I can tell you for certain: I’m now thoroughly and totally acquainted with all the constellations of the stars. Every single one of them! All those masters of the sky that light it all up and sparkle from on high, as well as all the smaller stars, those that, by their rising and their setting, bring to us mortals, our summers and winters. It’ll be the light of a torch a light that will announce the certain fall Troy. (Indicates inside the palace) These are the orders of a tough woman, a woman whose heart is like a man’s heart, a heart that’s full of… (knowingly) full of manly hopes. (He begins to hum nervously again for a moment, then gets up and moves about in his restricted space, perhaps suddenly precariously slipping)Īnd whenever this shapeless bed of mine, waterlogged as it is with the morning’s dew, whenever this bed rejects me and scorns me with my need for sleep, when it does that, I usually try to remedy the situation with a bit of singing but then, when I do that, a bitter taste comes into my mouth, takes control in there and stuffs it full of mournful songs, songs about the suffering of this palace, a palace which no longer rules as virtuously as it used to. He is looking towards the audience when he’s talking and so does not notice the torch light moving across the stage behind him. You bring with you a million celebrations of good luck for the Argives! 25 Welcome, welcome torch of the night! Your light shines like a fulsome, glorious day! And how could it? Fear is my constant companion and Fear, well, Fear won’t let Sleep come anywhere near me to shut my eyelids tight enough for the dreams to venture out inside my skull.įinally the light becomes bright enough to light up the whole stage at which time he is shocked, turns and nearly falls off the roof with excitement.Īha! Finally! There’s the end of them! That’s it! That’s the torch of the night I’ve been waiting for.
Get her up out of bed immediately and get her to raise shouts of laughter in the whole palace and she can give thanks to this torch… that is, if it really does signal the fall of Troy! I’ll shout as loudly as I can to raise Agamemnon’s wife. I’ll be the first to hop into the celebration dance. Give them a good start because, you see, I consider the luck of my masters to be my luck as well.
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