MONOLOGUE IN DRESDEN (a Second Life humorous experience)

MONOLOGUE IN DRESDEN (talking to Emilka, or trying at least anyway)

(inworld SL, in the breathtaking gardens of the Dresden Museum, outside)

[I talk to unknown Emilka for 14 minutes; the avatar looks plain and nice, nothing extraordinary or fancy about her; during this time, she stares at me, without ever leaving, without saying a word. As the “action” progresses, I feel more and more hamletian, in a stand up comedy sort of way].

[02:50] Hi

[02:51] Hi!

[02:52] Hi (third try)…smiles

[02:52] don’t mind waiting, Emilka

[02:52] Time is nothing to me

[02:52] Lately

[02:52]And besides, I trust my intuition.

[02:52] A lot

[02:52] Lately

[Eva, the character from the film Wall-E, appears and dances for us, briefly. I swear it’s true]

[02:53]Did you see that, Emilka? Charming! Did I see something from that movie? Eva whatever, was her name?

[02:54]I did not want to sound preposterous

[02:54] I’m just radiant and happy

[02:54] and sharing is like a need

[02:54]That's all

[02:55]You don’t say anything, really. It's like talking to a patient in comma.

[02:55]But I know you listening

[02:55]Emilka...

[02:55] I'm in such a generous mood

[02:55] overflowing, I’d say,

[02:56] that I could give you my best poem

[02:56] if you just say Hi

[02:56] Say HI

[02:56] diz olá

[02:56] Dime Hola

[02:56] Disez-moi salut

[02:57] Your silence makes this moment

[02:57] unbearably special and unique

[02:57] Like Beatles? You now "Michelle"?

[02:58] It has a connection with us somehow

[02:58] Ma belle, "sont les mot qui vont très bien ensemble"

[02:58] And I'll keep repeating them till you learn to say Hi

[02:59] ma belle

[02:59] ma belle

[02:59] ma belle

[02:59] You must think I'm crazy

[02:59] I'm not

[02:59] I'm lucid

[03:00] Today I wrote a poem called "like an angel"

[03:00] It could talk about you, but it did not.

[03:00] It was about how I felt

[03:00] like an angel

[03:00] white and pure

[03:00] creative, nice, understanding

[03:00] joyful, humorous

[03:01] I somehow grateful you're still here

[03:01] It proves something.

[03:01] You are a beautiful little puppet,

[03:02] and your puppeteer is a shadow behind you

[03:02] And she/he must be curious somehow.

[03:02] Emilka, ma belle, com’on

[03:03] don’t understand this as harassment

[03:03] I'm just tipsy and prone to play and humor.

[03:04] I'm a musician, a husband of a beautiful woman, a father of a beautiful boy

[03:04] I'm not looking for anything

[03:04] I'm finding it

[at exactly this moment, she finally flies away. Quite literally, in SL terms)

[I remain in the same place for some minutes. I’m still happy. Very.]

[Then I decide to copy/paste the whole chat text, and proudly edit my “Monologue in Dresden”].