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- A: I'm sure there would be.
- B: And my beloved wife, too?
- A: Of course, she's waiting for you at the port. She has completely undressed herself from that burning orange dress and is waiting for you naked. She has flowers around her waist and is dancing and waving.
(The bell goes off. The red light flashes. A, B, and c climb into their boxes and barrels. D follows E into her box. The ringing stops. The flashing stops. A, B, C, D, and E open the lids and climb out. E flips her hands twice. The bell goes off again. The light flickers. A, B, and c climb into their boxes and barrels. D follows E into her box. They stop. They climb out. They start again. They climb in. This repeats several times. The bell stops and the light stops flashing. A, B, and c climb out, and D and E climb out together.)
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C: (He speaks in a low and tired voice.) I may be sick and tired of this, or I may not.
- A: Me, too. When I listen to the sound of the bell in my box, it feels like metal insects gnawing away at my bones.
- B: My wife is waiting for me at the paradise. But I can't stand this any more. Why don't we throw away the warning bell? We could break the light by throwing something at it.
- A: But, if we get rid of them, there's no way of knowing whether we have a crisis on our hands or not.
- D: A crisis? I'm completely exhausted now.
- C: This is exactly the same life I had before I got on this ship. There is nothing different. We may survive or we may not, the things that happened in the country that I left are being repeated here on the ship. We need something new. Or we may not.
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A: (He comforts the people who are feeling desperate.) We 're going to a paradise, New Land of Desire. That's something new,