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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASAAQUA DULCE, AQUA SALÁ, OR SAPPHO & ALCAEUS (THE AEGEAN SEASIDE SCENE) (2)
CHORUS: NO DOUBT THAT COMMUNICATION WITH THE LITERARY CELEBRITY REQUIRED A LOT OF EFFORT AND STRAINED EARS OF OUR ALCAEUS. IN HIS EMAIL TO HIS MATRON, HOWEVER, JUST TO IMPRESS HER AS HE SUSPECTED HER OF BEING NOT TOO RESPECTFUL TO HIM(!), HE REPORTED THAT HE HAD MADE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF FAMOUS WOMAN POET SAPPHO WHO DESCENDED (!) TO HIS PERSON AND GENEROUSLY CAST PEARLS OF HER RARE TALENT BEFORE HIM. HE DIDN'T FORGET TO MENTION THAT SAPPHO CONSIDERED HIS COMPANY EXCLUSIVELY USEFUL FOR HER CREATIVE WORK. IN THE RECIPROCAL MESSAGE HIS SPOUSE, HOWEVER, NOTED THAT SHE QUESTIONED THE CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL WEALTH OF HIS NEW BI ... SORRY SL ...ACQUAINTANCE. SHE DIDN'T FORGET TO MENTION THAT SHE DOUBTED THAT HIS NEW FEMALE COMPANION COULD EVER BENEFIT ANY PERSON. SO LATER HE TRIED TO AVOID TOUCHING THAT HOT SUBJECT.
FAREWELL — Act 3
MEANWHILE the poetess was about to leave for Sicily and decided to celebrate that occasion.
SAPPHO: Now I am crazy and unintelligible. 'Obscure' is the right word to express my feelings.
ALCAEUS: Honestly, I have no idea why we came here, to that port tavern instead of our going to a first-rate restaurant in downtown.
S: You seem to never ever have ideas! Just think, do I really need a restaurant's dull? Flattery of a maître d'hôtel, starched tablecloths? My place is here, in that seaside tavern!
A: Just look who are sitting here!
S: They must be the pirates, smugglers, longshoremen! So what?
A: A pretty go! I don't like it. One of them is staring at me.
S: Never mind! He has simply recognized me! (waving her hand to a complete stranger).
A: What if these hooligans and drunkards started molesting ....
S: I know you gonna defend me!
A: What strange things you are, poets!
S: Don't be afraid, you'd better remember what we are here for. Adieu, my companion! To your health! I'm leaving tomorrow night!
A: I will miss you, Saph. Really!
S: I can't help it. I'll have to leave for Syracuse. Cheers, partner!
A: I'm afraid you have had one too many! S: Relax! I know my draught, I mean when I have had enough ... (Sniffing and pointing to the bowl of wine of Phalernum):
What rough fresh wine! I must really remember this event! The Pleiades, fair Moon, intoxicated mob, your sad smile. I feel a concentration of vice in the air! A sea breeze! And a new Eve! The eve of my departure!
A (timidly): It's time to go, isn't it?
S (pushing Alcaeus back to his chair): I feel that gestalt of our meeting isn't over yet! I feel like doing something. Oh, I see, it's likely because of ...(reciting)
Your silence! No words I'm hearing.
Keep silence! Silence hides your force!
Keep silence! May the night effluvium
Be aired by the fog of your intoxicating rose!
A: Well done! You are so brilliant at poems! I envy ...
S: These verses have been born right here, 20th June, 1:00 p.m., in that port tavern. Let's go, satellite!
A: Where to?
S: To outer space, cosmos! I'm kidding! Shall we dance, eh? Farewell to thee, my sweet companion! Farewell to thee, Greece, I'm leaving for Italy! Farewell to thee, my dear Aegean sea!
P.S. From Sappho's LYRIC DIARY entitled 'THE TEMPTATION' dedicated to Mr. A — Epigraph: 'Bendita el amor, te quita y te da...' ('Love is a bandit that takes and gives ...')
Shall I forget a stormy moment
Of an inescapable phenomenon?
Your fateful glance,
A sudden, mute appeal of your tin arms!
My enemy, my soul's gracious host,
Sweet passion is of yore a vice,
We are hung o'er an abyss, lost!
We hasten to fall down in it, that's right!
The other day you were a serious giant,
A connoisseur of Ars Amandi ...
Today you, like a son of a big bitch,
Seek for the shelter on my tits!
But, on the other hand, I bet!
Why must you (having your hot mouth)
Rot on your conjugal cold bed
Being side by side with your mean spouse?!
Oh, who are you, my uncomprehending?
Now you're honey, now devastating!
Do have a heart, with me be always nice!
Feel sympathy for my poor fate!
Though, frankly speaking, there's no vice
You wouldn't have experienced yet!
Farewell! I drained love to the lees.
I sated passion that you'd granted.
You're no more a secret, darling!
I wouldn't stand for your caprice!
There's another sweet temptation,
Another gust, another stretch!
Adieu! My funny sweet obsession,
I'm sorry, we're no more match.
THE END
Comments
I used a part of a TV play 'Man and Women' of 1978 by a Russian playwright Leonid Zorin (Salzman) as a starting point for my above placed screenplay. The part of the Man (Anany Harounsky) was played by Alexandre Menaker, and the parts of all women by Maria Mironova, his wife in real life. I used the episode from 24:55 to 36:50 of the TV film;
https://yandex.ru/video/touch/preview/17236997028910178381
the poems are taken from the latter three episodes, since according to the plot they were being published in a literary edition, and characters' responses to them move the plot of that comedy.
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