O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization Page #3

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was a very good idea.

All rational, official

methods proved useless.

There was only one choice left:

Invoking a myth, faith, manipulation.

Do you consider

it immoral?

I don't know

much of morality.

Where you came from

are no survivors left.

But I bear no

grudge against you.

More, I am grateful

for your Ark vision.

You don't mean to say you

believe in the advent of the Ark?

No.

There is no Ark.

But it may be.

That's it's greatness.

You are jeering!

Not at all.

One must fill the void.

Why should I not believe?

The Ark is something nice,

funcional, it makes sense.

Something to

come and envelop me.

Let's say that this

faith palliates my yearing.

You realize it's a self-deception,

and yet you believe in things absurd?

It's good to be there,

in that crowd of expectant people.

The dome keeps this city

isolated from the outside world?

Do you know what

it is like outside?

Most likely, there

is a huge radioactive ice field.

The dome is operated electronically.

You are an engineer. Do you know this gear?

Possibly.

And you know

it is breaking down?

Yes, they have told me.

Then it is your duty toward

all humans living here

to try and repair the mechanism

which saves us from that hell.

If we are doomed to hell,

why should we keep the dome?

You are fightning

for your life.

Every day you

battle for some food.

It's the habit.

Strange, isn't it?

You're playing a fool.

This repair is

your moral duty.

I expected to hear it.

You know, morality is a passkey.

It opens every door, including

the one hiding immoral intensions.

It is a command,

like "attention!".

If the dome falls apart, you will

be guilty of the death of all of us.

You sound as if you believed

in an escape from death.

You are wrong.

It is by accepting that I would

take responsibility for our lives,

and that would be,

damn it, immodest.

It's easy enough.

You stupid,

get out of here.

Why?

You disturb my sleep,

you stupid.

But I'm keeping quiet.

Yes, but as you are standing

here and I hear them howling,

I feel as if you

were screaming in my ear.

Would the loudspeakers not

disturb you, if I were not here?

They wouldn't. Get out,

stupid, let me sleep.

Take this!

But let me stay

here a little longer.

You are really stupid.

A little boy, who wants the Ark

to take him away, should say "thank you".

I don't care about the Ark.

- You don't believe about the Ark?

- I believe in sparts, stupid.

And if you keep on crying

out that there is no Ark,

it means that

there must be.

What do you think:

Will it arrive?

The Ark does not exist.

Then why don't

you build it, stupid?

If there is no Ark

we still can make it.

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