The peoples of the world join hands to throw the tanks into the drink
(not all of them, as the Czechs and Hungarians would find out later)
-there the symbol’s clear enough, but whose hands are releasing the
dove of peace? A woman’s hands, surely, perhaps an angel’s. « Who, if
I cried out… » Was Godard thinking of Rilke when he slipped this image
into the credits screen of Alphaville?
GEE :
GUILLAUME-
EN-EGYPTE
KNOWS
RILKE…
LIKE
THE BACK
OF HIS PAW !