awakening of spring bot !

out of the nature of this play i will just be putting trigger warnings here for some of the things that might be tweeted with the bot :) sexual dialogue/talk - suicide - rape - abortion - physical and sexual abuse -

(The Bergmanns’ garden in morning sunshine.)

Me too. --------

I, Melchior, have never in my life been beaten -- not one single time. I can hardly imagine how it feels to be beaten. I’ve tried beating myself to see what it does to you. -- It must be a dreadful feeling.

With your eyes open?!

If they aren’t expecting you yet, let’s rest here a little longer. Under the oak tree there is my favorite spot. If you lean your head back against the trunk and stare at the sky through the branches, you get hypnotized.

And yet for this you’re supposed to go to Heaven! -- Which means this thing that’s been keeping me awake every night for a month now is true! -- Can a miser help it if visiting sick, dirty children doesn’t make him happy?

(Ilse, in worn-out clothes, a colorful scarf around her head, grabs him by the shoulder from behind) Lose something?

And you’re almost a full year younger than me, too!

Have you already been feeling them?

Every day he took pictures of me in a different attitude -- one time on the back of the sofa as Ariadne, one time as Leda, one time as Ganymede, one time on all fours as a female Nibber-Canneezer.

This dress is not too long, Wendla. What do you want me to do? Can I help it if my baby is two inches taller every spring? Now that you're a grown-up girl, you can't expect to go out in a pinafore.

This is Langanscheidt’s three-hour course in agglutinative Volapük!

It feels like there’s going to be a council meeting under the chestnut tree. -- Maybe we should go down there, Melchior?

Completely, though?

It's your fourteenth birthday!

You have no way of knowing, Mama. I’m fully aware that I’m not in a position to appreciate the work in all its sublimity…

(The two of them settle down under the oak tree.)

If th-th-th-the current atmosphere is officially viewed as leaving little or nothing to be desired, then I should like to make a motion that during summer vacation the other window be br-br-br-br-br-br-bricked up as well!

Why not?

Hurry up and get dressed! -- You have to run over to Ina’s right away, you have to take this basket to her!