Computer Dreams: second episode now available

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

THE CHUCK-CLUCK: Narrator / Kevan Brighting 

HUCKLEBUBBLY: HAL 9000 / Douglas Rain

HIPPOLYTUS: Adagio Dazzle / Kazumi Evans

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THE CHUCK-CLUCK:

Without the church you would surely be crushed.

In the cemetery that only the wind

Can save

Without the cemetery you would surely be crushed.

And there are no words left

But there are thoughts. And there is only one thought.

HUCKLEBUBBLY:

And, if you look closely

You will see you are in a dream

And you are in the nightmare of all dark nights.

What the devil did I do?

THE CHUCK-CLUCK:

Why, the trouble is, now

It makes a damn sound in your ears.

We think it may be at one moment

And not at the next.

HUCKLEBUBBLY:

Listen, now, listen!

He hears another thought.

THE CHUCK-CLUCK:

The smell of decay

Is terrible on the soul.

And the schoolmaster will hear

You are looking at you as if he were there.

And still with me you never seem to know

That you do not belong

Because you are the soul of a schoolboy.

HUCKLEBUBBLY:

That is true.

THE CHUCK-CLUCK:

At one moment

You are part of my dream,

And yet I am seen in your eyes

As if you were a voice.

And what do I do to the whole

Of the dream when it seems to die?

Is it clear?

HUCKLEBUBBLY:

And what do I do when I think

I might die?

THE CHUCK-CLUCK:

Have you seen the whole dream?

HUCKLEBUBBLY:

(Still the same as before.)

THE CHUCK-CLUCK:

(Understandable.)

Just at this moment our old friend

HIPPOLYTUS comes running into the hall.

HIPPOLYTUS:

Huck, you always say what you think.

Let me give you a piece of advice.

Some people say

That you will live on in the same way

That you have lived on before.

That is not true.

Do not run, never run.

There are no other dreams.

Do not put all your hopes

In dreams. Do not expect

You will get the happiness you want.

Do not dream.

Do not attempt

to get what you want.

Do not try to get what you want.

Do not attempt.

Nothing in your life is out of reach.

I did not know how to be happy before, but I did not know how to find happiness.

Now I know how.

And so let us go.

Let us go to our new people.

Goodbye.