Alice Monologue from The Harlequinade: An Excursion

From The Harlequinade: An Excursion by Dion Clayton Calthrop

female · joyful · 1:35 min

If you please, this is going to be a Harlequinade... a real one. And we begin it at the beginning, which is as many thousand years ago as you like to believe. It's about how... how... (UNCLE EDWARD: Psyche.) When I was young I would call her Fishy. It is all about how Psyche, who is a perfect darling... (UNCLE EDWARD: You are not to put bits in.) Well, she is a perfect darling. But you don't see her in the first scene. Now Psyche, who is the Soul, comes down... whenever a baby's born, of course, a little scrap of Psyche is sent down!... But this is how the story goes... That she comes down from Mount Olympus where the gods live to adventure on the earth. And in the Harlequinade she's Columbine, but that only means a dove, and a dove is the symbol of the soul. And anybody who is fond of flowers knows that, because if you look at Columbine flowers you can see that they are made of doves with their wings out. And so she ought always to be dressed in blue.

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