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Dialogue/drama for two voices: Time gentlemen please
Time gentlemen please.
I remember the words. Mis-spent youth. The bar cleared. No hassle, just lads wobbling out onto a dark street and making for home.
Empty your glasses.
Drinking up time. That was allowed. Felt bad if you had to leave any. A waste.
Please be upstanding.
Usually the Mayor arriving at some formal occasion. And we stood. Like when the teacher came in, or a visitor to our class. Pavlovian. A reflex, learned and repeated.
This is the time!
Einstein had given time and space a whole new meaning. Another dimension.
Time in time.
'Time's Arrow' the book was called. Time going on and on marking out the distance between events on an imaginary line.
Time out of time.
Continues...
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 26/10/2011 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
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