The Solstice Voyeur appears dressed in an old lounge suit.
His face is covered with clay, or is it a latex mask of his face? From a small speaker attached to his lapel comes the Vulcan monologue.
In one hand he brandishes an electric megaphone. He directs the monologue through the megaphone from time to time, towards the audience.
The audience is standing in front of the furnace which rises to a total height of 8 metres above them.
The S.V. distractedly fumbles in his pocket to fast forward the tape.
The S.V. walks among the crowd still using the megaphone occasionally to stress one point or another.
The S.V brandishes a sheaf of papers; they could quite easily be earlier drafts of this script; no-one is sure.
The S.V. slowly circles through the crowd towards the mouth of the furnace.
At this point the S.V. is at the furnace grate.
He lights the papers in his hand and torches the kindling in the grate.
The monologue now becomes shriller and louder. It is accompanied by the increasing roar of the furnace as the enormous updraft takes effect.
At this point the two fire brigades which have been on stand-by decide to douse the sparks which land on the nearby vegetation.
The S.V. has scrambled to the surface of the cliff above the audience and level with the furnace, but he is dwarfed by the inferno raging from the vent and the two arcs of water from the fire brigades which are being directed towards the volcano.
The S.V. appears to be still directing his monologue through the megaphone but he can no longer be heard and wanders aimlessly around. |
Hello. Fancy seeing you here. How are you? I'd like to spend
some time just talking but I have to move on. There's a lot of
other people to say hello to. ........ Hello! Well, well.. long time no
see. And how are you today?
You don't recognise me do you! You've got a short memory! ....
Long time no see...... Hello! I'm sure I've seen you before. ...
Yes Well, fancy seeing you what are you doing here?... Well fancy that....................................................................................
Hello. Hello.... How are you? Good to see you here.
What are you doing here?
Why are all these people here?
Well well.... long time no see...... Good to see you
You'll have to excuse me. I have to keep moving. There's a lot of
other people here. Hello! Fancy seeing you here! Excuse
me a moment please... Hello!
Excuse me one moment. There's something I should get straight.
here. You'll just have to excuse me.... EXCUSE ME!........... well
there's something I have to get straight here. Some of you think
I'm here just to enjoy myself, aren't you! You're thinking that
aren't you! Yes I can see you smiling there. You think I'm
here to have a good time. But let me assure you... you're wrong. Yes, you're very wrong. I'm here to do a job.
I want to repeat that I'm here to do a job
I want to repeat that I'm here to do a job
I want to repeat that I'm here to do a job
I want to repeat that I'm here to do a job
I'm here to collect evidence. Ah, that gets you thinking doesn't it! I can see this puzzled look on your faces. Yes, Look me straight in the eye. Tell me, do you feel guilty? If I'm here collecting evidence do you feel comfortable? Well, well: just leave that
for a moment........... No! How can I? The evidence is here in my
hand! This is the evidence! Ah, you have second thoughts now, don't you! You're wondering what it is on these pieces of paper. The smile has left your face now. Well (ha, ha) you've got good
reason, but for the moment, here it is. It's safe. This
evidence........ it's safe,.......... right here is my hand; in my right
hand, right or left hand, in one of my hands,....... it's safe. Hello,
hello,.......... excuse that outburst there. Here 1 am a visitor and
taking advantage of your good humour and your patience. I'm
really quite sorry about that. Hello,.......... fancy seeing you here.
Well you may be wondering what's brought me here. What is this evidence I'm talking about? I'm here to work with the earth and with the rocks. ...Like (the sort of) earth and the rocks that you
see around here now. Common old garden earth, common
rocks.
BUT NOT THAT COMMON! I've made some awful discoveries. It will probably alarm you as much as it's alarmed me. You've been disturbing it all.
You people have dug too deep.
You have removed too much of this earth and these rocks.
None of us realises what lies below all of this. If you did you would never have touched it!
Never even have scratched the surface in the first place and these forces that are down below once trapped, could soon be released again. We've all been just too greedy! So this is the evidence right here!
But,........ but........... I'll destroy it. That's our secret, OK. I had a
task to do here. I've got this evidence but for all our sakes I will destroy it!
But still, it's a lesson to be learned... a lesson........... you musn't
forget it.
Thank you, thank you, don't forget it,...this lesson, please. Thank you. So I'll destroy it now. Just give me a few minutes. There's no problem about it. I can destroy it. I can destroy it.
Some of you may think that we're approaching the end...... This
isn't the end. Excuse me one minute.
You people at the back there, don go away... not yet. This is not the end
I. repeat This is not the end. it's not the beginning either.
BUT YOU MUST NOT GO AWAY. Not yet. Come back please. Come back. Could you please bring those people back. Thank you.
No, this isn't the end. The end happened a long time ago. Long ago. None of you can remember the end can you? Well that's of no consequence. That really does not matter because I'm here to
remind you about that event,........ about the end,.... that point of
time you've all forgotten about.
Are those people back again? Yes, stay there! Stay there!
As I said this isn't the end but it's not the beginning either. So
where are we now? What point am I up to? Ah, yes. If we're not at the end and that's long past. We're past the end,.... long past
it,..... We're on borrowed time. And as soon as you've borrowed
something, what does it do? It collects interest! Time collecting interest. You can be sure of that. So here we are now... past
the end,....... living on borrowed time.... This is another lesson
LESSON 2. There's more to say................. There's more to say.
You must bear with me.
You MUST LISTEN.. THERE'S MORE TO SAY...MORE LESSONS,
.... FROM THIS EARTH AND THESE ROCKS.
REPEAT THERE ARE MORE LESSONS.
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