<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">A One-act Play</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Language lives as a spirit inside a people... all of whom are joined by a common understanding, a "group knowledge" if you will. One day, a herald comes with a trumpet and a parchment. He says that from that day forth, all the people may speak only from the left side of their brains... for it has been determined that this is the side closest to "god" and therefore the "best" . . .</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 48.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">And language can no longer move about, for it has lost its feet, and it can no longer feel, for it has lost its hands and its heart, language can no longer sound happy or sad, no longer offer solace for woe or companionship in joy and gladness, for it has lost its voice. Language can now only run in circles, for it has too much energy for its task, and it can only consider "disembodied" information, and has no way of validating it, for it has lost its "body of knowledge". And language becomes lonely and dispirited. It lives alone in the minds of those who are left, unable to reach its companions. And having lost its connection with others, it begins to lose its connection with itself, for it has lost its balance and its joy. ... And alone, it dies. (Kalish, 2002)</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>