The musk priest in Peru - Act 3 Scene 1
Act 3 Scene 1
(. The inside of a carriage Dramandona and her mother sitting side by side on a bench while they are on the way back to the fishing village.)
Dramandona: Oh Mother!
Mother: My son, you'll soon about the loss of time.
Dramandona: But mother, I could only remember Miguel.
Mother: The only know of God and the devil alone, but if it is really bad, your father in the basement or a drill with which you can withdraw your head with the memories of violence. I did that as a young thing at any loss.
Dramandona: Trepanation as reparation. Repulsive and ingenious. For a fool will be its Stupidity are not aware, and live happily, while the clever noted that he is not smart enough, wise enough never was, never will be clever enough.
Mother: You need to have only courage that is the only one. Courage to throw up from Lighthouse-seeing in the wild sea, to live there as a fish on.
Dramandona: I see in you, did you become a beautiful gold fish. You do not even have a sea, a small round glass you enough already. Soon you will reach a plate, now a puddle on the street.
Mother: Do not think you're better off. I see the cannon balls do not destroy our temple.
Dramandona: Then will you not in the be able to do something about it.
Mother: What do you want to do, they catch with your hands? Well then, have fun, but you know that if you have no more arms, you can transform yourself into an impossible fish.
(Pause.)
Dramandona: Why not?
Mother: Oh, are you stupid to turn the arms themselves are walking normally then fins and without fins at you then yes. Great idea, really! A fish without fins!
Dramandona: I think you misunderstood because what with symbolism and reality. You know that we were just talking in pictures?
mother (confused): What? I thought we now go to the lighthouse? And then I will a fish!
Dramandona: Sometimes you to surprise me, and I mean both the positive and negative. (Pause.) I look forward to going home.
Mother: At home, yes. Your father will not just be pleased by the course of our journey. We still have to ask the three wise men, whereas you should take your future, now that the tide turned against Miguel fate.
Dramandona: We do not need documentation, I need only one. The musk priests!
Mother: Oh yes, child, that'd be so right. The wise men to decide. Are you finally decide which of their predictions about all of our fate.
Dramandona: Oh Mother! Do you or anyone that this running up three figures off? Sure, they were once powerful, deflected and twisted all civilizations, but now they are old. Who needs them for?
Mother: You probably know nothing of how they came to earth as? 720 years ago proposed a one on our planet Earth. He struck so deep that the two planets united into one. Thus, while living on the one hand, the normal human population, was on the side not share a strange breed. There was war between the people and the stranger, the men quickly decided for himself, namely, the strangers saw to look like humans, they insisted, however, of a gelatinous mass that fell apart quickly. Only three of strangers survived, and to those we now make a pilgrimage.
Dramandona: And why do we let our attention from people who we fought one to the gelatin?
Mother: Because the ever so full of the delicious cookies are standing there, because we need to tap some of which n! The buy always so 'distant markets NEM fully determined, a thousand two hundred million billion miles away from here.
Dramandona (pondering): candy, determine our destiny! Oh, how easily the people are yet. Devour devour, you bastards, you stuffed inside the crackers, tearing up your waist! And then you will do exactly what they say three men you!
(Pause.)
Mother: Um, have also brittle.
Dramandona (suddenly excited): Brittle? Royal go, let! I'll eat so much again until I vollkotze from top to bottom!
mother, even as it is family tradition.
Dramandona: Just as it is family tradition.
(Vorhang.)
end of Scene 1
