#seneca: if you can untie these knots and free yourselves then you can survive anything

[caligulalotus]

one day. owen and sutton picklestein manifesto that i’m rotating in my brain. one day i will write you.

[spacetrashpile]

men on boats-jaclyn backhaus

[Image ID: Multiple snippets of the play Men on Boats. The read:

1: "POWELL. I SAY FIVE PERCENT IS STILL A CHANCE. Are we not still alive?/DUNN. If we die, it's on your watch./OLD SHADY. Who's countin if we're all dead?"

2: “I saved Bradley/Who saved my brother/Somebody saved you at some point/We save each other./I’ll see you ar the end of this/And I’ll shake your hand”

3: “We may conjecture many things./Perhaps you’ll die, Bradley./BRADLEY. Perhaps I’ll die./Perhaps you’ll die, Shady./OLD SHADY. Perhaps I’ll die./Perhaps you’ll die, Hawkins./HAWKINS. Yeah./Perhaps you’ll die, Howlands./O.G. and SENECA. Perhaps./ALL. Perhaps we’ll die./Perhaps we’ll die/Perhaps we’ll”

4: “SENECA. One time when we were little/Our parents tied our hands to the fencepost/At nightfall and said/O.G. If you can untie these knots and free yourselves/Then you’ll survive anything/SENECA. Anything/O.G. and SENECA: Anything”

5: “POWELL. This will be a huge blow to all of us/We’ve all become like brothers/DUNN. I would not wish this journey on any man/Least of all my brother/Thank you for your service, Major Powell./POWELL. But I-/well I-/But-/We could be so close.”

6: “The river roars./They wait in silence for hours./They pray and they look upward,/They cry and they curse, silently./There is no sign of the three men gone./A strange man, Mr. Asa, walks up to them. He wears a nifty wide-brimmed hat. Mr. Asa seems, strangely, somehow an Angel of Comfort. Perhaps a fever dream.”

7: “Your story will outlast even those of your own crew. It won’t matter that the bulk of them will end up poor, drifting the desert, dying in taverns, traversing less exciting things. Don’t you worry about that. Because men will name places after you! A forest, perhaps! Or a man-made lake!/You all look so glum! This is about you too, for now! This is your moment! You rode those boats. You made history.”

8: “Were they alive? they’ll ask me./They were alive, I’ll say. You were alive. This was your story.”

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