Reflections on Revolution

[Ezra Weil]

"It isn't that I don't want to see you, Simona. I just don't like your living arrangements with these two men. It makes me uncomfortable. If you love one of them then it would make sense to marry one and kick the other out of your house. I know you are an anarchist and have different ideas about things, but it is uncomfortable to visit you when they are there."

[Simona Weil]

"You need to be a little more open minded about things. Part of this yearning for freedom and equality is freedom and equality in relationships as well."

[Ezra Weil]

"I don't really understand how dating one person at a time and not living with them is oppressive. It is a lot safer and saner than whatever it is that you're doing."

[Simona Weil]

"It usually always comes to this, doesn't it? They're good people. I think you need to trust them. You're acting old fashioned and there is no place for that in the modern world."

[Ezra Weil]

"It is these extreme ideas that have caused so much suffering in the world. Around the world Red Infinity is stomping out religion and culture and the scary thing is that sometimes you sound just like them."

[Simona Weil]

"Ezra, I'm not a communist."

[Ezra Weil]

"To you I sound so reactionary. I sound like I am placing so much value on old fashioned ideas as you call them. But this world doesn't work. We don't need something new. We need to go back to what works. I'm tired of this utopian nightmare."

[Simona Weil]

Maybe this time I will let him talk. I am dead and I can do that with memory. I can make up whatever I want.

[Ezra Weil]

"I'm sorry. I am just angry about many things. You see, I am not as passionless as you say I am. If I was passionless, I would not care at all how you live your life. But I love you and I really have a hard time accepting some of the things you do and stand for. They seem dangerous. Antero and Sasha seem...dangerous to me."

[Simona Weil]

"Maybe you're right..."

I flash back to the apartment. I think of Antero and Sasha and what happened. My brother had a reason to worry. They did cruel things to people. How did I get caught up in it? Maybe I wanted to change them or maybe...I partially believed them.

[Ezra Weil]

Ezra is back at Raz Nili Ze'ev's home. He does not remember the memory. He hardly remembers his sister at all. Maybe the amnesia is a selective defense against the things that cause him pain. It is hard to know.

He sends Chaya away since he wants to be alone with Raz. He is embarassed about being so weak right now. He goes to an empty room and waits for her.

[Sakari Lehtinen]

((I only have so much time on break, and I not enough to read 7 pages of posts. So I'm going to just wing this here))

"I had somewhat of a boring role during the revolution, I translated intercepted messages from English into Russian, Chinese, and Finnish, depending on whom I was working for. The translations were a logistical nightmare at times, since there were regiments made up of all of the above nationalities, and often times our radio had trouble working, so I had to send runners. They were better at decoding our messages than we were, theirs. However, after Philadelphia, we finally came up with a made up language that consisted of elements from all of the above, and some Arabic elements as well." Sakari replies to Antero.

[Simona Weil]

I leave the apartment and continue my travels through Capital City. I feel depressed again. I am starting to wish that I was alive again. I never wished for life before, but with the world such a mess and so many things left undone, I can't help but wish for a return.

"How can I come back?"

I catch myself. I shouldn't want such things. I should accept my death.

[Antero Black]

"I still don't get whose side you were on." Antero finally states to Sakari.

[Valodya Bassarov]

Bassarov thinks of the revolution and has a mixture of emotions. He feels happiness and deep sadness. It is the unreconcilable part of his history. He will next make peace with the revolution until the revolution is complete.