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A / Time: 2100
EVELYN
Well, the help are making sure we
have a tight ship here, during
these unusual wedding ceremonies.
The humming, the incantations, whatever
we might call it, continue . . .
Wait, I think the Priestess, Yin Priestess
Dwallah, is coming out of it now . . .
Let's see if we can get closer and
pick up what is going on . . .
She moves closer.
DWALLAH
We remember now an Age of Wisdom. We
recall now a time, twenty-five-thousand
years ago, when Matriarchal Wisdom
witnessed the Universal Balance of
Yin Female and Yang Male, when Yinless
Yang and Yangless Yin came together
like magnets in the night.
YANG RICHARD
I am like a magnet in the night.
TRUDY
I am like a magnet in the night.
YANG RICHARD
Yinless Yang.
TRUDY
Yangless Yin.
DWALLAH
Attracting like magnets in the night.
Yang Wolf hums underneath the ceremony now.
YANG WOLF
Mmmmmmmmmmmm etc.
DWALLAH
Oh, Yinless Yang, oh Yangless Yin, do
you seek the universal balance without
which all joy and peace are uncertain?
TRUDY
Yangless Yin seeks Yang!
YANG RICHARD
Yinless Yang seeks Yin!
DWALLAH
Yin and Yang seeking! Yang and Yin seeking!
TRUDY & RICHARD
Seeking, seeking!
DWALLAH
I, the Yin Priestess Dwallah, from the
Matriarchal Wisdom of twenty-five-thousand-
years ago, when Universal Balance kept all
energies in complementarity, I ask you,
Yinless Yang, if thou doest seek the principle
of Yin into the very heart of your incomplete
Yang being?
YANG RICHARD
Yinless Yang seeks Yin, I do!
DWALLAH
And doest thou, Yangless Yin, seek the
principle of Yang into the very heart of
your incomplete Yin being?
TRUDY
Yangless Yin seeks Yang, I do!
DWALLAH
Then in the power granted me by the Universal
Church of Primitive Balance, and in the grand
universal spirit that brings complementarity
to all incomplete things, I grant to thee,
Yinless Yang, the full female principle of
Yin, as bestowed to you by the very female
who now takes your hand, granting you Yin
. . .
TRUDY
I grant thee Yin.
DWALLAH
And to thee, Yangless Yin, I grant the full
male principle of Yang, as bestowed to you
by the very male who now grasps your other
hand, granting you Yang . . .
YANG RICHARD
I grant thee Yang.
DWALLAH
Yinless Yang no more . . .
YANG RICHARD
No more . . .
DWALLAH
Yangless Yin no more . . .
TRUDY
No more . . .
DWALLAH
I now pronounce you Yinful Yang . . .
YANG RICHARD
Yinful Yang!
DWALLAH
. . . and Yangful Yin . . .
TRUDY
Yangful Yin!
DWALLAH
I now pronounce you Balanced and Whole!
YANG WOLF
Let's party!
Pandomonium among the wedding participants now, lots of hugs
and cheering, nothing solemn any more but people ready to
have a good time.
EVELYN
Well, you heard it for yourselves, perhaps
the strangest wedding you've ever witnessed,
performed by a twenty-five-thousand-year-
old Matriarchal Priestess, reached by the
spiritual channelling of Cyndi, who
apparently has no last name, or none that
she admits to . . . witnessing the ceremony
was one of the members of
the religious order, who suddenly yelled,
"let's party!," in surprising contrast to
the mystical solemnity of the ceremony
itself, and it indeed looks like the rest
of this affair is going to be one big
party . . . I'm not sure what the guests,
the great majority of whom are not members
of the religion at all, but Portland guests
of the bride, it's hard to be sure what
they are thinking right now . . . let me
see who I can find . . . wait, the bride
is coming by now, here's the bride herself,
the former Trudy Brodey, I'm not even sure
what her married name is now . . . Trudy!
Trudy!, do you have a minute, please?
Trudy comes forward. TIME CODE:
TRUDY
Hi . . .
EVELYN
Congratulations!
TRUDY
Thank you . . .
Richard comes forward.
YANG RICHARD
We're very happy!
EVELYN
Here's the groom, Yang Richard. Let
me ask, excuse my ignorance, but,
Trudy, how do we address you now, what's
your new name?
TRUDY
Just Yin Trudy.
EVELYN
No last name?
YANG RICHARD
Last names are symbols of male tyranny.
EVELYN
That sounds feminist.
YANG RICHARD
Heavens, no! We aren't feminist, we don't
believe in female tyranny any more than in
male tyranny.
EVELYN
Yet the Yin Priestess Dwallah kept referring
to Matriarchal wisdom--
YANG RICHARD
She meant the origins, the first nature of
all things, Mother Earth, Father Sky . . .
TRUDY
Let's not get lost in politics today!
YANG RICHARD
If you'll excuse us, we're going to the bar
for some champagne!
EVELYN
Well, congratulations again!
The couple moves off, heading for E but JACK will stop and
accost them in B, having come from area G. /ex3/ /ex6/
TIME CODE: 24:30
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