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| "The Good Captain" is a production of the Loose-Fish Project. Written by Jay Bushman. Adapted from Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" |
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| He finally followed his leader. |
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| And where, three months after making his deposition, Dmitri Mikhail Dziga gave up his struggle and was quietly laid to rest. |
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| The Guild House’s Mausoleum was where the remains of Shareholder Kaminov were finally interred. |
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| The Arbiters Court faced the main thoroughfare of Mendeleev City, across from the Spacer’s Guild House. |
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| The crystals of his eyes were mounted at the front of the Arbiters Court, as a message and warning of the growing dangers of artificials. |
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| Some weeks after the investigation ended, the artificial bab0 was marched to an incinerator and melted down into slag. |
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| During the trial, Dziga refused to even look at the artificial. When pressed by the Arbiter to do so, he collapsed. |
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| On the voyage home, he was kept captive and was the brunt of the humans' revenge. Despite many invitations, Dziga did not once take part. |
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| His attitude seemed that if he could not do anything, he would not say anything. Even under duress, he remained silent. |
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| As for the scheming artificial who led the revolt, once he was caught, he surrendered peaceably, but never spoke another word again. |
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| When this happened, his coughing and his evasions made it seem as if we had never left the Volga. |
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