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Libretto<br />
Selvina<br />
Meline<br />
I, I, I, I,... remember, before the dream, I, I, I, I,... saw it. Before it even arrived.<br />
You are the signal.<br />
Environment III (Instrumental)<br />
[EXIT SELVINA]<br />
Scene IX <strong>The</strong> <strong>Light</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Lesser</strong> <strong>Days</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> same room as before. A pale dawn is breaking. Only Meline is in the room.<br />
Meline<br />
[spoken] Dawn...<br />
Even dawn feels grey here.<br />
Blanched and faded.<br />
Grey, the colour <strong>of</strong> forgetting.<br />
“This grey is without lustre”, the book says,<br />
It remembers the greys <strong>of</strong> before,<br />
I do not.<br />
I have chased you<br />
Through thicket and forest<br />
across seas and plains.<br />
I have chased you<br />
To help me remember<br />
What I have forgotten<br />
What I have lost.<br />
This grey <strong>of</strong> memory,<br />
What is there?<br />
Not much. Photographs, perhaps.<br />
Or are they memories? Memories <strong>of</strong> photographs.<br />
With only one face. A child’s face.<br />
I have chased you<br />
To help me remember<br />
What I have forgotten<br />
What I have lost.<br />
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