White magic - a play

(This is a rush translation. Version may not be in its final form.)

Prologue

Voices? Without a body? A fever. I'm having hallucinations.

That's what atheists always say.

Do I deserve it?

Selfishness and ambition, the law now. I can not handle meeting requests for pacts. Let's imagine that everything is just a play. We're making a piece together, okay?

I'm just a newspaper columnist.

Let's face it: the president had 86% approval. He was going to make far-reaching reforms. Abroad, they debated military intervention or support with weapons, fuel and ammunition. Spies entered the country.

Even the devil supports the strikes and left-wing radicals.

What you did was to create a story in which the deposed president is a coward who has run away to look after his cows. But following the correct legal procedure, you can gain less years in the cauldron if you serve as a witness. Let us see, who can you denounce?

But the devil does not know everything?

Yes, but the witness is a keystone. In conviction.

I can tell you who broke all the bones of Professor Teixeira. He did not fall into the hole in the elevator, of course. Aeronautics had hatred of this educational reform thing.

A good start.

Who were the chiefs of the prisons?

On the ship in the port of Santos?

The arrest of the boiler ...

Torture at fifty degrees ...

The one of the cold water in the knee ...

And the shit. Three beautiful dungeons.

The names of those who said, "If you give me ten thousand dollars, I will not torture your daughter." And those who beat the peasants who gave food to the armed struggle, who turned into blood porridge and were tied up in sacks and thrown into the woods.

Okay. Okay. Let's negotiate. We're going to have to start sending people to Purgatory to release an entire circle for the press.

1
- I gave you the wish." I gave you, I gave you a wish.
- Yes, but I want you to leave."
- You used me." I would be ready to do everything for you. Make your enemies be, your enemies be sucked by insects. Make your enemies have unimaginable nightmares and vomit blood.
- I asked them to believe me. But now...
- I think you went too far." Too hungry, too much.
- I needed it, I have a mission.
- The law is a fragile thing, like a spider's web." You blow, pluf!
- Please go away, go away, go away!"
- You're bad at heart, but I do not care.
- I want to be alone.
- No.

*

2
- Son. I read it in the paper. This John was cruel to us. Let's put it on the TV.
- Father, calm down. It does not seem ... Calm down, I'm looking for some documents ...
- Son, I saw it on Walter's blog. You can not humiliate us like this. Animal.
- Dad, it was purposely leaked.
- I want it on TV. The fate of money.
- The guy is already here on TV.
- Did you ask him?
- No pressure. I showed it all, I said.
- No pressure, I want a solution. I want to see him kiss the ground.
- It's coming out in the paper little by little, the leak has been planned. How's the tomb?
- Granite is here. But come here, we have to use the TV, the guy is our opponent. Then we'll talk more, get on a plane.
- Ah, OK. I got my eye, kiss.

*
"But it's very bold of you. I should have known. Memory was paler every day.
"Time, you know that I am only the personification of the ambition and selfishness emanated from humanity. Not even the Unsearchable Tower can destroy me because it also observes Wisdom that keeps the Laws.
"I demand that you give back the memories trapped between time, all trapped by now.
"Your brother Space does not keep bending and following, forgetting that infinite between two moments?
- We go together to Memory and you will restore the lost meaning.

3
- Look, Doctor, do you think I'm going to swallow that your TV is saying I lost?"
- It's not my TV, it's the institute.
- Homer sent me the polls, I win them all."
- Changes. Leave me in peace.
- Look here, you will not accept it. There is no more note of uniform, no more they sent. Now you have to explain.
- My patience is running out, candidate. Go ahead let's see if you believe.
- You are related, but not God.

4
- Trapped by feet, feet cut with fine fingernails, our poisonous tongues in his ear pouring fire, waves on his boat, flames at the gates of his house...
- No. It must be by law.
- Invisible beings like that. A dark cave, a pestilent wind, a time without time can undo the soul like gray haze, puf!
- Hold on for a long time?
- Your enemies are my enemies, creeping beings, when the vapor-filled moon rises in the sky, blood-drinking beings, who feed ambition and betrayal, sharpen daggers and send dreams, we are with you.
- I want you to leave.

5
- But I have no guarantees. I owe it to my pants.
- Who do not know. I'm director! I'll give you credit.
- They will not."
- Go on. I put the money back from the employees.
- Carlos will deposit $ 400,000 in your company. Shipping through Uruguay. Bought well.
- Yes. Think well boy, three statehoods!
- Now I buy that island in Bahia.

6
The floor was covered with burning embers. Burnt smell. Ruins of houses. An old man and a woman come out of the darkness, carrying stones. Flames. A child comes out from under a shattered bed, was in the hospital.
"Do you attribute all this to your family fairy?"
- That was what she said.
- Bullshit.
- She said.
- That someone would die?"
- Yes.
- Do you realize that we do not have an enemy now?" That the Defense loses budget? That the rebellions will no longer be Communist subversion?
- Do you think it's just petty bourgeois guilt with our empire and military bases?"
- Fairies do not exist."

(to be continued...)

Afonso Jr. Lima