samples_7_apeiron

Apeiron 3

Schöpfer

This room belongs to all:
    It has no borders,
    No mountain, no ocean,
    Not even the laws of nature
    Can stop its colonisation.
    I call it the Pearly Gate.

Chorus

The Pearly Gate!
The12 pearly gates of the new Jerusalem.

Schöpfer

Make it colourful.
    Make it beautiful.
    Make it big.
    Make it wide.

Programmers

We'll make it sexy – and holy – and moly
We'll make it biz – and oky – and doky
We'll make it cool – and crazy – and hazy.

Chorus

Now you can watch a sorry game
    When everyone just stakes their claim
    And does not listen to the rest,
    just pushing their own interest.
    A sorry game, a sorry end
    When all you do is to pretend
    You finally will flee this strife
    within the short span of your life.

Schöpfer

Make it captivating
    Make it glitter
    Make it enticing
    Make it grand

Robert

Hi Kaysa,
Please cancel the investors' meeting in London. Not every ladder leads to heaven, says our Don, and he's right about that. He doesn't need cautious partners. He needs partners that want to make money.
Christine, I'll be late - I can't find – oh, yes wonderful. Always nice to hear your voice. I'll be late. I can't find a parking place here.

Chorus

How fickle fortune seems today,
    It does not always come your way.
    Shareholders do not care at all
    To see the writing on the wall.
    A fortune gained, a fortune lost,
    The risk is great and high the cost.

Kaysa

Christine, where are you? Not getting any replies from you for the past thirty minutes. Hell's broken loose at the airport. The stock markets are dropping rapidly and people are losing it. They're staring at the rates on the display tickers the way they'd normally watch giant projections of football matches. Don't know my way around Zurich. Please find me a suitable hotel. It's urgent, I must know my position and how to go on. Kaysa.

Chorus

Those were his feelings then, but hey!
    His shares are up again today.
    And once again he starts to pant
    And starts to sing the same old chant
    About great treasures and true bliss
    That he is certain will be his.

Christine

Hi Kaysa, so sorry. Was away just for a little while. Once again Bob had difficulties finding a parking place again. That's why I rushed down with fresh coffee and waited for his Porsche to roll by. He was pleased and we talked for a few minutes. Just a little chat. Then came the news that the rates were falling. He started to phone frantically and raced off with the coffee. I thought I should show him some concern. I'll take care of Zurich, I'll call back as soon as possible and am hoping you're okay despite all this stress.

Schöpfer

Kaysa, tell our Don Rome wasn't built in a day. We need a few capable freelancers to go into detail. The programmers are a right pain.

Christine

Kaysa, the programmers spent 100,000 dollars on computer games this week.
Grünwald submitted restaurant bills for over 5,000 this month. The artworkers bought music CDs for 10,000, books for 2,000 and magazine subscriptions for 2,000 a month.
The 18 new company cars were delivered with GPS and CD-changers. That represents a 20% increase in the leasing rate per vehicle. Can I let that pass? I asked Bob Robert and he looked at me and said our Don's comment would be: "Eating into the capital till nothing's left." Now I'm not at all sure what to do.

A short pause, then a thunderstorm of keyboard clattering in the background.

Robert	Kaysa, good morning. There are no car parks in this city. Not even a multi-storey one. Our Don has rejected a re-calculation. The time for the talk was unfavourable. The rates went down. That always puts him in a bad mood. I'll try to bring it up again when the markets go back up.
Chorus	We ask with some hesitation If the lean years of the past Were really the years of plenty?
Schöpfer	This room belongs to all It has no borders, No mountain, no ocean, Not even the laws of nature Can stop its colonisation. I shall call it Apeiron.
Chorus	To get a share you must be able To grab and tip the gaming table. Not many dare to start from here. The punishment is too severe. A swindler cannot not take a stand. He will be found out and be banned. From this disastrous danger zone Two roads would lead you to the throne. The artless and the artful came To beat the others at their game. Well now! Let's in amazement watch If this new player is top notch In playing unfair, if he copes And can fulfill his biggest hopes.
Kaysa	Schöpfer, Grünwald's sabotaging. He's dispatching dossiers to our Don. Schöpfer, just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Grünwald's writing our Don that your concepts are no good.
Schöpfer	Kaysa, fire him.
Bob	Kaysa, Bob speaking. No need to hurry. I see nothing but great times. Grünwald stays. We bought him and his firm at a high price.
Kaysa	Schöpfer, please don't keep changing the project name. It's called Gameland. "Apeiron" according to Bob, but our Don's never heard of it. Anyway, nobody here knows what that's supposed to mean. To all. The project is making enormous progress. Your input has added value to the concept.
Schöpfer	Kaysa, it seems our Don backs the wrong people, cares about the wrong things, has the wrong consultants.
Kaysa	He's an idiot.
Schöpfer	I don't think so. Just remember his where he is: Paris, Venice, Luxor. Venues of high culture.
Kaysa	Schöpfer, now listen to me. Paris, Venice and Luxor are hotels. Our Don, my dear, drives through Las Vegas in an army green Ferrari and resides in the luxury suites of the casinos.
Robert	Kaysa. Our Don's losing patience. He says: You can't have your cake and eat it too. That's a really serious sign. We must get much much faster, or else we're in for it. Kaysa, what makes our Don think we'll have something to show him within six weeks? We won't even manage to do that in six months' time. We've only just begun.
Kaysa	Schöpfer, think of alternatives. Within six weeks we have to have a thing going that'll convince our Don. Schöpfer, our Don wants the presentation of a first version in six weeks' time. Will we be able to deliver?
Schöpfer	No, Kaysa. No.
Kaysa	Think up small solutions. Listen to me. Take it seriously.

Last modified: 3 October 2009