Bromfords of the Kollobita´´rtainnen - Part 2

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"Bromford Fading"

Then we hear a whistle like a bison's pipe
And the carnival immediately begins
Gradually mixing rain
Thunder
Bullfight
Football
Playground
War
Penny-arcade
Bromford fading

»I have to break the fourth wall!«

»One, two, three, four…«

»What are you doing  animal?«

»Counting walls, dude. We are back in the living-room of the penthouse on 666 Whitaker Lane, right? You say you want to break a wall, the fourth wall to be precise. And now I am trying to find out which wall it will be. But to be honest, dude, I don't know where to start. I hope it won't be the wall with the big window and the glass door to the roof-terrace. Would be kind of cold and windy in here most of the time.«

»Breaking the fourth wall is not like that, animal.«

»But breaking the fourth wall is much better than breaking the law, don't you think?«

»I did not know what your opinion about breaking the law was.«

»What about breaking bad?«

»Whatever?«

»And better than breaking a leg?«

»Stop it, animal. The fourth wall is a performance convention in theatres or cinemas or movies in which an invisible, imaginary wall separates actors from the audience. Breaking the fourth wall is violating this performance convention, which has been adopted more generally in the drama. This can be done by either directly referring to the audience, the play as a play, or the characters' fictionality. Or was it functionality?«

»I don't get it, dude. Walls? Theatres? Movies? Audience? What are you talking about? What's you problem, human?«

»The advent calendar, animal. Connecting the story in this year's advent calendar with the city quiz, that is my problem, llama.«

Today is Saturday, the 2nd of December 2023.