NICHTFÜRVERTRIEBAUFFÜHRUNGEN DURCH MUSIKUNDBÜHNE www.musikundbuehne.de

BUT YOU ARE ALWAYS MOVED BY WHAT IS ENCIRCLING YOU. YOU SET THE WORDS TO IT, A POETRY OF PAIN: A FEELING, A LANDSCAPE, A BEING. IT LIVES WITHIN YOU, RUTH. IN WHAT YOU´RE WRITING, AND IN WHAT YOU´RE PAINTING. IT LIVES WITHIN YOU, RUTH.

(GUNVOR sings her own poem, ”The words”:) GUNVOR:

ALL THE WORDS, RADIANT, QUIET, I WILL FIND THEM GIVE THEM TO YOU, POUNDING A FEW MOMENTS TOGETHER WITHIN THE FRAME OF FOREVER, SO YOU WILL REMEMBER ME.

IMAGES, SPIRIT AND EARTH ALL THAT IS YOU, HEARTACHE, TURMOIL AND HOPE ALL THAT IS ME: WITNESS THE WORD OF WORDS AND WE WILL NEVER FIND IT, WITNESS BY EYES SO CLEARLY SEARCHING, BUT BLINDLY THAT THE FIRE WILL NEVER DIE!

ALL THE WORDS, RADIANT, QUIET.

SCENE 11

(RUTH is on a train. TWO MEN enter. One is Finnish. He seems drunk, waving his arms. Speaking an unknown language. Some German occasionally)

MAN 1: We come from Finland. People think he's drunk. But he's got a nerve shock.