[nukkad] Kabirian Konversations

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[evening shadows, a barren windswept seashore]

The One: Say something.
The Other: Jo dikhe, so to hae nahi, ann dikhe, so hoe
Aesi youkti janiya, to koi birla hoe.

The One: [pauses] What??
The Other: You said say something. I did.

The One: That you did, the question is what does it mean?
The Other: You said say something, you did not say to explain
what it meant.

The One: Heavens! Are you going to say you say things for your
own self I am not going to explain?
The Other: I could say I say things for my own self I am not going to
explain, but I will not.

The One: O Joy. And you will explain?
The Other: I will.

The One: [semi sarcastically] And why the change of heart?
The Other: For a change.

The One: Right. So explain.
The Other: Thats Das Kabir.

The One: The Russian?
The Other: [makes a wry face] The Prussian.

The One: OK what does he say when he says this which you say
he said. [Pleased] That did come out well did it not?
The Other: It did.

The One: So what does it mean?
The Other: In a word, what seems, is not.

The One: [Wide eyed] What seems, is not. What is it simply not, that 
seems that it is.
The Other: What seems.

The One: And it is not.
The Other: No.

The One: And what does not seem to be, is.
The Other: Is.

The One: [changing tack] What is this you have with the Prussian?
The Other: That which does not seem..

The One: Old friends?.
The Other: Something like that.

The One: [Naively] Will I meet him?
The Other: No.

The One: Because?
The Other: Because.

The One: Square one, huh?
The Other: Yes.

The One: Fade?
The Other: Fade.

[fade]

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