Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme
Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby for a long time, because of the
way he had been behaving. And now he'd gone too far, so we decided to hang him.
Colby argued that just because he had gone too far (he did not deny that he had
gone too far) did not mean that he should be subjected to hanging. Going too far, he
said, was something everybody did sometimes. We didn't pay much attention to this
argument. We asked him what sort of music he would like played at the hanging. He
said he'd think about it but it would take him a while to decide. I pointed out that we'd
have to know soon, because Howard, who is a conductor, would have to hire and
rehearse the musicians and he couldn't begin until he knew what the music was
going to be. Colby said he'd always been fond of Ives's Fourth Symphony. Howard
said that this was a "delaying tactic" and that everybody knew that the Ives was
almost impossible to perform and would involve weeks of rehearsal, and that the size
of the orchestra and chorus would put us way over the music budget. "Be
reasonable," he said to Colby. Colby said he'd try to think of something a little less
exacting. Na íntegra, aqui.
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