Date: 2008-11-23 12:44 pm (UTC)
LOL. I was 15 and I read a letter on "Achterwerk". Achterwerk is a open letter page on the TV guide we had a home (due to the idiosyncrasies of the Dutch broadcasting system the different TV guides available have very much their own character, we were members of the VPRO, an often explicit left leaning and critical broadcastingcooperation, they were the first who showed a nude (in a very sweet way, looking back at it). Anyway, Achterwerk is a open letter page were children can write about their concerns, there is no adult commenting, just kids writing to each other. This can rane from a 7 year old afraid of ghosts to someone whose parents are about to get divorced to a girl who doesn't feel anything during sex.
Anyway, I was 15 and someone wrote a letter telling about the summercamp. Inviting readers who wanted to go on vacation but didn't feel like going to Spain to get plastered and laid, if you care about politics and want to talk about it with other young people from all over Europe do join us in Belgium. So I did :-)
My father, who is more of a free market liberal wished me a good time and said "I believe you are way to smart to get indoctrinated". And so I didn't. Must say there were some folks who wanted to do some fun indoctrination games, like a bunch of escaped Stalinists. There was also an IRA man (I am for the Irish cause and I can't tell you my name). I didn't join either of them.
Apart from the politics (which was good) it was also good for me to hang out in a crowed were I felt I more or less fitted in, even though I was way the youngest. School and me never really worked out, people there had quite a limited idea how you ought to be. Here there was a wide variety of options, from the already mentioned Stalinists to anarchists and whatever goes in between. In some countries the different groups kept very apart, in the UK the Trotskyte movement had split up and branched into so many fractions and many of those were quite bitter. The Dutch movement has it's fractions, but is also more of an amalgam. (At least from my point of view, I walked on the edge of it.)
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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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