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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2004-11-14 10:19 am
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2004-11-14 10:19 am
And another piece
Possibly connected in some way with previous outpourings and possibly not, but in any case not designed to provoke argument or bad feeling in any way...
SCIENTIST: What are you doing?
PRIEST: Sacrificing this young maiden, as you can plainly see. Sorry, my dear, I'll be with you in a moment.
YOUNG MAIDEN: Don't mind me, I'm sure. Here, this stone is freezing.
SCIENTIST: Why do you do this strange thing?
PRIEST: So that our enemies will all flee before us, our land will flow with milk and honey, and the gods will smile on us.
SCIENTIST: But it doesn't work.
PRIEST: But it may.
SCIENTIST: For the last three months you've been eating mud. The only reason you're not conquered right now is that you have nothing left that's worth taking. If there are any gods, I don't think those are their faces pointed at you.
PRIEST: Nevertheless, this is what we do.
YOUNG MAIDEN: Can we get on? There's a barnacle or something digging into me something chronic.
SCIENTIST: You've got no evidence that this works at all, have you?
PRIEST: Ah, but you don't know how bad things might have been if we didn't do it, do you?
SCIENTIST: I don't think I want to. It isn't working. Can't you see that?
PRIEST: It isn't going to work all at once. We're not idiots, you know. These things take time. Maybe this year things will be a little better than last year. And next year a little better again. The thing to do is to keep doing it, and hope.
SCIENTIST: And you don't feel that anything else might work better?
PRIEST: We can't simply do nothing.
SCIENTIST: I'm not saying do nothing. If you look at the causes of your problems and take appropriate action to resolve them--
PRIEST: (firmly) We cannot neglect our sacred duty. This is what we do, and this is what we will always do.
YOUNG MAIDEN: Well, get on and blooming do it then, I'm perishing.
PRIEST: So sorry, my dear. Now then, let me just produce my sacrificial weapon here--
YOUNG MAIDEN: Ooo, I've never seen one as big as that before.
PRIEST: (to SCIENTIST) Do you mind? This is a very solemn moment. Close the henge behind you.
SCIENTIST: (muttering as he goes) razzafrazzin unenlightened heathen...
SCIENTIST: What are you doing?
PRIEST: Sacrificing this young maiden, as you can plainly see. Sorry, my dear, I'll be with you in a moment.
YOUNG MAIDEN: Don't mind me, I'm sure. Here, this stone is freezing.
SCIENTIST: Why do you do this strange thing?
PRIEST: So that our enemies will all flee before us, our land will flow with milk and honey, and the gods will smile on us.
SCIENTIST: But it doesn't work.
PRIEST: But it may.
SCIENTIST: For the last three months you've been eating mud. The only reason you're not conquered right now is that you have nothing left that's worth taking. If there are any gods, I don't think those are their faces pointed at you.
PRIEST: Nevertheless, this is what we do.
YOUNG MAIDEN: Can we get on? There's a barnacle or something digging into me something chronic.
SCIENTIST: You've got no evidence that this works at all, have you?
PRIEST: Ah, but you don't know how bad things might have been if we didn't do it, do you?
SCIENTIST: I don't think I want to. It isn't working. Can't you see that?
PRIEST: It isn't going to work all at once. We're not idiots, you know. These things take time. Maybe this year things will be a little better than last year. And next year a little better again. The thing to do is to keep doing it, and hope.
SCIENTIST: And you don't feel that anything else might work better?
PRIEST: We can't simply do nothing.
SCIENTIST: I'm not saying do nothing. If you look at the causes of your problems and take appropriate action to resolve them--
PRIEST: (firmly) We cannot neglect our sacred duty. This is what we do, and this is what we will always do.
YOUNG MAIDEN: Well, get on and blooming do it then, I'm perishing.
PRIEST: So sorry, my dear. Now then, let me just produce my sacrificial weapon here--
YOUNG MAIDEN: Ooo, I've never seen one as big as that before.
PRIEST: (to SCIENTIST) Do you mind? This is a very solemn moment. Close the henge behind you.
SCIENTIST: (muttering as he goes) razzafrazzin unenlightened heathen...
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