The Compagnia dell’Imbuto Confuso is performing “Becoming Anselmo / The right tool”

What matters is the right tool.Once the right tool is in hand, everything else follows— as if on its own.

The half-rounded vault is built of brick. Behind one of the bricks, I’ve hidden my papers.

I see myself carefully loosening the brick, then pulling it free— the one I had first chipped loose with a small, pointed hammer.

What matters is the right tool.Once the right tool is in hand, everything else follows— as if on its own.

I see my father— who was not my father— sitting at his worktable.

Outside, it is very hot and bright; inside the study, cool and dark.

He works in the dark. He says:

What matters is the right tool.Once the right tool is in hand, everything else follows— as if on its own.

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