The Beggar's Diary, 24.09.2007.- A wise man once said that when street cats feel their end is near, they leave their regular territory and lay down some place where they cannot be found. This is the third clue regarding his end. 1) Rijeka must come to him; 2) picture of Rijeka; and 3) death of a cat.
A letter arrived today, but was not delivered to his usual mailbox ... because IT HAS BEEN STOLEN! Filch is desperate. He does not know who did it, or why, and thinks about all possible suspects: an art collector, the garbage man, angry postman, a child, a music lover (it was a microphone box after all). He leaves a sign saying: "Post-box stolen; please deliver all mail to SP07 info point." Which is why a girl from the info point hands him the following letter:
Dear Mr Filch,
time is running fast.
What is going to happen to you? To you and Rijeka?
Do you need help or are things going their way?
Let me know.
An ally. And a bit of Rijeka ...
He finds out at the info point that a not very tall, curly haired girl had brought the letter. Filch recognizes the handwriting: the same as in those enigmatic signs …
http://beta.thebeggarsopera.org/node/126
"Well, I believe things will go their way, step by step ..."
He walks the streets and he sees a text written with chalk on the ground:
RESPECT
THE
GIRLS
Could these be the same girls who did the blue, Picasso-like drawing on the ground some time ago? http://beta.thebeggarsopera.org/node/138
WE WILL,
PROMISE
06
An old man uses his trolley to support himself as he walks from a wall to a bench at the Domplatz: "Oma, das ist doch den Bettler?" With one photograph a girl captures 3 sculptures (“Zone,” “Petting Zoo,” and “The Beggar's Opera”): "What does the artist wants to tell us? Do you want to entertain us?" She probably thinks of The Beggar as a medium … a whisperer of secret messages.
Everything is disintegrating. Entropy is everywhere to be seen during this last week of the SP07. Wallinger’s “Zone" is no longer complete; one of Pae White’s Bells at the botanical garden is broken; and Filch's knee really hurts. He walks slowly, and he sits down regularly as his left hip and knee feel overstrained. Two girls approach him:
"We want to take pictures of you. It’s our photography class assignment."
Their assignment is to take a picture of a sculpture and Photoshop it to achieve a "Verfremdungseffekt" (ah!). They plan to place the photo of him in a theatre set.
"Well, then I'll end up as an actor after all," he says. But the girls don't understand and he's too tired to explain.
An e-mail reaches him through Anna: far away, in the streets of Alicante, the lovely Sophie is still knitting his scarf for the winter, that scarf he once received and which symbolized the community of the SP07 audience (http://beta.thebeggarsopera.org/node/117). She keeps on knitting it, undisturbed by the fact that he will probably never wear it … a modern Penelope.
The time has come to say goodbye to the rest of the sculptures, starting with Mike Kelley's “Petting Zoo.” He walks up to the salt statue of Lot's wife and kisses her on the lips.
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