Amal Monologue from The Post Office

From The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore

male · contemplative · 51 sec

Won't you sound the gong, Watchman? (WATCHMAN: Time has not yet come.) How curious! Some say time has not yet come, and some say time has gone by! But surely your time will come the moment you strike the gong! (WATCHMAN: That's not possible; I strike up the gong only when it is time.) Yes, I love to hear your gong. When it is midday and our meal is over, Uncle goes off to his work and Auntie falls asleep reading her Râmayana, and in the courtyard under the shadow of the wall our doggie sleeps with his nose in his curled up tail; then your gong strikes out, "Dong, dong, dong!" Tell me why does your gong sound?

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