This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter — Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film — this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of the story that got lost on the cutting-room floor; in a very real way it is the only way to understand the film.
But one does not set a blood-hound on the track of a sacred, white hind, if one does not want to be cursed, and to be, all' his life long, a miserable, miserable man.
если хоть одна рука из нечестивого города Метрополии осмелится коснуться хотя бы одного камня собора, то они не успокоятся и не отдохнут, пока не превратят нечестивый город Метрополию в груду развалин у подножия собора.