Eisenstein in Guanajuato Page #7

Savonarola, Helen of Troy,

Ivan the Terrible...

We give you licence to show us

people f***ing and dying,

and we know they are not.

And you know they are not.

And we know that you know

that we know they are not.

It's all to prove we are alive twice over.

First as an affirmation

and then as a challenge

to Death itself.

The willing and very necessary

suspension of disbelief.

In modern-day Russia,

Death comes drunk in a crumpled

dark-grey suit with no underwear

because no one has money

for vests and underpants in Russia.

He wears a second-hand grubby white shirt

with no collar and dirty cuffs.

Death in Russia

is a shabby meeting at life's end.

Here in Mexico,

Death comes bright-eyed

and laughing, totally sober,

beginning his greatest adventure,

kissing the air.

His head, his heart,

and his cock held high.

Sex and death, the two non-negotiables.

Eros and Thanatos.

We are never aware of our own conception.

Can we really be a witness to our own death?

You have introduced yourself

to Death in Mxico.

Indeed, you seem to me

to have introduced yourself

to Death in Mxico.

Perhaps now you need

to introduce yourself to sex in Mxico?

(LAUGHS)

Well, perhaps now I need to introduce myself

to sex in the world.

(CHUCKLES)

Perhaps, Caedo, you could introduce me

to sex in Mexico and the world?

PALOMINO:
Another subject matter

could be money.

Money?

I am not so sure at all about money.

It has not been around for so very long.

And now so many fools have it

and so many wise men do not.

It cannot be very important.

And money can be so easily subsumed

into death and sex,

if only to delay one and pay for the other.

(CHUCKLES)

Another subject matter could be power.

You will have to go back

to Russia sooner or later.

And in Russia,

you will witness power unlimited.

Every morning there is a flood

of yellow telegrams

pushed under my door.

They want me back in Russia.

Russian power reaches its huge hand

here to me in Mexico.

Can anyone escape it?

PALOMINO:
Now we sleep for one hour.

Enjoy your siesta.

A siesta splits the day in two.

Makes two days out of one.

But really, you must do it properly.

Undress,

and the most important thing of all,

sleep between cool sheets.

No snoozing in your day clothes.

You must be naturally drowsy.

Give in. The best sleep of the day.

Drift away.

Then you go to bed.

(GRUNTS) And pretend you are dead.

(WHISPERS) Silent.

Still.

The best sleep you will know

when you are not dead.

And you are cheating death. (CHUCKLES)

Go on, take your clothes off.

I have a clumsy, unattractive body.

It's not unattractive. I have seen it.

You make it unattractive.

Your belief in your ugliness

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