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Scene 4 Paris<br />
(<strong>Aurora</strong>s, Distracted Man, Marian, Parisian Lady)<br />
The stage is very bare. All that is left is stacked <strong>and</strong> boxed<br />
or covered over. The set has become a series of geometric<br />
objects. The light through the window is coming from<br />
higher, the stage is getting brighter.<br />
A<br />
The English have a scornful, insular way of calling the French light.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Is the bullet light that dashes from the gun-mouth while the eye winks <strong>and</strong> the heart beats<br />
to flatten itself to a wafer on the wall a hundred paces off?<br />
AURORA<br />
Even so direct <strong>and</strong> sternly undivertible of aim is this French people. All idealists, too<br />
absolute <strong>and</strong> earnest, with them the idea of a knife cuts real flesh.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
I am strong to love this noble France, this poet of the nations who dreams on forever after<br />
some ideal good, some equal poise of sex, some unvowed love inviolate, some<br />
spontaneous brotherhood, some wealth that leaves none poor <strong>and</strong> finds none tired, some<br />
freedom of the many that respects the wisdom of the few.<br />
AURORA<br />
Heroic dreams. Sublime to dream so,<br />
Natural to wake.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
AURORA<br />
And sad to use such lofty scaffoldings erected for the building of a church, to build<br />
instead a brothel or a prison.<br />
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