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LIGHT
They cannot enter here; they would know the future and would not obey....
TYLTYL
And the Dog?...
LIGHT
It is not well, either, that he should know what awaits him in the course
of the ages....I have locked them all up in the vaults of the church....
TYLTYL
Where are we?...
LIGHT
We are in the Kingdom of the Future, in the midst of the children who are
not yet born. As the diamond allows us to see clearly in this region which
is hidden from men, we shall very probably find the Blue Bird here....
TYLTYL
Certainly the bird will be blue, since everything here is
blue....(_Looking all around him_.) Heaven, how beautiful it all
is!...
LIGHT
Look at the children running up....
TYLTYL
Are they angry?...
LIGHT
Not at all....You can see, they are smiling, but they are surprised....
THE BLUE CHILDREN (_running up in ever-increasing numbers_)
Live children!...Come and look at the little live children!...
TYLTYL
Why do they call us the little live children?
LIGHT
Because they themselves are not alive yet....
TYLTYL
What are they doing, then?...
LIGHT
They are awaiting the hour of their birth....
TYLTYL
The hour of their birth?.
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