go on.

— V’avante.

— Imagine a vortex in which all the stimuli of universe converge.

— Imagine une vortexe in cui tote le stimules de l’universe converge.

— Sounds like a massive ecstasy.

— Sone com’une massive ecstasie.

— Yes, but it’s at the same time what you may call positive and negative.

— Si, m’es a le stesse tempe cose tu clamerer positive e negative.

— Why?

— Perque?

— Because from absolute control, comes absolute responsibility.

— Perque de l’absolute controlle, ven absolute responsibilitie.

— And I guess sometimes this control can’t be handled properly.

— E pense a voltes queste controlle non pot’esser used propiamente.

— I can’t carry a burden that’s heavier than my possibilities.

— Non posse portar une farde plu pesante de mie possibilities.

— Really? I thought you enjoyed a form of omnipotence.

— Vere? Pensed tu gauded une forme d’omnipotence.

— Many things you don’t know about me.

— Mul coses tu non cognosce de me.

— I hope you’ll tell all of them to me.

— Spere tu direr tote d’isses a me.

— You already know them.

— Tu sape jame isses.

— No, I don’t.

— No.

— You’ll find out.

— Tu le troverer.

— Oh, well. I got patience.

— Oh, beh. Habe patience.

— That’s good.

— Bone.

— Oh, about that…

— Oh, su queste…

— You’re going to ask me about good and evil.

— Tu ste per querer me su bene e male.

— Uh, yes, how…

— Uh, si, com…

— You know that.

— Tu le se.

— Oh, right. Yeah.

— Oh, juste. Sieh.

— Patience, my dear.

— Patience, mie care.

— On my way for the eternal one.

— In mie vie per l’eterne une.

— Good practice.

— Bone practique.

— And what’s good good?

— E cos’es bene bene?

— Pleasure.

— Placere.

— And evil evil?

— E male male?

— Pain.

— Dolore.

— Isn’t that subjective?

— Non es subjective?

— Did you like hunger?

— Tu amed le fame?

— Uh, no.

— Uh, no.

— Did you like to eat?

— Tu amed manger?

— Yes?

— Si?

— You can recognize by yourself what’s good and bad here.

— Tu pote ricognoscer de sole cos’es bon e mal aqui.

— But there’s people who love to fast or die out of food.

— Mae ve son persones que ame dejuner o morir de cibe.

— And that’s just a subjective spree. Suffering is universal.

— E quell’es sol une subjective sprite. Sufference es universale.

— Well, I get it.

— Beh, comprende.

— I sense curiosity in you.

— Sente curiositie in te.

— I was curious for all my life.

— Son sted curiose tote mie vite.

— That’s why you were atheist.

— Eque perque tu fue atheiste.

— I guess. Oh, about that…

— Pense. Oh, su queste…

— Yes?

— Si?

— Why am I here?

— Perque son aqui?

— Why not?

— Perque no?

— Well, I don’t know the rules here…

— Beh, non sape le regules aqui…

— There are no rules, here.

— Non ve son regules, aqui.

— Oh.

— Oh.

— Only happenings.

— Sol advenimentes.

— Right.

— Juste.

— But please, continue.

— Mae prege, continue.

— Well, you read my mind… If I still got one…

— Beh, tu lege mie mente… S’eo n’habe une…

— So?

— Quinde?

— So you know everything about me and what I’m going to say.

— Quinde tu sape tote su me e cos’eo direr.

— Yes, but you don’t need to feel a pawn.

— Si, mae tu non bisogne sentir une pedine.

— I was convinced we were all pawns in the great game of nature.

— Fue convinced nos fue tote pedines de le grande joque de nature.

— In a way. But not the one you think.

— In une mode. Mae non l’une tu pense.

— Really, why am I here?

— Veramente, perque son aqui?

— Why not?

— Perque no?

— Well, I never believed in you.

— Beh, non creded jamae in te.

— There’s no need to believe in me.

— Non es necesarie creder in me.

— Why?

— Perque?

— Because you already know me.

— Perque tu me cognosce jame.

— How so?

— Come?

— I am all around. I’m within everything, including you.

— Eo son tot’intorne. Eo son intre tote, includend te.

— But I didn’t feel you.

— M’eo non senced te.

— You feel me, now?

— Me sente, hore?

— Well, it’s… It’s always an external sensation. Just like sunlight.

— Beh, es… Es semper une sensatione externe. Come le solluce.

— That’s the essence of my existence.

— Quest’es l’essence de mie existence.

— Sunlight?

— Solluce?

— Light and darkness. Sound and silence. Love and hate.

— Luce ed umbre. Sone e silence. Amor ed odie.

— Hate too?

— Odie anque?

— Everything that has ever existed.

— Tote que es semper existed.

— But what about all the people who killed each other for you?

— Mae regarde tote le persones que occided l’une l’altre per te?

— They were killing for themselves.

— Illes occided per lorstesse.

— But why you never intervened?

— Mae perque tu non intervened?

— Because I’m beyond human limits and an integral part of them.

— Perque son ultre humane limites ed un’integrale parte de lor.

— I’m a bit confused.

— Son un po’ confuse.

— In short, I am you.

— In breve, Eo son te.

— You are me?

— Tu es me?

— Yes.

— Si.

— I am not what you may think I am.

— Non son quelle tu penserer m’es.

— And I’ll ask again, what are you?

— E quererer encore, cos’es tu?

— I’m all. I’m the universe itself who experiments with itself. You are part of me, as anything that exists. I am an eternal flow of possibilities. I am what can be and what can’t be. I am the I and the be. And you are me because what you are seeing right now, what you are hearing right now, what you were, are and always will be, is myself — yourself. You are in front of your own essence and the essence of everything that ever existed, exist and will exist without time boundaries, without borders, without impossibility. Everything is possible.

— Eo son tote. Eo son l’universe stesse que experimentes con sestesse. Tu es parte de me, come tote qu’existe. Eo son un’eterne fluxe de possibilities. Eo son quel que pot’esser e quel que non pot’esser. Eo son le Eo e l’essere. E tu es me perque quel tu ste vidend hore, quel tu ste audend hore, quel que tu ere, es e serer sempre, es mestesse — tustesse. Tu es in fronte de tue stess’essence, e l’essence de tote que semper existed, existe e existerer sine tempe limites, sine bordes, sine impossibilitie. Tote es possibile.

— So, everything that humans ever thought and believed about you…

— Quinde, tote que l’humanes sempre pensed e creded su te…

— It’s a form of self-doubt. It’s everything that can be thinking it can’t be.

— Es une forme de se-dubie. Es tote que pot’esser pensand non pot’esser.

— The limits were the true limit. We were blinded by them.

— Le limites fue le vere limite. Nos fuem accecated d’isses

— Yes.

— Si.

— Nothing really matters. All that counts is to achieve this point.

— Nulle emporte devere. Tote que conte es radiunger queste punte.

— Yes.

— Si.

— I feel alive. More than ever.

— Me sente vive. Plu de sempre.

— That’s what your fellows call heaven. That’s the ecstasy. That’s the core.

— Quest’es quelle tue felages clame paradise. Es l’ecstasie. Es le core.

— I was limited. Now, I’m free.

— Ere limited. Hore, son libere.

— Limits of the human condition. A cornerstone and a disgrace. But…

— Limites de l’humane conditione. Une miliarpetre ed une disgrace. Mae…

— But?

— Mae?

— You have arrived here. You are on the top of the mountain. You peaked.

— Tu habe arrived aqui. Tu es su le cime de tue montagne. Tu piqued.

— And what does this mean?

— E cose vole dire?

— That you have encountered your own conscience. The pinnacle of your life.

— Que tu encontred tue stesse conscience. Le pinnacule de tue vite.

— This means I’m eternal, now?

— Signifique Eo son eterne, hore?

— This means you have achieved the last evolutionary step for your kind. You are the new essence of everything that exists. You are existence itself.

— Queste signifique tu habe obtenue l’ultime grade evolutionarie per tue type. Tu es le nove essence de tote que existe. Tu es existence issestesse.

— Wow…

— Uau…

— You are no longer a detached part of yourself. You are complete. Us is you.

— Tu non es plu une divided parte de testesse. Tu es complete. Nos es tu.

— And… What now?

— Ed… Hore?

— Be. Forever.

— Sie. Persemper.

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