The Christian's War
SCENE ONE May 7, 1946 [Scene opens with two men and a young woman sitting in a London conference room. World War II is hardly a year in the past, and morality is still low in many places. London has not fully recovered from the damage it faced, and the world as a whole is still facing the pain that comes with the years after a war. A man with an American accent is speaking at the head of the table.] ELIOT: [Having read for several minutes already] Unreal City, / Under the brown fog of a winter dawn (7), / A crowd stands waiting at a great grey wall; / They cry out from both sides with an unheard call. / A wretched wall it is, that divides / A single city once united and grand, / Ruined now by one wretched Man. / Berlin, the Capital of Heartbreak. [He stops there, then closes the notebook carefully.] That’s everything so far. LEWIS: [Nods, leaning back in his chair.] I think it captures the situation well. It’s very much in the same vein as “The Waste Land,” I’d say, which is excel...