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Genie : There is no human, nor angel, nor demon, who wouldn't grasp at the chance to fulfil their deepest longings. And I am saddled with the one who claims to want nothing at all? Alithea Binnie, you are a liar!
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Alithea Binnie : There's no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale. None end happily. Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes.
Genie : But you and I are the authors of this story, and we can avoid all traps.
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Genie : And there I am, left to my own oblivion, with no one to hear my voice, no one to know me, nor feel me, nor sense me. You can't imagine.
Alithea Binnie : Well, actually, I can.
Genie : Can you imagine the loneliness? How it might overwhelm?
Alithea Binnie : I can.
Alithea Binnie : We exist only if we are real to others. Do you agree?
Alithea Binnie : I do.
Genie : This, then, is our fate, Alithea. If you make no wish at all, I will be caught between worlds, invisible and alone, for all time.
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[from trailer]
Alithea Binnie : I do have a question. What does one do with three wishes?
Genie : You'll see.
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Alithea Binnie : I cannot, for the life of me, summon up one eligible wish. And you're asking me for three?
Genie : Is there any life in you? Are you even alive?
Alithea Binnie : You know, in some cultures, abstinence from desire means enlightenment!
Genie : Then you are a pious fool!
Alithea Binnie : If I'm content, why tempt fate?
Genie : And you're a coward!
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Genie : Alithea, how can it be a mistake to love someone entirely?
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Genie : [pulls a man from the TV] Would you like this little Albert Einstein?
Alithea Binnie : No! No, no, no. That can't be good for him. Put him back!
Genie : I could expand him. We could speak with him.
Alithea Binnie : No, put him back!
Genie : Is that a wish?
Alithea Binnie : No, it's your obligation!
[the genie sends Einstein back to the TV]
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Alithea Binnie : This is the story you've been avoiding telling me all along.
Genie : This is the story I've avoided telling even myself
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[from trailer]
Genie : MAKE A WISH! SAVE YOURSELF!
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[from trailer]
Alithea Binnie : You know, I'm beginning to wish we'd never met!
[the flask cracks]
Genie : NO! DON'T SAY THAT!
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Alithea Binnie : Well, I'm beginning to think that I'm in the presence of a trickster.
Genie : That would be so much better. My work would be so much easier. But the truth is, I am just an idiot who has been extravagantly unlucky.
Alithea Binnie : Well, I have to take your word for that.
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Genie : I visited the Collider, an interesting gizmo...
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Genie : I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely because I cried out my heart's desire. Only by granting you yours may I earn my release!
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Genie : So, what would you wish for? What is your heart's desire?
Alithea Binnie : Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves. I need to take this slow.
Genie : I have all the time in the world.
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Genie : She began to rebel even against the gestures of submission that her husband required for she had acquired a mastery of love-craft, out of reach of any human that had not made love to a Djinn.
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Genie : What was the complexion of this husband?
Alithea Binnie : His complexion? Uh, in the beginning, it was... glowing.
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Alithea Binnie : Do you know the answer to her question?
Genie : What women most desire?
Alithea Binnie : Yeah.
Genie : Do you not know? If you don't know, I cannot tell you.
Alithea Binnie : Well, surely we don't all want the same thing.
Genie : Madam, your yearnings are not at all clear to me.
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Alithea Binnie : I *will* make three wishes. I will.
Genie : Before you die.
Alithea Binnie : Right now. One after the other. Ready?
Genie : Uh-huh.
Alithea Binnie : Number one, I wish your headache were gone. Number two, I wish for a sip of this tea. And finally, I wish for another one of those.
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Genie : We exist only if we are REAL to others
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Alithea Binnie : Who was she?
Genie : Sheba.
Alithea Binnie : The queen of Sheba?
Genie : She was my kin.
Alithea Binnie : She was a djinn?
Genie : Her mother was a Djinn.
Alithea Binnie : Is that possible?
Genie : There are laws that allow the union of djinn and mortals, but they cannot produce an immortal scion the way a donkey and a horse can only produce a seedless mule.
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Genie : I might have become more, but for Solomon.
Alithea Binnie : King Solomon?
Genie : Blessed be his memory. He came from across the deserts to woo her.
Alithea Binnie : Didn't she go to him?
Genie : No. Never.
Alithea Binnie : But it's in all the holy books. All the stories and the paintings. And Handel wrote music about it.
Genie : Madam, I was there. Solomon came to her.
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Alithea Binnie : So you are electromagnetic?
Genie : As you are dust, I am made of subtle fire.
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Genie : Hope is a monster. And I am its plaything.