An Interwoven Series of Events

Tanception: an interwoven series of events
By Beaulette Blom and Lebogang K. Tlou

Originally produced in South Africa by Elephant Publishers, a division of Trip.E Pty Ltd

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#Tanception:

an interwoven series of events.

(An original story by Beaulette Blom and Lebogang Tlou)

A tanception is a tangent within a tangent. A tangent is an adventure. This is a portal into another portal, within a deeper portal, in a deeper reality.*

Voice: Five Years Ago. Phumi was head girl at her school, with a bright future ahead of her. Warren was a naughty boy facing expulsion from school. Karen was just another Afrikaans pupil at her school. And Blessing smoked and sold weed throughout school. I asked them what they had planned for their futures five years from now:

[presses button]

[old recording plays]

Phumie: Hi my name is Nompumelelo aka Phumie. and I am The head girl of Peter's Mission high school. I see myself conquering heights which generations of my family have not been exposed to. I have already been fortunate enough to make matric, in 5 years i will have my masters and I will be well on my way to getting that promotion in a respected workplace.

[recording stops]

[click cck ckli clkic]

[recording plays]

Warren: [heavy Coloured accent]Do I have to be here right now? Seriously, you’re all wasting my time again. You know, you people, you people just don’t know how hard it is to survive in the real world. You were suits and drive everywhere. I must walk and protect myself when I walk.

[muffled interrogator speaks]

Aweh, that’s mos nxa, though, you guys just want to mors my time, then fine. I’m Warren. I’m only here coz I’m in trouble. I sell cigarettes to the common man in uniform, and I got a knife in my pocket. After you pigs waste my time, I’m just going to go be a mechanic - a man of power with respect and dignity. Just like my dad.

[recording stops]

[click cck ckli clkic]

[recording plays]

Karin: The sun always rises. The dark never lasts. Darkness losses itself to the light of its own being. I am but light. But I am the piercing blaze that burns infinitely. What is in a name? I am the creative consciousness named Karin.

[recording stops]

[click cck ckli clkic]

[recording plays]

Blessing: Blessing Bambata. next year I will be doing my 1st year at varsity studying accounts. within 3 years I shall have a Bcom degree. I’m indecisive about furthering my qualification or simply doing my articles somewhere. Let’s get through the next 3 years first..... I love weed. Weed should be legal. Everybody should love weed. Thank you.

[recording stops]

[click cck ckli clkic]

[recording plays]

Voice: Nothing remains the same.

[Jazzy guitar rift]

Karen:                       As you can see, the lines and texture of this canvas is essentially what makes this Travis Adriaan a household name, a work of art. I’m not an arts major. I am Vincent Van Gough.

[audience laughs].

Some of you here can better explain the theory behind this work. I, however only know colours. The colours of love, the colours of life…

[guitar rift intensifies]

When words don't come, when silence does no good.

When regardless of all life's wonder,

you remain in a shitty mood.

When your hopes and dreams seem far

When you don't feel like a star

Smile.

Smile.

Smile.

It's when it counts the most.

So when that day comes, when all hope seems lost.

Look skyward, never down; stand your guard,

don't desert your post, soldier.

Smile.

Smile.

Smile.

It's when it counts the most.

Life is for the cunning, the witty and the bold.

The rest are left outside, alone and cold.

Smile.

Smile.

Smile.

It's when it counts the most.

Smile.

Smile.

Smile.

It's when it counts the most.

[crowd applauds]

[traffic sounds]

[computor typing:

Female Narrator: Nothing ever remains the same.

Voice: Indeed Every thing changes.

Female Narrator: Shall we continue telling this story now?

Voice: Blessing, Phumie, Karen and Warren do have beautiful lives

[pages turning]

[teaspoon stirring in cup]

[Phumie humming a tune]

Phumie: Pravin?

Pravin: Hello, Nomphumeleo.

Phumie: Why do you love me?

Pravin: Because you saw me when you could have chosen not to.

Phumie: Bunny adores you.

Pravin: I adore Bunny too. She’s going to grow to be an incredible, strong and independent woman - just like her mom.

Phumie: Guys like you do not exist where I come from.

Pravin: Lord Krishna teaches us to be different by birth right.

Phumie: Hare Krishna

[Hare Krishna chanting]

{Bells ringing]

[truck horn toots]

[a loud thud]

[Judge's gavel being hammered]

[voice: Order in the Court!]

[papers shuffling]

[a typewriter clicking]

Guy: Dude you totally killed it in there!

Warren: i try. Guy: you are by far, one of the best law graduates we have seen. You should really consider joining the centre. Other than exposure and experience, it could do wonders for your career. We're having a meeting tonight, Come, even if you don't apply.

Warren: I dont know, i still have case studies to go through.

Guy: My brother, the best practice is done in the courtroom.

Warren : the best work is done doing the research for the courtroom.

[laughter]

Guy: fair enough. i hope to see you later man.

[birds chirping]

[book pages flutter]

[classical music plays in the background]

[phone rings]

Karin: Hello (pause)

Peter? I’m okay (pause)

       i want to capture all this energy in my work.(pause)

       its difficult (pause)

       iam two dividing souls.  

       my heart lays at crossroads.

       iam neither here, nor there.

       i need direction, affection.

she stares off, Precipitation.

        Peter i love you.

[line goes dead]

[beat box]

Blessing: [microphone pops]

One sees a warm night spent at a fire in full view of the entire Indian Ocean. Oh, my God! An entire universe in grains of sand will dry these feet; each toe, blessed with billions of earth's kisses. Verily does each and every crumble neath the Almighty Most High's feet! Oh my, Oh my, oh my Lord! Can you hear how the waves crash on the shore? Can you hear the seagulls, call out to the Lord of many names, beckoning, beseeching thee lovingly to draw near and just stay. Stay under earth's starry sky, where all dreams verily do come true.

Thank you all for coming out to listen listening.

I love you.

Bahai.

[cheering crowd]

Naya: Blessing you are by far, the most coolest guy i’ve ever met.

Blessing:(taken aback) Who me?

Naya: No, the guy next to you. he turns to see but it is clearly a female there. they laugh.

Naya: on the real, i like having you around.

Blessing: i am glad someone does.

Naya: Give her time, lover. She’ll come around

Blessing: You’re right, I agree.

Naya: Do you want Ice cream?.

Blessing: Yes.

Naya: all Moms are like that. Reality is, we are young and wild, (she shouts) (the whole crowd encourages) and deemed to be free! (they all shout). the crowd settles.

[Shoes clicking: CLick, clack, click, clack, clack, click, Click, click, clack, clack,click, clack.]

[Shower taps turn]

[waters cascading]

[Shoes clicking: CLick, clack, click, clack, clack, click, Click, click, clack, clack,click, clack.]

[a car door closing]

[engine revving]

[traffic]

[a car door opening]

[soft dinner party music]

Guy:       Warren! How great of you to come. Welcome.

[clicks glass]

To the man of the hour!

[applause and cheering]

[Victor clears throat]

Victor:  [accented] Belluigi; but you may call me Victor!

Warren:   I have heard of you. You're the Uncle Sam of Legal Theory at the Center. I am honoured to meet you.

Victor:  May I have a word with you?

Warren:  I  am all ears.

Victor:   I want you to work for me. I am offering you a job. Here, you're good: with me, you can be better. I am asking you to come and work for me, and learn with me. What do you say?

Warren:   You're asking me to join the flock?

Victor:  Now listen here...

Warren:   Be a sheep?

Victor:   The profession of a shepherd is an honest way of living. You will get paid better for doing what you're doing right here. However, with me, your name will increase in value. Everyone will want to be represented by you. You'll be the number one attorney in whichever district you decide you want to own for yourself. I am offering to make you the Law.

[background chatter]

I have seen you in action, kid. You're driven. I need someone like that on my team. Think about it.

[a door closes]

[bicycle horn toots]

[cars driving by]

[a rooster crows]

[a mobile phone rings]

Victor:   Victor speaking, Hello?

Warren:   I accept your offer, Victor.

Victor:   Ah, Warren! This is Good... Good!

Warren:   I will need to see the contract.

Victor:   You must make habbit of checking your emails first thing in the morning.

Warren:   I do not follow?

Victor: [laughs] a contract was sent to you at midnight this morning already. Welcome on board, Warren.

[laughter]

[truck horn sounds]

[taxi music plays]

[Riiiiiiiiiing, Riiiiiinnnnnnnng!]

[ the school bell rings loud ]

[footsteps running]

Caretaker: Excuse me madam, can i direct you somewhere?"

Phumie:  Yes please, I'm looking for the admissions office please.

Caretaker: Admission for the young one?

Phumie: Yes.

Caretaker:   She is awfully younger than the other pupils here.

Phumie: She is five and a half.

Caretaker: We only admit 7 years old and the admission date has expired.

Phumie:    She is fairly wise.

[loud bell honking]

Caretaker: I'm not sure you understand, the selective process for admission is also lengthy and specific requirements need to be met.

Phumie:  i want the best for my daughter and would still like to try and admit her.

Caretaker: I'll lead you to the office then.

[swings squeaking}

[children laughing]

[bees buzzing]

[raking leaves sound]

Caretaker: You might not be able to afford this gig right now,but call these people. Patty does a fairly decent job of looking after younger children.

[a plate breaks somewhere in the short distance]

[Judge's gavel being hammered]

[voice: Order in the Court!]

[papers shuffling]

[a typewriter clicking]

[traffic]

[bar background noise]

Warren:   So you want me to discredit the plaintiff? I ask, based on which acts? Look, you're grasping at straws here. If I'm going to represent your firm, then I'm going to need a full brief on the case. I need the facts in order for me to do the job.

Guy:       That's cute, Warren!

Victor:   This case is very simple, people. We are focusing on restitution and redistribution of assets. Now, sort yourselves out by morning.

[cock crows]

[paper shuffling]

[Shoes clicking: CLick, clack, click, clack, clack, click, Click, click, clack, clack,click, clack.]

Phumie: Bunny please, hold on for a second. As soon as we get in a taxi, you will get your munchkins. Okay, here comes one now!

[Bunny laughing] Munchkins for you. [Bunny laughing] Mommy loves you.

[Phone rings]

Phumie: Hello?

Dean: Nomphumelelo Booi?

Phumie: Yes, speaking?

Dean: This is Dean Ambrose, Dean of the School of Education. You have been unconditionally accepted to study at our facilities.

Phumie: I have been accepted?

Dean: Unconditionally so…

[phone hangs up]

[deep sigh]

Phumie: I have been accepted

[soft guitar strumming]

[recording stops]

[click cck ckli clkic]

[recording plays]

Female Narrator: And for the very first time in her life, Phumie genuinely felt accepted because of who she truly was instead of what people saw. Only five years later post-high school could she get her degree, and that is the reality of many a black personality because nobody is born free in a world governed by slave mentality.

[recording stops]

[click cck ckli clkic]

[recording plays]

[gavel hammering]

[shuffling paper]

Warren:   Philips v Minister of rural development and land reform could be a good start."

Victor:    Yes! Finally we are thinking like lawyers. We should be hitting them with hard core facts and cases.

[Door opens]

Warren:   We should be exploring the appealability of the order".

[Door closes]

Guy:       that's pretty self-explanatory".

[characters Guy, Victor and Warren exchange brief salutations]

[shuffling paper]

Victor:    Warren, you're right. back to the basics. i need this to be airtight. you got me?

[Warren and Guy simutaneously]

Yes.

[door opens]

[tense music]

Guy:       I have been working at this for years, i fully intend on getting this promotion.

Warren:   i'm not interfering. You brought me in on this.

Guy:   And i shall take you out.

[door closes]

[a typewriter clicking]

[papers shuffling]

[traffic noise]

[pub sounds]

MCee: Introducing, for the first time here at Wander Lounge, the dazzling Karen.

[awkward cheering]

[microphone pops]

[Guitar strumming #SometimesIWonder (original by Beaulette Blom)]

Karen: Sometimes i wonder...

about the life the live...

sometimes i wonder

(if it's)

all a dream.

The life we live,

its filled with joy...

With joy and with pain...

with joy...

with pain...

The life...

we live...

it breeds, it feeds...

the life we live,

it kills insanity!

[applause]

[chatter]

Karen: I'll have a pina colada?

Barman:   Coming up

[clinking glasses]

Warren:   That was beautiful.

Karen: Thanks.

Warren:   That was a powerful song.

Karen: Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Stay, I have three more.

[background noise]

Guy:   I knew I'd find you drinking, boet.

Warren:   I'm just here for a quick drink, then I'm going to head off.

Guy:   Stay. I'll buy you a drink.

Warren:   I shouldn't.

Guy:   Is that really how you want to play it?

Warren:   I'm not playing at anything, though.

Guy:   Fine. See you tomorrow.

[glass breaks]

[shocked gasps]

[door slams shut]

[Guitar strumming #SometimesIWonder]

[microphone pops]

MCee: Okay, everybody. It’s that time of the night where we spend a couple of minutes being woken. Give it up for Blessing!

[Accapella]

Blessing: Blessing to the sleeping Be woke

In an educated society,

people wouldn't look

at me and see

someone who 'obviously'

takes drugs.

My people

would become

so wise that

they would compile

Pages

of clearly thought out

analyses,

Conduct interviews,

Learn the way

Of I.

Alas,

learning such

basic lifeology

is still

far too costly.

In an educated world,

I'd be another human

being, living on

shared terra.

Till they

‪free EDUCATION

and create

a smart generation

from the echoes

of ancient tides,

I

remains

‪‎one

who is

‪”obviously taking something.”

‪emancipate yourself

‪FEESMUSTFALL

[wild applause]

[glasses clinking]

Barman:   That coversation with your buddy who just left was intense. Want to talk about it?

Warren:   That guy doesn't believe in himself. We work together. He introduced me to my boss, our boss, and now he's threatened because I know my law better than what he does.Do I even want this title? Is it worth losing a friend? What am I to do? If I choose this course where will my fate end up?  I chose to follow the law because I was locked up wrongfully. and so I vowed to clear the blackened names of all the innocent.

Barman:   That is intence. What are you going to do?

Warren:   Our boss, Victor, he's remarkable. Rumor has it he's on the out at the company, and we're both interns in line for promotion. Guy feels threatened by me. i vowed to clear the blackened names of all the innocent. i should continue to seek and bring about justice. They dont know it but i do. my luck is based on the goodwill of men and women. The scales shall once again be balanced."

[boombox beat]

Blessing: Another Blessing to the Woke…

How is this for a great Joke?

You can go to jail for having a toke

Of weed, Because greed.

But am I not a human being?

Another bloomed seed.

Let me rap you another cool story.

FEESMUSTFALL

So much love in this world

that shows in faith

that there is faith

and that it's all God.

Most High is greater than Isis.

The beauty in the narrative

is its great quality.

The Revolution escalated

when it was remembered

that nothing happens in isolation now.

Each is a soldier

in a cold war

where there is unlimited access to information.

And the ones with armed power are monitoring.

The anger felt:

because I'm queer,

because I'm black,

because I'm poor,

because it doesn't matter

and I know that!

I see the world through

Most High lenses

and there are far too many struggles

and loves,

and you want to try and impose

your will on me

when you see me here

Shining crystal clear!

see?

See?

See me? Here? Hear Me, dear!

Be You

And I will be me.

My very existence is based on my being free.

Syria has been happening,

it Has ESCALATED.

Pray for Fees Must Fall.

It's related.

Pay attention to how far gone

the pursuit for a free life can go.

One being's extreme

is another's sane perspective.

Regardless there is poverty

In poetry

In narrating a very true story.

Don’t call me crazy! You don’t know me!

Respect the Normatively Irregular perspective.

Irrespective of foreign or native!

So, who are ALSO the terrorists?

Follow the motif.

[microphone drops]

[siren sounds]

[loud voice booms over megaphone]

VOICE: WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST TO TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER PLANET, WHERE, FREE OF CHARGE, TOURISTS ARE BLESSED WITH CREATIVE WONDER!

[End of Extract]