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Unexpected ... suddenly ... as if from nowhere they appear, |
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the monks are wearing fire-coloured gowns, |
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their faces, friendly but determined, are hidden behind lacquered masks, |
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painted black & white, they're having the shape of over-dimensional skulls. |
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Quickly and nimbly they are moving forward, hopping dextrously, |
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throwing their legs like ageless jesters ... so high up into the air. |
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each of them is armed with a short , an even piece of wood, |
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remarkably resembling ... ancient worn-out washing-boards. |
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polishes by the years of use, they brandish them like swords or sticks, |
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ready to strike ritually ... - this is the day of the remaining dead. |
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On this day we celebrate the expulsion, or rebuke, |
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of the spirits which have unintendedly been dragged along. |
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some of these ghosts have been forgotten, some have simply been ignored, |
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these remnants with a growing hunger ... must be exorcised, must be removed. |
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This ritual always commences without warning, suddenly, |
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therefore it cannot be assigned to a certain date or time. |
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it rather tends to inevitably follow a chain of events, |
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a special spiritual feature inherent in each and everyone of them. |
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Out of the sphere of influence ... of the sphere of the days to be |
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the monks are approaching, spinning on their own axis as they dance and sing |
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and hitting every person present so hard between the shoulder-blades |
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as everyone here is dragging fidget, invisible ... "appendages". |
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As if by chance, not expressly invited, we've assembled here today |
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vehemently we are being hit ... and driven through the western gates, |
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out of the monastery in the direction of the setting sun |
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a necessary purifying ceremony for the (fragile) days to come ... |
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