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Last Days: Letter to the Future

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Last Days: Letter to the Future

by Jeffrey Gold

Dramatica Press

New York • Los Angeles

2010

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Last Days: Letter to the Future © 1997 Jeffrey Gold

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Library of Congress CataLoging-in-PubLiCation Data

Gold, Jeffrey.Last days: letter to the future / Jeffrey Gold.—1st ed.

p.cm.ISBN: 145156063X

EAN-13: 9781451560633

Cover photographs: “Some Radar and Radio Antennas Near Turin” by Rodolfo Belloli (2007)“Shipwreck at Sunset, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia” by Allison Cotterell (2008)

“City Lights 1, Golden Star, Balneario Camboriu, SC, Brazil” by Diogo Ferrari (2009)Author photograph (Interior): Benjamine Justine Hubert

Cover design: Corpus PolymediaText Design: Dramatic Press/Corpus Polymedia

Text Font: Bembo

First Edition, March 2010

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For all who want to live free

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Introduction

Last Days: Letter to the Future was written in 1997 while I was at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, England.

Jeffrey Gold

SugarhouseMarch 19, 2010

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Last Days: Letter to the Future

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Burn out all the sunsAnd shut the whole thing down—

We are forgotten by monkeys.

Eli Khamarov

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Last Days: Letter to the Future Jeffrey Gold

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These were the days of transition, where the people held onto the days and beliefs of the past, although they never lived either of them,

to carry them to an uncertain future, knowledgeable in the past that the rules of old had long lived beyond their simple effectiveness or humanity. The rules of old were the rules of convenience, no doubt left mired in their tracks by those who were so well served by them, had profited by them. Only a revolution could topple them now, but then, I always hated revolutions because they are an extreme: a reaction to the preceding malice; not an action in its own right. Perhaps it’s circular—the definition: the essence of revolution—the turning, the mass graves, the fallen infrastructure, the long queues of sustenance, and the seas of frightened eyes of the onlookers, the silent cars, the dead streets whose silence is broken by the voices of children echoing through the canyons of glass, steel, and concrete—a call from our primordial selves, a return to the innocence that only inhabits the world of the naive, the refuge from pragmatic pragmatism. Ambition was such a dirty word now, because the ambitious had filtered their easy way to the trough and stood there doling out our meager shares, if any had been left after the great feast. But the feast was over. Tonight was the twilight. It wasn’t a celebration because nothing was worth celebrating—

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JEFFREY GOLD

Educated at Cambridge University, Westminster College, and the University of Utah, Jeffrey Gold is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, composer, and film producer. He currently resides in Sugarhouse, Utah.

Author Jeffrey Gold at Cambridge University/Benjamine Justine Hubert

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