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The Sins of The Village
An interactive novella (or something like that)
Presents a collection of twelve composition produced by the collective mind(s) of Humberto Ortega (a.k.a. The Master of Tumbao) and Matilde Andera ‘La Nena’ Bassler), edited and compiled by Clodovaldo the Second (a.k.a. The Real Clodovaldo). These lyrics were (allegedly) intended to become a piece of musical theatre, about the modern history of the city of Villalibre (commonly known as The Village) and the shameful secret of the One-eyed Lord, La Nena’s own father Leopoldo Bassler: who used to be (almost) universally cherished as the Mayor Progress.
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The Sins of The Village
Edited and compiled by Clodovaldo the Second
(a.k.a. The Real Clodovaldo).
Excerpt:
The Libreño reader with the memory and will to remember and rewind two decades into the timeline of the city of Villaibre (commonly known as the Village) are likely puzzled by the name who signs as the editor of this compendium: Clodovaldo the Second (a.k.a. the Real Clodovaldo). Here’s an answer to the rumour that Rotundo Gómez Fuenzalida: the so-called Sub-tropical Capote [a nickname he received because of Truman and not his (now outdated) love of bullfighting (as he was always quick to clarify)] had stolen the pseudonym from an otherwise forgotten author: during that memorable carnival when he revealed the shameful secret of the Mayor Progress: our once ubiquitous and magnanimous, germanicus One-eyed Lord.
(...)
The verses in the first act deal with historical chapters that (mostly) precede the country’s independence. Some of them, nonetheless, span through multiple centuries and periods: as it’s the case of the first of the Chants of the Village, which starts with the Spanish conquest and finishes by the mid twentieth century, with the (somehow) clandestine arrival of northern European migrants.
Olden years of discontent / linger on inside the Village;
The village between two rivers / in the Valley of the Death.
The men from beyond the sea / carrying their voracious whips,
Would punish the black and enslaved / whose arrival under chains,
left a trail of endless pain / on the waters filled with sorrow,
of the River of Calmed Flow.
For they also host the souls / of the Indians who once jumped,
down their heads and from the edge /naming the Cliff of the Tears:
preferring to face the fear / that’s provoked by the unknown.
But before they met their fate / they managed to change the score,
with courage and not remorse / they left their avenging curse.
For the village and its lords / who resemble the old whip,
no matter how ill equipped / in their unquenchable thirst:
The struggle to be the first / who takes his piece of the gold;
(and to proclaim to belong / to the races of the north).
periodic
Periodic Publication
(Divided in 07 episodes).
E. 1 of 7
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