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30 The Bite Scene 8 Abod alone on stage Abod Me, in a diviner’s. Real magic in Jerusalem. Diviners. Fakes, all of them. If they could see the invisible, Divine the future, they would long since have cured Africa of its myriad ills. No! I will not allow myself to Be abused in broad daylight. I will be my own diviner. Now I remember! Bi used to complain of sexual Harassment. I know the idiot. The ugly fool. The Thoroughly detestable son of a ganakoh! (Kneels and takes out cowries from his pocket. Throws them on the floor and examines them like a diviner) Ah! Now! There it is. Abod, your house is Not well. You said a dog surged from nowhere and Bit your daughter. It’s all clearly stated out here Before me. I can see it. Even the blind can see it. The Bite was no ordinary bite. The dog came to deliver a Message. I see a man. An idiot. An ugly fool. I see him Covering a beautiful woman with lecherous looks. (Collects the cowries and throws them again, studies them, and then breaks out in derisive laughter)The thoroughly detestable son of a Ganakoh. What did he think? Here it is before me: the Beautiful woman will not, I repeat not have any of his Dirty games. Ah! My faithful wife. (Rising) But Abod, Remember she said you were possessed. How do you Resolve that? Let’s see. Simple. We will have it on Record, on my record, that he consulted a soothsayer Who told him that so long as my wife was in my house She would be faithful, unbendingly and unbendably Faithful. So they brought the dog to chase her out. But He will be disillusioned soon enough. My wife is gone Physically, but emotionally, sentimentally, she is with Me, here, in my heart. (Clutches his heart). Curtain. ...

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