Neanderthal Messiah — 200
The Cast
[Vu Nahng:] ‘De-extinction is reincarnation!’
[Iesu:] ‘They’ll have to halve children.’
[Divine Agent Enoch/Tathagata, clenched-fist Neanderthal:] ‘I could return.’
[LAO-DZUH, counsel to Iesu:] ‘Patience, beyond death.’
[Professor James:] ‘Milton’s On Shakespeare states kings wish to die…’
[Professor Werner to Viet Mother:] ‘Double agents?… Why involve a child?’
[Mother:] ‘For cover.’
[Critias at sunset:] ‘Hold!’
[Sokrates:] [Drinks the hemlock.]
[4 year old Aristotle:] ‘Hold?’
[Hippocrates:] ‘We could intubate.’
[Wailing Student Protest Chorus:] ‘Who!’
[Child of 21:] ‘In vitro.’
[Lotus 1–2–3 Brother casts his vote:] ‘Science’
[Sybl collapses:] ‘Father, Dionysus, right this!’ [The Graces weep.]
[James, beloved brother & leader of the Q’Umran Essenes:] ‘Alive.’
[Lieserl bulging:] ‘For the Fatherland.’ [Regiment clicks heals, salutes.]
[Elektro:] ‘I’ve placed them all in Gilgul sim. Only the Neanderthal...’
[Tathagata opens his palm & places it on the shoulder of If:]
‘Pyramid.’
…
[Yahweh:] ‘I never expected you to hesitate to my proposal.’
[Maryam:] ‘What proposal?’
[They discuss.]
…
[Yahweh:] ‘I do.’