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The Giant who fell to Earth is my life growing up to a height of 6ft 8inches in Dublin up to a stage where I am happily married with two children. The earth's weather deteriorates and industry crashes and I lose my job. Through desperation I join the crew of an exploration ship to the north-pole. The ship sinks in a storm and I end up washed upon the shore in a land (like Gulliver's Travels but that is the only similarity) where the inhabitants are eight inches tall. When I arrive, I am met by a miniature dog that comes with me everywhere. I'm shackled to the ground by a chain around my ankle and I agree to perform in a Tuatha-De Dannann circus. The beautiful compare of the show Lal and I fall in love and we have two children. I fight a war against the Tuatha-De-Dannann s enemies. Lal make me realize that I had no right to have attacked them and I set about undoing what I had done. The Tuatha-De- Dannann King; whom begins the story as a mean, thoughtless warlike, polluter has a change of heart at my example. He writes a proclamation as a charter to his subjects as to how they should live and makes peace with his enemies.
I return to earth and begin to tell my tale of how a disillusioned polluted war torn land was turned around. I end up on the Late Late Show telling my tale, people don't believe me until I take out my miniature dog to show everyone. This book could best be described as a feel good story. I like to think that it is written in the same vane as Forrest Gump. Though it is a fairy tale it has deeper meanings which I am sure the reader will pick up on.
The Giant Who Fell To Earth
Concise Part Two Tuata-De-Dannann
Every morning before breakfast the King Rudro would go to the highest steeple of his castle on the hill he would look through his telescope to survey his vast expansive lands firstly he would admire his cities, the capital Anna-Livia a shrine to industry and commerce. Its towers scraped close to the sky and its factories bellowed out smoke, which on this calm day never rose above the high, rise office blocks. In its streets crimes were committed un-answered, its citizens would neither come to a victims aid, if they were falling fowl to a crime, or come forward to tell the police if they witnessed one. Children could be being mugged and people would just watch and not help. He knew that its population were un-happy with the pollution and crime but oh well what was he going to do, after all he was the richest King with the most powerful empire in the known world and he intended to stay that way. Besides there were many Kings about who were far more careless and ruthless to their subjects. Turning he could see the beautiful architecture of his villages and towns. His lands had rolling hills and valleys, rivers and lakes.
One Autumnal morning King Rudro looked through his telescope everything was as it should be, but way far away in the distance barely visible to his eye were people from other kingdoms picking fruit from his trees.
"What are they doing here?" he cried in a very angry voice, and he ran to alert his guards.
"My own land is my own land," said the King; "any one can understand that, and I will not allow anybody to enjoy it but my own countrymen." So he built a high wall all round his kingdom, and put up a notice-board.
TRESPASSERS WILL BE PUNISHED
He was a very selfish King and from that day on every morning before breakfast he surveyed his land with his telescope to see if he could see any trespassers. Nothing could have prepared him for the morning when he saw a man, who he perceived to be ten times taller and broader than he was, standing on his beach. The giant then lay down in his meadows and fell asleep. An emergency sitting of the Dail was arranged in which the King, Queen, politicians and wise men attended. It was decided that I should be captured, fed and kept warm until they could ascertain whether or not I was friendly.
My favourite of the Tuata-De-Dannann was Lal (which in their ancient texts means beloved), she was employed to teach me their language and arts. Since I had nothing to do I spent a lot of time with her and learnt quickly. She was insistent that all words and grammar were to be used correctly. When it came to writing she always checked my spelling and punctuation, to make sure it was perfectly correct.
King Rudra requested that he would to celebrate my arrival by having me act as the star of a show; the name of the show was to be The Giant Who Fell to Earth . It was to be compared by Lal my tutor; it was the story of a mean and rude giant who fell from the stars to earth. Once he met the leading lady played by Lal she mellowed the giant, and the giant fell in love and was very good humoured from then on.
Rehearsals were to start immediately but Lal noticed the cut on my ankle from my shackle and was more concerned about that, than anything else. She was insistent that the cut should be kept clean in case an infection took hold and was adamant that unless my ankle had healed and that she was given assurance that I would be released once it could be proven beyond reasonable doubt that I was no threat to the community, she would not take part in the show. I in turn made it quite clear that unless Lal was in the show there was no way that I would in any way participate in it. When my ankle healed I was very happy to rehearse with Lal and within a short space of time we were ready.
The show began after dusk; torches were lit around my cage. From a tower about knee high reflected light was pointed at the opening of the curtains to my cage at ground level where the stage was erected. Then from the curtains Lal came out in thigh high oxblood coloured very high heel leather boots, a matching mini skirt and brazier. She held a bull whip which was about one and a half times as long as herself. The crowd cheered and waved green flags with gold trim with Ben Airde as I was called printed on them. In Tuata this meant Tall Mountain. The show stated with a fanfare of trumpets and when they stopped, Lal would crack her whip three times against the ground to gain the crowds attention. "Fir agus Mna failte go dti an;" which translates as Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the biggest show in town with the biggest star in the universe Ben Airde. Another crack of Lal s whip and the curtain came back. Three cracks and then she would summon me out of my cage. After that she would command me to do certain tasks as you would an elephant or a tiger at a circus each time cracking her whip for me to commence each of her commands. Her last command on an evening was to send me back to my cage. Then I would bellow Feachaint (Freedom) and Lal would join in and then start a chant in which the crowd would join in. Children in school having seen the show would draw pictures in school pleading for my freedom.
Each night after the show before I went to sleep I would open about twenty of their size barrels of wine line them up and drink them one by one. I was very lonely and thought it was time to go to sleep so I got down on all fours and crawled into my cage. I lay on my back and reached for one of the five barrels I had left, swallowed it down and reached for another one. Lal was leaning over it with a cup in her hand which she dipped in, filled her cup and drank it back and stood staring at me. I sat up and lifted her up upon my lap with my knees bent from the ground and just looked at her. She smiled, and then the things that we got up to.
Next morning soon after dawn on a warm summer s day I awoke to Lal, she was rubbing my cheeks with the palms of her hand. I love you she said. I love you, I have never imagined a man like you. We were both happy lying together when we were interrupted by the sound of scuffling outside and then a delegation of the press broke into my cage. It soon became apparent that we were not alone in the cage during the night, by the questions they were asking. Lal refused to either confirm or deny what we had done during the night, telling them that it was not their business and to stay out of her life. They tried to question me to but I told them to get out of my sight as I was about to get very annoyed and they left very quickly.
I had to swear an oath to the King to be his royal subject and always to do his biding. Since Lal was Tuata I had no difficulty in making any declaration of loyalty to him. My orders were the most horrific imaginable, I was given a map of the city and I was to stand on and flatten to the ground certain buildings and areas of it. My first raid was one morning after I had my breakfast I had been lying down in the mountains where the Cleegan's could not see me. They had heard rumours about my size but nothing could have prepared them for the sight they were about to see. I brought my head up between two mountain peaks and I surveyed the city about two hundred metres away. I consulted my map and worked out North, South, East and West and I then began to walk toward the city. My walking got faster then I began to trot as I got closer to the city. I could see that its army had lined itself along the walls and was prepared for battle. I heard a roar TinTan!!!!! When I was about ten metres away and with that a volley of pebbles probably about one hundred were fired at me. I was hurt by about ten pebbles that hit me in the face, and I fell to my knees. The catapults continued but I braced myself for them. The city walls were about thigh high so I was easily able to step over them and once I did, I stepped on the catapults. The soldiers continued to fight defiantly, and fired arrows and javelins at my testicles from the wall but it was not long before I cleared the wall and was making for my objectives. I got all the sites intended and trod on them with my heel there were sometimes occupants inside, but I had orders and I was intent on completing them satisfactorily and besides I was too big to sift through the houses and warn people of the imminent danger. I choose to ignore the screams of grief, which came from parents with children in their arms who may have been in the buildings that I had attacked or maybe I had squashed their children by accident.
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