A Tale for Tomorrow

Commentary

Several days went by, how many or which ones they could not have said; they had no watch, no radio, no telephone and no one had any recollection of the situation in which they had been put to sleep. They had leisurely explored the whole house and its grounds and environs; everything appeared to them as having been long unused and yet not quite neglected, but what to think? They had not attempted to see what lay on the other side of the stone wall that encircled the entire property and had not even neared it. In quiet conversations, they had been able to mutually ascertain and confirm a few things: while they all remembered their past life, they felt no regret or nostalgia; moreover none of them could reminisce either why or how this disappearance had taken place. They all felt an inexplicable need to respect the experience they were living through and to guard its integrity, each one with their own ways and forms of thought and feeling; not one of them had any credible suggestion as to what could be expected of them, to what cause or to whom their abduction could be of any use, nor to the possible or likely location of their current residence; they might as well have been on another planet, although all they had observed, touched, breathed, smelled, heard, felt or divined, whether in the numerous rooms with their mismatched furniture or in the park and the remnants of an

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