Sunday, April 02, 2006

Traveller Conversations

Old man: Hurry up! Time’s running out, They’re going to destroy everything!
Little Girl: What?!
Serious woman: Yes, this graffiti you see on the wall, that Buddha carved out of the mountain, the Mario world - all of it!
Little girl: But who’s going to destroy it?
Serious woman: People
Little girl: What people?
Serious Woman: Powerful sadistic people.
Little girl: What are they going to do?
Serious Woman: They’re going to paint the graffiti over with grey, dynamite the Buddha and remove the Mario murals.
Little girl: Why would they do that!
Serious Woman: Because they don’t like it, and because they have the power to.
Little girl: Can’t we stop them?
Serious Woman: No
Little girl: Why?
Serious Woman: ‘cause its our fault.
Little girl: Our fault?
Serious Woman: Yes, we gave them the power.
Little girl: Why?
Serious Woman: They fooled us into it.
Little girl: How?
Old man: We weren’t paying attention. We let them.
Little girl: Now what?
Old man: Hurry up and come along there is so much left to see before it’s destroyed too.

3 comments:

william, the bloody said...

Maybe its already too late

Unknown said...

Well if i hazard construing some sense out of this abstract ..

The three are Afghanis who are talking about the Taliban.

huh ?

NN said...

@PWF: "Maybe" it;s not.

@666: I've put links to put things in a little perspective. I should've done this sooner.