1 We stood together for a long time.
2 For a long time we could not speak.
3 For the first time do we care about our body.
4 For the first time do we know how strong our arms are.
5 We stood still; for the first time did we know fear, and then pain.
6 They understood our thought, for they lowered their eyes for the first time.
7 Our discovery is too great for us to waste our time in sweeping the streets.
8 For, upon the blue of the sky below us, we saw our own face for the first time.
9 And suddenly, for the first time this day, we remembered that we are the Damned.
10 There was a time when each man had a name of his own to distinguish him from all other men.
11 And a strange thought comes to us: we wonder, for the first time in our life, what we look like.
12 The trees had protected it from time and weather, and from men who have less pity than time and weather.
13 The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.
14 We turned and we looked at them for the last time, and a rage, such as it is not fit for humans to know, choked our voice in our throat.
15 We forgot, that night, to watch the sand in the glass which tells us when three hours have passed and it is time to return to the City Theatre.
16 We need all our time, we need the work rooms of the Home of the Scholars, we want the help of our brother Scholars and their wisdom joined to ours.
17 This is the time each spring when all the men older than twenty and all the women older than eighteen are sent for one night to the City Palace of Mating.
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