Fredy Perlman Archive


Illyria Street Commune
Chapter 12


Written: 1979-2011.
Source: Text from RevoltLib.com.
Transcription/Markup: Andy Carloff
Online Source: RevoltLib.com; 2021


TAPED NARRATOR: (Sound of rewinding tape. Then:) ...hostility still survived, it was only a diminishing residue. At last the isolated fragments were unified into a community, a (Stop)

(Phone rings. TONI enters from right)

TONI (on phone): Yes — Yes, I’m her sister — What hospital? —

Oh my god! — Wait while I get a pencil. Could you tell me the wing and room number again? I’ll be right there. (hangs up. Shouts to right) Olympia!

VOICE OF OLYMPIA: Telephone for me?

TONI: No, it’s Donna. She’s in the hospital. She was hit by a car.

VOICE OF OLYMPIA: Really?

TONI: She tried to commit suicide!

VOICE OF OLYMPIA: I’ll tell Philip. Maybe he’ll be interested.

(TONI throws pencil at picture window and exits right)