Canterury Tales (9)
(Mario. Isn’t he like an unleashed dog that marks his territory in the park, so that other dogs would know who was there at a certain point before them? But of course, there were dozens of other dogs whose trails had crossed. This tale belong to many. If Mario marked it for me, Boal had done it for him, as had numerous others for Boal.)
Xua-Xua lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, when pre-women and pre-men wandered from mountain to valley, from land to sea, killing other animals to feed themselves, eating leaves and fruits from trees, drinking water from rivers, protecting themselves inside caverns among the rocks. These times were long before Homo sapiens and Homo habilis, who were already almost human in their physical appearance, in the weight of their brains, and in their cruelty.
These pre-human beings lived in hordes to defend themselves. Xua-Xua – who of course had no such name, nor any other, as no verbal language had yet been invented, Xua-Xua was the most beautiful female in her horde, and Li-Peng was the strongest of the males. Naturally they were attracted to one another; they liked swimming together, climbing trees and mountains together, they liked to smell and lick one another, to touch, to embrace, to have sex together. It was good to be with one another. Together.
They were happy, as happy as two pre-human people could be.
One day, Xua-Xua felt her body becoming different. Her belly was growing, and growing. And, as her belly grew, she became shy and started to avoid Li-Peng who couldn’t understand what was happening; his Xua-Xua was no longer the same Xua-Xua, neither physically nor in her moods. They kept their distance from one another. Xua-Xua liked to stay alone, watching her belly; Li-Peng went off in pursuit of other females, but could find no one like his original female.
Xua-Xua felt her belly moving; when she was on the point of falling asleep, her belly would shift from right to left, from left to right. As time went by, her belly grew bigger and bigger, and moved more and more. Like a well-behaved member of the audience, Li-Peng simply looked on from afar, very sad and very afraid. He just watched without acting, spectator to her incomprehensible actions.
(Shall we continue?)
Sorry for such a delay, but of course we shall :). So what happened next to the both of them?
Thank you. In fact, there were three of them now. Wait and you shall see.