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    The Telescope
    The Telescope
    The Telescope
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    The Telescope

    By B Duche

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    In the sky, above the clouds.
    A leather recliner armchair with all the options, and a revolving telescope on a tripod.
    Two angels stand on each side of the armchair: RAPHAËL, on the right and GABRIEL, on the left.
    Raphaël leans over the recliner and whispers: “Lord, would You like to see what your children are doing?”

    The world seen from the sky or another vision of God. A God who is not a 'Cecil B. DeMil miracle maker', who is not everywhere and in everything, who doesn’t decide everything that happens to the world and who didn’t create the earth or the stars.

    An invisible and incorporeal God who is stunned to see all the prophets who, like Abraham, is ready to sacrifice his son on Mount Moriah ; or Job, who loses everything, not to mention those who see God’s hand in the Ten Plagues of Egypt, in seeping statues, in people raising from the dead, in sinking ships in Bermuda, earth quakes and tsunamis!

    Well, the thing is: Raphaël is the one who’s handling His PR! He’s also he one who advises Him to go down to Earth in order to change His divine image, reminding Him that he can do all sorts of things at the spiritual level: He can help souls, sustain them, protect them, guide them, enlighten them, and who knows what else...

    He just has to pick one soul who is really degraded, like a grumpy moaner, unhappy with everything even though he has everything. Then to play the good ol’ Job trick on him, making sure that his life becomes miserable with a few subtle hints here and there, and then, to tactfully guide him towards a new way to look at things before putting him back into his property.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB Duche
    Release dateJun 14, 2013
    ISBN9791092804072
    The Telescope
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    B Duche

    Born and raised in France, Benoît Duché lived in New York for six years where he directed a famous French haute-couture house in North America. For the past eight years, he has been writing books as well as short and long feature scripts of human interest fictions set in mixed cultural/historical/social backgrounds. In June 2007, he exhibited some of his watercolours at the gallery Etienne de Causans, rue de Seine in Paris and granted the profits to the VBMC in Congo.

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      Book preview

      The Telescope - B Duche

      1- OUT / DAY - IN SPACE

      In the sky, above the clouds.

      A leather recliner armchair with all the options, including reclining leg-rest.

      A revolving telescope on a tripod.

      Two angels standing on each side of the armchair:

      RAPHAËL, on the right and GABRIEL, on the left.

      Raphael leans over the recliner and whispers:

      RAPHAEL

      Lord, would You like to see what your children are doing?

      Rumbling from a grumpy old voice being awakened (off screen voice)

      The recliner backrest lifts up and the leg-rest falls back in vertical position.

      The telescope is raised and turned around by an invisible hand.

      The camera now looks at the earth and at humanity through the telescope (round lens).

      A wonderful world appears in the round lens where human beings play and have fun and live in perfect harmony with nature: golden palaces, fountains, beautiful flowers, huge butterflies, colorful birds, clear water rivers, waterfalls…

      GOD (off screen voice)

      My children are having fun! They are happy!

      All is best in a perfect world!

      I can go back to my nap!!

      The armchair reclines backwards and the leg-rest straightens down.

      2- OUT / DAY - IN SPACE

      Later on…

      White transition

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