Message from @Hortator

"No.7: Duet

PAMINA
A man who can feel love
must have a good heart.

PAPAGENO
To share the sweet emotion
is woman’s foremost duty.

BOTH
Gladly we rejoice in love
and live by love alone.

PAMINA
Love sweetens every trouble;
all creatures sacrifice to her.

PAPAGENO
She seasons our daily lives
and helps Nature’s wheels go round.

BOTH
Her higher purpose is our guide,
and nothing is nobler than Wife and Man.
Man and Wife, and Wife and Man,
attain divinity."

J_G_

2019-05-10 21:17:19 UTC

one more, this one is describing the misconception of the "Temple" by an angry beta who is talking to a dude with Logos:

J_G_

2019-05-10 21:17:21 UTC

"SPEAKER
Where would you enter, bold stranger?
What do you seek in this holy place? –

TAMINO
Whatever belongs to Love and Virtue.

SPEAKER
Your words are lofty –
but how do you expect to find these?
You are not guided by Love and Virtue

but goaded by Death and Vengeance.

TAMINO
Vengeance only against the villain.

SPEAKER
You will find no such person among us.

TAMINO
Does Sarastro rule here?

SPEAKER
Yes, indeed, Sarastro rules here.

TAMINO
But not in the Temple of Wisdom? –

SPEAKER
He rules in the Temple of Wisdom! –

TAMINO
Then all this is hypocrisy! –

SPEAKER
Do you wish to go on your way?

TAMINO
Yes, I shall go, happy and free –
never to see your temple! –

SPEAKER
Explain yourself further;
some deceit has misled you! –

TAMINO
Sarastro resides here,
that is quite enough for me! –

SPEAKER
If you value your life, say so and stay! –
Do you hate Sarastro?

TAMINO
I shall hate him forever! –

SPEAKER
Give me your reasons then! –

TAMINO
He is inhuman, a tyrant! –

SPEAKER
Has what you say been proved?

TAMINO
By an unhappy woman,
oppressed by sorrow and pain!

SPEAKER
Has a woman so deceived you? –
A woman does little, gossips much;
you, youth, believe in wagging tongues? –
If only Sarastro could reveal to you
the purpose of his stratagem. –

TAMINO
His purpose is all too clear!
Did not the robber snatch Pamina
pitilessly from her mother’s arms? –

SPEAKER
Yes, young man, what you say is true! –

TAMINO
Where is she whom he stole from us?
Perhaps she has been already sacrificed? –

SPEAKER
To tell you this, dear son,
is not for me to say at present. –

TAMINO
Explain your riddle, don’t deceive me!

SPEAKER
Oath and duty bind my tongue!

TAMINO
When will this darkness be cast aside? –

SPEAKER
As soon as friendship’s hand has led you
into the shrine for everlasting union.
(He leaves.)"