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from Church of the Comic Spirit

8/3/2019

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Selection of Miss Holy Land

The pageant stage. Sarah’s daughter stands before an enraptured audience. She wears a scarlet dress; her banner proclaims her to be Miss Sinai. She is performing in the talent portion of the Miss Holy Land competition, favoring the crowd with a superb rendition of the aria 
È strano from Verdi’s La Traviata. English subtitles.

Daughter: È strano! è strano!
[How strange! how strange!]

In core scolpiti ho quegli accenti!
[In my heart are sculpted those words!]

Saria per me sventura un serio amore?

[Would to me true love bring bad luck?]

Che risolvi, o turbata anima mia?
[What think you, oh troubled spirit mine?]

The audience applauds wildly. Sarah and Abraham look at each other and nod their proud approval.

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    Paul Enns Wiebe perpetually asks himself, "What do I want to write when I grow up?"

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