Interlocutors
The interlocutors did not pay any attention to the people around. Wrapped up in their own talk, they failed to even notice that the world was changing. They kept talking for years about mutating things whereas their language remained the same. Hence, the word “love” that carried a positive meaning, with the years passing by and the concepts shifting on, ended up acquiring a negative connotation. Now, “love” meant “act of God” and on hearing that word people ran to hide. So, as the interlocutors pronounced this word aloud – just like other similar ones – chaos fell upon the city.
The interlocutors turned around and realised that, while the world had changed, their language had remained the same. With a keen sense of responsibility and in a state of deep concentration, they stopped their purposeless conversation and started shouting incomprehensible words in an effort to reestablish order. Now, words like “horror”, “help”, and “despair” were able to pacify the crowd…