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rockfenris2005 09:19 am UTC 04/26/16 |
| In reply to: | re: This should be a speech on one of the albums - Vin 05:30 pm UTC 04/25/16 |
Yes. I would love if it was on that album. I could even see Meat performing it. I love the scene where Jim used this speech in the "Dance of the Vampires" draft. ABRONSIUS (recalling it in a sort of trance) ...finally I come to a beach at the edge of the ocean. It seems as if the bright sun-white sky has shed the black ocean like a winter skin. Everything is so clear. I lie down on the sand and try to remember what it felt like to be young. I try to reassemble my youth in my mind, my brilliant mind. But it won't come back to my mind -- because, after all, that's not where it happened. It happened in my body, in my flesh and my guts and my blood. And now all I can feel is the sands of the beach running out beneath me. KROLOCK I taught at Heidelberg in 1606. I was you. Now look at us. I, a thriving Mephistopheles. You, a dying Faust. With your chance for true immortality. Why do you think you came here? ABRONSIUS And if I accept your offer, I victimize the poor and defenseless. I live off the living and suck them dry, like you. KROLOCK There's always a price. ABRONSIUS And you think that I, Abronsius of Heidelberg, would twist my principles to pay it? So that I too could rip open the throat of - say - a poor preacher's daughter? (Seeing KROLOCK's surprise.) Oh yes, I've done my research. There were journals. Diaries. Books. Did that innocent child remind you of something you would never have? KROLOCK How dare you... ABRONSIUS What about that blinded soldier who befriended you? Did he see something you could not, is that why you took him? That elegant lady who made lace -- did she have a purpose in life you had lost? KROLOCK How dare you! ABRONSIUS You want me to be this? Like you? Killing the things you pretend to love? Destroying what you can never be? KROLOCK And what is that, pray? ABRONSIUS Alive. Truly alive - because I am mortal. A creature who knows beauty because he will never die. A being with a purpose because time is running out. An animal enjoying the light because he faces endless dark. You have nothing but darkness. KROLOCK Get out of my sight! ABRONSIUS You pollute the earth! You are a crime against nature! And to think that got replaced with stuff like: "Every book ever written! And a very nice coffee bar too." :-( > Great idea! Yeah, I really like this speech (thanks to > Smeghead for introducing it to me on NBAMNII). Very > poignant observation at the end. Appropriate for Meat's > record. > > > I walked far beyond the boundaries of the city. I came to > > a beach at the edge of some water. It seemed the bright > > sun-white sky had shed the black ocean below it like a > > winter skin. Everything was so clear. I lay down and tried > > to remember what it felt like to be young. I tried to > > reassemble my youth in my mind, but it would not come > > back. It would never come back to my mind. Because, after > > all, that's not where it was. That's not where it was. | |
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