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WAITING FOR THE MORNING
(A Collection of
Short Stories)
(Stories versus Songs)
TEXT 8:
MONSTER-LAND
Tell all the people that you see
Follow me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Set them free
Follow me down
(…)
Can't you see the wonder at your feet
Your life's complete
Follow me down
Can't you see me growing, get your guns
The time has come
To follow me down
Follow me across the sea
Where milky babies seem to be
Molded, flowing revelry
With the one that set them free
Tell all the people that you see
It's just me
Follow me down
"
Follow me", a song by The
Doors
-O brothers! Come and gather around the leader…
-O brothers! The leader’s speech.
- Quiet, please!
The leader’s
speech :
"O people! In your raising idols there abides Danger.
So, take care of their falling down on you (…). This is my advice to you: Take your
distance from me and be prudent in your attachment to me. Be ashamed of your belonging
to me as I may be for you a deceiver …"
Excitement :
-What
kind of deception is the leader talking about while we are in such a miserable
state?
-We
have to be a shamed of ourselves…
-We still feel fear from monsters…
-And
think only of what can’t provoke them…
-Monsters
have extinguished in other peoples' lands, long time ago…
-Why
can’t they do the same here?! What’s the difference?!
-That’s our
responsibility!
O, people! Where
to flee, with the sea behind you and the enemy before you? You have nothing
left but truth and endurance (…). Be brave and defeat this despot who is thrown to you by his fortified
town. It is our chance to do it if you allow yourselves to die for a legitimate
cause (…)
And take into account that if you endure the little difficulty, you will enjoy
life-long pleasures (…)
So, do not leave me all alone, you have no more chance than I have (…) And do in mind that I am the first to
fulfil what I have invited you to do.. And I am going to fight the despot(…) and kill him(…) If I die after him, you are free(…) And if I pass away before coming to him, you should carry on my will
and achieve the most important target: conquering this island and killing the
despot.
Excitement,
again :
-Long
Live Gallantry!
-Long
Live Gallantry!
-Long
live Honour!
-Long
live Honour!
-O
brothers! Come and support the leader in his confrontation with the monster…
-Let’s
support the leader. Let’s show him to the monster’s cave …
-Long
live the leader!
-Long
live the leader!
-Down
with the monster!
-Down with the
monster!
Outside
the Monster’s cave :
-All
for honour!
-
All!
-All
for the leader!
-All!
-
Honour or Death!
-
Honour!
-
Let’s sing all together:
If
one day a people is determined to live
Fate
has absolutely to submit,
Dark
night to quit,
And
shackles to break away.
-O
brothers! Isn’t it queer this silence behind the monster’s Cave?!
-Do
you mean that the monster has devoured the leader?!
-I resist the idea but
can he devour the leader so easily?!…
Getting
out of the Cave :
-O
brothers! The cave-door is opening...
-O
brothers! Let’s salute the leader!
-Long
live the L…
-Who
is that one over there adding his handgrip to the leader’s to salute us?
-Is
he the monster?!…
-Which
of them is the monster?!…
-I
don’t know but look: They are coming along…
-What
can they say?!…
- Be quiet, please!
-… !
-… !
-… !
-… !
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