Fraternity-Testvériség, 1956 (34. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1956-10-01 / 10. szám

FRATERNITY

7

Kovats:

Attila:

Kovats:

Attila:

Kovats:

Arpad:

Kovats:

Arpad:

Kovats:

Zrínyi:

Kovats:

Hunyadi:

Kovats:

(Enter Kovats. Like a day-dreamer, slowly looking around, but with a joyful expression on his face, he suddenly changes his attitude from delight to surprise.)

I see, I was mistaken. I thought it would be dark here . . . quite the contrary ... (a brilliant illumination occurs at this moment) . . . Lo! and behold! . . . my distinguished ancestors, I perceive!

(Lined up next to each other, standing in solemn attitude: ATTILA, ARPAD, HUNYADI, MATHIAS, ZRÍNYI, ILONA ZRÍNYI and many women of EGER.)

Of course, it is dark for those who are not one of us. But you, Michael Kovats de Fabricy, are here amongst us now and you see us. Behold!

(Pointing toward ATTILA) ATTILA, you, the legendary King of the Huns, who conquered the world ... I recognize you . . .

You guessed it well. The past here is no more, the future no man has ever yet seen. We are forever immortal now . . . Look around!! . . .

Here is Arpad, conqueror of Hungary, and whom today they call the Father of the Magyars.

The best lessens are learned from mistakes. But are you sure I am whom you think you see? . . . Did you travel long to arrive at your destination? . . .

Indeed, it took a long time, because that little lead bullet lodged in my heart, released not my spirit and I lay wounded at Charleston. My journey to the Milky Way only began when my heart no longer interfered with the struggle which held my spirit captive.

It is better to die fighting for a cause than to surrender. A bad wound may sometimes be healed, but not an ill repute. Now yonder is Nicholas Zrinyi, the hero of Szigetvar. It took hundreds of years of terrible fighting and suffering for the Magyars to acclaim him Hero in their name.

It takes many years to grow an oak: but for a squash six months is sufficient.

And we all believed in reincarnation . . . The knowledge of reincarnation is the greatest inspiring power.

Your heroics at Szigetvar inspired the later generation who learned from your courageous deeds, that in war bravery is the First — second — and last thought.

Men with ideals and the perseverance to execute these ideas with brave determination have only changed the course of world events.

Character is what Nature imprinted in us. Can we efface it then? True courage is like a kite; it’s the head-wind that raises it. It is not the wind but the resistance to the wind that makes the kite fly.