FALLOUT24

Quelques jours après cet épisode, nous assistâmes à une scène qui finit de nous plonger dans le désarroi le plus total. Je la restitue de mémoire. Des villageois apportaient en hurlant au chef de tribu une pauvre femme visiblement mal en point. « A ghoul! A ghoul! A ghoul! A ghoul! We've found a ghoul! A ghoul
-We have found a ghoul. May we burn her?
Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!
-How do you know she is a ghoul?
-She looks like one.
Right! Yeah! Yeah!
-Bring her forward.
-I'm not a ghoul. I'm not a ghoul.
-Uh, but you are dressed as one.
-They dressed me up like this.
Augh, we didn't! We didn't...
-And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.
-Well?
-Well, we did do the nose.
-The nose?
-And the hat, but she is a ghoul!
Yeah! We burn her! Right! Yeaaah! Yeaah!
Did you dress her up like this?
No!
No. No.
No.
…
Yes.
…
Yes.
Yes. Yeah, a bit.
A bit.
-She has got a wart !
[cough]
-What makes you think she is a ghoul?
-Well, she turned me into a newt.
-A newt?
-I got better.
-Burn her anyway!
-Burn!
Burn her! Burn! Burn her!...
-Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a ghoul.
-Are there?
-What are they?
Tell us! Tell us!...
-Tell me. What do you do with ghouls?
-Burn!
-BURN!
Burn! Burn them up! Burn!...
-And what do you burn apart from ghouls?
-More ghouls!
Shh!
…
-Wood!
-So, why do ghouls burn?
… … …
-B--... 'cause they're made of... wood?
-Good! Heh heh.
Oh, yeah. Oh.
-So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
-Build a bridge out of her.
-Ah, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
-Oh, yeah.
-Does wood sink in water?
-No. No.
-No, it floats! It floats!
-Throw her into the pond!
The pond! Throw her into the pond!
-What also floats in water?
-Bread!
-Apples!
-Uh, very small rocks!
-Cider!
-Uh, gra-- gravy!
-Cherries!
-Mud!
-Uh, churches! Churches!
-Lead! Lead!
-A duck!
Oooh.
-Exactly. So, logically...
-If... she... weighs... the same as a duck,... she's made of wood.
-And therefore?
-A ghoul!
-A ghoul!
A ghoul! A ghoul!...
-Here is a duck. Use this duck.
-Very good. We shall use my largest scales.
Ohh! Ohh! Burn the ghoul! Burn the ghoul! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Ahh! Ahh...
-Right. Remove the supports!

A ghoul! A ghoul! A ghoul!
-It's a fair cop.
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