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Scene 4.

ISHTAR, FOETUS, then TONY


FOETUS - like before - is glowing, in ISHTAR'S lap. Just his head showing.)

FOETUS: You see... He wants me...

ISHTAR: He wants me...

FOETUS: He wants ME!

ISHTAR: He wants me! (This: smugly).

ISHTAR: And I, don't want him...

FOETUS: What do you want...?

ISHTAR: Myself...

FOETUS: I am yourself... I am...!

ISHTAR: He wants me to want him... He wants to recapture me...

FOETUS: He wants me deeply, absolutely, he desires me... he said so... He even said he needs me...!

ISHTAR: You don't want my freedom... Neither he nor you... you are together in this... both...

FOETUS: We belong to you, we are yours, why should you be free...? What is this you without us, this independent you... We depend on you, after all...

ISHTAR: Ben, in a way, wants my freedom...

FOETUS: You'll be free only to fear...

ISHTAR: If I have you, it's true, it makes it all much more worthwhile...

FOETUS: You wanted me like crazy... You wanted me, remember, both of you...

You can't change your mind... He didn't change his...

ISHTAR: You're not his...

FOETUS: I am fully his... I am to whoever wants me... Totally, fully, trustingly... Life, happiness, Ishtar... it's all worthwhile, with me...

everything... every minute, every second... to him, to you... he loves me...

I want this guy, I want him. I don't give a damn about anybody else. You have no right to take him away from me. He wants me. He wants me. I am all important. You are ready to die for me. He's ready to die for me, too, make no mistake. I am the one.. He's of no importance whatsoever... Neither are you... I am all important, the world exists only for me... Yet, I am so weak... so weak... you can nip me like a flower-bud... nobody will ever know... you can blow on me like on a soap bubble... pfff, gone... Yet, the whole world is waiting for me, expecting me... Without me, it has no existence... Without me, you have no existence...

TONY (returning): I need you, I need both of you... I've stopped existing, Ishtar... I feel... so empty...

ISHTAR: I feel... so full...!




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