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Homework- use a colour as the basis for a monologue or a dialogue
File Reference: D Verde: Open Book / Scriptwriting / 19-11-2-12-2025-7534 Pink passion prows.rtf
Pink passion prows
To the tune of the Blue Danube, or something like it, apart from the Chorus led by Johnny Rotten, of Anarchy in the UK.
Scene 1: Some time around 1790
Narrator:
Pink passion prows
And rows!
There´s a fight
alright
To decide
who can continue
To wear pink
Just think!
Westminster School headmaster:
We go way back
To 606
When Eton was just
a bust
of river reeds
out in the sticks.
So, we were already
Sound
And steady
On the ground
For over half a millenium
before the Compendium
of Eton was around.
You´re at least 500 years
in arrears
In wearing pink
Just think!
Eton College Headmaster:
The truth
Is that you had
Dear lad
To be shown some ruth
By the crown
On you they did frown
Hence the date
Mate
You were refounded
In 1560.So time to be
You see
Regrounded.
Secretary of Schools´Rowing Association:
You can´t both wear pink
Therefore just think:
You´re going to have to race for it
And we´re chomping at the bit
So, Westminster School
As the oldest in the pool
You´ll wear pink
In the race to end this stink
And, Eton you´ll wear yellow
To keep things mellow
Scene 2: The race
Narrator commentating:
They´re off
Who´ll last the pace
In the race
To decide top toff?
Will Eton
Be Beaten
That´s quite a shunt
Now Westminster are in front
It´s only a short race
And Westminster are wielding
and shielding
the mace
The trap is sprung
Eton are undone
Justice has prevailed
More than a millenium of history
Is not to be derailed!
Scene 3: Modern day
Johnny Rotten:
They said we can´t wear pink
And threatened us with the shrink
We said: Look here
You might think it queer
But, old man
Yes we can!
That´s why I wore pink bin bags
Even though sometimes one sags
That´s why poor scholars
Got into their hollers
And fought
Not for nought
But for the right to wear
and not share
the colour pink
And not to care
If someone might stare
Or what they might think
Chorus, led by Johnny Rotten, perhaps to the Pistols version of Anarchy in the UK, with a little bit of their version of I did it my way. Repeat if you feel like it, retaining punk spontaneity:
They said we couldn´t
Really really shouldn´t
Wear pink
And they´d send us to a shrink!
We don´t care
If you stare
We don´t give a damn
You can go back to your pram
You might think it´s gay
We´re happy in that sense
To chip in our tuppence
in support
we retort
of the original way that word
Was understood and heard
to say
We´re going to wear
Pink today!
Background
The boys schools battle for the right to wear pink! Once upon a time both Eton College (founded in 1440 by King Henry VI). Education at Westminster, continuously linked to Westminster Abbey, goes back to Westminster Abbey´s foundation by St. Dunstan, Bishop of London in 960AD. There are records of Westminster School itself going back to the 1340s. It was “re-founded” in 1560 under Elizabeth I. Both were founded to educate poor scholars and still have schemes to ensure that they do continue to educate some people. However Westminster Abbey itself replaced the earlier monastery and cathedral complex on the site, St. Peter´s, on the site which may have been started by King Saeberht of Essex, its first Christian King who reigned from 604 to 616 AD. Some sort of school invariably accompanied monasteries. So, hence the claim of continuity. In fact, as the Greek Synaxarion proclaims, Peter and Paul were recalled to Rome whilst they were preaching the gospel in Cornhill, Londinium. This makes London, and what became Westminster Abbey and its environs including the attached school, a Petrine see. Peter being the chief of the apostles.
Lucius,a 2nd century AD British King who converted to Christianity, is known to have asked for and received missionaries sent from Rome. He is said to have established churches and monasteries including in the Greater London area, such as on Thorney Island which became Westminster. Thorney Island was protected by two tributaries of the Thames, which surrounded it. He could have done so in the peaceful times between intermittent persecutions. Generally there was no sharp break between Romano-British times and culture and the initial conversions of some of the Saxon settlements.
It should be noted that the first Christian Emperor, Philip I, the Arabian, allowed at least one prominent Roman Senator to follow Christ´s example (as a baby on his flight to Egypt the pagan statuary and temples in his path all spontaneously shattered (which can be achieved by reaching the resonating frequency at which the stone will shatter). See the entry below for August 5th from the Prologue from Ohrid by Oxford University Professor of Philosophy and Chaplain to the Serbs of the British Isles during the First World War, St. Nikolai Velomirovich of (+1956), later Bishop of Ohrid Bishop of Ohrid and Žiča from 1920 to 1956. The Prologue from Ohrid was published in Serbian in 1926 and later translated into English and Chinese.
It is available online in Serbian, Chinese and English and available both in hard copy and to download for free in many different formats.
AUGUST - 5 -
2. THE PRIESTLY-MARTYR FABIAN, POPE OF ROME
Fabian was a Roman by birth. At first, he was a village priest and, after that, during the election of a pope, when a white dove descended upon him, he was chosen pope. Fabian was meek and kind. With great diligence, he gathered the bodies of the holy martyrs and buried them with honor and built churches over their graves. In the same manner, he built shrines and chapels in the caves where the martyrs hid during the time of bitter persecution. He baptized Emperor Philip and his son Philip, the heir to the throne and, with the help of the baptized senator Pontius, destroyed many idols and idolatrous temples. When the wicked Decius was crowned emperor, a terrible persecution of Christians began during which St. Fabian suffered and was beheaded in the year 250 A.D. This holy Fabian established the custom of consecrating Holy Myron [Chrism] on Holy and Great Thursday.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170502043118/http://westserbdio.org/en/prologue/592-august
Philip the Arab was Martyred, murdered by Decius in his successful rebellion during or soon after a battle near Verona (later the city of Romeo and Juliet) in September 249 before September 11. His son, Philip II, was martyred shortly afterwards. Murdered by the Praetorian Guard.
In the 1790s these schools started to row each other competitively, along with other schools. However, there was a problem, both Eton College and Westminster School had the same shade of bright pink for their school colours. So, they ended up racing to see who would retain the right to wear those colours. Westminster won
Johnny Rotten liked to assert the right to wear pink. Including going around in trousers carved out of pink garbage bags during a garbage strike in the 1970s.
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