“There will
be music and happiness all at the Carnival….by order”
{The Town Crier - Dance of the Dead}
I wonder
why The Village needed a town crier to make that announcement? After all a
cheery female voice has always made the public announcements in the past, via
the public address system. But I suppose the Town Crier adds a little colour to
the proceedings. And in bygone days it was always the Town Crier who stood
shouting out the news and public announcements to the people, that’s how they knew
what was going on in their town. But it’s strange that the Town crier should
find himself on the Judge’s panel at the trial of the Prisoner. And for him to
read out the death sentence against the Prisoner. In fact of the three judges
Emperor Nero is the “odd one out!’ But perhaps that’s why he was chosen
to be one of the three Judges, for his impartiality, in never having had any
direct contact with the Prisoner. But he didn’t sound all that impartial, if
anyone was, it was Queen Elizabeth. After all when it came to the Prisoner
asking for a character witness, she was the only person there to see the
Prisoner has his rights. Today they would be his human rights, and the Prisoner
would be screaming about the infringement of his human rights, seeing as how he
had been abducted against his will, and therefore was being detained in The
Village unlawfully!
Be seeing you
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