Excerpt from The City: A Play
Evening - The gardens belonging to Lambert de Besme on a height from which one can view the City.
Lambert De Besme, seated, Avare, standing.
Two men enter by the opposite extremities of the garden path and, meeting each other, depart in opposite directions.
Lambert: They separate. One crosses the other, like the warp and the woof.
Avare: What does it matter to you?
Lambert: Everything matters.
There is, in a given area, no movement
Allotted to chance, nor is the stride of man.
I follow it with as studious an eye as that of a sage in the vortex of a whirlwind, intent on the gyrations of the foetus.
(He pauses, considering the City.
Seeking to unite, they cannot accomplish it.
The more they approach, the more the movement is precipitate.
Such is the movement that is found in cities.
Avare: Seclusion has made you philosophical.
Lambert: Has a new ministry been formed?
Avare: Lambert, you know that questions weary me.
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