Applause.
FADE
OUT on lecturn.
1.02
LIGHTS
UP
on
Bede Rashamon in his office at The Department of Spiritual
Affirmation (D.O.S.A.). It includes a desk, a chair, files, a
computer terminal, and monitors. The walls are alive with his thought
processes as they are projections of his mind. There is also a video
camera facing towards him. He holds a remote control device he uses
at various intervals and we become aware he is recording himself. His
image is screened on the monitors surrounding the space.
A
stylized mountain tower appears above him. Further images fade in
and out of the space as he proceeds to tell his story.
Bede
If
you pay attention to what I am recording, and to what I have
written, you will come to understand how you, as a citizen of the Can
Republic, are being duped and manipulated by the adherants to the
Book of SANCTIMONY. You will further understand why I, Bede Rashamon,
have had to act as I have while in this position as Chief Overseer of
The Department of Spiritual Affirmation, D.O.S.A., and the instigator
of the soon to be defunct K Project. You will further understand the
root cause of the epidemic that is sweeping through the republic: The
Can Affliction. And I speak to you now as one of its victims.
1.03
Flashes
of gruesome and decaying people sitting at computer terminals appear
at points through his speech.
Bede
The
Can Affliction! Let me tell you about it. My mouth has become so
decayed that a huge hole has been burned through to my nostrils into
my cranium. And through this hole, my brain has slowly begun to seep
down and mesh with the snot from my nose and the saliva from my mouth
to become osmosified, then slowly swallowed down the back of my
throat and into my stomach at which point it is broken down by
enzymes and digested into my system; the nutrients extracted and
disseminated via my blood through my arteries and veins into my
muscles. The rest broken down into waste products and ejected through
my bowels and bladder. But as my brain flows into my arteries, the
red blood cells are further digested: leaving me an anaemic wreck;
chronically exhausted, lifeless!
He
occasionally reaches over to the computer and clicks on a site which
illustrates some of the points he is making.
Bede
How
did I come to this predicament: digesting my own brain and blood?
How could such a hing be possible? This Can Affliction? Well, I'll
tell you.
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