Day 2 – Reading – May Bucilliat

It’s not in ruins but…

It is like cities in zombie movie.

He keeps talking: “You have to get out of here now.Look at behind you and you go there.”

I can see the city abruptly stops and further it’s a kind of long plain.

Spider-Man is still here, he is waiting for me.

He says me “Go ahead”.

So I’m starting to walk this way, I’m looking up and…

I can see him, moving from one building to another.

I keep walking out of here.

When I realise I am out of the old city, I realise someone is holding my hand.

So I look up to see who is this person.

The sun is blinding me but I can make out a face.

After a few seconds, I realise this is Ridley Scott.

He smiles to me, just like “Hello, little girl”.

We are walking on a path, through the huge plain.

We could walk alongside the path, in the plain, but no, we are on the path.

He does not talk to me.

After a while, we arrive near a big hole but the path is not ended, it continues after the hole.

I cannot see its end; it is too far.

I do not understand why we stop here because we can just walk alongside the hole and continue on the road.

“Look down, into the hole”, he says me.

I cannot see anything; it is just absolutely dark.

He says: “Now, you jump.”

“No!”

“Why “no!”? Do you never jump?”

“I do, but I can’t see anything. Why do you want me to jump?”

“I don’t tell you: I want you to jump, but you have to jump.”

“Why? We can continue to walk on the path.”

“And toward what? What do you see?”

“Hmm… I can see plains, mountains, the sky is blue.”

“That’s all? And after? After the mountains?”

“I don’t know I can’t see anything.”

“OK. So you can’t see what is over there. You don’t know what is over there. So tell me the difference between the hole and over there.”

“I don’t know, into the hole it’s dark, I can’t see anything, but over there, I can guess…”

-“Oh you can guess. So if you can imagine what is behind the mountains, why can you not imagine if you jump into the hole? If you can’t see anything for both, how could you be sure it will better if you continue to walk on this path?”

“I don’t know but we could go over there and later we could come back here.”

“First, if you go over there, you will not come back. It’s possible but you will regret that. Second, I stop here. You have a choice to make and only you can make it.”