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Monday, 9 November 2009

Ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the bringing-down of the Berlin Wall

Dress code: 1980s hair, or, out of respect the for the death of the dreams of a million schoolboy Marxists, anoraks and duffel coats.

Archdruid:  Tonight we're gonna party...
All:            Like it's 1989.

Archdruid:   We remember the fall of the Wall - a symbol of oppression
All:           ... a symbol of failure

Archdruid:  A godless society...
All:           ...never delivered the goods

At this point, Gilbert the Secularist may interpose with the words "you're lumping us all together!  I'm one of the nice atheists - not like those communist ones!  My kind's never been tried so it's bound to work!"

Archdruid:  A failure of humanity
All:            A failure of the imagination.

Archdruid:  We dance with those who danced on the wall
All:             We weep with those who wept.

Archdruid:  And now we rejoice in our freedom - the freedom to imagine, to believe and to consume what we want.
All:            Bring on the wall!

A large wall with amusing holes cut into it moves across the Orchard.  Beaker People throw themselves through it or, if failing to move quickly enough, are knocked into a comedy swimming pool.

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