Pras Monologue from The Little Stone House

From The Little Stone House by George Calderon

male · contemplative · 49 sec

How brightly the eikon lamp burns before the portrait of my boy. (Var: It does indeed.) It is the new fire from the Candlemas taper. Fomá. It is the new oil that makes it burn brightly. Pras. (crossing herself). Nonsense! it is the new fire. Fomá. Did ever one hear such stuff? She put out the lamp at Candlemas, and lighted it anew from the taper which she brought home from the midnight service, from the new fire struck by the priest with flint and steel; and now she thinks that is the reason why it burns so brightly.

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