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Excerpt From Dialogue In The First Act Of The Play, "The Grimoire, 'Scythe In Fury'"
[The setting is a costume ball, in open air pavillion, at night.
The sky is streaked with eerie astronomical phenomenon.
The Grimoirist appears in a disturbling garish costume; and is
ignored by the two long-haired Boys, each clad only in a thong,
and a pair of opaque stockings---lavender and magenta, respectively.
The Grimoirist intrudes upon the Boys, who seem to be excessively
attentive to, and preoccupied with, each other.]
Grimoirist: I despise you, for your beauty, and your difference.
Lavender Boy: You can neither enter, nor appropriate, the beauty between us.
Magenta Boy: The difference of which you accuse us is indifference toward you.
Grimoirist: My sons, and they are three, will assert my hegemony over all of you
My scythe shall descend to them in their warfares---
the hammered sickel, the whirling blade, the axe bundled in kindling.
They shall throttle the lives I have hated; they shall burn the bodies
of those I have trampled, until the smoke is thick enough to clot upon
the sky and choke the land. This is the destiny for which I was chosen;
this is the exhortation and termination of History---embodied in the
City of my glory and rage, Scythopolis.
A stunning first act where
A stunning first act where the beginnings of tyranny, built upon the legacy of loathsome autocrats throughout history, looms like a choir of demons. Gorgeously composed with an effective format, this thundering work has all the elements of greatness. Loving it.
Thank you so very much. Your
Thank you so very much. Your kind words always mean so much to me.
Starward