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Marjolein: How the hell was that kinder and gentler?
April: Why is the river red?
Dominique: Day 19, we’re still following the river. We’d like to rest for a day...
Marjolein: Day 19? We’ve only been here for a few hours.
Leanne: A few hours? It’s been days.
April: Days? It’s been weeks.
Kurt: Remember how long we were in the caravan?
Marjolein: It seemed long, but now I don’t think that’s true. Time in these things is an
illusion.
Dominique: Does anyone hear the voices?
April: What voices?
Dominique: Listen…

Voice 1: Eating, and being eaten.
Voice 2: I hear there isn't a creature in the forest that isn't hunted by something else.
Voice 3: And man?
Voice 2: he’s just meat like everything else.

...

Voice 2: There are no souls in the jungle, very little justice and no ethics. Well, in the end you begin to accept it all. We watch things hunting and being hunted. Reproducing, killing, dying it's all endless and pointless. Except in the end one small pattern immerges from it all, the only certainty: one is born, one lives for a time, and then one dies, that’s all. All the rest is yeey saba.

Voice 1: What’s that?

Voice 2: It's a game the natives play. It doesn't make sense, it's quite pointless. A chases B, B chases C, C chases A. Then they turn around and go the other way. It’s quite senseless. Except that the fellow who was here has satisfied his desire to be over there, everybody’s had the fun of running after something, everybody’s grabbed a handful of stuff that they wanted because everybody else wanted it and well it's endless.

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from The Posthuman War Act 4: Red River, released May 10, 2022
Maggie Kozak as Marjolein
Kerttu Aarnipuu as Leanne
Hayley Warner as Dominque
Lauren Osborn as April
and Daniel Collette as Kurt

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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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