Chapter 16
The Two Wives are Welcomed
NARRATOR
Two Wives home-made rocket
(made from questionable or indefinite materials)
lands next to the mountain
where a Special Women’s Club
meets inside.
The Women’s Club are discussing particular issues.
ONLOOKER
Like ranting and raving or whatever a
hard-pressed horse does?
NARRATOR
The issues of expanding out and
expanding in.
ONLOOKER
A horse rears up
in the painting on their mountain wall.
He’s leering
and has got big teeth!
NARRATOR
The Two Wives are making an
even and slow approach toward
going inside the mountain
(which seems so unbelievable to them!).
There are steady efforts
up the mountain-side hill, and then,
the concatenation, with concentration, down;
which is supposed to have happened
due to a sudden invite.
ONLOOKER
How?
NARRATOR
We don’t know!
But, much to their surprise
they ended up down inside
a mountain mole-hill
embroiled up with a lot of ladies -
or, a fair amount - all civil and
providing for this.
ONLOOKER
For the Two Wives were seen as
coming already?
NARRATOR
Yes, from outside,
as their rocket landed down.
And, they were invited, or asked in, cordially-
with a well-centered gravity.
ONLOOKER
They came into a hall
and were welcomed
by the even-tempered ladies.
NARRATOR
Yes. And then, they had punch and crackers.
(The Two Wives enter the large Hall of the Women’s Club)
TWO WIVES
What are we doing?
Something new! We’re invited in!
…And, perused.
Yes, perused for what we can do!
(They speak to the Women of the Club)
Well, what will it be?
WOMAN SPEAKER OF THE CLUB
To go forth to un-accomodate
a largish Laziness upon the hill (the Prince),
who’s lapsing inside to no good avail:
a manly thing that’s got nowhere to go,
stuck between two circular walls of
remorse-resentment
or preferred picnicking forever
between four or five or eight or ten-
thousand walls.
Lead this him-ness out.
Relapse him.
And let him go outside: and
there to find his way.
Lead him also, before you say goodbye,
a little ways off…
ANOTHER WOMAN SPEAKER OF THE CLUB
Yes, watch out, for he will
pick you up and take you with him.
TWO WIVES
And how will he do that?
WOMAN SPEAKER OF THE CLUB
Fairly easily, as he will be, quite largely,
a giant thing.
So, be careful.
TWO WIVES
Oh, we won’t be caught up.
No, we’ll decide not to. We’ll refuse.
ANOTHER WOMAN SPEAKER OF THE CLUB
But he has largish hands,
used to scoop out whole mountain-sides;
and, you’ll fit in.
So, stay off those!
TWO WIVES
How is it that we’ll let him get away?
WOMAN SPEAKER OF THE CLUB
By unlocking the cabinet door
wherein all his locked-up-ness comes in.
Just swing it aside.
Slightly twist it a third degree - and let go.
He’ll probably laugh at you and
be let out thankfully.
ANOTHER WOMAN SPEAKER OF THE CLUB
Until he grabs for you
to do his dirty work!
TWO WIVES
And what is that?
SAME OTHER WOMAN SPEAKER OF THE CLUB
Stealing food.
Narrator’s Notes
Two Wives steal from a cornucopia:
the cornucopia that comes from the sun.
CORNUCOPIA: a garden, or bowl, of wealth.
They pop out
onto the table
to take some stuff
that’s laying there:
like apples, pears, grapes and wine.
Or, a bottle of rum that’s there
(of the Captain’s special quality
on board the boat).
They’ll pop it
into the bag
that he’s got held open.
Then, they go back onto
his shirtsleeves as buttons -
and go on being carried
around by him
over hill and dale
back up to the mountain again!
Mixed-up Plot Rhythms
1. Figuring out what to do -
they are still attached to him
as he walks back up to the mountain.
2. Yet, spun off of his shirtsleeves
they are free to pilfer and grab at things.
3. Then, they pop back on.
4. Before, they were separate -
not included in his world.
5. They found him.
They met him.
They let him out of the mountain cave.
6. He helped carry them down
the mountain side.
7. And, by the way, he is a giant.
(End of Chapter 16 & Part 6)
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