There are two ways of doing things, either add or take away. You could talk for hours about this or you could be silent. Which do you choose? I knew it, you prefer silence. I confess that in the midst of all this hubbub I too prefer to be silent. Which then to be silent is not really to be silent, you take away the words to get to the core. That's why I like to carve stone: you take away you take away to get to the nub, and the ting ting of the mallet beating on the chisel takes the place of the thoughts that fall out one by one, and so you become lighter. But the other day I removed I removed and found no kernel, and by dint of removing I finished the stone. Which then it didn't finish it became something else, pebbles and dust. But here I am talking, and I said I'd be quiet. Let's say I disappear and become invisible. No, if I become invisible I do my job which is puppeteer and today I don't want to work because I want to go on strike. I don't want to pretend that everything is fine because everything is not fine. I want to protest, I want to protest against the war. And you want to protest? But since we're all here together, though, it's a shame to protest in silence without doing anything. We could protest by doing a puppet theater show, which is easier than theater, even children know how to do it, although as they grow up they forget they know how to do it. Let's do a puppet show with no puppeteer, no characters, let's take ourselves off the stage. We will rely solely on fate, on destiny, on fate. Which are then three very different things. Let us choose one of them, fate. I am here waiting for you together with my assistant. Puppeteers, like magicians, always have an assistant. Mine however is not here at the moment, I think she is on strike. Or maybe she went out for pizza.